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quote:Younger son: "We can just say there isn't any mom because she was shot — in Africa!"
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doctorfrog posted:I read that as "Show Troopers" and imagined quite the chorus line, let me tell you. The Weird Al concert I went to in August had this.
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Mar 19, 2020 20:04
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Krankenstyle posted:lmao, just heard from my friend that his sons were playing & asked him "let's play house!" This reminds me, at some point last year one of my first grade students handed in... I forget if it was math class work or math homework, but at the bottom of the page, near nothing else, was simply the word "Chinese"
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Mar 19, 2020 22:06
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LoveMeDead posted:When my daughter was 4 or 5 we played the "I love you more than" game. We would name bigger and bigger things until one day she ended it with "I love you more than toilet paper." This post has aged incredibly well
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Mar 21, 2020 21:37
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My 4 yo nephew woke up from a dead sleep crying. He had a nightmare; people were turning into peacocks!
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Mar 23, 2020 03:17
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That would be pretty scary, I don't blame him one bit
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Mar 23, 2020 03:30
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Hopes Fall posted:My 4 yo nephew woke up from a dead sleep crying. He had a nightmare; people were turning into peacocks! There's a commercial on TV where a guy sprouts a peacock tail. Either gum or mints, I think. Edit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_z4VEn5PmVM
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Mar 23, 2020 05:59
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Hopes Fall posted:My 4 yo nephew woke up from a dead sleep crying. He had a nightmare; people were turning into peacocks! Perfectly reasonable reaction. (And also chuckle-worthy)
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Mar 23, 2020 07:37
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I heard my six year old son making up a new song while playing with his cars the other day. It consists entirely of the lyric "Baby Yoda is my Mom."
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Apr 13, 2020 15:28
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Those are my favourites. My brother and I can still recall a few nonsensical ‘songs’ from our own childhood - most notably “mud mountain, tuxedo fountain” (no idea) and “centrifugal force: don’t you know what it means? please help me now.”
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Apr 13, 2020 16:14
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burial posted:"centrifugal force: don’t you know what it means? please help me now.”
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Apr 13, 2020 16:15
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burial posted:Those are my favourites. My brother and I can still recall a few nonsensical ‘songs’ from our own childhood - most notably “mud mountain, tuxedo fountain” (no idea) and “centrifugal force: don’t you know what it means? please help me now.” My cousin and I made up insane songs all the time. There was one called "Shish kabob a bob bob" that is STILL guaranteed to drive my uncle batshit if you mention it, probably because the only lyrics were "shish kabob a bob bob" and "yora gora stink blink" and then we'd forget the third verse and just make up something stupid (yes, even compared to "yora gora stink blink.") There was also the Holy trio of Obscene Kit-Kat parodies: Champion poo poo Bitch and Whore gently caress Bar "gently caress Bar" doesn't really scan, but it comes third due to the incredible transgression of the word "gently caress"! If you're not sure how the song goes, sing the Kit-Kat jingle and replace the word "Kit-Kat" with one of the stupid phrases above. Also, we heard some song on the radio once and for some reason we were CONVINCED that the lyrics were "Oh, Carolina, ga booby boom box bras!" and my cousin tried to convince me boom box bras were real. I believed her because she lived in glamorous Queens and I lived in a haystack.
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Apr 13, 2020 16:37
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If only melody could be explained in text. I really think that “shish kabob” number could go places.
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Apr 13, 2020 19:31
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This weekend, I shaved part of my beard so I look like Lemmy from Motorhead. When I called my kids, my son said it looked like "half my beard fell off" My daughter said "Ew" and gave the phone back to her brother.
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Apr 13, 2020 22:39
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burial posted:If only melody could be explained in text. I really think that “shish kabob” number could go places. Just imagine a slightly more ponderous and simplistic version of the Curb Your Enthusiasm theme song? Not the tune, but the general...gravitas.
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Apr 13, 2020 23:11
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My sister posted this on facebook a week or two ago, it still cracks me up when I think of it:quote:(<5 year old daughter): "hey! Watch this!" Proceeds to run into the wall head first.
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Apr 14, 2020 06:55
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"Metal spikes will slow you down."
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Apr 17, 2020 22:54
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Sitting in the lounge room with a mate while the wife and 3 year old son decorate the Christmas tree. Son comes running over with a glass ball decoration hanging off his ear that the wife put there. Mate says take it off makes you look like a poof, at that moment the door opens and in steps my father in-law. Son runs over look poppy I'm a poof, we all burst out laughing while the father in-law stood there with a confused look on his face.
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Apr 19, 2020 00:21
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nothing wrong with looking like a poof imo my youngest nephew is very into hair clips
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Apr 19, 2020 00:33
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That kid is going to punch some other kid because they’re gay, and only the people reading this thread will know how it came to pass.
