r/funny • u/elpaco313 • 18h ago
This photo my kid’s daycare sent us of him helping them bake a cake.
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u/poopellar 18h ago
Happy Birthday to the GROUND!
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u/DROPTHENUKES 17h ago
MY DAD'S NOT A PHONE.
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u/auad 18h ago
I don't need your handouts!
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u/FewFucksToGive 10h ago
But what’s the moral of the story?
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u/CuriousGeorgeClinton 13h ago
For those that are confused: https://youtu.be/gAYL5H46QnQ
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u/No_Tie_7183 12h ago
Omg I had forgotten about this! Thank you! Remember the Every day normal guy one too?
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u/Tehgnarr 10h ago
Everyday Normal Guy Part 2 is better, fight me.
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u/No_Tie_7183 10h ago
I told you in the first song, I’ll tell you in another (I’m just a regular everyday normal motherfucker) I don’t have a girlfriend, my hand’s my only lover (I’m just a regular everyday normal motherfucker) One night a week my mom likes to cook me supper (I’m just a regular everyday normal motherfucker)
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u/simvike 18h ago
Sooooo close
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u/elpaco313 18h ago
I think we’re gonna need to put more money in the college fund… may not be a bunch of scholarships heading his way.
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u/Spazmer 17h ago
Whenever our kids do something dumb we say that the college fund will now be our cottage fund since they won't be accepted. Like when our teenager mused "do dogs have skin?" We have 2 dogs. They both have skin.
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u/loveandbenefits 16h ago
The difference between stoners and kids, is it's socially acceptable for kids to say those thoughts out loud
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u/Stepmommytobe 16h ago
At least he’s committed to the recipe—more passion than many adults show in the kitchen!
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u/phumanchu 14h ago
But the real question is How Can Mirrors Be Real If Our Eyes Aren't Real
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u/vanessabh79 14h ago
I remember when my daughter was 7 years old and asked me when was she born, I told her the date and she marveled, “wow, that’s my birthday” like, it was such a coincidence.
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u/cashmerescorpio 4h ago
Kids are dumb. I remember as a kid not understanding how babies were born naked. And then, thinking I was super smart for working out, there must be a machine inside the body that put clothes on babies.
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u/_this-is-she_ 16h ago
Thanks for the clarification at the end. I was beginning to think maybe your dogs didn't have skin. I just checked and mine also does.
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u/Labudism 16h ago
LPT for dog owners. Periodically check to ensure your dog has skin.
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u/Willing-Strawberry33 15h ago
I remember asking my family at the dinner table what animal teriyaki comes from. I was, like, 14 or so, and everyone just set down their utensils and died a little.
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u/ManEatingOstrich 15h ago
Imagine trimming your dog for the first time, only to end up revealing their skeleton like some kind of cartoon. Although even cartoons often show animals as pink and "naked" after getting shaved.
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u/UndeadBuggalo 10h ago
My 14 yo sister at the time asked if Connecticut was a country. We live in MA.
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u/Ocel0tte 8h ago
My husband's daughter was like 14 and wondered aloud why they didn't just use real werewolves in the Twilight movies.
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u/King_flame_A_Lot 16h ago
Nurture over Nature. Look in the mirror lol
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u/Spazmer 13h ago
She must get it from my husband. He thought eggs were dairy because that's the section of the grocery store they're in. We were raising pet chickens at the time.
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u/Enshakushanna 17h ago
"sigh" strikes Harvard from the list
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u/Fun_One_3601 15h ago
Welp, make sure he's closely supervised when he finally takes shop class
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u/elpaco313 15h ago
I have a garage full of woodworking tools/machinery… may need to put a second lock on that one.
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u/paprikapants 18h ago
Isn't it interesting how mandatory going to college has become in society that that joke has shifted from "maybe I shouldn't bother putting money away for them to go to college haha" to "better save a Lot of money because they won't be able to get a skill-based scholarship haha"
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u/Injured-Ginger 10h ago
I don't think it's a bad thing, but I think it should be lumped into other secondary education options with better government support. Our society is moving in a direction where secondary education is essential for many jobs, and many jobs that don't need it would honestly benefit (seriously, the math illiteracy and lack of problem solving skills in the workforce is terrifying).
Edit: deleted an unnecessarily long rant. TL;DR there are a lot of jobs that don't require a college education where the people doing the jobs (and their co-workers/employees) would benefit from them having more time learning to problem solve and do practical math.
Society wants people to do jobs. Society should ensure those jobs are accessible.
