On Children

This is coming from someone who really, REALLY wants to help out the middle and high schoolers as a counselor, so bear with me.

Little kids are adorable most of the time, especially when they're not related to you directly.  You can just enjoy them being cute, do something nice and send them to their parents all excited!  Little siblings, however, have a bad habit of getting under people's skin, especially at a young age.  They shriek.  A lot.  It's kinda scary.

The next stage past little kid stage, in my opinion, is middle school age.  This is when puberty happens, and the kids get all moody and angsty because of it.  It's not that fun when that happens.  In this case, I'd like to help them out, and send them home in a better mood to their parents. Also, middle school girls are catty, and they don't like someone to be the odd one out.  The nerdy have great troubles at this time.

Then there are the high school kids.  They've just recently discovered what things are supposed to be like, and that the world is messed up.  They hadn't really heard this from their parents, so they rebel against them for not telling them, without really knowing why they never told them and had them find out a little bit for themselves before actually telling them anything.  The girls are still catty, but now they have other influences that make them more catty: the boys are profane and also rather...gross, in my opinion, in their topics of discussion.  I'd like the moral character to come back to high school, but, alas, it won't.

I don't want kids of my own, but I do want kids to grow up right, which is why I'm going into school age counseling.