Have you ever met someone who says that you'll like kids if you have experience with them? If they say this, they're either delusional or lying (or possibly both). Experience with children gives you insight into just how torturous it is to care for the little bastards.
I really don't understand why people willingly sacrifice 4-5 years of their lives in college to get a teaching degree so they can go and teach kindergarten. Would you pay thousands of dollars in tuition to spend 9 hours every day in the company of 30 screaming, spoiled brats? And then spend even more time at home figuring out cutesy projects that their little two-watt brains can figure out? I would rather gouge my eyes out than become a teacher to any child under the age of 12.
Who the hell ever decided that children should start school at the age of six? We may as well start letting kids get jobs at age 8. Okay, most of the time, there is no actual schoolwork in kindergarten - it's all playtime, along with naps and snacks.
But first grade hits those little shits like a ton of bricks. "What's this? We need to know the alphabet? And how to count to 100? We need to write and draw things that we don't like? This isn't school - school is where I go to play!" --- that's what kids think once they hit first grade.
I'll safely bet that there's very very few kindergarten teachers who have their own children, and if they do, I think they are way past due for a CAT scan. In conclusion, I'll say this: If anyone ever tells you that you'll learn to love kids if you have experience with them, then they obviously were not anywhere near children.
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