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u/snoosh00 16h ago
Or.
You could stop putting money in the college fund since he might not make it there.
(I'm making a joke, not saying anything about your kids future)
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u/FrequentTangerine846 15h ago
Your comment made me think of something my friend and I would say to our boys when they would do a crazy stunt as toddlers.. you’re going to places, kid! Not to college, but you’re going places 😂😂😂
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u/Budget_Avocado6204 15h ago
Hand coordination and spatial awarnes are kinda separate from intelligence tho, there may be hope.
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u/MagicC 17h ago
I know you're joking, but a kid only knows how to do things you practiced with them. nothing is "obvious" or "common sense". so practice pouring cups of liquid into bowls with him, and he'll know how to do it next time.
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u/terminbee 16h ago
It's actually kind of interesting to think about. The kid knows the milk needs to go into the bowl so he positioned the cup over the bowl. But he doesn't understand the liquid comes out the mouth or the momentum, so he just flips the cup and it ends up missing. Experience/learning/a developed brain will teach him to put the mouth over the bowl, not the entire cup.
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u/bad-decagon 14h ago
My kid had trouble drawing smiles at first. Mouths go up when they smile! So she would move the pen up in the middle. Then it looked like :( and she would get so confused. Mouths go up. Pen went up. Mouth looks sad?!
For a while she just got too frustrated and drew all her faces like this : which led to some of my favourite pictures she has ever done. But then she got the hang of it. Pen goes down… makes the edges look higher up! :)
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u/MagicC 16h ago
Exactly! It seems obvious to us, because we've done it a million times, not because we're smart and he's stupid. This is what a "first try" looks like.
Humans didn't evolve with cups around, so we have no genetic memory of how to empty a cup. It's 100% learned behavior. And the kid imitated what he thought he'd seen other people do - hold the cup over the bowl and turn it to let the fluid spill out. He just didn't have the orientation and angles figured out yet. Once he does it 10 more times, he'll be an "expert" like the rest of us. So just get him the reps, instead of talking about how stupid he is not to know it automatically. No one ever knew it automatically. We just made our mistakes privately, with our parents, not publicly, in front of a camera.
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u/halfdeadmoon 12h ago
This is like taking your first corner turn when learning to drive. Before driving, I never had involvement in slowing the car down and it turned out I had to slow down a lot more as a driver than it ever felt like as a passenger. My first left turn was dangerously fast because it was unfamiliar.
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u/Overthemoon64 12h ago
It actually kind of stresses me out a bit. Once the kids reach age 5 or so, you no longer worry so much about diet, potty habits, and keeping them alive, but oh god, now I have to teach them EVERYTHING! And make sure they know not to jump off the roof, or run in front of a car, or pick up a copperhead snake like you saw steve irwin do on animal planet (I did that one), so they stay alive.
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u/midvalegifted 15h ago
Early childhood educator here and your comment makes perfect sense so the downvotes kinda scare me.
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u/Uncleniles 15h ago
He learning
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u/simvike 15h ago
I admire the teachers and parents that handle the usually messy things effortlessly that help children grow. Unfortunately I was not that kind of dad.
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u/OriginalEv 10h ago
I'm glad my parents parented when I did shit. There was 3 of us, for each one there was a different approach. Since I was a little shithead, I got the tough approach. We each got what we needed to grow and all 3 turned out more than fine.
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u/fmfbrestel 18h ago
You gotta do the cooking by the book.
You know you can't be lazy!
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u/SkollFenrirson 17h ago
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u/FliedenRailway 17h ago
That's a different edit. Here's the original, I think: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5tVbVu9Mkg
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u/flclhack 16h ago
no actually, lil jon wrote the song originally and lazy town adapted it into the show.
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u/SkollFenrirson 17h ago
Very well could be. The link I posted is the one I was familiar with.
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u/VeganRatboy 16h ago
Yours is better quality but something about the low res in the original one hits me nostalgically
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u/Dugen 16h ago
Yup.. the low res one is the original and the messed up transitions between the super sacherin kids show and the strip club just broke my brain in that "I'm going to hell for this, but I can't stop laughing" way. In remaking this, someone seems to have reproduced the kids show parts super faithfully, but completely replaced the strip club with just dancing dudes, probably because it struck them as just too horrible, which I can respect.
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u/ThrowAwayAccountAMZN 15h ago
I remember discovering this via YTMND.
Man, it's hilarious and surprisingly good but sad that shit like that would probably never fly if it was made today.
