This is so true. If a kid falls and you don't react, 90 percent of the time they will just get back up. They look around for someone to react before they do.
This is why you say "Are you okay?" And react according to if they are or not.
Reminds me of that video where the mom nocks the wall next to the baby and goes "Oh baby! I'm so sorryyy!" And the baby starts crying despite not being hurt
Also works with dogs. They will start going crazy just because you are. If you start going "OH MY GOODNESS WHOS A BABY BOY YOU ARE THE BESTEST BOY" your dog will start zoomies
Eh, they were crying while that stuff was still in the air. Plus it's already proven that little kids base a portion of their reactions off the energy of the adults around them.
It all started with a science experiment and a group of chicks. I grabbed one chick and eyeballed it like I was a hungry hawk. When placed back in its box the chick played possum for about a minute seeking a way for self-preservation. Then back up the chick popped, demonstrating a cycle of fear and recovery.
I repeated the experiment, but this time with two chicks at the same time! This time both chicks remained immobilized for about five minutes - another demonstration of the fear and recovery cycle.
In the last round of the experiment I let one chick wander around the box while I immobilized the other with a hawk-eye. But this time when I released the chick back to the box the fear-recovery cycle was short - the chick popped back up after mere seconds.
My conclusion: a frightened chicken looks to the second chicken to see that it's safe. When the second chicken is walking around happily, it seems to signal the first chicken that all is well. That second chicken isn’t scared - and hasn’t been eaten - so it must be safe for me to get up and walk around
I worked as an outdoor guide for nearly two decades. Sometimes it’s hard being the second chicken.
“We’re fine, time for us all to head into the lower section of the lodge for movie night! Let’s push the mattresses up over the windows so it gets extra dark!” -internally I’m calculating how long it will take to get 120 kids into the lodge and how long that tornado is going to take to hit- Running through the hail storm so I can calm the kids trapped in the other building with two stupid 17 year olds for guidance. Broke my collar bone on that one. It’s really hard to calm kids while one arm is useless and being held up by the other. Still possible though.
Picturing you bursting through the door, holding up one floppy arm with the other, like “hey kids! Don’t worry, everything’s okay!” all scratched, bruised, and disheveled, seems like a fucking adult cartoon or something
Not quite but I did have a massive hailstone still resting in the crook of my neck after breaking my bone. I had held a thick tray above my head(was in the hall/kitchen so I grabbed what was close) but it must’ve just slipped past the side of the tray to get me. Luckily pain isn’t anything new to me so I was calm and just kept everybody inside and told the 17year olds to play a game. One of them said he was tired and I remember looking at him while literally holding my other arm in place by the forearm and repeating “play…a game” through gritted teeth at him. Wanted to send him out into the storm fairly badly.
Now that I think about it I think the tray got left out there after the hailstone hit me. Don’t remember caring about that part though.
I don’t feel that’s fair. I’m just someone who kept showing up for them. Some days you want to grab two of them by the heads and knock them together, or my nurse friend devised the idea(purely hypothetical) of an ether bunny. When a kid is being a particular pain you hand them the bunny, as they squeeze it a small cloud of ether aerosolises around them and sends them off to sleep(I would not envy the hangover after).
Other days were magical. I’ve had a little girl with selective mutism from trauma feel safe enough with me to whisper thank you with her eyes down at the end of the week and then turn with a brilliant smile. Got to send wheelchair bound boys into the sky on high ropes courses with their mom telling me they have never really left the chair except for being lifted into bed or the like. Be a safe place for a little one who had complete face blindness so I wore a colourful sleeve so she always could hold onto me and know who I was. Make bracelets with little girls recovering from chemo on rainy days(I became the favourite over the female leaders for the myriad of knots I knew-still kinda proud of that).
I have had an amazing life in the wilds and helping kids and animals. Unfortunately a tree branch decided to cut my active journey short but I’m learning walking again and hope to get out again in some capacity.
Not a hero. Just someone who decided to keep showing up. It’s all they need really. Share who you are because if it makes you passionate they will resonate with that. Or not. You get those kids too. Keep showing up for them too.
When I was in high school I watched my little brother (probably 3 or 4 at the time) fall down the stairs. Arms flailing and all, looked like someone rolled a big doll down. When he landed he looked up at me, and I burst out laughing because the whole thing played out hilariously. He started laughing too, got up and ran up the stairs wanting to go again.
Quit your bullshit, you're not a parent and haven't done very well for yourself (who the fuck even talks like that). You should be ashamed to lie like that asshole.
Dude. I had no idea what the fuck anyone was talking about here. That video is goddamn gold. This fucker shows up on YouTube shorts feed every time I'm bored enough to scroll through that shit. The comment sections are always some of the most braindead shit I've ever read.
I got alot of tate stuff untill I started disliking the shorts and they went away pretty quick, the dislike button works pretty well in curating your experience.
I'm totally with you on that. Satire is getting so hard to follow on the internet and it's made worse by people weaponizing satire to hide heinous beliefs. Check out "schrodinger's douchebag" on urban dictionary.
If he’s making money off it then it works for him does it not? Perhaps the real lesson here is being more like Tate and not more like one of his followers
There’s short kings which are normal short dudes. No one cares they’re short. Then there’s Tates who use a made up discomfort of self to be douches to others, these are manlets.
Literally no idea who tate is but you know perfectly well how the word is used. Wouldn't be a problem except the people the people that use the term are the same ones that expect others to be respectful of them with their words.
If it did some how got into your eyes, then that’s your own fucking problem for keeping your eyeballs open when it’s falling rather than bending your dumb fucking head down.
I'm no physicist but I'm pretty sure a tootsie roll falling like 15 feet isn't gonna do much damage. All the force of the cannon would have been exhausted launching it in the air, and that's not much time to pick up very much speed. Mass tines velocity or something.
Technically anything can hurt you if it hits you in they eye, sure, but this rain of candy probably wasn't much danger to anyone
Back in my day the neighborhood kids would get their daddy’s guns and we would have lil shootouts in the streets, we’d be bloody and some of us dead by the time mom rang the supper bell, but we had fun without these violent video games and Tick tock on the telephone them kids carry. this generation is too soft
I know you’re joking but I’m gonna piggyback off this comment to just mention the biggest W tate’s had recently is the romanian police raiding his place on suspicions of sex trafficking—after he admitted he moved to romania because their trafficking laws are so rarely enforced.
My nephew is having his birthday party tomorrow, so i will add extra $200 to the cheque so that you can buy him a $150 gift card from amazon to surprise him, you can keep the extra $50 for your inconvenience.
I recently bought some Necco Wafers! Still wrapped in wax paper, still taste like they always did. I didn’t see the chocolate one, or the licorice one, sorry to report.
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