“My Son Has Been Bummed Since He Found Out That Firefighters Didn’t Go Around Fighting People With Fire”: 50 Times Kids Hilariously Misunderstood Adults
Children are so smart. Their little brains are like sponges, and they pick up knowledge, language and skills incredibly quickly. But another special thing about them is that their minds are not yet tainted by the confines of logic. If you tell them Santa Claus travels around the world in one night and sneaks in through the chimney, they just might believe you. Why wouldn’t they believe you? Adults know everything, right?
Actress Daisy Haggard recently tweeted about a misunderstanding between her and her four-year-old daughter about traveling via ferry rather than fairy, and she inspired many other parents to share similar stories. We’ve gathered some of the most adorable and hilarious misunderstandings between children and adults down below for you to enjoy, and I’ll be honest, I wish that most of these kids were actually right. Can you imagine traveling on a fairy? That would be the best day of my life!
Be sure to upvote all of your favorite posts, and let us know in the comments if any children in your life have ever hilariously misunderstood something you said. Then if you’re interested in reading more of the funniest things kids have ever said, check out this Bored Panda piece next.
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Now considering renewing my vows just to have a reason to have a ring bear
Do it! Just imagining a tiny ring bear in a tux and bow tie 😻. Of course, then you’ll have to deal with either screaming toddler REFUSING to take it off to eat or hot, sweaty, toddler having a meltdown in the aisle because they are uncomfortable. But I’m positive you can cope 😉.
Load More Replies...Whether it’s the Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny or the existence of unicorns and mermaids, kids are inclined to believe many things that are not actually true. Their innocence and naivety can be adorable and even inspiring at times, but they can’t help it. And according to research, three-year-olds are particularly trusting, as they do not develop skepticism until they are a bit older. Vikram K. Jaswal of the University of Virginia decided to put this idea to the test and asked, “Why are they so willing to accept somebody else’s word, for example, that an eel is a fish, when it looks so much like a snake?”
So he conducted a study to determine whether three-year-olds are more trusting of information shown to them without words or information explicitly stated. So in one experiment, Jaswal had someone show kids a yellow cup and a red cup then hide a sticker under the red cup. With some of the participants, she falsely stated that they sticker was under the yellow cup, and with others, she placed an arrow on the yellow cup without telling them anything. The kids were given the opportunity to search underneath one cup and were allowed to keep the sticker if they found it. The game was played eight times with different pairs of colored cups.
I wouldn't even be mad if this kid yelled "AHOY ME MATEYS" the whole flight
Possibly cuz you would be snorting silently?
Load More Replies...When my son was 3 we took him to Disney World. He asked what we were going on next and I said Pirates of the Caribbean. He said "nooooo I don't want to go on Pirates of the CARROTS AND BEANS!" He wasn't a fan of veggies.
Is it me or some toddlers start talking at really low age, like 1year, because I don't understand how a 2year kid can know the story of pirates to the point of confuse him with a pilot...
Basically the plot of The Pirates of Penzance, so she’s in good company.,
What's the point of fighting fire with fire if you cannot fight fire with fire?
I had to read that one twice - in the UK the first part means something quite different than “disappointed” 😳
The kids who watched the woman place the arrow on the wrong cup quickly learned that they could not listen to what she told them, but the kids who were told where the sticker was took her word for it. Of the 16 participants, 9 kids never found a sticker. Even if they had been misled seven times in a row, on their eighth opportunity, they continued to believe the woman. And I know what you might be thinking, “That’s cruel to withhold stickers from children!” Don’t worry, they all got a sticker in the end.
“Children have developed a specific bias to believe what they’re told,” Jaswal says. “It’s sort of a short cut to keep them from having to evaluate what people say. It’s useful because most of the time parents and caregivers tell children things that they believe to be true.” This information is useful when teaching a child something that they should just take your word for, like crossing the street without looking both ways is extremely dangerous, but it can also make it challenging to correct their beliefs when they have been led astray. (Or misunderstood what the word ferry meant…)
Not a little kid but me and my BFF were walking by the museum and sometimes they have characters dressed up for events. Well we're walking down the street and we see a guy in a dark suit with a top hat and a long beard and I see my friend about to say something and I said oh look a Hasidic Jewish man. My BFF looks horrified and says I'm so glad you said that first I was about to shout out hey Abraham Lincoln. Honestly an easy mistake as I said it was right by the museum but I'm so glad he didn't say that.
