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“Tell Us Something Weird A Kid Has Said To You That Made You Think About Life In A Different Way”: 30 People Replied
There's no one true way to see the world, there are only perspectives. And yet while every perspective is important, some of them are more interesting than others, and kids often have the most interesting ones. Someone in our community raised a good question (just like a kid would) about what weird things kids have said to them that made them think differently about life.
And as you would expect, children almost habitually make truly profound observations.
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#1
I met a 6-year-old with an imaginary gecko. She had it in her hands. Asked if I would like to see the gecko. Of course, I would. When she went to show me, said gecko escaped. She loudly chased after him yelling ' come back Randall, I have treats! I have Oreos Randall.' etc. She then 'caught' Randall, and proceeded to show me. It was one of the most delightful things I've seen. I hate that this kind of imagination is pounded out of us as we get older.
Final score:
247points
Fester Sixonesixonethree 4 years ago
It's tragic how adults crush kids' imaginations. Should be a crime!
WildHoneyPie 3 years ago
When our granddaughter was three she proudly showed us her "baby elephant" held in her hands. She's nineteen now and probably doesn't remember but we'll never forget how cute it was!
AK to LV 3 years ago
Some do but how many kids are teased, bullied or scorned because of their imagination?
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I stand with Ukraine 🇺🇦 3 years ago
I used to have an imaginary hamster part dragon part Pegasus its name was Hammy
Sinead Kenny 3 years ago
You see less of it now kids are on social media or online games and not reading books.
Marcellus II 4 years ago
Not 100% creative imagination though, as Randall is the six-legged "gecko" in the movie Monsters, Inc. which could turn itself invisible. It's practically replaying a movie scene (except he's not a pet, he's adult-sized).
AK to LV 3 years ago
The OP didn't say when it happened. It could have been before Monsters, inc came out.
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#2
When my son(9) was watching youtube videos of people playing videogames:
Me: You own that game, why are you watching people play it instead of playing yourself
Him: You own a football, why do you watch other people play it on Sundays
Me: ... touche kid
Final score:
208points
Rebecca Joan 3 years ago
I really never did think about that before. Good point!! I like to watch sports in person more than on TV and I always hated having to watch my older sister and her friend play Nintendo and now let me have a turn. Maybe it’s just my childhood trauma coming thru. 🤣🤣
Susan Bosse 3 years ago
My mom told me recently that she got on to me when I was little for leaving my clothes in the floor. My response was "That's where yours are." Hahaha
Bobby (Submission author) 3 years ago
Yeah, actually found out latter my son had listened to that show with his aunt on a road trip. He told me he had been waiting for me to give an opening like that for a few weeks
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#3
I asked this one kid, "What's up?"
She took it literally and looked up, "The sky,"
I looked up too, and I guess I never realized how pretty the sky is. Now I make a point to look up each day. It's nice to get a new point of view.
Final score:
186points
Lisa Bond 4 years ago
So glad you heard...sky, moon, sun, clouds, stars, planes, satellites, smog, rain, ...
memyselfandI 4 years ago
I’m not a kid and I still say this whenever anyone asks me that. Either that or “the ceiling”.
#4
My ecstatic 4-year old daughter told me, “Mom, guess what?! Sandy told me you’re the tooth fairy and I believe her ‘cause you never have any money!” She gloated for several years, “Oh, your mom is a teacher? My mom is THE TOOTH FAIRY.” She thought I was the tooth fairy for all children and was so very proud!! Quite the pedestal she put me on, eh?
Final score:
174points
Juds Conne 4 years ago
Nice to meet you, Tooth Fairy. I've heard so many great things about you, especially from Sandy's friend.
Calypso poet 4 years ago
Our parents grew up poor on a farm so they didn't do tooth fairy or Santa and so didn't do that with us. I ruined a lot of my friends childhoods with the truth. I used to keep my baby teeth in my jewelry box and play with them like dice.
Amelia Williams 4 years ago
It is an honor to meet you, Ms. Tooth Fairy. I bet your daughter is as wonderful and generous as you are.
majandess 3 years ago
When my mom moved out of her home a few years ago, she found my baby teeth, and an envelope. In the envelope was about $8 in change. I used to worry so much about the Tooth Fairy running out of coins (shows how long ago that was) that I gave her mine when I lost my teeth, instead of the other way around.
Gina Whitt 3 years ago
I'm her mom and we WERE broke. That was over 40 years ago and her mama isn't broke anymore.
Marcelo Mabuchi 3 years ago
Are we gonna ignore that this kid just said that her mom is broke?
#5
Once when my son was around 4 he was hanging upside down off the side of the sofa and he said, "Sometimes when you are hanging upside down it's easy to think you are right side up and it's everything else that's upside down...." And I think about that a lot.
Final score:
169points
Jill Hojnacki 3 years ago
Yep. I used to lie on the floor and pretend that I was on the ceiling with a birds-eye view of the floor. Light fixtures became floor lamps,, doorways became single steps up to another room. It frees the mind and can be quite relaxing. Actually, not sure why I’ said “used to”; I did it only a couple of weeks ago. I just have to be more careful about not getting caught, now. At 6 no one really notices if you lie on the floor staring at the ceiling. Once you’re in your 60s folks tend to want an explanation.
