Reasons my child is crying: quarantine edition

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Anonymous wrote:I played Danny Boy for my kid for St. Patrick's Day and he legit broke down sobbing at the emotion of the song. It was like an old drunken Irishman missing his gran'. And of course my cracking up at that did not help.

Oh I love this!

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Anonymous wrote:I dislike these threads. Kids have real emotions and real feelings. I’m sure these feelings are heightened with everything that’s going on. Of course kids, whether they are old enough to understand the situation or not, are feeling extra stressed out, anxious, upset, and it can manifest itself in unexpected ways. They are in need of stability and reassurance. These posts make me sad and don’t come off as funny.

You know—I can’t stand when parents video their kids crying and put them on YouTube or Facebook. That poor kid expressing their emotions and mom/dad shoving a camera in their face and then exploiting them.

However....it’s okay to have a chuckle over the seemingly irrational things that upset our little ones. Not in their face, but stealthily begins their backs. How else do we survive the early years without finding humor in the hard times?

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Anonymous wrote:Wailing yesterday that if only that person in China had cooked the bat first we wouldn’t all be stuck at home.

We all feel that way, loosely speaking!

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The ONLY thing she wants to do today is ride a zebra and I won't let her.

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If I drive around town with my six year old, after a while, it will always come back to .. "why did the person in china have to eat the bat?" She obviously heard it at school and it stuck . . .

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Anonymous wrote:If I drive around town with my six year old, after a while, it will always come back to .. "why did the person in china have to eat the bat?" She obviously heard it at school and it stuck . . .

I love this thread, but these comments kind of make me sick. Are we really telling that to our kids?

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Anonymous wrote:If I drive around town with my six year old, after a while, it will always come back to .. "why did the person in china have to eat the bat?" She obviously heard it at school and it stuck . . .

I love this thread, but these comments kind of make me sick. Are we really telling that to our kids?

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- I laid out his shirt front side up instead of down, so he didn't know how to put it on.

- DH tucked DS in for nap first, but he wanted to be second.

- He can't click on the red circle and still keep FaceTiming with his grandparents.

- Older DD shared her toy with him, but he actually didn't want to play with it.

- He can't figure out how to pull on a new pull-up without taking off his pants.

Quarantining with a three-nager is super fun!

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2 yo: I love salsa! Can I have some salsa?

Me: Puts salsa on his plate.

2 yo, sobbing: WHAT DID YOU DO THAT FOR I DID NOT WANT SALSA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Anonymous wrote:If I drive around town with my six year old, after a while, it will always come back to .. "why did the person in china have to eat the bat?" She obviously heard it at school and it stuck . . .

I love this thread, but these comments kind of make me sick. Are we really telling that to our kids?

Yeah, I was smiling reading these, but when I got to this one it just made me sad.

It’s incredibly disappointing that a parent would think this is a cute or charming childhood moment. Sigh. This is why Asian-Americans are getting harassed all over the country.

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Does not like the pop up dragon jack in the box and did not want the dragon out but also did not want the dragon in with the top closed. No idea what she wanted but full meltdown of no in but no out

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No tears involved (yet) but DS refuses to hug me unless he can punch me in the stomach first. So, that's been fun......

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Anonymous wrote:Wailing yesterday that if only that person in China had cooked the bat first we wouldn’t all be stuck at home.

This one made my day! (tears rolling down my face).

Same! Is it bad that I laughed at this?

I’m the mom and it took all my willpower not to giggle when she said that.

I don't get how this is funny, isn't the kid just repeating what the parent must have told them?

My almost 7 DS would definitely say something like this. Generally, he would have asked about 10,000 questions about COVID-19 (including what it stands for) and I would have eventually gotten to the bats. With that, he would turn that into what PP's kid did.

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Anonymous wrote:Wailing yesterday that if only that person in China had cooked the bat first we wouldn’t all be stuck at home.

This one made my day! (tears rolling down my face).

Same! Is it bad that I laughed at this?

I’m the mom and it took all my willpower not to giggle when she said that.

I don't get how this is funny, isn't the kid just repeating what the parent must have told them?

My almost 7 DS would definitely say something like this. Generally, he would have asked about 10,000 questions about COVID-19 (including what it stands for) and I would have eventually gotten to the bats. With that, he would turn that into what PP's kid did.

As they say, out of the mouths of babes... Kids speak truth. I don’t think it’s funny, though.

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Because mom would not let me put purple sparkle slime on her work computer keyboard

The indignity.