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30 Instances Kids Were Unintentionally Hilarious By Not Understanding The Concept Of Age
The things said from a squishy-cheeked face with the most innocent toothless smile can hurt surprisingly bad.
Things like "you're 18, how come you're unmarried, what's wrong with you?" Oh, the toothless things I was talking about are children, not talking frogs from the cursed forest–this is real life and real adults' egos get bruised when kids try guessing their age.
Twitter user @msdanifernandez helped to collect many of these Shakespearean (and not so sophisticated ones, let's be honest here) insults into one place, and we selected the best/worst for you to laugh at.
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While these tweets mainly focus on kids making adults feel older than they are, some people do suffer from the opposite problem of living with so-called babyfaces. In their case, their looks just don't catch up to their age. Of course, this is subjective–they won't be asked for I.D. in every bar. These people are in the company of celebrities like Leonardo DiCaprio, with several childlike facial features, such as short nose and plump cheeks. Those features are called neotenous. Scientists are investigating the relationships between neoteny and perceived attraction in different sexes.
Speaking of relativity and years, there is a well-known phenomenon that people feel time flowing faster as they age. One of the hypotheses is that shorter and more reliably working paths between neurons allow young people to process more information during the same time frame, leaving them with the impression that more things have happened, therefore more time has passed. (Kind of like watching a modern movie with 24 frames per second versus an early with 16-18 fps.) Imagine watching the melodrama Santa Barbara for 9 years and thinking that each episode was shorter than the last. However, this is just one of the hypotheses–there is no consensus yet.
There are several scientific studies on kids' comprehension of age, such as "Now I’m 3: Young Children’s Concepts of Age, Aging, and Birthdays," which you can read in full here. One of the focuses of the study is Western children's ability to understand the relationship between having a birthday party and actual aging (Western, because birthdays are treated with great importance here).
Me too - lots of kids experienced this. When I saw Wizard of Oz, my head nearly exploded.
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Different cultures not only have different birthday celebration traditions, but age calculating systems as well. In Korea, your age would be different—it would not matter what day you were born, you would be the same Korean age all year. You can calculate it here.
I would probably have said "Actually you can die at any age! Some people even die while they're still babies!", but then I have a history of saying things to children I probably shouldn't. :p
Understandably, senescence is a hard thing for adults to cope with: the feeling of having not achieved enough, losing smoothness in skin and motion. Some works of fiction play on this fear of aging by exaggerating how fast it happens, such as Hayao Miyazaki's Howl's Moving Castle from 2004, or M. Night Shyamalan's 2021 film Old. However, there are real-life conditions causing premature aging. Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome, sometimes nicknamed Benjamin Button disease, is one of them. Hopefully, medicine will soon be able to help people who have it more effectively.
Because we all know that every woman's purpose in life is to get married as soon as possible. /s
We had SO MUCH FUN without phones or internet. Probably more fun then you are having right now.
Understandably, senescence is a hard thing to cope with, especially after puberty. Some works of fiction sharpen the emotional effect by portraying sudden aging as the main event, such as Hayao Miyazaki's Howl's Moving Castle, or M. Night Shyamalan's 2021 film Old. However, there are real-life conditions causing premature aging. Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome, sometimes nicknamed Benjamin Button disease, is one of them.
i misread this initially as "helping bring back their 7 year old" like as in bring back to life. Needless to say i was momentarily confused.
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I get a little kid not grasping age...But when someone in their teens or 20's doesn't get it (eg: a 45 year old isn't a baby boomer) it just makes them look stupid.
When I was a young swim instructor (17-23) I would occasionally ask my students how old they though I was. The youngest kids guesses were hilarious. Sometimes they would seem to throw out random numbers, 9, 80, 42. Sometimes they would have some sort of logic like , you must be older than my brother and he is 8, so you must be at least 10. Or my grandma just had her 70th birthday, I don't think you're as old as her so you're probably about 60.
I actually have a funny story on this topic. I was four, and asked my dad, "Daddy?" "What?" he said. "Were people alive in the 1990's?"
My 6 yo niece responding to an offhand comment about being an adult, "But...you're not an adult because you're not married." I told her my partner and I never want to get married so we can stay grown-up kids forever!
Not a kid but when I was 23 I was doing an internship for some time. The workers trusted me so I was in charge or training the new intern and basically doing what a normal worker did (but without the pay! Wonderful). I knew that the new intern was my age. He asked me one day how old I was. I was like... "X.. I am your age..." xD Ouch
My daugter recently asked when the lines on my forehead will disappear. And that's how I found my first wrinkles. Thanks, kiddo.
1)My son came home as announced that he had to interview someone old about their life growing up. My aunt was the oldest family member so I started to call her but he said he was going to interview me because I had to be old to be a mom. 2) same son... he's autistic and has learning disabilities Son: Mom we learned about the Mayflower today. Did you ride on it when you were little. Me- uh- no. That was before my time Son- dont lie to me
When I was a kid my mom told me she visited Japan, and I assumed she had to take a rowboat across the ocean. She went in the 80's.
I used to teach at a high school, and I had this one year 7 (13yr) kid who was obsessed with the Godzilla movies. He told me his favourite version was the 1999 film, and when I told him I would have been six when it came out in cinemas, his response was "Wow, you're old miss!"
