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[quote=Anonymous]You're not a crabby old crone, OP! It's ok not to like being around young kids/families, and just to like your own kids but not particularly enjoy children in general, find all of them cute, etc. I have a toddler right now myself and feel more genuine appreciation for other families/young kids right now than I did before, but I also suspect that feeling will wane as my kid grows. That you're making the effort to be pleasant outwardly is the important thing IMO. That's what makes civilization work!

I will say I don't know that it's your anxiety 'at fault' here, though it probably plays a role. I also have anxiety, and am an older parent (in my 40s when my daughter was born) but I'm way more of a free range parent than you say you were. Not in letting my kid run wild to annoy people, mind, but in letting her climb on things, walk more than five feet away from me, make giant messes in the house (though I have to clean everything up before we go to bed every night or my mind feels like it will frazzle itself to death) that sort of thing. That's all just within our normal ways of looking at/living life differently.

Anyway, you are perfectly fine and normal. I am sure you'll love any grandchildren that come along. As my own mom once told me in perfect seriousness, "it's different when they're OUR OWN." [/quote]

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