Reminds me of a story one of my teachers at my Hebrew high school told us where an Orthodox rabbi was walking down the street. As he happened to be slightly chubby and had a long beard, a little boy enthusiastically ran up to him and shouted "Santa!"
Load More Replies...To be honest I think this is why we need more representation for Sikhs and other brown communities in (especially children’s) Tv shows and movies. When the only reference to this culture is genie from Aladdin ( which is very problematic) I think we have an issue.
You can't represent ALL the cultures in a natural way to children. If you bring them up to treat all people respectfully, there's no problem in them not knowing something about some people. I'm almost 31, and I'd never seen a person with a turban before I went to England at 22. I've only ever interacted with one trans person, at 27. I've only recently, at around 28, learned ANYTHING about Mormons. And to this day, I can't tell one subgroup of Muslims from another, and I know there's people getting killed over the differences. Still, I've never been troubled by meeting someone I don't know anything about. If you teach children (and adults) the basics to be a good human being, they will be fine with all groups of people: be kind, don't judge at first sight, don't expect everyone to adhere to your way of life, and give room to other people's world views where it doesn't infringe on your human rights.
Load More Replies...Nephew once called a woman in a burka Batman. He was quickly removed
yeah, like the viral post that hundreds of people reposted on twitter, tumblr, reddit, facebook, etc & all claimed a child in their lives did it 🙄 try to be creative https://pics.onsizzl...et-24722989.png
Load More Replies...Aww, imagine a big floofy dog being a doctor to other, smaller floofy dogs!! SO CUTEE!!!
https://i.chzbgr.com/full/9110615808/h3F325EBF/cat-was-the-facelift-a-success-lets-the-bandages-remove-yes-now-youre-beautiful-doctorcatmdcom-ses
Load More Replies...We were going voting and 3 thought boating. Best we could do was eat in a boat-themed restaurant
I went boating on Thursday, would have been gutted if it had been the other way around and it had been voting. I feel for them!
Load More Replies..."Are you ladies from England?" "Wales" "Sorry. Are you whales from England?"
When I was about 7 or 8 my family and I went to Florida for a vacation. I had two older sisters and we bickered constantly while in the back of the Buick station wagon. My mom would say, "If you three don't stop all that noise, we're gonna turn around and go home!"! Well after several more outbursts from the back she said, "That's it, we're going back home!". We were in Delawere and we live in New Jersey, about and hour away. We were crying the whole way back. After we got to the house, my mom said that if we promise to be quiet and behave, we would head back to Florida! My mom told me many years later that the real reason for turning around and going home was that dad forgot to turn off the gas to the house.
So why do kids believe ridiculous claims like the fact that Santa Claus exists? Is it simply because they have been told? Apparently, 83% of five-year-olds believe in Santa, but this might even be part of an evolutionary advantage. Author and ethologist Richard Dawkins proposed the idea that children being so impressionable is an evolutionary advantage in a 1995 essay where he used the example of a kid living near an alligator-infested swamp. He explained that if the child naturally questioned what their parents had told them, they might wander off into the swamp and be eaten. Before they are old enough to understand the danger that lurks in the swamp, it is important that they simply trust what their parents tell them.
But kids are not completely blind listeners. Especially when they reach five years old or older, they start learning how to use knowledge and expertise to evaluate what is true. Professor and Department of Psychology Chair at the University of Texas at Austin, Jacqueline D. Woolley, explains in a piece for The Conversation that kids start figuring out who to believe about certain topics, in the same way that adults do, when they are quite young.
I would pay good money to see an exhibition made by cats wielding paint brushes.
Now I’m imagining cats swinging paint brushes like swords
Load More Replies...I read this as "I took my 4 y/o cat to an art exhibition" and I'm very upset that I was wrong.
