Larry, I understand you 100%. It's why in this lifetime I pledged NOT to have children...and my wife is in 100% agreement on this as well. (I wouldn't have married her, otherwise...I wouldn't do that to a person.)
I must admit I had sympathy for Sean Connery's character as Indiana Jones' dad in "The Last Crusade" when he tells his son, "You left home right when you started to get interesting."
Some people are able to relate to those little ones on a deep, intrinsic level. I have the utmost respect for them, and realize that I'm not one of them. Children frighten me, for the most part. As an only child, I grew up mainly around adults. Other children terrorized me for much of my own childhood, and I guess I still carry that reservation around with me today.
Don't feel badly. I think a lot of people feel the way you do.
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