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Right. Europe 72 it is. Get comfortable, kid.
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Well, time to get out the disco albums, then.
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What do you wanna be when you grow up? "A doctor!" What do you wanna be when you grow up? "A teacher!" And what do you wanna be when you grow up? "Santa!!"
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eating only apples posted:What do you wanna be when you grow up? Better or worse than Satan?
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eating only apples posted:What do you wanna be when you grow up? this one can easily come true 
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Yeah just kill the current santa
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Preface: in Danish, grandparent nomenclature are basically "mormor" mom-mom for maternal grandmother, "farmor" dad-mom for paternal grandmother, etc But my niece has mixed it up a bit and instead of "morfar", she calls her maternal grandfather "forfar" which means "ancestor" Also she says "søsyg" (seasick) when she means "tørstig" (thirsty) She'll get it soon enough, she's only idk 18 months but I love that period where communicating is still like learning a foreign language even for the so-called adults 
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Last week was my FIL's 70th birthday. My 4 (and a half!) year old niece asked the family how old we all were, and then asked: "Will our lives ever end?"
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Carthag Tuek posted:Preface: in Danish, grandparent nomenclature are basically "mormor" mom-mom for maternal grandmother, "farmor" dad-mom for paternal grandmother, etc It's hilarious. My older daughter will be two in about a month, and she calls my husband "die" (or "dah-ee" but it really just sounds like die). "Daddy" is of course the stuffed dog she got from ikea. She also gleefully says "baby ghai" every time the baby cries, and sometimes when she's not crying. We sort of wonder if she thinks cry is the baby's name. That would at least make the glee less concerning.
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Emily Spinach posted:It's hilarious. My older daughter will be two in about a month, and she calls my husband "die" (or "dah-ee" but it really just sounds like die). "Daddy" is of course the stuffed dog she got from ikea. ahaha I love reading the written mispronunciations. Somehow, conjuring the sounds that way always makes me grin. I hate that I miss out on that aspect and can't fully appreciate the non-english contributions. I have a video somewhere of my youngest repeatedly telling her older sister, with more and more annoyance, to "top it ani" ("stop it, honey" being a common admonishment from her mother whenever the baby would start tweaking whatever nipple she wasn't attached to, going after something unsafe, etc.)
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oh man we're right in the thick of that now too. it's the cutest thing, especially the copying of an adult phrase with the exact intonation and everything. like yelling at my cat "oh no no, no touch dat!" because she was moving toward the door lmao he gets so excited when he sees a big gently caress loves to wait for the gobbish gently caress to come and fow wayi kicked the kitchen stool the other day and he said "mama tub toe?" "yes i stubbed my toe" "mama sad. mama kye" "no no mama is okay mama's not sad" "mama SAD." if he hurts you or makes a mess he will say "sozzy bout dat"  my favorite part is that, like, some more complex words, like "applesauce," come out perfectly enunciated, and even others like "cardiologist" come out pretty intelligible with maybe one extra syllable in there. but then you get "gebbedondon" or "gebbedondondon," which naturally is "helicopter"
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Had a mom bring her kids into my store the other day. Kiddos had a riot playing with some toys while they were waiting and I answered their questions when they wanted to know what I was doing. As they were leaving, one girl looks at her mom and goes "The best thing about this place is that SHE'S HERE." I rode that high for quite a while.
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sweeperbravo posted:my favorite part is that, like, some more complex words, like "applesauce," come out perfectly enunciated, and even others like "cardiologist" come out pretty intelligible with maybe one extra syllable in there. but then you get "gebbedondon" or "gebbedondondon," which naturally is "helicopter" Almost everyone pronounced that wrong, though. They split the Greek roots. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZwnPjJVxa8 This guy is right.