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Apr 19, 2020 00:43
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He's almost 9 now and is the most timid little person, I don't think he has a punch in him. It's been well taught by his mother to be open minded about the differences of others but I guess we'll find out in a few years haha.
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Apr 19, 2020 00:49
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My son had a phase when he wanted to be a mermaid. He'd take his shirt off and wrap a big towel around his waist to hide his legs. It's all good.
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Apr 19, 2020 16:04
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Was he a The Little Mermaid fan? Because mermales are pretty ripped. I hope I look that good when I get to that age.
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Apr 19, 2020 16:09
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Mermen have very early beard onset. The one in that picture is probably 17.
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Apr 19, 2020 16:26
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Well, now I feel inadequate. My beard is not yet quite that glorious.
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Apr 19, 2020 16:48
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Cardiovorax posted:Was he a The Little Mermaid fan? Because mermales are pretty ripped. Nope, not a merman. He wanted to be a mermaid.
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Apr 19, 2020 18:30
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Alright then. It's just one of those things I can see a little kid doing. There was this The Little Mermaid cartoon back in the nineties that was pretty good and popular, but I don't think it ever really told you what the male word for a mermaid is.
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Apr 19, 2020 18:46
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Probably not, but Ben Stiller did.
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Apr 19, 2020 19:30
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a mysterious cloak posted:Nope, not a merman. He wanted to be a mermaid. Kid's just like what ever appeals to them at the time and because no one has yet set any social standards and expectations on them they don't think twice. In my opinion as long as they are happy and healthy I don't care what they like I will support them.
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Apr 19, 2020 20:31
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I've met at least a couple little boys who really like Elsa, because guess what? Superpowers are rad
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Apr 19, 2020 20:34
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Superpowers are pretty rad.
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Apr 19, 2020 20:39
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Deacon91 posted:He's almost 9 now and is the most timid little person, I don't think he has a punch in him. It's been well taught by his mother to be open minded about the differences of others but I guess we'll find out in a few years haha. It's also your job to teach your kid not to be a bigot, not just his mother's, so please don't expose him to bigots if you can help it 
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Apr 19, 2020 22:10
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eating only apples posted:It's also your job to teach your kid not to be a bigot, not just his mother's, so please don't expose him to bigots if you can help it I agree but as I work away I'm not home for more then 50% of the time so my wife shoulders majority of the load which she does an awesome job at and is why I give her most of the credit.
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Apr 20, 2020 00:01
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Look, kids hear much more damaging poo poo than this. Easy script: "Remember when grandpa did XXX the other day? He used the word XXX. It's not a nice word, but sometimes older people use it, because people used different words when they were young. That's why it's okay for Grandpa to say XXX, but I really hope you never say it, because you could hurt someone's feelings." No, they might not remember, but the opportunity will come up again. Honestly, the less you react to the word, the less the kid will notice.
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Apr 20, 2020 00:12
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Fleta Mcgurn posted:Look, kids hear much more damaging poo poo than this. Yeah this is good advice! Even better advice would be don't hang around with people who throw around homophobic slurs in general conversation especially when directed to a 3 year old, but that's just me
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Apr 20, 2020 02:06
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eating only apples posted:Yeah this is good advice! Honestly if it was a constant thing I would have kicked him out of my life long ago but a once of situation 5 years ago that has had no adverse effects on my kid doesn't seem like the thing to exclude him from my life after 25 years of friendship.
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Apr 20, 2020 03:00
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Deacon91 posted:Kid's just like what ever appeals to them at the time and because no one has yet set any social standards and expectations on them they don't think twice. In my opinion as long as they are happy and healthy I don't care what they like I will support them. Pththya-lyi posted:I've met at least a couple little boys who really like Elsa, because guess what? Superpowers are rad Oh, for sure. He went through a phase where his favorite movie was Tangled and he liked to watch Say Yes to the Dress. We just let him do his thing, it didn't phase his mom or me at all. It was cute!
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Apr 20, 2020 05:21
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eating only apples posted:Yeah this is good advice! I don't feel comfortable telling relative strangers to cut family ties based on a single secondhand incident, and that discussion is not on topic for the thread. But that's just me!
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Apr 20, 2020 06:17
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Yeah, that's a bit presumptuous.
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burial posted:Those are my favourites. My brother and I can still recall a few nonsensical ‘songs’ from our own childhood - most notably “mud mountain, tuxedo fountain” (no idea) and “centrifugal force: don’t you know what it means? please help me now.” When I was young, we had a tree that dropped twigs in the yard. My little sister, offered a penny apiece to pick them up, began collecting them one by one in a handful held atop her head, singing as she went: “One antenna, do di do di do di Two antennas, do di do di do di ...” well into the hundreds. She also named the sun Isabel for a week, and when we rode in the car and the sun was on someone she would gleefully squeal YOU HAVE ISABEL! at them.
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