Dee 3 years ago
Thank you for sharing Jill, I’m smiling still as I type this☺️
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Christof Irran 3 years ago
There was (likely still is) this painter who would give painting advise on the net. She suggested that when you are unsure whether the perspective of what you have painted works, just turn the painting upside down. This will immediately show up everything that doesn't really work.
Achmad Irzan 4 years ago
its easy to see other are wrong, than realizing that it is we, who are wrong
#6
I was doing groceries and some kids were standing outside the supermarket. The kids were around 8 and I am 38. The kids were asking a lot of people for fun "Sir/Mam what pokémon are you? Hoping for a funny answer. Then they asked me and I answered "I am a shiny mega Charizard" and all the kids were reaction "Woooooooooooow, you are sooooo cool". Never felt so cool in my life hahaha.
Final score:
126points
#7
It didn't make me think about life differently, but it was just a very touching moment when my cousin told me that she didn't want me to be lonely (by that time I didn't have a boyfriend). I am not saying that all the single people are lonely, no way. I just was surprised that a 5-year-old kid could think that way. She just cares about me, that's sweet.
Final score:
122points
Pizzagirl 91 3 years ago
When we recently picked up a good friend to go to another friend's son's school enrolment party, my stepdaughter (6), sitting behind me in the car, asked me, very concernedly, "Has [friend] finally found a girl yet?". I told her no, he's still looking for the right one. She said "maybe I'll marry him when I grow up, he's so nice!" it was really awkwardly-cute. He's one of her favourites because he's given us all his old Lego Duplo, his Plushies and an old set of marbles, because his family doesn't have small children. Anyway, I explained to her that he'd be a bit to old for her once she's old enough to marry, and she said "okay. I guess I'll find someone pretty anyway!" you keep that optimism, darling!
#8
I worked at an afterschool program. A six-year-old boy was staring at the ground across the school yard, as if in a trance. I walked over to him and asked, "Tommy, what's wrong?" He slowly looked up and said to me, "The Earth is a mess."
Final score:
116points
TheAnimalLady 4 years ago
Damn!!! At 6yrs old🙀 This is why I'm reading about young adults who quit school/work to become full-time climate activists and it breaks my heart 🥺💔😿
thepinkrobot 3 years ago
All of these read like that one thread about s**t that really didn't happen but ppl are claiming it did. You just need the "and then everybody clapped"
#9
I remember when I was little I was visiting my family in Venezuela and I was wondering why all the buildings were badly painted and my mom told me it was because people didn't have enough money to repaint them. To which I responded, "But people have enough paint to do graffiti all over the place, why can't they do the same to the buildings?" And my mom said, "Good question, but it's too early for me to think."
Final score:
109points
#10
I was weeding my lawn with one of those weed grabber tools that digs them out by the roots while you stand more or less upright, mainly dandelions. My five year old daughter ran up to me and with big tears says, "No! Don't kill the dandy lions mommy! If there were only one, you would plant more and tell me they were beautiful!!!!" Needless to say no more " dandy lions" have ever died at my hands and it made me think of other things that are common but that we over look that are beautiful and valuable, like older folks, little kids, and earnest young people doing the best they can in a sucky, difficult time and world.
Final score:
100points
Sheila Stamey (Submission author) 4 years ago
I do, and this was almost thirty years ago,plus a HOA request. Many dandelions have loved and lived since. I love bees. My daughters name means bees.
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Bobbie Meyers 4 years ago
Dandelions feed bees AND birds. They are not a weed, they are an herb and the entire plant is edible. I encourage them for my G.Pigs and Rabbits...as well as for the birds and bees. Of course, when I intentionally plant them, they don't grow.
LadyDelynn 4 years ago
I talked my husband into leaving the dandelions for the bees! It's my job to cut the flower heads off after they close but before opening up with their seed puffs.
memyselfandI 4 years ago
I used to take all the weeds my mom pulled up and plant them in those little six pack pots you get from the garden store to save them. And then I made my own little garden carved into the side of a hill, with steps and everything, and I would populate it with the unappreciated plants, and I would ask Mom to get me more plants whenever she got plants for her garden, and it was all very cute. I was an ambitious child. The garden didn’t last very long though.
Jenny Heit 3 years ago
There's a little weed flower my 4 year old son picks everyday because they remind him of pineapples
Philly Bob Squires 3 years ago
They're not just edible, but they make great wine! Plus they feed bees and birds!
Susan Reid Smith 3 years ago
Our tortoise thinks they are the greatest thing ever.
Load More Replies... TheAnimalLady 4 years ago
They were brought everywhere on purpose as people migrated because it is very easy to grow and you can use all but the stems for food/drink. And those can be used for skin issues (the sap).
#11
Driving my daughter to preschool one day, years back, she asked me if Santa really does live at the North Pole. I said, of course he does, why do you ask? She said if he lives there, why do all her toys say "Made In China" on them? Thinking for a minute, I replied that there are a LOT of kids that get toys at Christmas time and he can't make all of them at the North Pole. Some of them get made in different parts of the world, like China. She was happy with that answer.
