User blog comment:Holly Bailey/Why I Don't Want Children/@comment-25458443-20170408074404

I'm a guy so it's obviously a bit different for me but I kinda agree with what you mean. I like kids but I'm not really "Good with kids" I sort of don't know what to do with them and I don't get all caught up in how  gosh darn adorable they are oh *incoherent baby babble*  like I can't do that without just outright faking it an I'm bad at faking things. If you handed me a baby I wouldn't be able to hold it right, I can like figure out what to do if they start freaking out, I just don't have the magical paternal touch.

I'm better with like, "young children," though because I find that just addressing kids as if you were talking to anyone else tends to leave an impact on them. As in: the fact that I don't know "how you're supposed to talk to little kids" means that kids tend to like me because they can tell I'm not talking down to me. A kid says some stupid nonsense and I'm like "oh yeah thatll happen lemme tell you about it" and not " oh yeah? Well that's so interesting looook at you YOU'RE A SMALL HUMAN'' " which kids notice, definitely. I think at least...