Friday, December 18, 2020

Tumblr Post: Kids Don't Understand How Faces Work


This quick and funny Tumblr post does a splendid job at highlighting one of the many moments of confusion that can arise between kids and their parents. The reality is that kids are just plain old weird and dumb. But like, in a nice innocent way. They do the silliest things, but it's all part of the inevitable process of growing up and slowly learning how this wild world works. 

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Text - anexperimentallife Follow Brian Wecht O @bwecht Audrey (6yo): Daddy! Did you know that after Michael left my school, he came back and now people call him David? Me: Does he look and sound totally different too? Audrey: Yes!!!

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Text - Me: That's not the same kid, honey. Audrey: *long pause* Maybe 3:51 PM · 11/6/20 Twitter for iPhone physticuffs Follow when i was three, i told my parents that my preschool classmate Molly had a new baby sister who was Chinese. my parents tried to explain to me that Molly's baby sister was Chinese because

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Text - Molly's parents were Chinese and Molly was, in fact, herself Chinese. i simply was not having any of it. Molly's baby sister might be Chinese and Molly's parents might even be Chinese (i couldn't tell because it's not like i ever looked at adults’ faces back then) but it didn't make sense for MOLLY to be Chinese because, like me, Molly was THREE. sandersstudies A family friend's kid came home from school when she was still pretty small and told her mom there

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Text - was a new kid at school who was “brown" and her mom is literally an Indian immigrant and she was like “honey you also are brown" and her kid was like “????????? no?" So sometimes small children do not know how appearances work. (Or, like the story above, race either) 11,286 notes

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