What age group of children do you have the lowest tolerance for?

8–13

So, I annoy you?!

Well!

Probably 4–10

@blueberry_kid no, you personally have never annoyed me. ;)

3–18

Republican to TeaBag

1 to whenever they listen to directions and act like a rational human. How would you feel if you were going out with your friends and before you walk out the door, you all had to beg an adult to put their shoe on? F that.

I don’t think such an age exists. When they’re teens, I don’t think of them as children, I think of them as teens and therefore allow for a certain insanity aura around them. Many teens are just crazed and confused, you know…trying to be these caricatures of people…trying to be cool, to get a grip on sex and love and individuality…hating on teen girls might have something to do with some of your own insecurities or with your not loving what society does to women, what it expects them to be…teen girls crystallize what ridiculous gender norms are expected and it’s hard to face that so you hate on it, instead. I’ve been there. We have got to be better, for their sake. @johnpowell – oh my god, LOL!

0–18~

Boys age 5–10.

I’ve been through this stage with my boys already. They are 17 and 19 now. It wasn’t my sons, but their friends, and now the boys I come across at my daughter’s school who are this age and annoy the heck out of me.

@johnpowell Did you just have your stock portfolio drop 25 percent TOO ?

@Simone_De_Beauvoir well, I don’t really think of teens as “kids,” necessarily, either. That’s just usually the category they fall into until they hit 18.
I don’t think you’re way off the mark… a lot of the things about teenage girls that drive me ape-shit are just those types of behaviors. I have another theory as to why I don’t particularly find myself able to tolerate girls in that age range, but you’re probably onto something.

Women over 45 drive me insane!! I’ll take a room full of sugar high 7 yr olds over them! ;)

@ANef_is_Enuf Well, if you want, I’d love to hear it. Teasing that kind of thing apart can help both of us, in this realm. Or if you ever care to start a new thread, we can.

8th grade boys. Definitely. My daughter- and therefore we- endured a whole year of them at her school. She still shudders over those memories.

@Simone_De_Beauvoir the majority of my childhood was spent caring for my sisters. I had a ton of responsibility from a very young age, because one of my sisters was severely disabled with an extremely rare condition. I was just about to turn 15 when she died, so my early teens were spent changing diapers and chasing kids around, along with g-tube cleanings, learning the proper procedures for caring for someone in the midst of a Grand mal seizure, and practicing CPR. I was severely depressed when she died, of course, and then a few weeks after she passed my grandfather died. I spiraled into a severe depression and I isolated myself for a long time after that. Combined with a handful of other circumstances that affected my older childhood/teenage years (which I’d rather not discuss publicly), I don’t think that I ever really had an opportunity to be a teenage girl. Which means that I really didn’t bond with many teenage girls. So I think, at least in part, that is why I have no tolerance for them now. At a time when I should have been their peer, they were carefree and giggly while I was suffering. Now, as an adult, I find that I have no patience with them.

The only time I ever lost patience with a kid was when my little sister was about 4 and I was babysitting. She threw a temper tantrum for like three hours- screaming, kicking her feet, crying, and punching the floor, and nothing I did would make her stop. I called my parents and they were just like, “sucks to be you, we’ll get there when we get there.” Finally I just gave up, played some loud music in my headphones, and let her cry it out.

@ANef_is_Enuf Sorry to hear all that. Life is so difficult sometimes, you know? I think many people (regardless of whether or not they ‘got to be a teen girl’) don’t have patience with teen girls.

@Simone_De_Beauvoir thanks. I just think that I, personally, still carry around a lot of resentment, too. Just a guess, of course. I was annoyed with them when I was technically one of them. Maybe they are just annoying.~

13–17, but this is just because I work at the mall and this is the age group that gathers in my store by the dozens. They position themselves in the worst places, spend maybe ten dollars per group, are loud, yell at me because a song they hate comes on the radio, and run and scream and leap upon each other when another large group of them comes into the store. They also touch everything, move stuff around and steal anything that can fit in their pockets and if they can’t steal something, they destroy the security sensors and possibly the merchandise in an attempt to do so.

20 year olds!

Not only do they think they are adults, they are also quite arrogant in their beliefs that they have the world figured out and that anyone over 30 is a moron.

Can’t really pick one. It really depends on the child. I can’t say that at anytime I have dealt with a certain age child, that it seemed all children of that age misbehaved.
I’ve met horrible children at 2 but I’ve met some great ones.
But if I had to say, what age children I liked best, or had the most patience with, then it would be infants till 18 months.
After 18 months a lot of patience is required at all times.
From 18 to 3 years old (terrible twos and potty training)
3–8 questions everything you do, tantrums,
8–12 slight increase of hostility, tantrums, fights with siblings (continues unless they unite)
12–16 You don’t know anything. Hormones rage and so does tempers. Sexuality comes to play.
16–18 Hormones still there. Emotional wreck about their future. Sexuality is still around. You still don’t know anything. I can drive now. I want to hang out at all hours of the night. Your too strict and don’t trust me. I’m a full grown adult so you can’t tell me what to do. Btw, I need cash to go hang with my friends. Drinking and drugs may be an issue as well.