I have a painting done by a tiger my sister used to work with. One of the coolest presents I've ever received.
This is a very good book....https://www.wob.com/en-gb/books/heather-busch/why-cats-paint/9780898156126
Exactly. At my dad's funeral, my 8 YO half brother asked who was in the coffin. I gently said "that's our dad". He said no, mom said dad is in heaven. And wondered when he was coming back.
Load More Replies...Something similar happened to me once. We were about 7-8. I told my classmate my grandmas cat is getting put to sleep. He said:"oh well, you can still wake her up" I had to explain to him that the cat is in fact not sleeping
Professor Woolley used the example of an experiment she conducted where participants between the ages of 5-8 were presented with examples of animals that were either possible, like a fish that lives in the ocean, impossible, like a fish that lives on the moon, or improbable, like a fish that is as large as a car. They were given the opportunity to decide on their own whether these animals existed or to ask someone else. The kids even heard reports from either a zookeeper or a chef. The researchers found that children consistently believed in the possible entities and were able to rule out the impossible ones. They determined what was possible by using their existing knowledge, and for the improbable animals, they were significantly more likely to believe in them when the zookeeper validated their existence than when the chef did.
Take a spin on a Lazy Susan!!! Wouldn't even need a fair for that!! Year round fun!
As a little boy, my dad and his friend Johnny were playing outside. Johnny pointed out some flowers, and announced they were Johnny jump-ups. (That really is their name.) My dad pointed to another patch of flowers, and announced that those were T.J. jump-ups.
there is an operational lighthouse near me that also functions as a Airbnb, where you get trained on how to keep it going
Load More Replies...Bored Panda, why do you censor the most random things? I don't think you're protecting the kid's anonymity by censoring his eyes!!
He looks like my sons in a pic I took, when I had told em we were gonna watch horses. They expected a horse race, but kids could ride a pony there.
It reminds me of when a middle school English teacher told us how to pronounce ‘preface’ so that we would not all be made fun of in high school for talking about a ‘pre-face’
Reminds me of when I was in fifth grade and we were all randomly assigned a state to do a project/paper on. I got Arkansas. Well teacher calls on me and I say I got "ar-kansas" and she said that's impossible bc someone already got Kansas... I've heard of the state but I guess have never seen it spelled out before 🤦♀️
When I lived in Florida I worked at a call center and I should have known better but we have a town called Titusville. Pronounced tie tuss ville. I asked the lady on the phone to confirm she was from tits ville. Oops I was just nervous cuz it was one of my first calls but at least she thought it was hilarious and laughed at me. Even my boss monitoring the call laughed and thought it was funny. Also cute when my little cousin got her Bichon frize she told people she got a b***h*in fries.
Load More Replies...I always pushed my mom's shopping cart at the Grand Onion supermarket
🎶I’m the Onion Man, the Onion Man, I can chop onions as fast as you can🎶
So when it comes to outlandish claims that kids believe, it seems to be more the fault of the parents for spreading these lies in the first place. I’m not saying that upholding the myth of Santa Claus or the Tooth Fairy is harmful at all, but we shouldn't blame children for believing in them when many of us go out of our way to make them seem realistic. One study found that 84% of parents reported they had taken their child to visit more than two Santa impersonators during the holiday season. The Elf on the Shelf is also a multi-million dollar franchise, and the United States Postal Service promotes a “Letters from Santa” program where it sends out personalized replies to children’s letters. Combined with the countless holiday movies promoting the myth of Santa Claus and the half-eaten cookies and presents under the tree that many kids find on Christmas morning, it shouldn’t be surprising at all how so many children believe in the magic of Santa.
As a parent I wouldn't be able to stop myself from going with that and creating a whole wizard story..
dresses are better when your opponent has a sword (so, for example... a pirate XD). The skirts befoul the blade! True facts.
Load More Replies...My son saw a picture of women in niqabs in a book and said they were ninjas.
My grandson was was fixing cookies for Christmas Steve, the guy who was coming before Santa Claus arrives.
I had a girl I used to take care of and when we would listen to creedence Clearwater's bad moon on the rise she would always sing there's a bathroom on the right.
