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No one can deny that children are creative. However, their creativity often gets them in trouble, so adults must keep an eye on them before disaster strikes. And while parents worry about what their kids will think of next, twitter users share moments from their own childhood to remind everyone that children are never boring.
We already presented you with a list of stories from people's childhood that sums up their characters so here is another one about kids being on-brand! Scroll below to read the best responses delivered to the @KEBrightbill thread.

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norwaymiss Report

Erika Jones
Community Member
6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Congratulations on going against the crowd at a young age to do what you knew was right. That's hard to do.

Just Curious
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6 years ago (edited)

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Yes, a hero... who has no qualms about tooting her own horn about it.

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tinklyatom
Community Member
6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I wish there were more people like you.

Dani
Community Member
6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm gonna say there were 40 people at the restaurant but 700 in the class? Just a guess though

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Tracy Wolfe
Community Member
6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

People are people so why should it be You and I should get along so awfully So we're different colours And we're different creeds And different people have different needs It's obvious you hate me Though I've done nothing wrong I never even met you So what could I have done I can't understand What makes a man Hate another man Help me understand People are people so why should it be You and I should get along so awfully Help me understand

Justgail Jones
Community Member
6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yes, as a group of young friends when one would say they couldn’t go to a certain store we all just went to a store that welcomed us all.

Lin Boyd
Community Member
6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Love you for your action. Bravo.

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    #2

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    CHenryWrites Report

    Sadia Timmermans
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Boys will be boys? BS! He deserved a kick in the nuts.

    Zenozenobee
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    By the way, I think the teacher (and everyone using the "boy will be boy" as an excuse) is also responsible for that kind of behavior.

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    Laura Gillette
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    He doesn't get detention for sexually harassing you, but you get detention for making sure he never bothers you again. classic.

    Susan Gardner
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    OMG what year was this? Seriously, that is beyond WRONG

    L McN
    Community Member
    6 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You know, boys will be boys. Girls will be girls. But that is not an excuse for that sort of behavior, PERIOD. I say he well earned that kick, and the teacher well earned a pink slip and being barred from teaching. Edit, corrected spelling.

    MRaina
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This teacher was left unharmed ? boys will continue to misbehave when there is no one to keep them in check

    Bumble Boozle
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I hate it when adults say that. In my class, BS from boys to the teacher is merely brushed off. But if any of the girls goof of, we get took to the side and yelled at.

    Mark Kelly
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    After the kick it's "Boy will be girls"

    student Valencia Collier
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    boys will be boy- HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR THEIR ACTIONS

    elfin
    Community Member
    Premium
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And girls should respond accordingly.

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    #3

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    MRudolphComedy Report

    Joley Hidaka
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm trying to stifle my hysterical laughter on this one so my boss doesn't ask 'what's so funny?'

    Kevin Mullane
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Unbelievable that 3 years old kid stand still that long.

    Ale_Vidal23
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    you sir, did a great job.. you deserve an elite degree in hide and seek

    Amber Shao
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Hahaha, I used to do that too

    Tracy Wolfe
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well...my younger sister took a dump on the changing room floor (cir. 1972?) so proud she was it was not in her pants. Mother was Mortified . JC Penny’s

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    CharissaMcAfee Report

    Elizabeth
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Seriously impressive journalism skills here

    Martha Meyer
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is awesome and very brave of her!

    Jaye Rodger
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    One person CAN make a difference

    Sergio Serg
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Impressive blackmailing skills

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    #5

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    marlataviano Report

    SirWriteALot
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I was today years old when I learned that it is not "duidecimal" but "dewey decimal".

    Olli Glx
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I wrote up a list of all my 800+ books in a word document, alphabetical, of course. And then gave those I had already read (about 90%) school grades. I was about 15 then. I lost the list later on, but still miss it. I'm 47 now. And amongst others job, I became a bookstore seller.

    Jo B. Ventura Gurule
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    What a blessing in disguise!! Keep up the good works!!! God bless you!!

    criminalgirl
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I work in a library in Scotland, come and teach some of our actual Librarians to do it!!

    Meyer Weinstock
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Beats me. I was 14. -Dr. M, retired professor, 2nd career librarian in a rural town

    Niito
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm studying it right now as part of the state exams to become a librarian... after 3 hours of ordering lists with decades of them on each you see numbers everywhere.