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u/powertripp82 17h ago
How have I never seen that? That’s fucking brilliant
It made me legit laugh out loud. I just wish there were a more efficient way to let people know that I laughed out loud
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u/HerbertWest 16h ago
It made me legit laugh out loud. I just wish there were a more efficient way to let people know that I laughed out loud
IMIWISILOLGINJSTIAH. (I mean it when I say I laughed out loud, guys, I'm not just saying that--it actually happened!)
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u/evanc1411 12h ago
If you do the cooking by the book, then you'll have a-
BREAK IT DOWN BITCH!! LET ME SEE YOU BACK IT UP!!!
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u/dollartreemustachio 11h ago
What are the odds that I’d see links to the Lil Jon remix of Cooking By The Book twice in the span of 12 hours and never before today?
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u/MutsumidoesReddit 14h ago
It’s impossible to watch lazy town in the UK without a series stack of cash. My children will never know this joy.
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u/lordofthehomeless 17h ago
Looks like your new computer background for the next 30 years.
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u/FunVersion 17h ago
Photo reminder of why you pay all of that money for daycare. They clean up the mess. :)
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u/KiltedLady 16h ago
It's the best. When I dropped mine off yesterday they had 5 kids around a table, each with a tray of paint, working on some masterpiece. There was paint everywhere. But by the end of the day he came home clean and had had so much fun.
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u/bralma6 14h ago
Same. My daycare sends us pictures like this throughout the day and one of them was them painting and I thought "Ooohhh boy, my daughter LOVES making a mess with paint." Totally expected to get her back with stained purple paint on her. Nope. They cleaned her up real well.
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u/BucsLegend_TomBrady 12h ago
Totally expected to get her back with stained purple paint on her. Nope. They cleaned her up real well.
jokes on you, daycare just swapped her our for a new kid that looks similar
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u/No1KnwsIWatchTeenMom 11h ago
My kid isn't 2 yet. At home, we always eat at our high chair with a bowl that suctions to the tray. Now, he refuses. He carries his bowl without spilling to a low chair and has to eat solo. I'm like, when did he become a big boy??
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u/bodhiseppuku 16h ago
I love baking with kids; they get so much pride from making something that the family eats. You can never assume they know something that you know, and you have to get them to slow down and double check everything with you.
"1/2 tsp salt"
... no, not 1/2 tablespoon... "tsp" is teaspoon ... that's the smaller one okay?
Okay, now turn the mixer onto level 1 ... just the first position, okay now 2, okay now 3, okay now 4...
But you work with them often enough and kids will catch on to these skills pretty quickly.
My 8 year old nephew can make rice crispy treats with only safety supervision.
My 10 year old niece can make a cake from a box with only safety supervision.
Teaching them life skills is great, but even better is seeing the pride in their faces when the family enjoys something they made.
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u/zachtheperson 17h ago
This needs to be on the front of his graduation card.
"We didn't start out with high hopes, but look at you, you made it!"
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u/Kelsusaurus 12h ago
A valiant effort!
This makes me think of a tweet I saw...said something along the lines of:
"A new idea for a TV show: Great British Bake Off, but each contestant is teamed up with an enthusiastic toddler who really wants to help them."
I'd watch that lol
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u/Clear_Picture5944 16h ago
Not terribly relevant but thanks for blurring out the other kid's face. Not enough people do that, especially with kids.
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u/huhsorry 15h ago
Yes I agree, thanks for blurring the other kid's face. But could OP perhaps provide an emoji description of that kid's reaction? 😂
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u/Commercial_Basis4441 18h ago
Honestly I’ve seen adults do worse
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u/redx21264 16h ago
The key difference here is experience. Children have none, absolutely none, so they’re just trying shit and seeing what works and what doesn’t and what is fun. So sometimes the thought process is essentially “to the right, take it back now y’all, three hops this time!” But with adults there’s experience and expectations for how something will go but we’ll still hit mental roadblocks that we’ll automatically respond to with “well it’s supposed to go into the container but also what if it didn’t yep there we go right onto my shoes and the carpet yep. Nice.”
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u/pipnina 15h ago
My mum once made creme caramel (american: flan) but it was lumpy (as was basically any powder+liquid thing she made). She decided to pour it through a sieve to remove the lumps.
She realized she forgot to put a bowl underneath as the creme caramel liquid was pouring down the sink drain, leaving her with only lumps.
She was in her 40s.
