PSA. Your child's sarcasm isn't cute.

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Anonymous wrote:Wit and sarcasm are not the same thing.

Wit can be positive and uplifting to people.

Sarcasm is nearly always negative, designed to cut people down.

Agree. I love someone with a droll/deadpan sense of humor. That's not sarcasm though.

Agreed. And I agree with OP, and find more actual intelligence and creative idiosyncrasy in parents and kids who have the stones to speak and joke and play in sincerity, not the insecure wads who have to use sarcasm to feel (falsely) a step ahead of others.

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I enjoy sarcasm. Frequently in kids it just comes off as azzholish. Best to leave sarcasm to adults.

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LOL. There are people who don't like sarcasm?

Where are you from? Is this a regional thing?

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Anonymous wrote:LOL. There are people who don't like sarcasm?

Where are you from? Is this a regional thing?

Lolz. It’s often a rude comment with zero wit that passes as sarcasm in our culture, you rube. I guess that’s your thing, which is cute.

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Anonymous wrote:It's not funny.

It's not a sign that they are wittyand intelligent or have advance language skills.

They are rude.

It is a sign you have done a poor job teaching appropriate behavior

Provide an example or move on please.

You and I both know OP is never going to elaborate or provide examples or return to this thread at all. They just wanted to post a vague rant and run.

Is sarcasm your religion or something?

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Anonymous wrote:LOL. There are people who don't like sarcasm?

Where are you from? Is this a regional thing?

np I think it’s fine when blended well with other forms of humor and other personality traits. I don’t think it’s a particularly intelligent or clever form of humor though. Also think overly sarcastic people come across as negative and irritable.

I would not want my kids talking to adults in a sarcastic way as this can very easily come across as rude or flippant and disrespectful.

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Anonymous wrote:Also your child isn't cute and no one wants to hear from it.

Are you calling children "it"?

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I don’t know at what age sarcasm could go from disrespectful to funny but I can say for sure it’s not 5. My son saying “can’t wait to go clean the playroom” is definitely more rude than funny or clever.

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Sarcasm isn’t necessarily biting. For example “nice weather we’re having” in the rain.

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Anonymous wrote:Sarcasm is an acquired taste and many lovely people don’t acquire it because they prefer kindness and sarcasm is very rarely kind.

Those who use sarcasm need to develop the emotional intelligence to read the room and know when it isn’t appropriate to engage that way. Many very intelligent people ‘get’ sarcasm but also find it distasteful. It is probably very important for sarcastic kids to be guided by their parents to use their wit sparingly in this regard because it is certainly likely to close more doors than it opens in academia and the working world alike.

Very much this. I find that the people who use sarcasm do it as a set point. And often, they and/or their kids don't really understand that sarcasm should used when appropriate. Otherwise, I can just seem mean.

I tend to be sarcastic. But I've learned when to use it and when it's inappropriate. But I was never sarcastic as a kid.

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Anonymous wrote:Sarcasm isn’t necessarily biting. For example “nice weather we’re having” in the rain.

This would be completely fine coming from a child. I’m thinking OP is referencing parents who don’t discourage rude sarcasm because they think it’s funny.

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Well, Bluey’s dad is the king of sarcasm and he’s my hero. I can only hope my children learn to mimic his wit and wisdom.

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Anonymous wrote:Sarcasm is the lowest form of humor

Incorrect. Puns are the lowest form of humor.

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Anonymous wrote:DH and I are way too sarcastic and it’s rubbed off on our kids.

When my 8yo starts screeching and whining and having a meltdown, I might put up my feet and say- “they’d nothing like relaxing to the sounds of your children screaming after a long day at work!”

And when my kid goes off to school, they go “bye mom, Can’t wait to go torture myself with another day at school!”

Sounds exhausting to be in your family.

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Anonymous wrote:DH and I are way too sarcastic and it’s rubbed off on our kids.

When my 8yo starts screeching and whining and having a meltdown, I might put up my feet and say- “they’d nothing like relaxing to the sounds of your children screaming after a long day at work!”

And when my kid goes off to school, they go “bye mom, Can’t wait to go torture myself with another day at school!”

Sounds exhausting to be in your family.

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