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    #6

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    daumling1 Report

    Dani
    Community Member
    6 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This girl is my spirit animal :D

    Vic
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I thought it would end with "and today I'm a teacher" 😄😄

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    Zenozenobee
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My son is 5 yo. This year a little girl confessed her love to him. He answered her "I'm sorry Alexandra, I do not accept your love". Alexandra's mother and I went from "how cute!!!" to "oh damn!".

    Omag
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Hahaaa what a burn. Well mannered kid though.

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    Whatshername
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    So someone brought up the courage to confess his/her love and you stampeded all over his/her heart? The poor soul :(

    KarmaQueen
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Assume you are a teacher as your profession.

    SykesDaMan
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Did you grade it? "B-, I''ll give you another chance to prove your worth!"

    Bored Llama
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Honestly, This would probably be me. I always correct people's grammar haha

    Trish Greene
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    OMG - my Dad used to do that to my Mom when they were dating!

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    cinnachick Report

    Bec Snyder
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That speaks worlds about a healthy relationship.

    Dani
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Truly. Insomnia sucks but this makes my heart happy :)

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    TheExtremeSmell
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I did the same thing in late elementary school through middle school. But with a magazine and a flashlight. I’d always be so tired after reading a few pages would put me right down

    Mindy Keys
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    MY big bro made me a wee reading light with bits and bobs he bought at Radio Shack for this exact reason. I still need to thank him for this. He is almost 60 now.

    Lonez Zhavec
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    As a book lover and a son to a mother who’s always been proud of me reading books, this made me cry.

    SirWriteALot
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Great mom! Reading is never a bad thing. Maybe invest in a kindle with non-blue backlight for reading in the dark.

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    pglover Report

    Elizabeth
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This one is GREAT! I wish that parents and teachers could find that special topic that inspires every kid to read more

    Grumble O'Pug
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Sadly the system is flawed. My gateway was Walter Farley novels. The trite readers left me cold.

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    Kwj
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My parents found out that my little brother, who has dyslexia, was very interested in lizzards, so they told him that he could get a pet-lizzard if he read a book on how to take proper care of them. He read it with our mom and got his first lizzard shortly after.

    Vicky Zar
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is cool! Your parents did the perfect thing.

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    Alison Burgess
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    In first grade my daughter was put into a reading group for slow readers where she had to read out loud in a group. In 5th grade she was in the 99th percentile for the California Achievement Test ang was placed in TAG (Talented and Gifted) classes in middle school. Turns out she was just shy!

    SacredPistachio
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Not only is it fun to read D&D handbooks and manuals but there are also some really detailed illustrations 😀

    Turd Ferguson
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm happy this had a happy ending, but I hope the lesson taken from this isn't "ignore the teachers" because most earnest teachers know what they're talking about and your child may very well be behind. We got the same feedback from my daughter's teachers from kindergarten on and she eventually got an IEP that got her caught up before she entered middle school. The system may be considered broken, but most of the teachers are NOT, so it's wise to not dismiss feedback like that.

    Thomas Turnbull
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Just get a book they are interested in and they will always succeed

    Suz-Anne SEUSS
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My husband taught middle school. Kids told him they didn't read because earlier teachers wouldn't let them read "trash". He allowed everything from comic books, graphic novels, game instructions and beyond.

    mom24boys
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My dad dropped of a box of Guns & Ammo and Hot Rod Magazines. Within 3 months, my "difficult" reader and math hater was reading beyond level and doing conversion, compression and other math problems in his head.

    Mario Clouâtre
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm French Canadian and AD&D manuals helped me a lot to learn English.

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    #9

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    LeonardEctric1 Report

    Foxxy
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    What the hell kind of school is that to just let a 6 year old leave school alone?

    Vicky Zar
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    What kind of school does not? This is perfectly normal in other countries than the US. You all watch too many scary things on TV. Kids won't get kidnapped just because they walk home from school.

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    Mica Fiverline
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    When I was in elementary, we all walked home by ourselves... Later in Middle School (or equivalent because Germany) we drove our bikes by ourselves even in the winter (when it was still dark out) for nearly 5 miles every day^^ Don't get why that's weird...

    Cat person
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I used to ride my bike to school everyday in elementary and that was in the mid 2000s

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    Sabine Teufl
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I always used to walk to and back school on my own with my friends. The first year one of the mums folllowed us in some distance. Still around 50% of kids seem walk to school without parents in my country. But I read up about it and generally Germany and Northern Europe countries seem to believe more in the ability of their kids compared for example UK.