Can’t begin to tell you how funny it is to hear two small voices from the backseat singing blinded by the light. Sing it with me … revved up like a deuce (NOT douche) in the middle of the night. The longer they sang the harder we laughed, and a full blown douche conversation was had. Even now (my besties kids), fully grown, STILL sing it wrong (it’s just got to be intentional now).
I pictured fluffy clouds of soft, tender, baby green peas when I sang Away in the Manger. I still think they might make a nice mattress, although age has taught me something, at least: they should probably be dried peas, rather than fresh, if you want to sleep on them.
When I was a little kid I interpreted the lyrics to the Star Spangled Banner as "through the pears let us fight", rather than "through the perilous fight". This was because in the lyrics to America the Beautiful the purple mountains majesty are above the fruited planes. Hence, I thought the fighting somehow involved fruit.
Like the day I came home from Sunday school, and sang the new song I had learned - "Away the Lone Ranger"
When you found out about "Olive" the other reindeer and "Round John Virgin..."
When I was 4 one of the popular songs had a chorus “She wore an itsy bitsy teensy weensy yellow polka dot bikini”. I would sing it “batchy war” for the first time today. My parents couldn’t figure out what a batchy war was. The words are “that she wore”.
While the gullibility of little kids can be hilarious and entertaining in many situations, like in the tweets featured on this list, it can also be something parents must be mindful of when their children start spending more time online. According to one survey, 20% of kids between the ages of 12-15 believe all information generated from a Google search must be true. Kids also are not as savvy when recognizing ads, as only 16% of kids between the ages of 8-11 spotted that the top two results from a search for “trainers” were marked as paid promotions. It is almost impossible to keep kids off the internet nowadays, so it is important that they understand to be wary when reading things online. Just like kids should know that everything they hear from their peers is not true, parents and guardians must also instill a bit of skepticism in kids when they’re scrolling on the internet.
The mascot of the school I used to teach at (now closed) was a unicorn. Yes we had a school unicorn. 🦄 The reason why was really weird and had to do with this chap. Who was an early bastion of animal welfare /s https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Wombwell
I read that as George Wombell. Then remembered that poor old Bernard Cribbins died the other day.
Load More Replies...I’m instantly reminded of that children’s book goldalicious where a girl brings her “imaginary” pet unicorn to school
Here's another from me: I was working at a Chamber of Commerce and one of the events in the area was the Golden Hinde. A child came in and after checking out the brochures and pamphlets of the area, was adamant about seeing the Golden Behind.
There is plenty of talk about how impressionable and gullible kids are, but are adults much better? Plenty of individuals fall prey to believing conspiracy theories, fake news, and cult indoctrination, so we really cannot blame young, developing minds for misunderstanding things that we say. As Dr. Susan Krauss Whitbourne writes in a piece for Psychology Today, “According to Macquarie University’s Alessandra Teunisse and colleagues (2020), despite the fact that scams have become a part of everyday life, there is little psychological research on the gullibility that leads those scams to work. Indeed, the Australian authors note, ‘In 2017, financial and romantic scams cost consumers in the United States more than US$1.42 billion’, resulting in more than 300,000 complaints made to government authorities in that one year alone. However, psychology has established the fact that people are amazingly likely to accept pseudoscientific claims that amount to no more than superstition and magic, such as paranormal phenomena.”
I thought kittens grew out of pussy willows, so there’s that
My aunt has eucalyptus on her ranch in South America. I was very disappointed as a kid that she didn't have koalas
That's how you attract cats with catnip, but bamboo garnering pandas? Something to investigate and test.
Dr. Krauss Whitbourne goes on to explain that being gullible is likely not just a lack of critical thinking; it may actually be out of an individual’s control. If someone is low on the facet of social intelligence that allows most of us to spot a scam or realize when a romantic partner is not being completely genuine, they might always be gullible. These same people tend to also be highly influenced by persuasion tactics, such as a charming and convincing salesperson, Dr. Krauss Whitbourne notes. “Later on, you regret having given in to these people because neither the deal nor the partner were as good as they sounded in the heat of the moment,” she writes. “It’s not that the offer was necessarily based on false pretenses, but that you became pressured by their highly manipulative tactics into a decision that was not exactly ideal.”
not me reading this while carpooling
Load More Replies...And I had to read that through a couple of times, because my first impression was like an athletic coach.
