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Omg you guys I keep falling asleep in astronomy and it is SO OBVIOUS (confirmed by my friend sitting by to my left) and my astronomy teacher sits right next to me to my right and one of the time I woke up to him staring. Directly. At me. So if you dont hear from me for a while assume I’m dead thx

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Some notes about writing about kids

Okay, so I am not at allllll an expert about any of this but this is all just stuff that I have personally experienced and my understanding of it. But like, as someone who as spent a lot of time with kids I really wanna make a post about actual shit that kids do because there is so much potential in writing them that is rarely tapped into (at least in what I’ve read)

The 4 year old I watch speaks perfectly clear. Please don’t write 8 year olds saying “wawa” instead of water or “pweees” unless they have speech impediment that you have researched/know about or it is a conscious choice made by the child to “talk like a baby” and they know how to speak clearly (which I’ve seen happen a lot lol)

Kids repeat pretty much everything their guardians say or do. I was once watching a four year old and he was holding as stick in his hand and putting dust in the air (it made it look smokey) and when I asked what he was doing he said he was pretending to “smoke a lil pipe”

(I’ve also had a kid hump the ground, regularly put his hands down his pants and try to show a girl his grandma has convinced was his “girlfriend” his penis so uhhm yikes. He also would hold the girls face so she couldn’t move and try to kiss her, which the grandmother encouraged. I would also like to say that this kid was a fucking sweetheart, he had just seen or heard some shit that was completely inappropriate and creepy, and thought that it was normal and okay. So uhm the whole repeating thing can be hilarious or not at all)

Kids have virtually no life experience or understanding of you’re “supposed” to be excited about and just generally don’t give any shits about society’s standard. Two examples- First, a little girl was talking with some other kids about cool hotels they had each stayed at, and was fucking ecstatic that she had stayed at a hotel with tissues (4 years old). Second, a kid at the daycare I used to work at absolutely adored a mole one of the other teachers had. They called it a little alien and he named it and everything (3 years old).

This probably seems pretty obvious, but kids have a full range of emotions too. Likes, dislikes, moods, irritability, etc etc. One girl who is a couple of months away from turning two, is sooo proud she learned how to say teacher and peoples names better over the break. She will just say your name over and over to show she can.

About the same child, she has been making jokes since before she was 1 ½. Like, maybe nobody else thought they were funny but she thought she freaking hilarious. She would call the main teacher “mama” and then cackle. She was fully aware this wasn’t her mother. She also would sneak up behind her brother and steal his shit, and run away shrieking and laughing.

My sister had difficulty hearing when she was little due to eating too much dairy (what the doctor said) and my mom had absolutely no idea for a while, it seemed like she just wasnt listening. Finally she asked can you even hear me??? And she couldn’t. She had really hard time hearing. My younger sister and brother are very close in age, and due to my sisters difficulty hearing she ended up learning to say a lot of words and sounds differently, and our brother mimicked her way of talking. They literally had their own language that no one else understood but they could understand each other. They both went to speech therapy for several years, because they had learned the words an developed so differently. My mom actually did a massive presentation on this in college.

I know I’m missing a lot but I’ll probably update as I think of shit