    Mark Kelly
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    What about the kid who had the appointment?

    Shannon Richards
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I used to walk home for lunch and back again for the afternoon. This was the 1960's. I also made homemade eggnog with raw eggs, never used a baby car seat, rode my bike without a helmet, etc. Don't know how I survived to be 63 years old. ;-)

    Jacquie Gariano
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Those were the days when we all walked to school and home by ourselves. We played outside till dark, rode bikes without helmets, did all kinds of kid things and we survived. LOL

    Dianna Slowey-Thomas
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It doesn’t say what year but this was not unusual or unsafe until the late 1970’s

    Edgar Rops
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    How did we ever manage to survive to adulthood without constant supervision, cellphones, bicycle helmets etc...

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    simeyowen Report

    Harleen
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This somehow reminds me of something that happened with the family I baby-sat for. They took me out to eat. Their son was 4. They were trying to teach him how to be a gentleman at a restaurant. He knew what he wanted to order but his sister was taking a long time to decide. He tried to say "excuse me", to the waitress several times. His dad kept telling him that ladies order first and it was impolite to interrupt. They told the waitress to come back. The kid stood up on the bench and went, "WAIT! Excuse me miss! I've been a gentleman and I want pizza and soda!!" 🤣

    Useless Panda
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm 14 (almost 15) and still automatically get kids menus at restauants

    Cat person
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Wait actually? One time when I was sixteen I got given the alcoholic beverages menu by the waitress. I guess I am pretty tall but I that doesn't necessarily mean anything because a lot of adults are really short and some kids are really tall

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    Susann Campbell
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You set you personality for life right then and there, didn't you cutie?

    Ivy D
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    At my 12 month doctor appointment, my doctor asked if I could say any basic words yet. I responded by pointing to the illustration on the wall and saying, "That's Horton. He's an elephant."

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    busybelle2011 Report

    Susann Campbell
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My grandson used to do that, no he didn't, he would just take things apart and my daughter had to put it back together while fussing at dad for not locking up his tool box again.

    Celtic Pirate Queen
    Community Member
    6 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I fell in love with tinkering fairly young. My Mom was a single parent & we were always tight on money. I think I was about 9 when I took our broken vacuum cleaner apart, hey - if it was already broken I wasn't going to hurt it. Figured out a small pebble had wedged itself into the motor's exhaust fan (no idea that's what it was called back then). Cleaned and oiled it really well. It ran for another 5 years. The following year I took the dryer apart because the drum quite rotating, turned out to be a broken belt & replaced it for about $4. I've never shied from trying to fix something. I've replaced faucets, light fixtures, outlets, you name it. All because Mom let me disassemble the vacuum cleaner!

    DC
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    what is an egg beater? Never heard of these...

    Trish Greene
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    When my brother was about five years old, he took our Grandpa's lawnmower apart. Never did get it put back together!

    Cheryl McCann
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My youngest son was like this. Took apart and fixed anything I thought was a dead appliance. In high school he fixed our car. In his early 20's he fixed our heating system. Pretty cool.

    Niall Mac Iomera
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    How is it even possible to do that? Did he have machining tools?

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    Chelsea_5512 Report

    Dani
    Community Member
    6 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My twin sister started walking a few months before I did. Apparently, in those months, I got a bit frustrated, so instead of walking myself, I would just push her over as she was toddling around.

    Valerie G.
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My twin walked before me, he even ran, bumped into things and fell down and cried, a LOT. I thought that wasn't for me, I didn't walk until I was seventeen months, but then I just got up and walked, no falling, no tears.

    Celtic Pirate Queen
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My daughter basically potty trained herself when she was around a year old. She was in daycare with another little girl who was older & potty training. Every time Ashley went potty, Brittany had to go too. Saved me a small fortune on diapers.

    Joannie Goulet
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My mom say that I started walking at 9 months because I could not stand having dirt on my hands. I'm 35 and I still can't stand having dirty hands!

    Myrthe Klompmaker
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I didn't practice standing up. There was a tangerine part laying in the windowsill and I wanted to have it.

    Debster
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I think my daughter did this at 17 months old. No falling or anything. My son walked at 17 months and he was all over the place. Hmmmmm???