Final score:
96points
Anne Reid 3 years ago
Not only can they read, but they know geography, too! Also, I’ve heard so many versions of this story that either lots of kids say it or this poster is repeating someone else’s story.
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#12
"Aunt Dana, do you know that you're closer to your death than your birth?" on my birthday.
Final score:
91points
DUN DUN (Submission author) 4 years ago (edited)
Oh fck....OH FCK...WHY DID U TELL ME THAT!!!!!!!?????????
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#13
One day I was traveling on the subway with my 6 years old son. He was very quiet and seems thoughtful. I asked what he was thinking and he responded ''I feel like we are going around a circle like ants. We are doing the same things over and over and it never ends''. It has been 4 years and I still think about it.
Final score:
76points
Paula Marowsky 4 years ago
And they say "rutine is good for children. Make them feel safe".., yeah, sure
#14
I was told by a little girl that putting anything in a princess dress makes it better, especially if it's sparkly. I think about that when I'm upset.
Final score:
72points
Juds Conne 4 years ago
She's right, everything is improved by being clothed with sparkles. My favorite color is glitter.
Me Oh My 4 years ago
What's your favorite kind of glitter? Mine's this kind I get that's blue and the bits are shaped like stars!
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Matthew Barber 3 years ago
As a 44 year old man, I have to say I'm not sure it'd be better to put me in a sparkly princess dress...
#15
My niece saw me crying about something that had happened earlier. She told me 'god didn't make eyes for crying did he?'. It was a deep thought and made me feel better
Final score:
67points
Lene 3 years ago
Well.... crying reliefs the body of some toxins and reduses the stress levels and it can help with weight loss. Lol. No really, ppl have done reseach on this and found out that crying can help with weight loss! I think I even saw somewhere that there's a specific time when it's better to cry than other times. I think it was something like between 7 and 9 pm. My point is that if you believe that God made your eyes then yes, he made them ALSO for crying because crying is good for you and physically healthy.
Night Owl 3 years ago (edited)
Well, crying gives me headache instead of any kind of relief so I hate it
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#16
This made me think different about how a child's life is...
🧘🏼♀️My four year old daughter turned off the TV and went to the bathroom. She returned and turned it back on, and immediately started crying 🥺
When I asked her what was wrong, she said "It's not in the same place that it was when I turned it off and I missed the ending" 😿😭
(It's so hard to be a child 😹🤣😹)
Final score:
63points
Lovin' Life 4 years ago
My 3 year old grandson cant grasp the concept of commercials. They devastate him.
#17
When my son was very young, maybe 4, he said "My heart is connected to your heart with shiny threads". He turned 17 yesterday, and I was really enjoying this memory.
Final score:
62points
meow point1 3 years ago
Reminds me of that kids book "The Invisible String", which likens love to a string.
Celtic Pirate Queen 3 years ago
My son turned 42 this past July. After every conversation (he's a good boy and calls every Sunday) I always end with, "I love you kid, beyond sight & sound" to which he responds "I love you to the moon and back, Mommy".
Huddo's sister 3 years ago
There is a picture book about that, I can't remember the name of...
#18
Tucking my wee daughter of about 4 in bed one night and she asks me, “Mama? Why do you have holes in your face and Vanna White doesn’t?” (In reference to a few enlarged pores). I responded with, “Well, Jenny-Benny, some people have holes in their face and some people don’t.” She put her chubby little hands on my either side of my face and said, “Just like some peoples gots fuzzy cheeks and some peoples don’t.” Double whammy right there…
Final score:
61points
David Struve 4 years ago (edited)
It's often said if you want a truly honest opinion ask a young child, just be prepared for a REALLY honest answer!
#19
Not life exactly, but seeing the world for any and everything possible. What do you see here?...a suction cup. Last year when my daughter was 3 she came across a suction cup. I told her what it was and she said "no mommy it's a princess dress" she then proceeded to move it around as though a princess was dancing in a ball gown. The world is what you make it.
Final score:
56points
Steve Ramaekers 3 years ago
Wrong cup in the pic BP. I don’t wanna picture that as a princess dress
Lily bloom 3 years ago
Yeah, don't let your kid play with that. Even if new/clean, they aren't cheap!
Load More Replies... Juds Conne 4 years ago
I love that she can still see the magic in things. That's something none of us should ever lose. Suction cups will forever be princess party dresses for me. Thanks.
Sharkbait1313 3 years ago (edited)
I remember one night after being intimate with my SO my nuva ring popped out, so I washed it and dried it, but had set it on a towel in the bathroom connected to our master bedroom ( my kids didn't typically use this bathroom because they had their own jack and Jill bathroom with all of their things in it) anywho..... I was folding laundry on my bed when my daughter (6 at the time) came out with my nuva ring around her wrist saying " I think this bracelet is supposed to glow in the dark, but it must be broken". Me, not realizing what it was, said " oh that's too bad, did you get that from the prize box at school? " she said no, that she had found it in my bathroom and then asked if I didn't want it could she keep it to wear to school and show her friend Izzy..... then, Bing, it dawned on me that it was my birth control. I had to explain that is was actually medicine for mommy to which she replied "well, I think it's better as a bracelet" 😄
Adam Eve 3 years ago
Thanks for teaching us about a new form of contraception... Is it ever uncomfortable during relations? Even "vigorous '?