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My wife is currently 15 weeks pregnant and this thread makes me even more excited for the future. It's all so adorable! I met my colleague's kids recently when I visited their house for the first time and made solid friends with his three year-old daughter (despite receiving many suspicious looks at first) mainly because I read Batgirl stories with her, gave her and her brother copious high fives, and let her paint my nails. She loves Batgirl and Harley Quinn. Did you know there's a boy who is friends with Harley Quinn? He's called Harley Quinn Joker Friend. Being three, she kept calling me Bat. It's close enough to Matt, after all. I was also briefly Nail White Paint Boy while she was doing my nails. It was all completely adorable and she was apparently very angry with me when she woke up the next day to discover I had not - despite her strict instructions - come back to sleep at their house after going out for drinks with her dad. "Where's Bat? Why Bat not come back?" Sorry kiddo! I did accidentally alarm her brother though.  He was crouching and staring at my feet and I gave them a little wiggle and a light "rarr" and he scooted back with a concerned "No tank you! No more peez!"I also once had a first grader at work suddenly grab my hand and escort me to the nurse's office to show her my arm. "Look Ms Yumiko! It's hurting!" He'd suddenly noticed the tattoo on my forearm and thought I must have been injured somehow.
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lol yea whenever a kid notices you have a scar or a scab, theyll go point to it and go "ouch" and maybe blow on it to make it better. my nephew even put a bandaid on like a 10 year old scar on my leg a couple years ago
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Good evening to the little girl who introduced her "daughter," a baby doll, to my coworker, then leaned in and stage-whispered "Actually, she's just a doll."
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After listening to Talking Heads, he declared that he has a band named Yelling Butts. And then yesterday was Drumming Penis.
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So we're learning about the Earth's resources in my grade 5 class - renewable and nonrenewable; capital, human, and natural; etc. One of them asked if animals were renewable or not, so I had them discuss it. They decided an individual animal is nonrenewable but animals as a broad category are. Child A: Because two pigs can make a new pig so it's a renewable natural resource. Child B: But pigs don't kiss. *everyone pauses* Me: What do you mean, B? Child B: Babies are made by kisses. A mommy and daddy kiss and that's how the baby gets inside. *another pause* Me: Well that's... not quite how it works. My wife also works in the same school and she's twenty weeks pregnant. Because she works in a different department on a different floor, my class hadn't seen her for a while (we just came back from dinner break) when she dropped by during a break between classes to ask me something. All the girls kept giving her obvious side-glances until we asked what was wrong and they practically burst with excitement to ask and find out the news. Child B (yep same one) immediately started singing, "Happy Birthday Mrs Calexio baby!". Another girl was so excited that Mrs Calexio was going to have a baby. Then she looked at me.  "Wait... Mr Calexio, you will have a child too?"  "Uh, yes? That's how it- The baby will be mine and Mrs Calexio's.""Hmmm."Calexio has a new favorite as of 01:44 on Sep 17, 2023 |
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lol Also we had biological conception class in 1st and 3rd grade, and then first practical "this is how you will do it yourself, span of normal looking bodies, condoms contraceptions and also diseases" sex-ed in 6th grade. I forget how different that is to the US
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ThisIsJohnWayne posted:lol We had basic "your body will go through changes etc" sex ed in years 5 and 6 in the UK and then more in depth stuff at several points in high school. I'm teaching in Japan at the moment though at a private school and I have no idea what the public school policy is so I don't know if this level of unawareness is usual or not. Child B's dad is a doctor as well!
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Calexio posted:Another girl was so excited that Mrs Calexio was going to have a baby. Then she looked at me. Powerful posting energy from this kid.
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my 2yo asked for raisins, so i asked him to bring them to me so i could open them. he described that they were out of his reach by saying "no can hold it in my hands"
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I was informed yesterday by a five-year-old that you shouldn’t stay up all night because then if you try to do something in the morning you’ll be clumsy.
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Platystemon posted:Powerful posting energy from this kid. It was an incredible own, I've got to admit. A devastating amount of scepticism packed into one noise. sweeperbravo posted:my 2yo asked for raisins, so i asked him to bring them to me so i could open them. he described that they were out of his reach by saying "no can hold it in my hands" Adorable!