    Ben Smith
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I mean...cool and all, but you were a baby. You didn’t do that on purpose. You just randomly went to another room and walked out. It’s not like it was a plan lol

    Isabel Care
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It seems I could walk quite well at 18 months. We were camping, my brother said "When she says we have to go to bed, everyone run" My 2 brothers were caught, no one expected the toddler to escape. Everyone on the camp site joined in the search. I was nearly half a mile away, across a railway track (one steam train per day), playing with a dripping tap. They hadn't let me examine it earlier when we passed by on the way to the beach. Crossing the rails was my earliest memory

    Hollie Newton
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We have a very small landing my mum took her eyes off me for a second knowing full well I hadn't learnt how to crawl. That was the day I learned promptly falling down the stairs after

    debrina blackmoon
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    each of my daughters could walk at 6 mos. the first was nervous about it for awhile but the other just wanted to keep up!

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    AshleyMason739 Report

    Harleen
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Sounds like me! I didn't speak until nearly two. Well, they THOUGHT I didn't speak. I was discovered sitting by our chain link fence having a discussion with the neighbor's dog. I just didn't have anything to say to humans! LOL

    MRaina
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I am 32, and still have nothing to say to humans :)

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    Sadie Shapiro
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My babysitter's friend's son never talked to anyone... EVER... EVER. People were starting to get concerned when he reached age 3. One day, his dad said, "Jonah, can you say 'car'?" and the kid straight-up responded, "Yes, Father. Why do you ask?" I'm ready to live on Mars now.

    Guido Pisano
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Some children doesn't speak because they haven't a reason to do.

    citcat
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    awww you had good manners

    This Lil Raccoon
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Nearly everyone in my family has selective mutism so from when I was really little my mum taught me sign language knowing I was most likely not going to speak. She said it was hilarious when people would see an 18 month old using BSL, quietly ask my mum if I was deaf or mute and have me respond with "No ma'am/sir, I just don't like speaking." Then go back to signing about birbs

    Claire
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    When my uncle was a baby, he didn't start saying words, he started with sentences. I think the first thing he said was when my grandfather was changing his diaper - he asked, "where the hell are the wipes?" He also said "thanks, guys" after my grandfather or father (never for my grandmother - his mother) finished changing his diaper.

    Nadine
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I was a chatterbox when I was really little, but had trouble transitioning from one language to another. I would only speak Spanish for days or weeks and then only English for days or weeks.

    Bill Thomas
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This sounds a little like my daughter. At two, she was saying words and the occasional sentence fragment. One day, we're in the car listening to https://youtu.be/uqSKl7sdUa8 and she says, "I like this music, dad." Clear as a bell, no soft palate lisp or anything! I freaked and looked in my back seat to see who else was in the car ... LOL

    Sally Miller
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    LOL priceless... you were just waiting for the right moment to show off your hospitality

    jenjie.newt
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My best friend growing up had the first word of "femur"

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    KagroX Report

    Claire Hoyt
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You got your Picture taken buy THE Ruth Bader Ginsburg?!?!!? DUUUUUUDE.

    L McN
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Uh, ok....how is this even on the list? Cute, yes, but nothing extremely unique or special, nothing that is off the wall, challenging, or advanced achievement for the age. This does not downplay the importance of such a photo to the family, but it is not something that should make this list.

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    Laura G
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And you are notorious for this...why?

    jenjie.newt
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Wow! RBG is the hero all of us need

    Lauri foss
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    She is awesome is so many ways

    Jacquie Gariano
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    What a great memory.....she is the greatest

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    SketchesbyBoze Report

    Stille20
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    .... This is an interesting idea for a party

    Gwinevere von Ludwig
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We did this in my mixed-grade HS English class every year.

    Elena Adams
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This sounds like something I'm about to plan

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    iceicecarrie Report

    Bec Snyder
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I had to google limnology. Cool!

    SirPatTheCat
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'll save to Google for anyone else: Limnology- the study of the biological, chemical, and physical features of lakes and other bodies of fresh water

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    Sleep Meister
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I had to google Limnology is the study of inland waters - lakes (both freshwater and saline), reservoirs, rivers, streams, wetlands, and groundwater - as ecological systems interacting with their drainage basins and the atmosphere.

    Sue Prewitt
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You could walk, on sand no less, when you were 6 months old!!!???

    Karen Hansen
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    No, they could not. 9 months maybe - 11-12 months yes, but not 6 months - the head alone would make that kind of balance + unassisted locomotion impossible...

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    Merty Robinson
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My son was the same, and if I wouldn't take him to the beach he'd dig 'ponds' in the garden. He's just starting his physical hydrography phd...