My kids made a youtube video of our rabbits and said: hello I'm Henk the rabbit. Today I'm eating. A kid commented Fake!!
Load More Replies...Would be cool on a zipline! Kids could jump on a broom and really feel like they're flying!
For individuals who are particularly gullible, it may help to score themselves on the scale developed by Alessandra Teunisse and her colleagues. Including 12 statements that participants can score themselves between 1-7 on (1 being strongly disagree and 7 being strongly agree), this test features two factors: persuadability and insensitivity to untrustworthiness cues. Some of the test’s statements include: “I’m pretty good at working out when someone is trying to fool me”; “I’m not that good at reading the signs that someone is trying to manipulate me”; “My family thinks I am an easy target for scammers”; and “People think I’m a little naïve”.
this has nothing to do with anything but your profile pictures look almost the same
Load More Replies...David. If not facetious, it most assuredly is. Herd cattle, herd horses. Drive sheep. James Herriot for reference. But sure about pigs or goats. Want to watch anyone herding cats.
I loved Herriot's books. The Christmas kitten was my favorite.
Load More Replies...It is. Also cattle, there's a road near me called Drovers Road, as it was used to get the cattle from the farms to market
Load More Replies...Don’t be silly, rabbits are to small to drive
Load More Replies...Not actually that unreasonable, because I'm pretty sure you could see a whole bunch of fin and minke whales off the coast of Pembrokeshire...
Load More Replies...When we took my daughter, three years old at the time, to Roxbury, NY, the first thing she wanted to know was where were all the rocks and berries.
Whether this list is bringing back memories from your own childhood or reminding you of all the times you unintentionally misled your own kids, we hope you are enjoying these hilarious misunderstandings. Be sure to keep upvoting your favorite tweets so your fellow pandas catch the best ones, and then let us know in the comments if you have any personal stories that could have made it onto this list. Then if you want to hear even more funny things kids have said, check out this Bored Panda story next.
I'd love to be called this, guys lets take a vote, should I change my name to Aunty Fairy Edit: HI I ACTUALLY DID IT
I'm Aunt "Meow". My best friend's daughter, who was 2 at the time, couldn't say "Aunt Mia." So, I'm forever Aunt Meow, even to my blood nephews lol.
There are so many nicknames in my family from the babies not bring able to say our proper names. I have been dawned FiFi (Sofia), my sister is Nana shell (Liliana Michelle) and my Momma is Aunt Ashy (Aunt Ashley)
My aunt, Beverly, actually liked my son's mispronunciation. Hi, Aunt Bubbly. :-)
I worked daycare, and was taking a personal day to clean my apartment before my mother came to visit. I told the kids I wouldn't be there the next day. When she got picked up, a three year old told her mother, "Teacher's not coming to school tomorrow. She has to stay home and clean her room. Her mommy's making her."
Just come to Portugal then! In ths cities you'll a roundabout every 200 mts or less 😅 By the way, roundabouts actually are very easy to use and help decreasing the number of traffic accidents
I had the same expectations and was disappointed the same way as an adult on a visit to Piccadilly Circus.. Not that I support the forced performance of imprisoned animals...I just expected a more festive atmosphere
My friend always announced to her small son “Look, we’re at Grandma’s house!” and when he started talking they realized he’d learned the wrong emphasis. Her MIL is still known as House and her son is 12 now. Her own mother is [First name] House to be able to tell them apart in conversation.
To be fair, Devon is a little slice of heaven. Or at least that’s how it seemed to my 6-year old, city-dwelling, self. Mind, I struggled to get over the horse I had breathily been calling “Rajah” (a majestic chestnut who obviously deserved the name) was actually dubbed “Roger”. English accents are….very different.
I was asked by our teen neighbors if I wanted to sunbathe with them. At age 4, I came home very bummed that there was no water involved at any of that!!
I’m not sure how he got ninja out of that, but let him go as a ninja. Sounds like it would be fun!
