Hellll no. Have you seen how cruel kids are to each other in school? If you show any amount of weakness or insecurity or difference from the norm, everyone will gang up on you and make your life hell. There are literally cases of gay or neurodivergent children being driven to suicide by bullying. Kids derive pleasure from making their peers feel inferior to them, much more so than adults. Nice kids are not a given, their parents have to carefully mould those attributes into them. Kids left to their own devices with insufficient parental discipline are horrible.

[–] JustAnotherKay@lemmy.world 0 points 1 hour ago

Have you seen how cruel kids are to each other in school?

Kids around the age of 3 will play together despite language barriers. Playing is the international language that we all intrinsically knew as children, but forgot as we aged

[–] fakir@lemm.ee 0 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

I'm referring to kids before even going to school. Ego / identity develops in kids by around age 5, that's when they see the I separate from the rest, they see the difference between what they have and what others have, they find this identity that only belongs to them in this sea of identities and they adjust and they react. I'm not sure if you've talked to kids before age 5, I've raised a few kids, and so I'm talking from experience.