Cripes, kids fucking love me. Maybe it's my ability to do voices...

My uncle has three little girls, the oldest being about 8, then 5 and 3 for the following kiddos. Whenever they visit and I'm around (Xmas, Thanksgiving, sometimes Easter. Family gathering times), the kids pretty much shackle themselves to me and I'm left as the baby sitter. I'll let them do whatever, and I seem to have a pretty good patience with 'em.
I haven't had to personally deal with a really hellish little shit, so I dunno how I'd handle it. All the kiddos that I've had to take care of were typically rather disciplined.
I'll encourage them and stuff. If you say "dude, that sucked" to a five year old playing the piano, you'll probably hurt their feelings and they might actually shy away from that a bit. Kids are pretty impressionable, in all honesty. Despite this viewpoint, I am against sheltering of children. My parents didn't shelter me, and thanks to that, I went through college, kept myself in-check, and jumped right in to being self-sustaining like it was nothing.
I've noticed some of the relatives in my family are rather short-fused around children (ie: my grandfather that isn't related to me by blood. He fucking hates those three little girls that I mentioned earlier. HATES them), but I seem to be able to tolerate them.
In all honesty, I noticed that I'm short-fused around stupid animals. I had to look after two dogs the other day, and both were miniature collie breed dogs (I forget the name). Anyhow, they were little yapper dogs that felt like yapping every five seconds. I cannot stress how ANGRY I was with those fucking things. But I can tolerate three loud little girls for several hours, and all I get is kinda tired.
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