You have the village people with you, but your son is the defender of your kind, your Village Ninja!
My mom handmade a very extensive and beautiful nativity set when I was a child. It ended up large enough to cover two coffee tables. It had a whole field for the shepherds, with a ceramic lake, the wise men's entourage, animals galore. The most awesome thing you've ever seen. At the age of 5, my cousin contributed a plastic hippo. She's around 40 now, and every year, Mom puts out the plastic hippo with the nativity set.
I don't know if I'd totally enjoy this park or be scared to death of it.
I was little when our family visited New York. I was perplexed and a little terrified when I learned the subway train to Brooklyn went under the river. Underwater? We'll drown!
And my teen brother, who had told me we were going underwater, never bothered to explain away my fears. He was (and is still) kind of a jerk.
Load More Replies...If you saw whales and fishes, some would have been seriously wrong.
If I have a son, I'm going to take him on a trip to Bangkok and watch the relief as he realizes.
I was once shopping in a supermarket seafood department and overheard a young mother muttering to herself and the little girl (maybe 2y/O) sitting in the shopping cart “well sweetie what do you think, should I get Red Snapper for supper?” The toddler began hysterically screaming “yes mommy, RED SNAPPER, RED SNAPPER, I WANT RED SNAPPER!!!” The mother looked very surprised and said “do you even know what Red Snapper is?” To which the little girl pointed to a large display of fully cooked LOBSTERS😂
Haha, I had the same misunderstanding when I was a kid. My dad took me to an ice cream shack that also sold tenderloins. I remember asking my dad what made the lions tender.
Some roads in the UK had "cat's eyes" on the lines that would reflect the headlights. I thought those were the jewels.
Our dad told us that if they went over a cats eye, a cat would poke its head out, rub its eye and quickly duck back under. I have a clear memory of looking out the back of the car to try and see one...all in vain...
Load More Replies...Sounds like a knock off park where you meet Mackie Mouse and Ronald the Duck.
Right? With how most politics go these days, I’d far rather participate in boating.
Load More Replies...Spain seems like a nice place. If I ever can afford it, I'd love to go
I'd rather go to space, although I understand Mars doesn't have UberEATS yet....
It is indeed a pinafore dress. Most primary (elementary) schools in England have a uniform, with a small number of choices (a black or grey pinafore dress is normally a very standard option).
Load More Replies...At many rentals, they offer "light housekeeping", meaning someone will come in and tidy up but not scrubbing toilets and changing towels every day.
Load More Replies...I have never heard the term hire car in my life before reading it now 10 times in this article
Where I live, we call them rentals. I assume that it's a regional thing.
Load More Replies...Be really upset if told fairies (fey) ere really taller than us as a rule, very slender, and don’t have wings. Sprites are small, have wings, and do not live in green soda bottles…..
Imagine if Paul McCartney Ian Mckellen Patrick Stewart an Elton John have to wear armor all the time just because they are knights.
Imagine the queen calling all of her knights to battle and a bunch of geriatric actors had to actually fight
Load More Replies...First time I've ever heard of a child being disappointed that they weren't getting ice cream
As an American whose favorite YouTubers are 5 British people, I find it fascinating hearing about British customs and, especially, British idioms
Load More Replies...yeah, & it's not like it's odd behavior for a child... they're very observant creatures! probably saw a truck reversing in person or on tv & copied it. not at all strange.
Load More Replies...This is a very confusing list when a lot of the tweets are made with people who know the places as the target audience
Load More Replies...All within the British Isles. Duty free requires crossing international borders.
Load More Replies...At age 4, my father consoled me by saying it was too bad I had my feelings hurt and he patted my shoulder. This made me feel better and at the same time, I learned where my feelings were. Later, when I was 6 yo, my teacher gave everyone a piece of paper and said to draw a person and label the parts. I wrote 'feelings' with an arrow pointing to where they were. She tried to correct me saying this was called the shoulder. I corrected her and explained this was were feelings were stored. They were inside, like the stomach was inside. I was surprised she didn't know this! ............ . Later, I was able to explain my reasoning to my mother. I was disappointed to find out there wasn't a specific place where feelings were kept. This became one of the annual examples given to parents as to why they shouldn't worry if their kid seemed weird.
