single word requests - What do you call someone who gets along with children?


What do you call someone who gets along with children/babies?


A simple example:



He is such a ________, he makes all children smile.



A single word noun would be ideal but a phrase is acceptable also. There might be a colloquial word or phrase too.




For example, there is a phrase good mixer which means someone who can get along with everyone [See: second meaning of mixer]. So, what we are looking for is almost like a subtype of this characteristic.


There are words like likeable or easygoing but they are too general.


The closest word I could find is avuncular but it does not sound that suitable for this usage. I have never used this word in this way.



Kind and friendly towards a younger or less experienced person: he was avuncular, reassuring, and trustworthy


[oxforddictionaries]



Also, I'm not sure if we can use avuncular as a gender neutral word for this sense. [Because it is a masculine word for its anthropological sense]. It seems like there isn't a common word as a feminine version. Amicular and materteral is proposed in this previous ELU question: Is there a feminine equivalent to the adjective “avuncular”?




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