    Cara Kelly
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You tottered right in at 6 months old??

    Karen Hansen
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Walking at 6 months isn't actually possible.

    Soni.
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    ....See the line where the sky meets the sea? It calls me And no one knows, how far it goes...

    Ben Smith
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Your mom just watched as you crawled into the water??? WTF?!?

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    Dani
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I feel like everybody in second or third grade went through that phase where they decided it was cool to read the dictionary. Or maybe that was just my class. Who knows.

    Erika Jones
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I just remember kids looking up dirty words!

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    kasa alex
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    When I learnt to read, I would read anything and everything all the time. Mum turned from the kitchen one day to see me sitting at the dining room table. Reading a phone book. One of those big yellow phone books.

    Justgail Jones
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Love of reading various dictionaries never left me. But very young I had to learn to just use regular words when talking.

    Suz-Anne SEUSS
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Book-it. Taught my daughter the more you read the more pizza you got. At 36 still trying to figure out her relationship with food.

    Linda Dornhecker
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I always read dictionaries and volumes of encyclopedias.

    Janoel Murrey
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    i have red a 500 page book in a day

    Rich McCormick
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We need emoticons here ... this would deserve one (eye's wide open, mouth wide open in shock)

    Jacquie Gariano
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We had encyclopedias and I read all of them when I was 7. Been reading over 100 books a year ever since.

    DotC
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We couldnt afford to go on vacations every summer like our friends so we read dictionaries and encyclopedias. I know pretty much every breed of domestic animal before 1986. I also know what most of the constellations mean.

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    Christina Eneroth (Eneroth3)
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I still haven't gotten over how the library bus that stopped outside my house didn't let me borrow the books I wanted with my own library card (guide books with axonometries of museums and other famous buildings) but how my mum had to do it for me. Got my bachelor degree in architecture last year.

    Maria
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I was raised by my maternal grand-mother. My parents were emigrants. My uncle, father side, used to come by my house to go play with him at my other grand-mother's house. We have only a 8 years difference of age. Sometimes, I wouldn't say anything to my grand-mother because she might say no. So I used to go with him without informing her. She was obviously mad. And she told me that I wouldn't be allowed to go without a written note saying where I was going. I was 4. I said: "But I don't know how to write nor read yet." My grand-mother: "Well, that settles things then." But I knew the alphabet. Next time my uncle came, I asked him to spell "Went to [other grand-mother]". My maternal grand-mother was furious and said that it wasn't me who had written it, I said it was me, she asked to prove it, I asked her to spell something to me, and voilà. She was still furious, but also proud.

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    D H
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well, mom did ask.......

    MadJess Tic
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Speech delay (for whatever reason) can be maddening for both parent & child! My oldest daughter had to completely relearn how to talk between ages 2&3 yrs old because of a surgery.... Took quite some time! And still have work left to do! We all have our own crosses to bear... BTW: This is an Awesome story!!! 😄😄

    Foxxy
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Oh my god, thankfully you are still alive.

    NanZ
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If I am remembering correctly, one reason can be Apraxia. My niece had that, but after working with a specially trained teacher she has no more problems.

    Mindy Keys
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You could not speak at 4 years Old? Bless. Late bloomer I suppose. I was reading Stepnen R. Donaldson (Covenant) at 5.

    Ben Smith
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    If you’re not speaking by age 4 you have a developmental disability.

    Shawn
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    Well from the rest of the story it makes sense.. Life really must have been a struggle being so dumb.

    PAN-cake ;)
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Im sorry to hear you are struggling at life

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    julieingersoll Report

    Bec Snyder
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I hope you're still an activist!

    Stannous Flouride
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    When the young women in my NJ high school did this, I was one of 3 boys who wore kilts that day. (actually one of my sister's plaid skirts) The girls' strike was successful and none were disciplined but all 3 of us boys were told to go home and change or get suspended. It was a cold day and the walk home was very enlightening as to what the females had been having to endure.

    Kathy Baylis
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Same here, only in Maryland. Winter of 1971-1972 school year, was extremely cold, especially in mini skirts. All the 6th grade girls in my school petitioned the principal to wear pants, but were told no, then given a condescending lecture about the effing dress code. So a group of us decided to force the issue and organize a day where EVERY 6th grade girl would wear pants to school—-they couldn’t send all of us home! We passed the word so we’d all know. The day came, and every single 6th grade girl defiantly came to school in pants. Once the principal saw that the world did not come to an end, and there was “no human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together... MASS HYSTERIA”, the dress code was broken, and girls could wear pants to school, which we did with a righteous vengeance! That was the beginning of my appreciation for peaceful protest. (Pardon the Ghostbusters quote...even though it did fit the situation.)

