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I love this story. Little kid logic is so foreign to me now it makes me a little sad. Another example - we have our nephew stay over sometimes. One night, he
by rukuu001 8y ago
I love this story.
Little kid logic is so foreign to me now it makes me a little sad.
Another example - we have our nephew stay over sometimes. One night, he did not, absolutely NOT want to go into the room he sleeps in.
We couldn't work it out. He slept there a bunch of other times, no problem.
Tried picking him up to carry him in, but no, he screamed like crazy.
After a long, long time, he settled enough to tell us there was a "BIG FROG" (said with wide eyes, mouth turned down) in his room.
Turns out that over the traffic noise he could hear a frog croaking outside his window. It was a noise we'd all just dismissed.
Opened and closed the window to show him it was outside.
Asked him how big he thought the frog was. Held his arms out as far as they would go. I showed him a video of a tiny croaking frog on my phone. Not the same as the outside frog, but close.
He was ok after we showed him the window was locked, and the frog wouldn't be able to get in.
- RobertoG 8y ago>>"Little kid logic is so foreign to me now it makes me a little sad." Well, you have to admit that your nephew logic was flawless. As him, you wouldn't go into your room if you though there is a one meter frog waiting for you. His priors were weird, but that's to be expected with little experience of the world.
- syllogism 8y agoAlso these adults ignoring the issue and sending him to the room anyway? Plainly in league with frog and not to be trusted.
- asdkhadsj 8y agoMake them believe you accept what they say. After all, how can you trust someone who makes deals with frogs - they can only be infinitely more dangerous, as it is hard to grasp their dire frog-centric motivations.
- moftz 8y agoBig frogs have infiltrated the 1% and are working towards a new world order.
- dwyerm 8y agoOh my god... I'm many years removed from childhood, but the last scene of the movie "Time Bandits" still chills me. Little Kevin yells, "Mom! Dad! It's evil! Don't touch it!" ...and the adults, thinking themselves smart, reach right in, touch the glowing chunk of pure evil, and evaporate in a puff of smoke. To this DAY I am so angry at those parents...
- benj111 8y ago>Little kid logic My favourite is when you ask a crying child where they hurt them selves, and they point to the table they just walked into. Edit: Or have a paddy because they can't join the banana they've just cut in half, back together again.
- jacobush 8y agoThis last one comes back to bites as adults too... with relationships and lots of other things entropy finally took.
- syllogism 8y agoThe first one's just ambiguity isn't it? "Where did you hurt yourself? New York"
- syllogism 8y agoThe first one's just ambiguity isn't it? "Where did you hurt yourself? At Timmy's place"
- benj111 8y agoYes, but its an example of how small children think
- TheOtherHobbes 8y agoSometimes adults also think like this, in slightly less obvious ways.
- SilasX 8y agoRight, there's that old joke about the radio show that separately asked the husband and wife of a couple "where they had sex" and the second one interprets it as "which orifice" rather than "where were the two of you located when it happened".
- 8y ago
- tragic 8y agoI remember, during a thunderstorm, being utterly convinced that a war was being fought outside. I was terrified ...
- jacobush 8y agoI saw incoming ICBMs. (Airplanes on approach.)
- Ntrails 8y agoI remember my father patiently explaining that the Giants Footsteps I could hear outside, as it lumbered towards me with malice, were in fact my eyelashes rubbing against the pillow as I blinked.
- malydok 8y agoI believe I used to imagine my own heartbeat being the sound of footsteps as I was falling asleep.
- janlaureys 8y agoI had a dream once about a big 18th or 19th century battle with horses, lances and cannons. At the exact same time a cannonball exploded in my dream thunder erupted as I had never heard before. It didn't sound like a rolling drum but like an actual explosion. It's probably 20 years ago but the memory still feels fresh. The memory of the surround sound dream.
- mywacaday 8y agoDogs barking when I was 3-4, was convinced it was a pack of wolves.
- ateng 8y agoDry thunderstorm. I thought it was a building collapsing. On a separate incident, I was about 10. TV signal dropped during a thunderstorm, and shortly after a thunder strike right outside the window. Truly terrifying experience. Luckily I knew enough basic science at that point to know that wasn’t some act of god!