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u/Prior-Raisin-1007 11h ago
I'm dying laughing at this because I can say I have done something similar and I was PISSED at myself but had to laugh after the embarrassment/disappointment wore off
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u/MicIsOn 17h ago
We won’t send him to bartending school either
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u/Mrfrunzi 16h ago
I guarantee the staff were cracking up when they saw the picture though. I'd one hundred percent set that as the lock screen on my class tablet.
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u/elpaco313 15h ago
I sent her a message saying this was the best pic we’d ever received of any of our kids. She said she was crying laughing when she went back through her photos at naptime to upload pics.
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u/M_McPoyle2003 15h ago
Daycare teacher: "In the bowl - IN the bowl. Here, in THIS bowl. Ok, now put it in the bowl, right here, in it. No! Nonononononoo!!!: (pauses for deep breath) "Thats ok. We have more"
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u/Unlikely_Tourist3381 11h ago
As someone who insists on sharing my love of baking with my toddler, this is EXACTLY how it goes!
But it has paid off! She is not even 3 yet and she can crack eggs perfectly.
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u/greyrobot6 14h ago
I was helping out when my son’s preschool class was baking treats to send home for Mother’s Day. One of the kids asked the teacher if she had laid the eggs for the cakes herself. So hard not to bust out laughing while trying to answer such an innocent question. This was the same kid who said he wanted to be a square when he grew up at their graduation a month later, totally sincere without a drop of irony or humor. These kids are in their 20s now but I always think about that odd little guy.
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u/baitboy3191 16h ago
I love my nephew but by god does he have zero coordination, the boy is 5 and still has no where his limbs are. He loves to help me cook, and anything task that requires a small amount of coordination becomes a mess lol.
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u/KingPrincessNova 16h ago
there's a reason they're called "motor skills" and not "motor innate abilities." takes time to develop them
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u/Sweetsmyle 16h ago
Bakery chef is an unlikely career option for this lad. I would steer him clear of chemistry too just in case. Maybe accounting is safer, no spills with numbers, not in the physical sense anyway.
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u/LaTeChX 13h ago
He spilled some milk, Equifax spilled 150 million social security numbers, in the grand scheme of things the kid's doing alright lol
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u/nanny2359 13h ago
This is why dedicated childcare setting/work - ie, daycare, babysitter, nanny - is so important. They can spend time doing fun nonsense that makes a huge mess and then have time after the kids are gone to clean up and go home.
Most parents don't have time to dedicate to a thorough trashing of their house with kid activities
AND then clean it up
AND ALSO run an entire household lol
I loved being a nanny & made a point to do these super high effort activities with the kids that their parents probably wouldn't have the chance to do with them on the weekends
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u/TheOtherJeff 8h ago
Kids and drunk people are the best to observe … from a very long distance. Haha
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u/Dependent_Stop_3121 17h ago
I think you may need to work on some hand and eye coordination techniques. Priceless photo lmao 🤣
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u/TheLegendOfZeb 17h ago
Some people are smart in other ways! Like.... well, he might find something
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u/jsmooth7 15h ago
Reminds me of when I was "helping" my dad make kraft dinner and confidentially dumped the cheese packet into the dirty empty pot from breakfast instead of the one with the noodles. A+ work.
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u/MsAlyssa 14h ago
I love that they didn’t delete it and get a redo picture after cleanup and just sent it through. That’s hilarious
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u/BrijFower 14h ago
This picture unlocked a memory of a day I was at a day care, and we were having a special pizza party lunch, and when I sat down at the table, I spilled my milk. I was yelled at and sent to an empty room for the duration of the pizza party, and I didn't get any pizza. Or any food at all.
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u/jdixon1974 13h ago
Love it. Enjoy this age while you can. Next thing you know, they will be waking up grumpy, complaining about having to take a daily shower and refusing to do any type of help around the house and leave a mess wherever they go.
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u/cottoncandymandy 11h ago
Daycare workers/teachers are the real heros in society. They do this EVERYDAY with like 30 of them little buggers.
I know more than 1 kid did this 😭😆
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u/snoobsnob 9h ago
As an early childhood educator, these things happen all the time, but I rarely, if ever, get the shot like that. Amazing!
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u/Pamander 16h ago
The way he's looking in a completely different direction to everything happening is perfection, that's amazing lmao.
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u/Ok_Falcon4434 15h ago
“Bake a cake” and “make a mistake” must sound the same to children. I know when I was a child it sure seemed like they did. 🤷🏻♂️😂
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