I honestly wonder what would parenting mean to me
I didn’t have younger siblings to test it out, but I love being asked questions and explaining the world to others. Is it that people get tired of it quickly, or the questions are too silly and oddly formulated, or untimely, or too loud, or something?
With my kids, it’s not the asking of the questions I mind, as I love answering questions too! Being a dad is one of my favorite things ever. The part that gets frustrating is when. They ask me a question but don’t listen to my response. It’s not that they didn’t understand, mind you… they simply tuned me out as soon as I started talking. And believe me, I’m explaining things in a way they could understand. That drives me nuts when anyone does this, like don’t make me waste my breath! Why bother to ask?
I’ve come up with a good punishment at least: I either ball up my fist and punch ‘em in the butt, or I choke their pet rabbit while telling them “look what you did! This is your fault!” Nothin’ wrong with that, amirite?
I taught some cousin’s kids how to swim. I tried to teach my daughter to swim but she refused to listen. Enrolled her in swimming classes where the teacher said and did the exact same things and she went on about how they showed her the exact same things and it worked. Literally the same things with the same amount of patience. Repeat this pattern for her first 17 years of life on various stuff, it just had to come from someone else.
She finally started listening to me this year about stuff! Yay! I didn’t change anything, she just finally decided that maybe I do know what I’m talking about.
When you’re in the middle of cleaning up something they just broke while also cooking dinner, answering “whats dirt made of?” can be a little frustrating.
I see lol
Feels like teaching the child basic household stuff is a thing of very early priority :D
Why do you love answering questions?
A lot of people are afraid to ask things and I always tell them that they may be surprised to find that others respond well to someone showing interest in the things they know.
For a few reasons, actually.
Personally, I just love to give to people, and knowledge is a sort of thing you can give that doesn’t even take anything from you. The kind of look in people’s eyes when everything just clicks is precious, and kids show it more openly than others.
Professionally, I’m a junior scientist, and, being a teacher’s kid, I was always grown in the atmosphere of deep respect for knowledge and education. And I want to carry these values forward.
Globally, I appreciate the power of knowledge and believe we’ll all be much better off if everyone’s questions could be honestly answered. And people don’t appreciate enough how many harmful and wrong ideas people carry from childhood.
So, in short, the questions don’t come from nothing, they highlight gaps of knowledge and understanding. Filling them with honest and accessible knowledge is both satisfying and awesome for the future of humanity.
Too many complete sentences, clearly an LLM
Yeah, humans lose such comprehension in this day and age. Kinda my goal to revert it!
What is ‘knowledge’ ?
Globally speaking, it’s awareness of the state of the world and everything in it.
But I don’t think most people need a definition.
In my expirience, they tend to make a lot of questions, sometimes very silly ones and many times very quickly they also (since they are kids) cannot understand when it’s a good moment to make questions which is the most annoying thing
Yeah I thought of that! As someone introverted, it’s very easy to come to me at the wrong time and have me annoyed. Takes some patience to keep going :)
I encourage the questions (and have had some really cool ones, like why don’t we have two suns, or where did the first person come from) but yes, especially young kids ask questions because they want to hear you talk, and often they are the same one over and over, or don’t make sense, or are asked to delay something else. I mostly only answer the exciting well thought out questions and encourage them to try harder if it’s not a good question (for their age).
That’s a fair approach, I’d say! Though, if they love to hear you talk, and you can spare some time for that, it sounds like a great investment.
But yeah, being quite introverted, I can see it easily crossing the line, too, especially when I’m not up to talking.
“Haha I secretly hate my kids and would literally rather die than be annoyed with curios questions! “
Haha, but fuck you and don’t have kids then. Especially if you’re a thousands of years old frog man on his death bed. Lock in, be a good parent and don’t make your kid feel annoying or unwanted for being curios.
“Well that’s not what the meme is saying.” Yes, yes it is. Re evaluate your opinion of your kid if this is relatable. You are hurting them whether you know it or not.
One day you won’t get any questions from them.
My dude, two things. First look at the community. This is a shitpost. Two, multiple things can be true at once. Parents can both love and cherish their children, and be exhausted. Parenting is exhausting and saying that no parent should ever complain about parenting is a crazy standard to hold people to. We’re all human, we all suffer and thrive.
Hate your job? Well just quit then.
Don’t like your landlord? You should be homeless instead.
Fair on both points.
Downvotes don’t bother me so whatever, but I still think people should consider their outward mannerisms and projections when thinking like this in front of children.
Downvotes don’t bother me
Good, have another
Cheers🍻
I hope you don’t have children.
I hope you learn how to comprehend what you read. Maybe if your father didn’t get annoyed at you when you asked questions you’d know more.
Wow, this crass response seems to reek of autism: you do realize the meme is satirical, right? No good parent would “literally rather die,” of course. It’s from a fictional movie anyway.
It’s shit and stems from a bad attitude. Maybe my comments are shitposts too. Who knows?
This is why I opted out of having kids.
I decided not to have kids too. My wife understands, but my two sons are a bit shaken by it.
You don’t need to be a parent for this, just anyone who spends time with young children. At least they can usually annunciate by the time they’re five or six.
Lol.
I remember annoying my parents when I bought my commodore64 (no internet back then).
Dad, what does * mean as a default?
Dad, what does Default mean?
Dad, what’s a Data Array?
I figured adults had answers. Lol
Dad hopefully shoved you the user manual and BASIC reference guide into your face?
The old RTFM.
But actually I was referencing the manuals for the questions being asked.
When it’s the 80s and computers were ‘new’ to the home, seeing a data array in a manual didn’t explain how or what you do with it.
So next step ask parents, whom also didn’t know.
Next step go to the library and ask if they had a book on BASIC or computers. The librarian shakes her head but leads you to the only computer book, which is like the 1960s history of the Mainframe. LOL
Data Array question finally got answered in a 1986 computer course offered at the highschool.
RTFM, Bucko
Read The Buckin’ Manual, Fucko
