I don’t care if I sound mean, but some of my friend’s kids are actually awful

“I love your parents, and that's why I hang out with you. But you in particular — not my cup of tea.”

Have you ever looked at one of your friend’s kids and had an adverse reaction to them?

No matter how hard you try and no matter how wonderful their parents are, you just can’t seem to warm up to their little offspring.

Honestly, just thinking about them makes your top lip curl up in disgust. 

And if you do feel this way, does that make you a mean person? That’s what one woman is asking online, and it appears she isn't the only one. 

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“You kinda suck, actually; you’re not fun”

Shelley doesn’t have any kids of her own, but plenty of her friends do, and while she absolutely adores some of their children, that rule doesn’t apply to everybody. 

“Tell me if I am being a b**ch, okay? Tell me if I am a mean person,” she prefaced her TikTok. 

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“But sometimes I see some of my friends’ kids, and I'm just like, ‘I don't like you. No, no, I don't like you.’”

Now, don’t get her wrong; she adores the kid’s parents. 

“I love your parents. I love your parents, and that's why I hang out with you, “ she said. “But you in particular — not my cup of tea.” 

She wasn’t stopping there. “No, you kinda suck, actually,” she continued. “You're not fun. You're not enjoyable.”

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While Shelley doesn’t have her own kids, she frequently offers to babysit for her friends when they need it. 

“I go to my other friend, and I'm like, ‘I love your kid. Your kid's rad. Your kid is dope. You want me to babysit your kid for three days in a row? I will totally do it. I love your child,’” she said. 

No matter the time, the day or the weather, she’ll be there. 

But if Shelley doesn’t like her friend’s kid, that offer goes straight out the window. “You don’t have anyone else?” she would plead with the parents. “Are you sure?”

Despite not wanting to, Shelley admitted she would watch the kids she hates for an hour at maximum. “If you are in a bind, I will watch them,” she continued. “Yes, I will because I love you.”

As she is childless, she asked her followers if parents “know if your friends don't like your kids” or if it was “obvious”.

“Is it like having a favourite?” she asked the camera. “I obviously have favourites, but I want to make sure that they don't know that they're not my favourite, you know?”

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Shelley can't hold in her feelings any longer. Picture: shellyyyyj8/TikTok

“The forbidden talk, the accuracy”

It seems Shelley isn’t the only person to share these thoughts, with other parents revealing their secret feelings about other friend’s kids. 

“The forbidden talk, the accuracy,” someone said. “I only like my own kids,” a mum agreed. “Some kids are just not likable.” 

“Literally, my friend just left with her kid, and he is absolutely so bad, like, I never want him over my house again,” a parent wrote. 

“Heck, I’m like that with other family members' kids,” another added. 

“I totally get this, but at that point, I’m side-eyeing my friend like do I even like you?” a person laughed.

“You created this mess.”

“It’s the worst when your friend brings her badly behaved kids, and you just want them all to leave,” another mum wrote.

“It was her last visit to my house, I just couldn’t do it again.”

Originally published as I don’t care if I sound mean, but some of my friend’s kids are actually awful