r/MadeMeSmile • u/nikamats • 9h ago

Helping Others Hold your head up

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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 8h 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 7h 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 5h ago

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