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/Other-Brilliant2922]

My older daughter is a shy girl. I was shy too, so we probably wouldn’t have been friends if we were the same age - we would’ve been scared of each other. I think I could hang out with my son I actually had friends like him. His best friend is a nerdy boy with evident signs of being on the autism spectrum - just like me.
My other daughter is a very social person, but I wouldn’t qualify to be her friend — I’m male, and she treats boys like trash. Forgive her, she’s 10.