Do you not think you'd make a good parent?

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I suck at discplining my 2 little sisters 8 and 10 it's either I don't want to say anything (to get them into trouble) or I raise my voice/yell. Kids get to me for some reason. They are ok having a fun time but when they do what THEY WANT and it's wrong (jumping on a bed disobeying me when I say don't do X etc.) it really pisses me off to the point of raising my voice/yelling. So sometimes since I'm awful at dealing with my little sisters I feel I'll probably make a bad parent how about you guys?

I think I would be a good parent. I don't take excuses and if I think there is a way, I expect it out of everyone else and I tell them that. I will not take excuses.

I am also firm and aggressive and demanding so I'd be a good mother. I have the mommy instincts in me.

I would also spend time with my kids because that is what being a good mother is all about. I also want to buy them things and take them to places.

I would be a terrible parent. I found this out mostly by looking after my nieces and nephews. The only thing I can promise you is that you'll get your kids back in good health. Everything else is up for grabs, especially foolish rules like 'Don't eat between meals' - and noticing mealtime, for that matter. I'm as likely to let kids bob for leftovers, if that amuses them.

I'm very afraid I might become an unsuitable parent whenever the time arrives. I don't like babies. I have this "thing" about feet. I hate them. Babies rarely wear shoes. I would have to touch it.
There are too many disgusting factors.
Additionally, children do not listen to me.
I love my kitties, my plecostomus, and my boyfriend though. Maybe I could learn to love a demanding, useless sack of flesh. Or, preferably, adopt an older child.

I'm afraid I'd be that one weird dad that kids pretend not to know due to my quirks and mannerisms.

Plus if my children were born NT I'd be screwed I don't know how to handle parties or sports.

You can't really know until you've got your own kids. Frankly, I've never liked kids or known how to deal with them, so I assumed I wouldn't want any of my own.

But when it's your own kids, who you've known since they were baby's, it's different. A lot of the things you thought you wouldn't be able to handle turn out to be easy. And then other things, which you never even considered, turn out to be difficult. It's challenging and rewarding at the same time.

Personally, I'm glad I waited until I was almost 30. Any younger, and I wouldn't have been ready. Some days I still feel like I'm not, but life goes on.

This is one of the things that would worry me, I'd be useless at that.



I like children, but I've never liked babies. Even toddlers I don't like much. Given that, and that I have no one to have a kid with and that's not going to change soon, adoption and fostering would be the way forward, except that as a strange single male my chances of being considered are zero - especially given that in my home country fostering doesn't even exist and legal adoption is extremely difficult even for young married couples (this is due to stupidity, not to a shortage of orphans and unwanted children).

I think it would be amazing to have a child like a kid I know, he's 9 and he's so clever (and more mature than his parents) and funny. On the other hand, a daughter like this would be even more amazing:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qa7why6CCyo[/youtube]

I don't think I'd make a totally unfit parent, I have almost no experience with kids and I'd be useless at sports and parties, but on the other hand I can be consistent, reasonable, that sort of thing. And I would actually care. I find kids hectic and exhausting but also fun. Especially, there are so many awful parents out there, that I'm sure I wouldn't do a worse job. Still, I'd need someone to have the kid with to have a biological child, and the other type I'm not going to get either, so whether I'd be good, bad or awful as a parent is irrelevant; it's not going to happen.

Don't you have to be up on the latest trends and media, to be a good parent? I have the mind of a teenager, from 1964 - 1967. I would not make a good parent.

i would have spoilt children who would be wary around me.

I don't know. I guess I could be a pretty kick-ass uncle, though.

As a parent, I don't think I would be any good.
I am ok as an aunt, (have 1 nephew).

LOL! I have 1 nephew aswell I'm happy being an aunt. I'm not sure I could do what my sister does handing a 2 year old all day. He is a good little guy though (we have a portable DVD player for restraunts and some of his favorite movies Nemo etc. to occupy his time YA! Portable DVD player!! !) LOL! Best gift they got for Christmas is what sister said LOL! Oh and last year he got into saying Happy Birthday (and he says it all day to you! When it's your Birthday LOL!) He's SO CUTE!! !! !! (The other night he wanted to talk to all his aunts and told me good night (he was going to bed) SO CUTE! LOL!

I think I'm a far better uncle than I would be a parent.

I'm gonna have a lot of nieces or nephews I got 5 brothers.

I think I'll make a decent mum. I'm loving, nurturing, firm, I'm good at keeping rules and I believe I'd be understanding too.
But I certainly couldn't do it on my own, and I'm not ready yet. There are still loads of stuff I have to figure out.
I also don't feel the need to have children, so I reckon I could easily live without them. But then again: I'm only 19.
Things might change.

that is cute . My nephew likes movies like Cars (my brother got him a Mater toy for his birthday, he just turned 3) and Thomas the Tank Engine and all kinds of things.
He has a Japanese mother and an Australian father (my brother)
He is clever because when he is with us, he speaks english words, but when he is at home at his house he uses Japanese words.