Load More Replies... My O My 3 years ago
Ooooh, suction cup is the english word. I was always wondering what a suction cup is
Chris B 3 years ago
The cup in the picture is not a suction cup. A suction cup is used to fix hooks and other things to walls and shower rules, etc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suction_cup
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My sister once said I was letting the world eat me. Then I realized it was 6 years before I would leave for college. So now I just try to live my life before I’m sucked into real life.
Final score:
51points
Lisa Bond 4 years ago
My momma always said, " quit wishing your life away. It goes by faster than you think."
Adam Zad 3 years ago
🎶 I turned on the evening news, saw an old man bein' interviewed, turnin' 102 today. They asked him "What's the secret to life?" He looked up from his old pipe and said "Don't blink"... 🎶
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I asked a friends’ kid once “Hey…what’s up?” And he replied “My pants.” And well…he wasn’t wrong.
Final score:
46points
Paul Davis 4 years ago
Kid probably heard it from someone else. This is just a schoolyard joke going back decades.
Robert Trebor 3 years ago
so? A lot of responses may have been said before but still be original to the person now.
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Gabby Ghoul 3 years ago
I often answered this question with "a preposition, sometimes an adverb, and occasionally an adjective."
#22
One time, I was visiting my parents in Florida. My 5 yo niece and I were night swimming in the pool with the flood light on, hanging on to a floatie. We were just talking about random things and all of a sudden says , aunt Kim, can we pray? I said sure! So she proceeds to pray for all of the family, and at the very end, says “and God, take care of yourself, too.” I was absolutely go smacked, floored! What kind of heart this kid had.. not once when I have prayed, did I ever remind God, to take care of himself! I, of course started to after that. How simply kind and altruistic and loving she was, to think about God needing to take care of himself! I was forever altered by her words, for the good!
Final score:
46points
Coffee_nut45? 3 years ago
"Let the children come to me and do not stop them. For the Kingdom of Heaven belongs those who are like them.". -Mathew 19:14 (NLT)
Kim Lorton (Submission author) 3 years ago
Well, Jill, you don’t know my niece. She is a very special young woman now and as a child she was just as special. She really has a lot of compassion for others. And she knocked me for a loop when she said that. So pooh pooh to you, to find compassion for God, in a wonderful child, and who would say something so wonderful!
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Just before bed, my daughter - she is 9 - said to me: "But mom, you're going to die soon, you know?" I was shocked and asked: "What do you mean by that?" And she explained: "Because you're so old!" And it took me an hour to explain to her that I was barely 43 and that I am still young. I look younger and I feel younger. Forty years is the best age for God’s will. Everything before is just research, life starts at 40 ... :)
Final score:
42points
Fester Sixonesixonethree 4 years ago
If only god were better at communicating his "will." He has really poor communication skills.
boredkitten 3 years ago
I turned 30 and my card says that life starts at 30 by over 70 year old woman / one of my bosses. Was I lied to?
#24
My daughter said to me "You know we don't know if we see colors the same way" Like what I see as red and call red may look to someone else like what I see as orange... We have no way of knowing... I kinda don't know how I feel about this because I'm thinking well the shapes of cones in our eyes capture certain wavelengths; and each color is a different wavelength... but our brains could interpret those things differently and we wouldn't know that.
Final score:
38points
Lene 3 years ago
Studies show that how we percieve colors are (partly?) Due to our culture and language. Some peoples have one word for what we call blue and green and they can't see the difference between the two -according to those studies. I also once saw a documentary about a tribe that had a word for 1, a word for few and a word for many. So if they caught 10 fish they'd say they had many fish but couldn't understand the difference between 8 or 10 fish because both piles of fish simply consisted of many fish. I do believe there's a whole specific research area about the understanding of colors/numbers and culture/language.
Stannous Flouride 3 years ago
Apparently the ancient Greeks didn't have a word for blue. A land surrounded by seas, beneath a Mediterranean sky, and no word for either.
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Peter Trudell Jr 4 years ago
This is indeed true. I have protanopia (red/green color deficient) and the colors I see are not the colors you see. So... what you see as red, I could possibly see as orange.
Paula Marowsky 4 years ago
I had, actualky I already have the exact same question... How do yo know what green or any other color looks like for anyone else??
Jaya 3 years ago
This idea always creeped me out as a kid, and it still does. It just feels so lonely, that no matter how close you are with your partner, family and friends, you will never know what color they actually experience, we will never be able to really get in each other's head. I also wonder whether all of us might have the exact same favorite color.
Huddo's sister 3 years ago
"But hey, I'm still young, it's gonna be okay I got solipsism, baby, and I brought lemonade"
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Laura Gillette 3 years ago (edited)
I had this same thought when I was a kid!! It turns out my husband did too. It's a pretty common thought process among children, it turns out!
Matthew Barber 3 years ago
There was a culture that had dozens of words for orange. And they could tell differences between shades of orange better than those cultures with just "orange"
#25
I was a substitute teacher for a 1st grade class and the kids were drawing pictures of things they were thankful for, in celebration of Thanksgiving. A little girl asked me how to spell China. She went on to explain she was thankful for China b/c everything comes from China. Largely true and depressing, at the same time.
