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Kids are known to say things honestly and without filters. Maybe because you don’t expect them to say certain things, when they say it, the only reaction left is laughter. Kids sometimes come up with such hilarious things to say that parents often go to Twitter so that the whole internet can laugh together.

One of those parents is Jessica Valenti, who shared how her 3-year-old daughter got sick after eating carrots but her reaction was that she would need even more carrots, which you could understand metaphorically and take inspiration to not give up when things get difficult.

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In response to Jessica's tweet, many people started sharing some genius things their children have said, so here is a list of the best ones. If you have anything to share, put it in the comments and upvote the tweets that made you laugh the most.

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Jessica Valenti is an American feminist writer and a columnist for Medium. She has almost 300k followers on Twitter and usually her tweets get several hundred likes, but recently, her tweet about her daughter’s hilarious reaction to getting sick from carrots was liked over 100k times.

Then she added her second favorite thing her daughter ever told her and it was her saying that Jessica was wearing clown pants, though she herself thought that they were very fashionable. Apparently, Layla, her daughter, thought they looked like pajamas.

Children that speak their minds without thinking about how their words could affect someone can make parents feel uncomfortable, especially if they say something rude or inappropriate in front of other people, but it can lead to funny situations that later are worth telling over and over again.

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Also, they see the world in a more simple way, so they come up with some creative solutions to problems. Maybe they’re not realistic, but they are creative. Bored Panda has done plenty of articles about children surprising adults with how they think. For example, a teacher from the UK, George Pointon, asks his first graders various questions and he puts them up on Twitter with his own commentary. 

The internet loves these tweets and if you would like to see what that is all about, you can find the answers the children gave to the teacher asking what they would do if they became the president of the world, or what they think is the one thing that makes a person an adult. The tweet that received the most love is the one in which the teacher asked his students to tell him their best jokes, which is also worth a little look.

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wow that's fantastic
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

yes sweetie, now let's use that international hand symbol for "what the f**k is this guy doing"

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Judging from these tweets, it seems that the children didn’t mean what they were saying to be funny, but having a sense of humor is a part of healthy development. It gets more sophisticated the older they get and having a sense of humor helps kids emotionally and socially.

Humor is a concept that is difficult to define and it’s even more difficult to pinpoint what it is that makes us laugh. There are many theories to this, but one of them that is often discussed is the incongruity theory, which “suggests that we find fundamentally incompatible concepts or unexpected resolutions funny. Basically, we find humor in the incongruity between our expectations and reality.”

So enjoy this list of children saying unexpected things and possibly things that are so different from the reality we see that they give us a little chuckle.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Sounds like something my friend would have said when he was little! He was obsessed with dresses and gowns and would regularly go out in a play wedding dress, a masquerade mask, and carried a neon yellow and pink sleeping bag in case he got tired XD I love him so much and he is still a total diva

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Similar response from a 3yo. I came in and saw my little niece, so I said "Ho look! A little monster!" She asked "Where???" and looked around. I answered "You are the little monster" to what she replied "No, I'm a princes!"

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My sister is a really overindulgent/entitling parent - to the point where my 4 y/o niece actually thought she was a princess. Until she stayed the weekend at my house. When I asked her to pick up her toys she literally told me, that as a princess, that wasn't her job. I informed her that her royal title ended at my front door and she'd better get her little butt busy. She threw a screaming fit for about an hour. She's 18 now and even worse.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My grandfather called me Queen and said that as the August Bank Holiday (UK) is always the nearest Monday to my birthday that it was to commemorate my birthday

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My little brother on the prospect of climbing snowdon when I suggested it because I wanted to: "I do not want to climb a mountain; that is not my dream"

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

When I turned 40 (in April) I dyed my naturally blonde hair bright "mermaid" turquoise. I saw my nephew (7yo) a few days later and he told me I looked the cheese he found in his fridge. Wow little dude, your mom went from blonde to purple 6 months ago...I can't imagine what he told her when she did that lol

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's always the ninja poop squirrels. (That's a rather unlikely sentence..)

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It’s always going to be more exotic to take after someone remote and mysterious!

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My 8 year-old nephew told me my new glasses made me look the oldest man in the world with the biggest nose in the world and put on my old glasses.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My baby sis always runs away from our mom and calls her a monster everytime mom wears make-up 🤣

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

reminds me of when we were stopped at traffic lights and my 5 year old read the billboard on the church on the opposite side of the intersection. It read in huge letters "JESUS SAVES" My son promptly asked "WHICH BANK?" The catch phrase of an annoyingly frequent ad on TV at the time.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It was during the Clinton/Bush Presidential race. My 3 year old had seen a bunch of Clinton ads on TV showing the Bush speech in which he said, “Read my lips…no new taxes…” She was standing at the top of the stairs eating Doritos when I came home from work one day and said, “Hey Daddy…Read my Chips!” followed by her hysterical laugh. I knew she’d never take life too seriously after that….

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