Idk, I think this is damn hilarious. Itβs ok to giggle sometimes.
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Not a fan... Let's quit degrading parenthood and disparaging children for wanting to learn.
I always loved it when my children asked questions. I was always happy to answer them and explain as many ways as needed because I didn't want to have stupid children. They're now very responsible, thoughtful, intelligent adults.
As a parent myself, the constant stream of questions can get absolutely exhausting. Awesome, but exhausting.
We still answer as many as we can, but that doesn't change the empathy for Yoda.
Would it be good meme if it were racist or sexist? We can choose to be better. We can also choose to be MAGA. Choose wisely...
Really trying to expand the scope of the argument with "what about" false equivalency.
Good thing it's not racist or sexist then, huh?
Check the community name please
I did... I don't find it funny and I explained why.
It's ironic, because all people who found it funny, probably pay a lot of attention to their kids' questions.
Absolutely. I have no problems with lots of questions and even encourage it. I also encourage that the child should take some time to learn and explore the problem themselves.
I am also a firm believer that a well formed question is sometimes more important than the answer they think they need. Teaching a child to ask the correct questions will fiter out 90% of the noise, I have found.
I also happen to be an engineer and am really good at lecturing on topics I enjoy. So, unless they want to be stuck for a couple of hours learning all the nuances of any particular subject, they need to come to me prepared.
Another method I have found effective is to point the child in the direction of the subject they are wanting to know about. So, if they ask me a question about one topic, I give them 10 research areas to explore first so they can start to understand my answers.
This all boils down to teaching a child how to teach themselves.
Hard to say... I've had entirely too many encounters with parents who unironically believe their kids should just shut the fuck up.
I think it's okay to not find it funny.
I've also known good parents and bad, and probably all of them have days when they're tired and just wishes to have 5 minutes of peace without the constant barrage of questions, many of which have been asked and answered a few times that day.
One of the formulas of a good joke is to take something mundane and turning it up to 11. Hence this post and us parents, good or bad, having a laugh at it; probably for different reasons.
Also I was told my mum felt like Yoda here, when 5 year old me started getting philosophical and asking existential questions..
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
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.
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?
P.S. I never expected to get so much brilliant and hilarious parenting advice, you rock!
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.
Could it also be that she saw other kids doing the same? Peer pressure seems to be a huge part of child psychology, and there are ways to weaponise it for good. Such as giving a child to classes :)
It was also the case when it was one on one with of her teachers/coaches. I'm sure someone will jump in with "it was something you did" but seriously I have no issues with teaching other kids, she just didn't want to learn from me or her mom.
Maybe she resented us for making her clean up her room and do other chores or something.
Why do you love answering questions?
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.
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.
Why do you have to be aware?
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I hope he sees what I'm doing?
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I kinda don't, what's your point?
He's trying to show you how kids sometimes ask questions - it can often be a neverending list of follow up questions. The most basic version is a kid asking over and over "but why?" to every response when really they aren't taking in your responses to begin with.
Too many complete sentences, clearly an LLM
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.
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.
My kids are getting older now (oldest is 9) and I allocate time at bed time for talking. They have aged out of random questions but we continue with "question time" that is the last thing before "lying down quiet time" so there's a good incentive to think of questions to delay sleep π
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.
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 :)
This is why I opted out of having kids.
βHaha I secretly hate my kids and would literally rather die than be annoyed with curios questions! β
Haha, but fuck you and donβt have kids then. Especially if youβre a thousands of years old frog man on his death bed. Lock in, be a good parent and donβt make your kid feel annoying or unwanted for being curios.
βWell thatβs not what the meme is saying.β 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 wonβt get any questions from them.
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.
having a child with infinite curiosity looking up to you is one of the most wonderful experiences a human life can provide.
Cherish it, it will be over before you know it and you'll never be able to go back
It is both the most amazing and most exhausting feeling of all time.
Itβs so wonderful to watch them experience the world for the first time.
And also exhausting to keep up and prevent them from hurting themselves.
I miss the days when my nephew would actively ask me for fun facts. He loved maths as well and we'd just do maths for fun. We watched a video about Rayo's number and he was fascinated with it for months.
His little sister knew the planets at the age of 2.
"What's this planet?"
"Papata."
"What's this one?"
"Taturn."
When you asked her what the sun was made of, she said, "Hot burning gases." My little nerd π’
A couple weeks ago we went to the science mus, they had a Dino exhibit and my nephew never grew out of that.
In any case we were pretty much the only ones there, and there was a lady who certainly knew about dinosaurs answering my nephewβs questions for three hours. Iβm not sure if she was staff or Ike a volunteer, it was far from boring stuff.
In any case, one of the other museum staff people and apologized for her- βsorry she gets really passionateβ¦β
Iβm like βare you kidding me?!β
(The only problem is that heβs totally going to hijack science class again and spit Dino facts for the entire period. Which Iβm okay with, because his teacher is a YEC, so, yeah.)
Permission to punch the guy who "apologized" for her in the face?
That lady is one of the few things that makes this world enjoyable, she shared her love and knowledge and passion. that's priceless.
She also had a gift for science communication, which is incredibly important these days.
Curiosity is a skill and she definitely helps nurture that in everyone who went to the exhibit.
We were very sure to name drop her in a review of the exhibit. We had a lot of fun and a lot of that had to do with her carrying the exhibit. (Well. Maybe not carry, it was still a great exhibit,)
I could really do without the random math quizzes everyday at 6am.
"Hey dad, when I'm your age how old will you be? Ok how old will my sister be? Will papa be alive and how old will he be?"
My responses: "I'll probably be dead. She'll be 4 years older than you. Papa might not make it another year because he eats like garbage has diabetes and heart issues."
"Will I get diabetes?"
"Dude I just want to finish making this coffee."
"What's the biggest number?"
"Jesus Christ"



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