Final score:
37points
Tee Witt 4 years ago
I will not buy anything from China, I found the quality so poor years ago and looks like things have not changed.
Lene 3 years ago
I think there was a family on New York or something that went a year without buying anything from China. They made a book about it, I think. I remember that they found it really hard to find clothes and other everyday things that weren't from China. And I can imagine that it must be! Do you go 100% China-free? Or is it only with certain things like clothes or toys?
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#26
My son (7YO) casually asked: Mom, when we come back after we die, can we remember everything we knew or do you start over again? I have never discussed reincarnation in front of him or any topic like that.
Final score:
36points
Jaya 3 years ago
Your child is not with you 24/7, he could have heard loads of other people talking about it, in real life or on TV. So it's not weird for kids to think about this subject.
just me 3 years ago
Video games? You come back after you die, why not in real life
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Philly Bob Squires 3 years ago
It's been asked that what if the light at the end of the "tunnel" that you see when you die is actually the light of the delivery room in the place where you're about to be born?
BasedWang12.3 3 years ago
I was obsessed with suicide at the end of third grade into 4th because of this
#27
I am still a kid, but I don’t care. I don’t know if this counts, but we’ll cross that bridge when we come to it. My dad has a really good friend, and they smoke and drink, but my dads friend also vapes. I was over at their house, and their kid says, “Dad, do the dragon breath”. To be honest, I felt disappointed that now kids and adults are so used to smoking, drinking, and such, that parents won’t even hide it anymore.
Final score:
34points
JitkaBlitka 3 years ago
Exactly my thought, when I was a kid everybody smoked everywhere, majority of parents smoked at home, beer in one hand, cigarette in the other. Nowadays when I get a whiff of cigarette smoke I at first get disgusted and then remember that it used to be everywhere.
Load More Replies... yellowphantom 4 years ago
They certainly didn't hide it before the 80's.We grew up in smoke-filled cars, homes, anywhere really. I think church was the only place the grownups didn't smoke. There was no shame in it and, at least before the 70's, no one was seriously trying to quit. The goal was to make you wait until you were at least 18 to start but that almost never happened. My sister even had an item for cigarettes in her college (parent-approved) budget (35 cents a pack!).
Kirsty 4 years ago
Bless you for thinking parents used to hide it. It used to be inside too not very long ago 😑
I SWEAR, DUCKS GO MOO!!! (Submission author) 4 years ago
Well thanks for letting me know, guess it isn’t as bad as i thought it was
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Dawnieangel76 3 years ago
I was raised from babyhood till 11 by my grandparents. My grampa chain-smoked unfiltered Camels since he was a kid, until he needed surgery for something that, amazingly, had nothing to do with his smoking, in his 80's. Every adult in my family drank aside from his wife, my Nana. I'm 46 & do neither. I dabbled throughout my late teens/early 20's because my friends did, but eventually I just stopped because there was no real enjoyment. Just because we see things growing up doesn't always mean we'll do the same.
NotTodaySatan!! 3 years ago
My mom was a doctor, prior to that a nurse. She worked in the same hospital for 38 years. I remember when she was the house supervisor and director of pediatrics and smoked in both offices. Patients smoked in their hospital rooms even. I also remember when people smoked in church. There were ashtrays on the back of the pews.... slot for hymnal, offering envelopes, pencil and ashtray. When it started to become illegal to smoke in public places indoor, I remember people holding them cupped in their hands as though no one would know as they trudged through Walmart.
#28
A friend and I had been ragging on Pamela Anderson on Bay Watch, then realized my friend's 8 year old daughter was listening. We tried to explain about women who change their bodies, beasts, lips, tummies, etc. just to attract men or to get famous. She said she understood but a few minutes she advised us that PA's armpits weren't real either.
Final score:
27points
easter bunny 4 years ago
Indeed, op forgetting that women grow up feeling like they are only worthwhile to society if they look a certain way. This is reinforced everyday from childhood and many women, like me, feel like people would treat them better in general if they get rid of their physical flaws. I've absolutely thought about plastic surgery myself, it's had no baring on attracting men, only to feel like an accepted part of society.
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N000dle 3 years ago
Why put (other) women down except to feel better about yourself? This is not a profound lesson to a kid...
Creature Cargeaux 3 years ago
Yikes. Teaching a child to hate women because they alter their bodies BECAUSE ITS THEIR BODY AND THEY WANT TO... and then lying and saying that she did it to "attract men" .... like wtf? How the f**k would you know why she had surgery? I have no boobs. If I had the money I would have the surgery. But it's not because I want men to look at me. It's because I want to look at myself and feel better about myself. Sure it's a stupid societal standard that I probably wouldn't care about if women weren't pressured to be perfect and pretty all the time, or to hate ourselves if we don't fit into the Kardashian mold. But like.... this is an insecurity of mine and I don't give a f**k what ppl say about my body now or after. It's for me. Like.... your internalized misogyny is disgusting. You hate other women who are more attractive than you, because you hate yourself. Stop projecting onto other women just because it's an easier pill to swallow than accepting the fact that you fucken suck
Karin (Submission author) 4 years ago
"Breasts", not "beasts". Thanks autocorrect. And why can't I edit my own post?
