Greetings...
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“Barbie, the last movie to ever come from America”
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I sat with a crying second grader today. (The age range is outside my wheelhouse but I was the most convenient adult.) He was crying, the other adults said, because his brother took a phone he was playing on. “Phone addicted,” everybody said. “If he would get up and play games with the other kids he wouldn’t be crying.”
He told me everyone lets his brother take things from him because his brother is younger, and doesn’t know better. He told me he doesn’t want to play because he’s tired, he has too many extracurriculars this summer and can’t get good sleep because “everyone in my camper is so loud when I’m trying to sleep.” He’s exhausted and only eight. His mom’s an acquaintance and told me she and the kid’s father are going through a separation — mom and four kids left the house to stay in a camper.
But people will seriously not listen to kids crying over seemingly minor things because on the surface it looks like a tantrum. If kids are given the space to articulate themselves they often will.
I’ve found that if a child is capable of having a conversation (that is, old enough to speak and express themselves, not injured or upset so badly that they literally cannot stop crying, and not behaving violently), then 90% of the time their reason for being upset is legitimate, or at least understandable.
Please remember that this also applies to teenagers and preteens, they might be acting like a knowitall who doesn’t give a shit, or a first class jerk, but chances are fair they feel like shit for one reason or another and adults just chalk it up to teenage angst instead
(via starlightomatic)
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She doesn’t even know there’s a nice little leaf on her
have to do everything myself around here…….
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Is incredible that people are crying because their shows or movies will get delayed or won’t be at comic con god guys you should be mad that the creators of your fave shows, movies and characters are not well paid for the amazing stories they have written, for the amazing content you enjoy and take you out of reality. I am proud actors and actresses also join and don’t leave them alone and if there is any way us as public can help? Gladly I will do. Fuck the rich assholes.
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“oooh tumbwr is in a financial deficit you need to hewp them :(” they can get my help when they stop flagging trans ppl’s fully clothed selfies
(via chicago-poet)
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Studios: But your favorite shows will never be finished!!1!!!1! :((((
Everyone: You never finished shows anyway???
(via bioswear)
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Jeff Bezos fucking stole half of the Titanic without telling anyone, and the media freaked out because half the Titanic mysteriously disappeared and then a month later it popped up on Jeff Bezos’s lawn and he threw a party inside it.
isn’t this just the plot of despicable me
(via one-time-i-dreamt)
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What the fuck are people doing when they’re in the shower for 30 minutes
Dissociating
Having an existential crisis.
All of the above + singing.
Rehearsing for conversations I’ll never have.
imagining scenarios that will never happen
crying
water warm
feels nice
(via demilypyro)
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when I was a kid my best friend and I were really enamored by the very exotic concept of quicksand so every summer we used to go down to the woods near the lakeshore and play in a patch of mud that would let us sink in it up to our chests and pretend that it was quicksand. it was extremely dense and very hard to move through or get out of and we always had to crawl out on our bellies, completely exhausted and coated in mud up to our necks. lost several shoes and one pair of pants that way.
us, playing in quicksand: “haha! let’s pretend this is quicksand!”
(via retroactivebakeries)
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it obviously makes sense, but one of my friend’s kids is going into swim class, and all the parents got an email today going, “when little ones are scared, they cling on to instructors. PLEASE trim their nails.”
i don’t know why that’s so funny to me, but just. the idea of this poor, scratched swim instructor having to make sure to email before each class as a reminder to please declaw the children SENT me.
When I taught swim lessons I remember trying to delicately ask parents not to cover their child in shea/coconut/olive oil before lessons.
“I understand your skincare regimen and wanting to protect their tender baby flesh from the pool chemicals, but COULD YOU NOT OIL YOUR CHILD LIKE A GREASED PIG before tossing them in the POOL? Thanks EVER so much!”
(via ephemeralhorror)