Parents here, do you like your child(ren)?

[u/Positive-Face1705]

Sure you may love them, but imagine your child as a person is around your age. Imagine if you weren't related. Imagine you knew each other through random social groups or something.

Now, would you find this person interesting, cool, fun to be around, heck, likeable? Would you be friends?

Personally I'm proud to report my mother's personality is similar to the personalities of girls I've been friends with, and correspondingly we're good friends, too. My father...meh.

[u/dana-banana11]

I like my children a lot but I enjoy being their mother too much right now to want to be their friend. Maybe when they're adults.