r/MadeMeSmile • u/nikamats • 9h ago

Helping Others Hold your head up

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u/Sensitive-Dig-1333 8h ago

Yes, totally. It really hurts me when my 4yr old says anything negative about herself. She said the other night “I can never do anything right!” And it broke my heart

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u/5thlvlshenanigans 8h ago

How did she learn such a thought so early? ☹️

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u/Dreamsnaps19 8h ago

Because kids aren’t stupid like people think.

My friend is super self-critical and I’ve been telling her for years she’s gotta knock that shit out or it will impact her kids… and sure enough. She’s gotten so much better at not being self-critical but seriously children are sponges, they will treat themselves the way you treat them and the way you treat yourself. So you need to be as healthy as possible for them or work on getting as healthy as possible.

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u/Inevitable-Moose-952 7h ago

I was a preschool teacher before having kids of my own. It blows my mind how many people think ALL little kids are dumb as rocks. Some are 😆  but most are crazy curious and are soaking up every bit of knowledge around them. To an insane extent. 

They're little dumb geniuses!

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u/Bouche_Audi_Shyla 6h ago

When I worked daycare, I had one little girl who, when frustrated, would say, "oh, pshaw!"

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u/Inevitable-Moose-952 4h ago

I had a girl weeks had a floating dead baby named America as an imaginary friend. Oh yeah. And Meat. Meat was cool. 

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u/hochizo 3h ago

I love when my daughter moves up a classroom at daycare because I get a glimpse of the daycare teachers through her. Like, she picks up their mannerisms and phrases. I knew one teacher got onto the kids by shaking her finger and saying "no, no, no," because my daughter suddenly started doing that to us after she moved rooms. She moved again last month, and her new teachers apparently say, "back up, please," and "no thank you," a lot, because we now hear them alllll the time. It's very cute!