My husband trying to explain to our son he's not the best at social situations and is more of an introvert, "I'm not really a people person." Son all wide eyed, " YOU"RE AN ALIEN?!?!"
It's interesting the differences in language between countries sharing the same language. "Being bummed" is very different where I come from.
I was very little when Princess Diana was in the media a lot. 5 year old me used to really resent her, because she ‘didn’t dress like a princess’. In my mind, if she had had proper decorum, she ought to have worn big hoop dresses and diamond tiaras in and out all day every day.
I thought my grandparents neighbour had a dolphin. They had a daughter called Phillipa. I heard Flipper.
I remember in first grade our teacher told us that we were going to the auditorium to see a presentation on Beethoven.Since this occurred back in the 90s when a certain series of movies were popular, the teacher added immediately after that it was NOT about the dog.🤣Amusingly enough, this was the first time I even heard about the musician.
We were looking for cheap entertainment one afternoon so I suggested a visit to the LaSalle Rapids. Our friends were game and packed up their younglings; a boy 4 and a girl of 6. Oh,how disappointed she was when we arrived and there were no rabbits.
My parents told me I had to give the example to my little sister (in French 'donner l'exemple' and not to be an example). I burst crying saying I didn't know what an example was and couldn't give it to her.
We moved when my oldest was 5. We hired movers for the big furniture and friends and family helped us with the rest. We told her we had to go back to the old house on moving day so we could tell the movers what things they needed to get. She, all excited, said yeah, and I can’t wait to tell them that I watch them on TV. That’s when we realized that she thought we meant we hired the Imagination Movers, from a show on Disney Channel. She was absolutely devastated.
At age 4, my father consoled me by saying it was too bad I had my feelings hurt and he patted my shoulder. This made me feel better and at the same time, I learned where my feelings were. Later, when I was 6 yo, my teacher gave everyone a piece of paper and said to draw a person and label the parts. I wrote 'feelings' with an arrow pointing to where they were. She tried to correct me saying this was called the shoulder. I corrected her and explained this was were feelings were stored. They were inside, like the stomach was inside. I was surprised she didn't know this! ............ . Later, I was able to explain my reasoning to my mother. I was disappointed to find out there wasn't a specific place where feelings were kept. This became one of the annual examples given to parents as to why they shouldn't worry if their kid seemed weird.
My husband trying to explain to our son he's not the best at social situations and is more of an introvert, "I'm not really a people person." Son all wide eyed, " YOU"RE AN ALIEN?!?!"
It's interesting the differences in language between countries sharing the same language. "Being bummed" is very different where I come from.
I was very little when Princess Diana was in the media a lot. 5 year old me used to really resent her, because she ‘didn’t dress like a princess’. In my mind, if she had had proper decorum, she ought to have worn big hoop dresses and diamond tiaras in and out all day every day.
I thought my grandparents neighbour had a dolphin. They had a daughter called Phillipa. I heard Flipper.
I remember in first grade our teacher told us that we were going to the auditorium to see a presentation on Beethoven.Since this occurred back in the 90s when a certain series of movies were popular, the teacher added immediately after that it was NOT about the dog.🤣Amusingly enough, this was the first time I even heard about the musician.
We were looking for cheap entertainment one afternoon so I suggested a visit to the LaSalle Rapids. Our friends were game and packed up their younglings; a boy 4 and a girl of 6. Oh,how disappointed she was when we arrived and there were no rabbits.
My parents told me I had to give the example to my little sister (in French 'donner l'exemple' and not to be an example). I burst crying saying I didn't know what an example was and couldn't give it to her.
We moved when my oldest was 5. We hired movers for the big furniture and friends and family helped us with the rest. We told her we had to go back to the old house on moving day so we could tell the movers what things they needed to get. She, all excited, said yeah, and I can’t wait to tell them that I watch them on TV. That’s when we realized that she thought we meant we hired the Imagination Movers, from a show on Disney Channel. She was absolutely devastated.
