Gaëtan Boulanger

Kids will challenge your teaching skills. They will pick up on complicated things with baffling ease, and struggle with knowledge you consider trivial. You will have to understand why they do not understand, and imagine a thousand ways to convey the same information.

Kids will basically never laugh when you expect them to. There are ways around this rule, obviously, such as tickling or making strange noises, but generally they'll burst into laughters for nothing and keep a poker face in front of your best jokes. Tough.

Kids will make and break you. They're basically unable to conceal their feelings, so when you'll make something cool, you'll know, but when you'll fuck up, you'll know even more. You will thus try your hardest not to fuck up, but you will fail, and you will learn.

Kids will be your most proficient media trainers. You will have to watch every. word. you. say. They never forget a promise. They never forget a thing you present as a fact. They TRUST you. There is no bullshitting a kid, not if you don't want a broken heart (see previous tweet).

Kids will stubbornly question your relationship to time, mainly because they don't share it. They will NEVER hurry when you want them to. They need time to do stuff, doing stuff is complicated. If you're late, it's only proof of your poor time management and planning abilities.

Kids with twist your arm into showing your feelings and emotions. They will laugh at this inane concepts you call privacy, or decency, or social pressure. They will demand that you behave in all situation like the loving creature they know you are, and of course you should.

Kids (especially, but not only, girls) will teach you about injustice. They will be victims of it, and it will burn your fucking flesh. You will want to kill who hurt them, and you will have to turn that anger into something beautiful - because they only need beautiful things.

Kids will literally put their lives in your hands without thinking twice about it. This is more than trust, it's the absolute failure to envision a world in which you don't know what's best. You will have to teach them out of it, and it will be tempting not to, but you should.