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4 year-old, yelling in frustration: "I CAN'T TAKE HANDLE OF IT!"
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So, at my school we have direct email contact with parents and kids, who all have a school email address. It sounded like a nightmare when I started, and I am sure that if I didn't have a lovely class it would be. But I'm lucky enough to have a wonderful bunch of kids. On Friday, one of my colleagues, Ms Yasmin, was feeling a bit rough (cold season, hooray) and was wearing a face mask when she usually doesn't. On Saturday, she received an email from one of my girls. My girl had looked up Ms Yasmin in the email directory and just sent an email saying that she had noticed Ms Yasmin looked a bit sick on Friday and hoped she was feeling better. She also said that whenever she passes Ms Yasmin's class it always looks like the children are having fun so please take a rest and feel better soon so they can have more fun. I don't even think this girl has much to do with Ms Yasmin! She just noticed she was feeling unwell and thought to send her a kind email. My kids are the best.
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As I may have mentioned a few times before, my 11-year-old is autistic and has trouble with his native German. He picked up a lot of English though, and sometimes finds it easier to express himself that way. Which of course sometimes means that he picks up phrases and uses them without knowing what they really mean. Last night we were talking to him and started to notice his attention drifting off, as he sometimes does when he's bored or can't follow a conversation. My wife: "Hey, can you focus please? This is important." Kid: (refocusing) "Sorry, I was just having an existential crisis."
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So I was talking to one of my kids today while waiting for the music teacher to appear. We were talking about Studio Ghibli films and which is better: Princess Mononoke or Spirited Away? Me: In Mononoke there's some pretty violent fights! I was surprised! Her: You know, Mr Calexio? Me: Yeah? Her: I want to - just one time - kill a person. Just one time! Me:  Her: But just one time! Me: Why?! Her: I want to know that feeling.
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Better start worrying if she ever asks to take a trip to Reno.
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Calexio posted:So I was talking to one of my kids today while waiting for the music teacher to appear. We were talking about Studio Ghibli films and which is better: Princess Mononoke or Spirited Away? lmao kid rules
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oh also my dad told me about one time when his younger brother was a preschooler, he went over to a neighbors house where some of my dad's friends lived. he knocked and their mom answered the door, can Anders come play? he's in school, dear ok... can Peter come play? he's also in school. ok... can their dad come play?
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my 3yr old: "firetrucks put out out fires, usually" me: "what do they do unusually" him: "not put out fires, if they are red" me: "what about other colored firetrucks?" him: "thats none of your business"
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Me: What do you want as your birthday cake? Soon to be 9yo son: Pokémon! Me: Which one? Son: Eevee! Me: What flavor? Son: Eevee [maniacal giggling].
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tribbledirigible posted:Me: What do you want as your birthday cake? So a normal cake
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Tunicate posted:So a normal cake but then with themed cupcakes around it for each eeveelution.
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burial posted:but then with themed cupcakes around it for each eeveelution. Oh, we had this
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well, generate a transcript already!
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So my kiddo gets these fun lil activity boxes and this one was a printing press. She's decided to make NFTs .(Novas Fancy Things)of her character Buttboy Spider ButtBoy  Emo Buttboy  Mr Beast ButtBoy  Skibbity ButtBoy  UwU ButtBoy  Shrek ButtBoy  Cat ButtBoy  ButtGirl  Elf ButtBoy  Wednesday ButtGirl  Stinky Officer ButtBoy  I'm going to make 20 prints of each one, she's asking $5 for those and only a $50 reserve on the original to get in on the bidding Beer_Suitcase has a new favorite as of 05:04 on Dec 22, 2023 |
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Beer_Suitcase posted:Stinky Officer ButtBoy You are a good parent and have a good kid!
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Child's artistic too. Those little guys are cute, which takes skill given the, uh, theme
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