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Bok408 t1_ja45qc7 wrote

It is indeed frustrating when people get triggered over kids being dumb/saying dumb shit. Kids are dumb. Before anyone learns something, they are dumb. How can so many people not realize that?

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MaxGamingGG t1_ja4d2hn wrote

Because more often than not dumb kids grow up and become dumb adults.

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AlloyComics OP t1_ja4ns3o wrote

Though it pains me to say it, this is sadly true...

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ElGuano t1_ja5k4u8 wrote

I mean, if you accept that all kids are dumb from the OP, then by nature, all the dumb adults come from dumb kids. The thing is, so do average/smart adults.

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Swordofsatan666 t1_ja4p54p wrote

Its not always them getting frustrated at the kids, sometimes its getting frustrated at the parents because typically you have to learn something from somewhere. Like a kid still has to hear the word “fuck” from somewhere before they start spouting it out everywhere, so the people sometimes get frustrated that the parents are using these words around the kids and reinforcing the words in the kids head.

Like theres legitimately people out there who are racist and shout white power all the time, and the kid saying that nonsense could be an indicator the parents are racists. Sure kids are dumb, but sometimes that dumb is regurgitating words they hear regularly from their parents. How can so many people not realize that?

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aesirmazer t1_ja713ar wrote

I didn't have to hear fuck! I just couldn't pronounce the "tr" sound so I replaced it with an "f" sound. I also liked trucks a lot. But yeah, in general I agree.

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dawho1 t1_ja524lz wrote

A core tenet of our parenting has been saying “remember, kids are stupid” whenever one of our girls (6 & 8) says something like “My friend Teddy said that…”

It’s worked pretty well.

Surprisingly good results with not pulling punches on cursing too. We both knew they’d hear the words from us or others eventually, so they had a pretty good repertoire prior to kindergarten; we spent all of our time just illustrating acceptable use situations instead. Never at school (or at least not when teachers are around), never at friends houses (or at least not when parents are around), shit like that.

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madefordownvoting t1_ja582cj wrote

i work with kids, and i do not think it's that they're necessarily stupid (some kids are stupid, ofc; some adults are stupid also) -- it's that they just don't know anything. but they just got here, so that makes sense.

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dawho1 t1_ja5z8jr wrote

Yeah, we don’t mean they’re literally stupid, just that they’re not to be considered reliable sources of information, especially if their friends’ tidbit is at odds with something we’re actively talking to them about.

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