DaVo 4 years ago
You shouldn't be raging on other peoples bodies anyways. Their body, their choice.
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A Cat Named Dragon 4 years ago (edited)
She’s actually a very sweet woman, you know… if you listen to her instead of just look at her.
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#29
My 9yo nephew, a notorious smartass, said to me last year: "Have you ever been skinny or good looking? Nah..."
Final score:
24points
L Melville 3 years ago
Right? I don't think that's cute or funny at all. I would be mortified if my child ever said something so cruel and narcissistic. Nope! Teaching moment there!
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Totally happy Panda 3 years ago
Time to teach someone the importance of being a beautiful person from inside rather than being only physically beautiful
Lance Wedor 3 years ago
My mother would turn to me with exasperation and demand to know why I was always such a smart a*s. I would envelop her in a warm embrace and softly say, because I don't want to seem a dumb a*s.
#30
I didn't get to ask an adult about it, but I was shocked to my shoes when I learned that although I could be drafted to fight a war, the companies making my gun would still be working for their owners.
Final score:
18points
DeoManus Argentem 4 years ago
I think he's was contemplating the idea that somebody gets to stay home to make the guns and profit in relative safety/comfort while the people drafted sent against their will into harm's way are the ones who actually use them?
Load More Replies... Matthew Barber 3 years ago
Over two dozen members of Congress own serious stock in raytheon, Northrop grumman, and Lockheed martin, so every time they stick the pack's taxpayers on the hook with billions of dollars in military aid, they personally profit off of it when those company stocks go up.
#31
When my niece was about three she was very into the olympics. She told me when she grew up she wanted to be in the olympics, but then confided that she was worried because she didn’t have any Olympic clothes. I told her that maybe by the time she was old enough she would have the Olympic clothes. She thought for a moment and the said ‘well, Winnie the Pooh always gets some honey!’.
Final score:
15points
#32
This one time, a 10-year old walked up to me and said "Do you want to hear something that will change your life?" And of course, I said yes then he responded with this, "A hero would sacrifice you for the world and a villain would sacrifice the world for you." That one sentence changed my way of viewing people and relationships somehow.
Final score:
13points
Two_rolling_black_eyes 3 years ago
The hard part is knowing when to sacrifice is right and when an individual becomes the world. They were obviously wrong but the Nazis thought the final solution was saving the world. Do you give the ventilator to the 65 year old man with COVID who took all his shots and followed the rules but was just unlucky or do you give it to the 22 year old mother of two who caught COVID at a party because she didn't believe it was real? Either way, you are both a hero for putting the world first and an villain for risking our combined future for one individual.
Nadya Raymond 3 years ago
Just wow... makes too much sense... makes more sense than two senses combine
#33
I told my stepdaughter about kiwi fruits and how they're furry, and she said "Is that for protection, or just because they want to be loved?" and I think that's the cutest thing I've ever heard in my life ❤️
Final score:
13points
#34
Me: "Hey Rollend. Whats somethin you think about a lot?" Kiddo: "Wanting to play on the switch" Me: "that's kinda sad, bro." Mom: "Whats something you l o v e that you think about every day?" Kiddo: "You guys!" Made me think just how screwed this new generation is, but reminds me there's still some hope.
Final score:
12points
Lisa Bond 4 years ago
"What the world needs now is love sweet love, that's the only thing that's there is just too little of." Can't give credits...good old song.
General Anaesthesia 3 years ago
Lyrics: Hal David, Music: Burt Bacharach. Sung by Jackie DeShannon, 1965
Load More Replies... Fester Sixonesixonethree 4 years ago
"This generation" is no more screwed than was ours, or our parents, or their parents. Every generation is screwed. It's called civilization.
Two_rolling_black_eyes 3 years ago
Why is it sad for a kid to think about their hobby (playing a switch) but an adult is allowed to obsess about golf, Game of Thrones, gardening, or trying out new restaurants? I used to sit in class and daydream all day about going to the zoo. Its all I talked about. There's too much sadness in the world. Let people, regardless of age, enjoy what they enjoy.
#35
Saw a little kid with his family his older brother was annoying him and with his parents in ear shot his insult was "if you carry on I will give you a hundred middle fingers" life lesson always think outside the box and choose your words wisely to avoid getting in trouble. Legend
Final score:
12points
#36
I was in line behind a woman with two children. Exiting the building was a visually impaired man with a service dog. One of the children, a young boy - seemed curious about the man leaving and turned to his mom and asked “ Mom, who picks up the seeing eye dogs poop?” Reasonable question for which neither her nor I had an answer.
Final score:
12points
Auntiecorn 4 years ago
Their owner (the blind person) will pick it up. They know where the dog sat their booty down to poop (spatial awareness), they just have to hoover over that spot (with poopbag) and they can feel the warmth. And in that way they are able to pick it up. Learned that a long time ago.
#37
One time this kid came up to me when I was at my trip to to Japan with my friend because we wanted to meditate before we started he said “ think about this, if tree falls in a forest and nobody’s around to hear it does it make a sound?” And I said “ of course it does.” Then he said but if nobody’s around to hear does it make a sound. And that was the only thing I could think about for about 3 weeks.
