My 3 year old is insisting he can’t nap because of coronavirus. When we ask why, he says it’s because it’s only fair that coronavirus stops boring things too, like naps and celery. My 5 year old then pipes up “it does, no church!”

Because she can't go to a White Stripes concert.

'She's 3.

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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?

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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 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.

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.

Can't they be both? It's surely possible to sympathize with -- and, if you can, comfort -- a young child, acknowledge the stress, and also, on an adult level, acknowledge the humor in the way small children learn to understand and negotiate their/our world. Confession: The one about the banana totally cracks me up. I can get the confusion and the symbolism and I sympathize with the struggle to negotiate wholeness and brokenness and repairing -- and it still totally cracks me up. I will add that as kids are able to develop their own senses of humor, for most, if not all, it will serve as a valuable coping skill.

My 4 year old announced she was going to pee in the yard (as she was peeing). She did not pull her pants down first then was upset when her shoes got wet.

I’ll add this one as she legit had reason to get upset but my husband and I couldn’t stop cracking up. DD invited us for a picnic at a bench we have in our hallway. DH was sitting on a “poof” and there was a step stool sitting there as well. I pulled it over to sit on and as I did DD went to sit down expecting the step stool to be behind her. She got really upset at me, with good reason, but it really was a comedy of errors.

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.

I think we can all agree that we feel for whoever is stuck at home with this poster.

Because the dog likes her brother better.

Because I wouldn't lay on top of him while he pretended to be Baby Luther Kitty, curled up under his blankets in bed.

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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.

I dislike the posters who come in lighthearted threads to condemn everyone. My kid has been crying about quesadillas and throw pillows since he discovered he could, this predates COVID and - I promise - will far outlast it. Stop catastrophizing things; not everything is worthy of mourning and psychoanalytic theatrics.

+1,000,000,000,000

I won’t build a fort with her

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.

I dislike the posters who come in lighthearted threads to condemn everyone. My kid has been crying about quesadillas and throw pillows since he discovered he could, this predates COVID and - I promise - will far outlast it. Stop catastrophizing things; not everything is worthy of mourning and psychoanalytic theatrics.

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.