    DotC
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My sister and our friends were told by our very (certain religious organization) school staff that we could not wear shorts in AZ heat because we are girls. Our moms did the real hero stuff by getting the rule deleted. Just another example of tryna keep girls modest because some adult male teachers are pervs.

    razan youssef
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    at my school kids made a petition over ripped jeans that had patches under them and we got to wear them

    NanZ
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Oh my goodness, I remember having to wear dresses in grade school and we could only wear pants under a dress in the winter too. Oh, now I feel really old!

    Catlady6000
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    When I was a kid, elementary school was k-6, Junior high was 7-9, and Senior high was 10-12. My daughter had k-4 for elementary, the Middle school 5-8, then High school 9-12. I've been told that it may even be different in different parts of the country

    debrina blackmoon
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    6 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    for awhile here it was still k-6 elementary, 7-9 jr. high and 10-12 hs. then i moved to another county and 6-8 was middle school, 9-12 was hs. later my old jr high became middle and for a while there was a 9th grade center

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    PAN-cake ;)
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    6th grade in elementary school? Im sorry

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    jae_heehan Report

    Dani
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    So basically you were a dog.

    Hurrem Haseki
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Omg, I laughed so loud with this!! Btw, exactly my thought 🤣🤣🤣

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    Susann Campbell
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The child's curiosity is the beginning of learning and a true Genius.

    Amanda Ammermann
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My three year old is like this on our walks, she LOOOOOOVES flowers and always insists on smelling them and picking smaller ones. The walks are longer but its just so freaking cute I embrace it, and I get lots of flowers from my little one <3 flower-5d2...0ba4bb.jpg flower-5d2609b0ba4bb.jpg

    Vicky Zar
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Normal kid behaviour. Its the parents, who do not allow it. thumbs up for your Dad for beeing a good Dad!

    Vilma
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Your dad is very patient!

    SirPatTheCat
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I did this too, and when my dad told me to stop dawdling, I didn't know what it meant, took it as an insult, and apparently did not speak to him at all for a week

    Mattias Lindberg
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Me and my friend always took several hours to take a 25 minute walk home all the time because we played roleplaying games while we walked, making up worlds and sitting down at random places to play "make believe", they even sent a few relatives to look for us once when we didnt show up for dinner after school once XD

    SykesDaMan
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    6 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    1- That's cute! :) and 2- How was the preschool really far? If it was a 55 min walk then your dad pulled one on you! XD, JK of course!

    Celtic Pirate Queen
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's cool that he indulged your curiosity.

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    MRSpicher Report

    Foxxy
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That is an awful thing to do to a kid.

    Elizabeth
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm hoping there's a lot of the relationship that was left out of this text... I can completely understand a teacher KNOWING that student is capable of better. Though this is harsh to do to a 1st grader

    David Grady
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That's harsh. One of my favorite teachers once told me, "YOU... are an idiot," after a failed prank on a fellow student. I had chalked a seat that a particular classmate always sat in, and when he didn't fall for it, the class pressured me into leaving the chalk there. The teacher almost sat in that chair, when we all stopped her. She asked who did it, I confessed, and apparently I was an idiot. At the same school, in a Gifted and Talented program, we were supposed to share a book to work on a project. We ran out of time before I got my turn. When I had nothing to turn in for the project, the teacher said ", you are not." After a lifetime of anxiety and depression, and never being good enough, I'm now a teacher, and my students will never be discouraged the way I was.

    L McN
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I would have personally refused, or shown up with that ripped drawing (or one like it)

    MRaina
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    what kind of teachers are they hiring now? let boys go unchecked, let kids go un escorted , discourages first graders !! Are they from same doomed school?

    This Lil Raccoon
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I had an a*****e teacher like that througout primary school (she was sort of a TA) and my sister has her now, she ripped her Christmas card for our dad up because my sis didn't do it the way the teacher wanted her to do it.

    Katchen
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This sounds like it never happened.

    Pseudo Puppy
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    your teacher was a grade-A a**e.

    Charlie Bruce
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    She assumed you upset Baby Jesus and disappointed Santa Claus with shoddy work. Hope she remembers doing that to you. I would have let everyone at the art show know about it.