Final score:
11points
Virgil Blue 4 years ago
Sound is vibrations and a falling tree created vibrations, but maybe I'm trying to be too scientific about it. Do the local animals count as listeners?
smugdruggler 4 years ago
Or, arguably, what we call sound is our brain's interpretation of those vibrations picked up by our inner ear and turned into electro-chemical impulses sent down the auditory nerve. Without this processing, it's just movements in the air.
Load More Replies... Calypso poet 4 years ago
People have been making this analogy longer than does a bear s**t in the woods. This seems fake or someone was overthinking it. 3 weeks or 50 years? Btw, the Pope is indeed Catholic in case you got confused by that one too.
Eglė Bukauskaitė 3 years ago
things do make sounds or visuals regardless of number of witnesses
Lightningstar 4 years ago
If you're fallen in a forest And there's nobody around Do you ever even crash Or even make a sound
#38
Our godchild (6) while eating breakfast with us after a sleepover stated: Now I'm small and you are big, Later when I'm big you'll be old, When I'm old you'll be death! That's how it goes! Now she's 16 but it's still our mantra.
Final score:
11points
#39
My 3-year old granddaughter is still learning many new words, some of which are song lyrics. "We Wish You a Merry Christmas" is sung at our house now as "I Miss You in the Christmas". And I love that new version.
Final score:
9points
Shelby P 4 years ago
I love misheard lyrics by kids. My daughter would sing "Juicebox Hero" (instead of Jukebox).
Philly Bob Squires 3 years ago
Mondegreens... even grownups do it! LOL! But ones kids come up with can be even more hilarious! "Oh Canada, we stand on cars and freeze..."
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Lene 3 years ago
When my brother was about 4 years old he liked Jingle Bells. But since he didn't knowEnglish he sang the sounds he heard: BINGLE BELL! (yeah, he was unable to sing quietly). My oldest daughter was almost 5 when she also sang jingle bells all the time: jingle bells jingle bells jingle all-falay. 😁
#40
While I was pushing my 3 year old nephew on a swing, he asked, seemingly apropos of nothing, “When will I be a baby again?”
Final score:
8points
#41
I was once explaining to my daughter when she was little that sometimes freckles were called sun kisses ( I think it was a discussion about why I had so many and she didn’t, different skin types) and she, in all seriousness wanted to know how the sun knew where you were to kiss you? I had to think about that one!
Final score:
7points
Claudette Grossmeyer 4 years ago
We grew up calling freckles Angel kisses
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I was volunteering at church and I was helping with the younger kids, preschool to elementary. I had this five year old boy come up to me and say "There is a man who lives inside my closet, but he doesn't have a face." I was twelve to thirteen at the time, so I didn't know how to react. He ran off to go back to playing with the other kids. I still sleep facing away from my closet. Just seeing him tell me that and run off just reminds me that kids will continue on like nothing happened or didn't even say anything to you. They'll just do their own thing.
Final score:
7points
#43
How can I be awesome if I have to follow the rules?
Final score:
7points
#44
I am 14 the kid was about 7. Kid: hey. Me: *knows i looks like an adult and doesn't want sh@t to go down.* ignores. Kid: if you clean a hoover( hoover means vacuume cleaner in England) arent you the hoovers hoover? me *now having a small breakdown* arent you a little bit young to be online? Enter kids mum. Mum: (insert name here) stop bothering this woman. Proceed to apologise for her kid. Me: repeating what the kid said. The kid, out of knowhehe: im a girrafe. HELLO IM A GIRRAFE. *SCREAMS OBNOXIOUSLY AT A BUS*. mum: im so sorry. Me: i dont mean this as a judgement but is he on the spectrum? (autism for those who don't know) mum: so you must know a little about it? Me: im 14 and very autistic. Mum: did he say something that sounds like a reddit or Faceybook (thats what she called. It). Me: phone rings gotta go. Mum: syared. The blankest stare i have ever seen.
Final score:
5points
Davis the Un-Greatest 4 years ago (edited)
I don’t get it. Help me understand the moral of the story?
TheAnimalLady 4 years ago
😺Most important point to understanding the semantics of this post= "Me: im 14 and very autistic."...I think they did excellent 👏😻👍 Moral could be "Don't be judgemental and ask politely if you don't understand what is going on, there's probably a very good reason." 🙉
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#45
After hearing a doggy yelp, my 7yo ASD son was caught pulling the the fur on the poor dog. When asked why would he do that? he replied that he was looking for the zip! What! Zip? “Aunty Lorraine says all labradors are pigs in dogs clothing!?!”
Final score:
4points
#46
“Ligama balls f****r” is what a kid said to me
Final score:
0points
Bonnie Edwards 4 years ago (edited)
Ok.... but what does that mean - or is the child just stringing words together that feel fun to say? Gotta remember. Half the reason why people swear, is that swearing is taboo, and you get a thrill when getting away with doing taboo things.
Sunflowercray 4 years ago
I don't know if I would've been able to hold it together. It's very wrong but very funny.
