With me, it totally depends on whether the kid-fic seems to be there for the kids or the adults. If the point is the kids, if they're who the story's about, then I 99.99% of the time hate it. (I say that because I read one once that was all about the kid that I LOVED... only now I think about it the kid in that one canonically existed, except in a very different, er, form, so maybe that doesn't quite violate the rule...) If the story's about the adults, then it depends on the story, whether the situation makes sense and whatever. I have no interest in reading about overly cute and perfect children, but a good story that happens to have kids in it I can like just fine. And actually, now I think of it, good kidfic is often exceptionally good, because the people who have the necessary writerly skills to make it not suck are often amazing. So my usual "eh"-ness about kidfic becomes an advantage, because I'm so impressed they managed to pull off something difficult.
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With me, it totally depends on whether the kid-fic seems to be there for the kids or the adults. If the point is the kids, if they're who the story's about, then I 99.99% of the time hate it. (I say that because I read one once that was all about the kid that I LOVED... only now I think about it the kid in that one canonically existed, except in a very different, er, form, so maybe that doesn't quite violate the rule...) If the story's about the adults, then it depends on the story, whether the situation makes sense and whatever. I have no interest in reading about overly cute and perfect children, but a good story that happens to have kids in it I can like just fine. And actually, now I think of it, good kidfic is often exceptionally good, because the people who have the necessary writerly skills to make it not suck are often amazing. So my usual "eh"-ness about kidfic becomes an advantage, because I'm so impressed they managed to pull off something difficult.
Um, if that makes sense...