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    Fiona Toms-Yarnton
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We, as a family, still do this every fire season.

    Catlady6000
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I keep a go bag by the door, and a kit in the car. You never know when a fire, flood or tornado may hit.

    jenjie.newt
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The birth of the bug-out bag. And we should all have one

    Missy Barton
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    As terrified as I was of my completely brick house catching fire when I was little, I'm surprised I didn't do the same.

    L McN
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well, I sell stuff that could help! Help prepare that is, not help "get over it" as I think that being prepared is important.

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    imipak Report

    Martha Meyer
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I remember being taught in elementary school not to do that and get an adult instead so they could call the bomb disposal service.

    L McN
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And boom goes the....interesting object you found. Lucky that it didn't go off!

    Omar A
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Our first overnight with the boy scouts was in a Green Beret training facility in Germany (military BRATS) The scout leader's son walked into camp with a Dud, cleared the entire troop out in seconds. He ended up joining the Marines I found out later.

    Isabel Care
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My favourite picnic place has a "no digging" policy. Was a WW2 bomber training site. Kingley Vale near Chichester, it's a nature reserve and has a 1000 year old yew wood (survived the training)

    My O My
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    What did mom say?

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    HelloStephan Report

    Dianna Siever
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is amazing! What are you doing now?

    Catffirmations
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    6 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "All books must be returned within two weeks...or necessary steps will be taken." What kind of necessary steps, Stephan?!?! One finger broken for each late week? A kneecap after a month?

    hispanic! at the disco
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Woah this is written really well. What a prodigy.

    Lalo Vidals
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I like La Biblioteca de Stephan!!

    wtyang24
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "La Biblioteca de Stephan" -- so epic!!!!

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    anamariecox Report

    Foxxy
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My hubby used to get told off all the times because he wouldn’t show his working out. He could work the equations in his head but struggled/s to write them down. Me I am hopeless at equations and still have to use my fingers to count with.

    Isle_of_stressed_pilots
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    im 15 and my mom constantly berates me for counting with my fingers so thats nice to hear

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    L McN
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    6 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Same with me and proof's, I was always able to look at it and see if it was correct or not, maybe not with 100% accuracy but I could just SEE that it worked. My teacher kept telling me to show my work, but I had no work to show...it just worked...and it was correct, so why spend hours looking up which mathematical rule applied to each step? (although now I sometimes wish I had in order to retain it) Edit: I passed, but with a D...

    Ann Abdelzaher
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    LOL I always hated "showing my work" took me too long to write it out because I already had the answer in my head... one time being a smart at I did one problem where I drew a thought balloon with numbers moving around in it and then wrote the answer.... my teacher wasn't impressed but I asked her what difference does the work make if the answer is correct... she had no answer for that :D

    Suz-Anne SEUSS
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My autistic grandson had the same issue, told me he just reverse engineered them in paper.

    Bill Thomas
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I did something similar on a geometry test. In this case, "show your work" meant writing each step of the proof. There were a couple of things that were so common that they were accepted as combined steps. My proof, which was the correct answer, was two of those combined steps, so I just went from the beginning to the solution with nothing written down. Of course, I got written up that I had to show my work. So I wrote down every last step of the proof, then wrote it again using the accepted combined steps, then drew a big arrow to my original correct answer. I think I went to summer school for that alone, never mind that I didn't do my homework.

    Harleen
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I had a teacher who would mark us wrong on OPINION questions. She was later fired because she took all of us (12 and 13 years old at the time) to see the Shakespeare Company's production of King Lear.

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    blkMYmorris Report

    Dani
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That sounds awesome tbh. All libraries should have drive-throughs!

    debrina blackmoon
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    6 years ago

    good idea

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    Cindy Snow
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Me too except it was my attic

    KarmaQueen
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    a lot of people starting libraries on here. I have never heard of this being done until this post.

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    barnes_matt1 Report

    Mascha Claessens
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Reminds me of the time I though it was a brilliant idea to put an empty beer bottle inside a thin plastic lunch bag and filling the entire thing with water (I truly have no idea where that came from). Then dropping it to the ground and stepping on it. My foot was bleeding. A lot. :')

    Jaye Rodger
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Also works as a booby trap against the Wet Bandits

    Catlady6000
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Sounds like something I would do now

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    anemonejames Report

    Foxxy
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My son would meltdown if we had lights out. We have tried lamps, night lights, torches etc but he sleeps with his bedroom light on, all night. We are looking at getting a dimmer switch to see if that will be better.