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Patti Vance 4 years ago
my son is autistic & because of this i would always chaperone field trips as i didn't want the teacher(s) overburdened if he started to have issues. one kid started to tell me about all the 'weird' things my son would do, kind of like he was tattling on him. i explained about autism, how my son perceived info & environments differently. kid got kind of quiet then asked, 'but, he's still just a kid, right?' told him yes & that was it. couple of weeks later was told by the teacher that this kid had become my son's 'guardian angel', fending off bullies as well as explaining autism to others. make my belief that kids are basically good & all they need is info to get them to think about things to make better choices. he 'guided' my son all through high school as well.
WatermelonTheDutchie 4 years ago
that restores some of my hope for humanity
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Lovin' Life 4 years ago
One evening at dinner, I noticed my daughter (8) wasn't eating and when I ask why, she started crying and said that she was saving it for her friend ( our neighbor). I assured her that she would be eating with her family. She told me that she heard them say that they was having eggs for dinner because that was all they had and no money. It broke my little girls heart. I pack them up some things and with a huge smile, my daughter delivered them. The whole family was truly grateful. Kids see and hear things that adults don't. It effects them deeply. The heart of a child is so innocent and pure. We could learn from them.
Juds Conne 4 years ago
It's nice to see such a pure heart being nurtured by your pure heart.
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AnxietyRiddenMom 4 years ago
When my daughter was about 2 or so, we were sitting on the couch together. Rather I was sitting, she was standing in the couch. We were tickling and stuff. All of a sudden I pretended to faint. This kid, grabbed my nose and tried to breathe in my mouth. It was the sweetest and the cutest thing. I still have no idea how she would have known anything about CPR at that age.
Karla Nelsen 4 years ago
5 yo grandson asked what the factory that was puffing out white clouds of smoke made. I said, I don't know; what do you think they make? He said without hesitation, "they make clouds". And my life is forever changed!
Ace Girl 3 years ago
I remember in 3rd grade some girls were beefing and recruiting the other girls in class to join their "side" of the argument. I picked a side then asked Meredith (I still remember her name!) what side she was on. I don't remember exactly her words, but she smiled and refused to pick a side then happily skipped away, her long brown hair waving in the sun. It was the first time I realized I don't always have to pick a side, I can simply exist and do my own thing. Life changing. Thanks, Meredith! Hope you are still awesome.
Belle Miles 3 years ago
I don't have the best memory for six kids of sayin's but, My oldest was three and asleep and dreaming one night and said loudly..."All right all you hashbrowns, LET'S GO! You would have to understand Georgia babies. I still crack up. (Waffle House reference).
Patti Vance 4 years ago
my son is autistic & because of this i would always chaperone field trips as i didn't want the teacher(s) overburdened if he started to have issues. one kid started to tell me about all the 'weird' things my son would do, kind of like he was tattling on him. i explained about autism, how my son perceived info & environments differently. kid got kind of quiet then asked, 'but, he's still just a kid, right?' told him yes & that was it. couple of weeks later was told by the teacher that this kid had become my son's 'guardian angel', fending off bullies as well as explaining autism to others. make my belief that kids are basically good & all they need is info to get them to think about things to make better choices. he 'guided' my son all through high school as well.
WatermelonTheDutchie 4 years ago
that restores some of my hope for humanity
Load More Replies... Lovin' Life 4 years ago
One evening at dinner, I noticed my daughter (8) wasn't eating and when I ask why, she started crying and said that she was saving it for her friend ( our neighbor). I assured her that she would be eating with her family. She told me that she heard them say that they was having eggs for dinner because that was all they had and no money. It broke my little girls heart. I pack them up some things and with a huge smile, my daughter delivered them. The whole family was truly grateful. Kids see and hear things that adults don't. It effects them deeply. The heart of a child is so innocent and pure. We could learn from them.
Juds Conne 4 years ago
It's nice to see such a pure heart being nurtured by your pure heart.
Load More Replies... AnxietyRiddenMom 4 years ago
When my daughter was about 2 or so, we were sitting on the couch together. Rather I was sitting, she was standing in the couch. We were tickling and stuff. All of a sudden I pretended to faint. This kid, grabbed my nose and tried to breathe in my mouth. It was the sweetest and the cutest thing. I still have no idea how she would have known anything about CPR at that age.
Karla Nelsen 4 years ago
5 yo grandson asked what the factory that was puffing out white clouds of smoke made. I said, I don't know; what do you think they make? He said without hesitation, "they make clouds". And my life is forever changed!
Ace Girl 3 years ago
I remember in 3rd grade some girls were beefing and recruiting the other girls in class to join their "side" of the argument. I picked a side then asked Meredith (I still remember her name!) what side she was on. I don't remember exactly her words, but she smiled and refused to pick a side then happily skipped away, her long brown hair waving in the sun. It was the first time I realized I don't always have to pick a side, I can simply exist and do my own thing. Life changing. Thanks, Meredith! Hope you are still awesome.
Belle Miles 3 years ago
I don't have the best memory for six kids of sayin's but, My oldest was three and asleep and dreaming one night and said loudly..."All right all you hashbrowns, LET'S GO! You would have to understand Georgia babies. I still crack up. (Waffle House reference).
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