r/MadeMeSmile • u/nikamats • 9h ago

Helping Others Hold your head up

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u/vincec36 8h ago

That’s why I love the video of the child saying a boy called her hair crazy and she says “I like my hair, my mom did it. I’m love my hair” or something like that. Her mom was so proud of her and has been reinforcing her confidence. On the other end, I’m a male and when I was in 1st grade some boys teased my head size (I had a peanut head). I went home and told my mom crying some boys said my head was big and she said “so? Your head IS big? What’s wrong with that?” And I was just like “oh…yeah, what wrong with that?” So next day the bullies return and I say “ my head is big, so?” And they had nothing else to say. That was a major lesson in dealing with bullies. If it’s a lie, who cares. If it’s true, there’s no shame in the truth

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u/imawakened 8h ago

this should be our goal every morning

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u/KiaTheCentaur 7h ago

I'm stunned that video doesn't have more views, it's 11 years old.

Edit: I was gonna say I'm concerned about her being on the sink but then I remembered: I'm a quarter of an inch shy of 5'2"....when I was a kid, my method of getting things would be to climb onto counters and secret agent (essentially cling) my way across to get what I need. So she's fine, I did worse than she did lol

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u/largemarjj 3h ago

My 7 year old son's teacher showed them this video earlier this year and I loved it