    Jamie Ekrut Conklin
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Use a blue light bulb or try a black Light. My kids use Christmas lights.

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    Karen Majors
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    6 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    After the lights-out rule at my house became firm and a bother to me, I taught myself to read braile (I'm not sight impared) so I could stay up and read all night with no lights on. The library had all the popular books in braile. I was 8 years old.

    Gregg Bender
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Now that's a hardcore reader. What are you doing now?

    Christina Eneroth (Eneroth3)
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    When I was a young my dad read for my sister and me every night until realizing it was way too late and sending us to bed without allowing us to read for ourselves. If I waited a rather notoriously long time (15 minutes? 20? 30?), got back up and told him I couldn't sleep, he allowed me to read something myself that interested me.

    Judy Thush
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I thought I was the only one ... it got pretty hot even on low setting

    KarmaQueen
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I am sure you have horrible eye sight now.

    Kioh81
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I had to get glasses bc i would read by nightlight every night for years. No one else in my family or any of my siblings have glasses and they all have perfect 20/20 vision. I'm the only one that read via night light. So her statement is a legitimate one.

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    NomadBiker_Paul Report

    Katherine Boag
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Don't drink and bike, cause you might spill some!

    Susann Campbell
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Just put the bottle down while riding.

    Ann Abdelzaher
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    LOL this is as bad as me riding my bike into a 6 ft deep ditch with a small creek at the bottom... LOL turned to look for my brother next thing I know I am waking up at the bottom wiht my brother holding me (he was 13 years older)

    elfin
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You can tell a happy biker by the bugs on his teeth.

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    KarmaQueen
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    did your parents ever call you out? They had to know that a paper cut does not require stitches

    Bored Llama
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My little brother took a lightbulb one time and decided to break it with his bare hands. Similar story, same outcome.

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    Elena Adams
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This sounds exactly like me! But my special book was about the universe

    Mama Panda
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My son was the exact same way! If it didn't have dinosaurs then he wasn't interested.

    Katharine Lancaster
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My problem was dyslexia. What got me reading was The Stand by Stephen King. I was 6 years old. My mom was kinda horrified. My dad went out and bought It, Pet Cemetery, and Salam’s Lot.

    Oscar Guerrero
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I swear everyone had a phase where they would only read about dinosaurs.

    SirWriteALot
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    What is "college level reading" anyways?

    Jennie-Lind Normand
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My daughter could read by kindergarten, she taught herself, I only found out she could read when she asked me what a big word was. She devoured anything that had words, MacLeans magazine (Canadian political type magazine) Readers Digest, dinosaur books, even the telephone book. Her reading skills are always way ahead of her peers

    Em Wal
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Why? I have a cousin who couldn't read at the age of 7. The type of school she attended doesn't put pressure on that type of learning. I had a friend who went to the same style of school who proudly told me in college that she didn't learn to read until 5th grade. She knew the Harry Potter books because she memorized the books-on-tape versions before actually getting to read them. As someone who loves to read, I think it's absolutely horrible, but it is true.

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    ocTOPus
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    Yeah you learned to read a a college level in one year, that makes sense

    AzKhaleesi
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    actually that's pretty believable if they applied themselves. I was an avid reader and when I was five my grandma put me in the center of the living room with my family and said watch this.... She handed me a daniel Steele book (that's all she had) flipped to the center and took a step back. I read it word for word out loud while everyone stared at me in shock. I didn't retain a lot of it as I didn't understand what all the words meant at the time, but I could read them just fine. IE: College Level. AT FIVE.

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    Mama Panda
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Oh wow! I remember Quinn from The Goodbye Girl and Family!!! Too cool =)

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    Kanishka Rajawansha
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I like to know the full story of how you learned about Gravity..

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    Dani
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Let's go was great marsupial negotiation skills :D

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    Foxxy
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My 13yo daughter chopped about 4inches of hair off 2 weeks ago. I was shocked but she actually did a really good job.

    Dani
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I mean, if it was done well.... props to her!

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    Sadie Shapiro
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    What kind of neighborhood kid says that kind of thing to a child?

    Kaiserfranzgirl
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    wipe prints off and come back here. Mom comes out, searches for gun, doesn't see any. We tell her "what gun? we don't have a gun. She's a liar. If we had a gun would we still be sitting here?" My plan works, we get off scot free, mean girl gets punished. Later I felt bad. 2/2

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