Do you like kids ?

[Cobretti2]

Ayla said:

Cobretti2 said:

All kids are great, as they remind you of how simple life was at that age.

However, I don't put myself in risky situations, so I don't interact with them unless they approach my son and me. It is bad enough that people ask all the time is this your child just because my son has a different skin tone to me lol.

I think my view is like that because in my 20s my next door neighbour's kid was playing on the road and his mum was just sitting their on the porch with no care in the world. Next minute a car turned up my road and was flying up towards were the kid was playing. Lucky I was mowing the lawn and quickly ran out and grabbed the kid. All I got was a don't you fucking touch my kid verbal blast for 5mins. Not a thank you for saving his life. Some people are just mental that way.

Best to mind your own business in all situations. 

Well in a big city sure is, that is why you don't see many people offer help to others when you can clearly see they need it (i.e. homeless person who is on the ground in pain, person lost trying to find a place, person with a pram trying to get on a tram etc). No one smiles and says hello even.

Sadly it is somewhat understandable why people don't want to get involved because more then half the time they get an abusing response back. I seen homeless people abuse people for giving them food instead of money. I also seen them harassing single mums with prams and cornering them so they can't move trying to squeeze money out of them and people just walk by and not help. I seen people smirk at single parents struggling to get on public transport.

There is plenty more examples I could use but these are the ones I stepped in and helped out.

Maybe a few country towns out there where people still help each other out and don't throw abuse at you, but instead smile at you and say hello when they walked past you haha.