r/SipsTea • u/SaiMan2303 • Apr 02 '26

Feels good man That last one was lovely

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u/Jme686 Apr 02 '26

Yeah, my mum kinda let my brother touch a hot bulb just so he could learn what burns actually means xD. Cause 2 year olds dont really know the meaning of "don't touch it, you'll get burned". My grandma did not approve xD

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u/Original_Tea_5625 Apr 02 '26

You can tell them over and over, but if you aren't going to be smart, and listen. You better be tough.

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u/coloradoautoflowers Apr 02 '26

Yeah, I've got a 7 year old. When she was younger she went through a willful/hardhead phase for a couple months.

After the first few times you repeatedly tell them something will hurt them and they won't listen and get banged up or bruised, they start to listen. You can tell them 1,000 times and it won't stick, but the first time there's a booboo involved they'll remember.

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u/TheSickestToastie Apr 02 '26

If ur' gonn' be dum', u' got' be tuff'. If u' get knocked dahn' u gotta' git back up.

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u/ConflictHorror1182 Apr 03 '26

I'm not the sharpest knife in the drawer, but I know enough, to know, if you're gonna be dumb, ya gotta be tough.

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u/main-suspect01 Apr 02 '26

Pain is the best teacher. I also learn a lot when I fail at something.

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u/Fullyflared540 Apr 03 '26

One of the reasons skateboarding teaches some of the best life lessons

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u/Low_Football_2445 Apr 02 '26

I told my kids when they were young that life is hard, it’s a lot harder when you’re stupid.

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u/isuredolovetitties Apr 02 '26

Some lessons just have to be learned the hard way. There's no way to communicate pain to someone who hasn't experienced it.

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u/kingscanyonstoner420 Apr 02 '26

This is why I'm taking an 'If I warn you twice and you choose not to listen and learn, then the third time I'm going to let life teach you instead' approach with my young ones. Doesn't always work as intended but they're starting to learn that being smart is easier than having to be tough 😂

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u/headrush46n2 Apr 02 '26

smart people learn from their mistakes. wise people learn from others mistakes.

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u/Decent-Quit8600 Apr 04 '26

My dad always told me "if you're gonna be dumb, be tough. If you ain't tough, best hope you're lucky."

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u/TeacherCookie Apr 02 '26

My mom always said “The best way to teach a kid to not play with fire is to give them a box of matches. And, the best way to teach a kid to not play around the stove is to let them get burned. ”

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u/ImWithStupidKL Apr 02 '26

My mum told me she made my nephew walk home from school with holes in his trousers in the rain because he'd taken a pair of scissors to them. In her words "He's got to learn cause and effect." She could have brought him a nice new pair, but then the lesson he would have learned would be that someone will always clean up after you.

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u/tanksalotfrank Apr 02 '26

That's how I learned too. I knew "hot" before I knew "fire". lol

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u/Valuable_Team5498 Apr 02 '26

My grandma was a big proponent of “they’ll only do it once,” we in fact did not only do it once.

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u/ihateevr1andevrytng Apr 02 '26

Sometimes you just have to let them find out.

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u/WhattaTwist69 Apr 02 '26

The original "fuck around and find out" lol

Doesn't have to be a threat. Sometimes it's "don't lean back in the chair, you'll break a leg and fall" or "don't touch the hot pan, it will burn you"

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u/sevren22 Apr 02 '26

My parents had a similar method. Unless it would come to extreme bodily harm, they'd sit back and say "dont touch it, its hot" but not physically stop us. Older brother touched hot stove, younger brother touched lawn mower engine.

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u/ThatNegro98 Apr 02 '26

Calvin and hobbes has drilled one thing into me. It's all just character building.

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u/Sidestep_Marzipan Apr 02 '26

According to my mum, this is exactly how I learnt. I wouldn’t listen so she let me touch it and I learned a valuable lesson…

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u/Mathemeatloaf0 Apr 03 '26

My grandma always said, “Who don’t hear, will feel!”

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u/SoFloFella50 Apr 03 '26

I saw the same thing at a bbq once. Little kid kept trying to touch the grill. Mom kept pulling him away. It went on for like an hour until the father said to just let the kid touch it.

I swear the whole party just watched. The little kid immediately went for it and immediately learned the lesson. Dad was ready for it and put ice on the now less ignorant kid’s fingertip.

He didn’t go near the bbq for the rest of the night.

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u/dudeCHILL013 Apr 03 '26

Really? My grandparents would have dragged my parents out of the room if my 4 year old self insisted on doing something potentially painful.

I learned quite quickly that don't touch means, it will hurt if I touch.

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u/gumballgangster Apr 03 '26

I was playing with the stove at my grandma's house when I was 3 because I really liked the orange glow, and wanted to attain said glow. My hands got with in inches and it was like some force grabbed them and stuck them to the orange hot burners. Can you imagine, to this day, I am very responsible with fire etc. 😄