My best friend (40's, same age as I) was visiting me at my new house when the neighbor's boys (3 and 1) came visiting. They lived with their grandparents with a part-time dad and no mom in the picture. So when they came over brutally early on the morning after my housewarming party, my friend did not feel like socializing but sat quietly on her chair. And the older boy, trying to place her, asked brightly: "are you our neighbor's grandma?" ...yeah...
my 5yo neighbour kid: How old are you? me (living alone): what do you guess? 5yo: 6. i was 22
My two boys (12 and 8) call my wife and i boomers-I'm gen x, she's a millennial. And my 15 yo daughter seems honestly surprised that im able to operate a smartphone.
A friend of my sister's daughter, both about 5 at the time, looked at my sister, then at her university graduation photo, looked back at my sister and asked, "What happened?"
I was facilitating a group counseling session for teenage girls. One girl was telling the group that she and her boyfriend were going to be...um....intimate because they "weren't like 25 and old." It was my 25th birthday.
I was talking about women's rights to a class of 12/13 year olds, that at a certain point women used to be allowed to school but only for a few years, and even after that, when they opened the first schools for 6 instead of 4 years for girls their only subjects were needlework and cooking. (Central Europe) One of them (luckily only one I guess) asked me how I managed to become a teacher which included a-levels and studying when those were the only subjects I had after learning basic maths and writing skills.
I loved it when I was 30 some odd years old and the young freckled faced cashier that was barely scratching the age to be legal to work asks me if I qualify for the senior discount. Thanks kid...
Mum, grampie is really old, right? Yes dear, he's almost 99. Mum, did grampie know Colombus?
I was just married, so 20/21. Someone came to my front door and asked for my dad. He meant my husband.
I get a little kid not grasping age...But when someone in their teens or 20's doesn't get it (eg: a 45 year old isn't a baby boomer) it just makes them look stupid.
When I was a young swim instructor (17-23) I would occasionally ask my students how old they though I was. The youngest kids guesses were hilarious. Sometimes they would seem to throw out random numbers, 9, 80, 42. Sometimes they would have some sort of logic like , you must be older than my brother and he is 8, so you must be at least 10. Or my grandma just had her 70th birthday, I don't think you're as old as her so you're probably about 60.
I actually have a funny story on this topic. I was four, and asked my dad, "Daddy?" "What?" he said. "Were people alive in the 1990's?"
My 6 yo niece responding to an offhand comment about being an adult, "But...you're not an adult because you're not married." I told her my partner and I never want to get married so we can stay grown-up kids forever!
Not a kid but when I was 23 I was doing an internship for some time. The workers trusted me so I was in charge or training the new intern and basically doing what a normal worker did (but without the pay! Wonderful). I knew that the new intern was my age. He asked me one day how old I was. I was like... "X.. I am your age..." xD Ouch
My daugter recently asked when the lines on my forehead will disappear. And that's how I found my first wrinkles. Thanks, kiddo.
1)My son came home as announced that he had to interview someone old about their life growing up. My aunt was the oldest family member so I started to call her but he said he was going to interview me because I had to be old to be a mom. 2) same son... he's autistic and has learning disabilities Son: Mom we learned about the Mayflower today. Did you ride on it when you were little. Me- uh- no. That was before my time Son- dont lie to me
When I was a kid my mom told me she visited Japan, and I assumed she had to take a rowboat across the ocean. She went in the 80's.
I used to teach at a high school, and I had this one year 7 (13yr) kid who was obsessed with the Godzilla movies. He told me his favourite version was the 1999 film, and when I told him I would have been six when it came out in cinemas, his response was "Wow, you're old miss!"
My best friend (40's, same age as I) was visiting me at my new house when the neighbor's boys (3 and 1) came visiting. They lived with their grandparents with a part-time dad and no mom in the picture. So when they came over brutally early on the morning after my housewarming party, my friend did not feel like socializing but sat quietly on her chair. And the older boy, trying to place her, asked brightly: "are you our neighbor's grandma?" ...yeah...
my 5yo neighbour kid: How old are you? me (living alone): what do you guess? 5yo: 6. i was 22
My two boys (12 and 8) call my wife and i boomers-I'm gen x, she's a millennial. And my 15 yo daughter seems honestly surprised that im able to operate a smartphone.
A friend of my sister's daughter, both about 5 at the time, looked at my sister, then at her university graduation photo, looked back at my sister and asked, "What happened?"
I was facilitating a group counseling session for teenage girls. One girl was telling the group that she and her boyfriend were going to be...um....intimate because they "weren't like 25 and old." It was my 25th birthday.
I was talking about women's rights to a class of 12/13 year olds, that at a certain point women used to be allowed to school but only for a few years, and even after that, when they opened the first schools for 6 instead of 4 years for girls their only subjects were needlework and cooking. (Central Europe) One of them (luckily only one I guess) asked me how I managed to become a teacher which included a-levels and studying when those were the only subjects I had after learning basic maths and writing skills.
I loved it when I was 30 some odd years old and the young freckled faced cashier that was barely scratching the age to be legal to work asks me if I qualify for the senior discount. Thanks kid...
Mum, grampie is really old, right? Yes dear, he's almost 99. Mum, did grampie know Colombus?
I was just married, so 20/21. Someone came to my front door and asked for my dad. He meant my husband.
