I keep seeing all these posts on Visage-Tome about how kids are super smart, and they say the funniest things, and how there’s such simple wisdom in the hearts of children.
I guess that’s what I get for both having kids of my own and friending a lot of people on Visage-Tome who also have kids. They post this stuff all the time, so let me get one thing straight: most of it is completely made up, most of the rest is a complete fluke, and 1% is a kid actually saying something of actual value.
That’s not a bad thing, alright? Kids are funny enough without having to put ‘woke’ comments in their mouth. We went to a kids birthday party venue in the Springwood area the other day, and the party was animal themed. James came back having made his own tail and cheetah ears out of craft supplies, and he asked me why humans don’t have tails. I said that we don’t need them, and he started crying because he thought that humans should have tails. See, that’s just how kids are: unpredictable, temperamental, still discovering things about the world. They’re not ‘wise’, because they’re not supposed to be; most of the ‘wise’ stuff they say is by accident. Just let them be kids without putting words in their mouths. Let them go to an indoor play centre and start climbing over everything while pretending they’re space pirates. Stop talking about your kids as if they’re cultured little geniuses who are ‘better’ than all the other kids.
You tend to meet those sports at the play centres, you know. The parents sitting in the cafe, talking up their children like they’re show dogs. You’ve taken them to this indoor play centre based in Canberra, you’re watching them have fun and be themselves, but all you can talk about is their eighth-grade flute recital? Just learn to take joy in the simple things. It’s GOOD that kids aren’t little geniuses. Makes them less jaded to the world than all us grumpy adults, that’s for sure.
-K
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