Hi Tracey,

Agree entirely with your sentiments. As for me you couldn't pay to have more kids. Been there, done that. Like my old beagle, once he kicks off we've decided no more dogs. Did I just compare human kids to dogs? Not my problem...

My problem is that for the most part I love kids, they are drawn to me. This is a problem in this day and age as you point out parents might see me as a threat, a predator.

I'm an older man, and if I'm walking through Wal Marts alone I carefully avoid kids. This changes if I'm with my wife, feel as though this gives me the needed pass to then smile and say hi to the little kid who of course is already beaming and grinning at me, waving at me, kicking in his little cart seat with glee. I can't help it.

Over the years however because of the misfits that roam the planet, people that will actually hurt the little ones, don't get me started... I have had to curve the friendliness. Unfortunate because I feel that kids learn from these examples, in this case being a cold sob, maybe they follow the same, miserable example, how sad.

Sadly it's even gotten to the point that if I see an older guy, guy like me, making nice with a kid my radars come to life, how sad.

Have I gotten frozen looks from young parents when they see me smiling? Damn right. Like I say, so sad.