@YoBob I agree SO MUCH! We just went to a wedding of just turned 21yr olds. Sh!t, they were annoying…and we love one of them dearly. Arrogance flows freely

10 – 12 year olds. But maybe that’s just because of my own personal experience.

Three to five are the years that I dislike. Temper tantrums abound because they want to do more but do not have the inner caution to keep themselves safe and, hence, you get tantrums.

Okay here’s the thing, before & to some degree since I became a parent, I didn’t like “ankle biters” (toddler aged) or teenagers. Something of a generalisation, but there you go.
However, my son 15 & my daughter 12 have mellowed my opinions at each stage of their lives.
Of course that’s only with them, because they’re mine & just happen to be awesome.

I thought I would dread the teenage years but what I’ve liked about them is when my kids step way over the line with their behaviour I can tell them to go for a walk or I go for a walk. That is something I couldn’t do, for obvious safety reasons, when they were toddlers.

I love toddlers. They’re fun!

You could take all the babies and toddlers out of my life and I wouldn’t notice the difference. I’m not fond of supposed humans that can’t talk or think or discuss the meaning of life. Of course, I did my best for my own two, but that’s enough. I do hope to dandle a child or two one day as a grandfather, but other than posing for pix, I don’t want anything to do with them.

10–12. My little sister is 10 and I just hate it. They act so strange.

0 – 35.

2–18

Hey lady! I’m in that age group for another eight months. D:
I can’t stand teenage girls either. I’ve got two female friend, and the rest are males. Girls are evil, and I never understand why they do the stupid things they do.

@AshLeigh lol, sorry! You haven’t annoyed me, either!

@ANef_is_Enuf I’ll do my best to keep it that way!(:

Babies that cannot hold their head up yet. It isn’t I cannot tolerate them; they just scare the dickens out of me. They are so fragile.

I’m good with babies until they start to walk. Then, once they get to be about 4 or 5 and they can do things that I think are fun, I like them again. The only time after that that I get annoyed is whenever the smart mouth starts up.

@AshLeigh You’re the exception ;)
Most people within the age bracket I’ve given haven’t annoyed me. I’ve spent the last week looking after a 7 year old and I feel fit for a stint in the Bahamas

I can’t stand grown ups acting like kids. Kids are easy to be dealt with if you know what to do/say. I am the only uncle that my nephews and nieces tell “you are cool” even if they are small or old. And not because they don’t see me all the time it’s just because I know how to interact with them.

0–8/9 and then from puberty until adulthood. There is a very small window where children are actually bearable.

Boys between the ages of 9 and 16. Some can be very annoying brats. Makes me want to take a melon-baller to their heads. lol

Some males aged 17 to 25, who still haven’t grown up and continue to act like they’re aged 9 to 16!

I like them all. There are no bad children. Only bad parents.

teen years are the hardest because without the right guidence things can change so quickly because the are more independent and trying to spread their wings. But I am looking forward to all the ages of my children.

12 – 14 year old girls

I don’t mind the boys at any age.

@Jude and many others, I didn’t know you hated me!

@blueberry_kid Actually I don’t hate you. Regarding my daughter’s problems, she was in a private school and she was the only girl in 8th grade. The problem was the school room was small with no windows, and those boys didn’t wash properly. And they tormented my daughter.

You’ll go a long way if you take care to be polite to the girls (edit) which means don’t crack nasty jokes, etc. and make sure your feet or other body parts don’t smell.

@blueberry_kid I hate every other 12 – 14 year old girl. :)

@snowberry Umm, I’m a girl.

@blueberry_kid I hate every other 12 -14 year old girl, but, you.

Girls that are between the ages of 8 and 18, and boys who are in middle school. At these ages they think their shit doesn’t stink and they are just the coolest in the world. Shoot me, please.

I taught junior high and high school. I thought the kids were great. I enjoy very small kids for a little while, but not if they start whining. I guess It isn’t an age I don’t like, it’s whining from any age kid or adult. At the same time, I think teens today seem to be much more self-centered than when I worked with them. That’s kind of hard to take.

40+ who are still stupid. I have tons of patience for children, because they are still learning, and tons for older people who maybe have slowed down a little. But, healthy adults who are idiots, who are out of control, behave like children, and seem to be unable to mature are very annoying. I am not talking about people who are truly impaired or have a disability, I mean people who by all measures should be able to do better, and don’t.

7 – 14 are very difficult for me. I do well with younger and older, but that age group just doesn’t work for me.

13–25.

I see how you all feel!

I don’t know if I can pick a whole age group. My first instinct was to say “1–16” but that’s really not fair. Little kids make me nervous as a rule, but older kids can go either way. I mean some middle schoolers are an absolute terror, but there are of course lots of good ones, and I’d feel rotten grouping them all off as one.

@AshLeigh You’re talkin my language there sister!
The few girlfriends I have are lesbos, all the rest are guys.
Girls are too complicated.