• bantering@lemmy.zip
    11·
    6 minutes ago

    Haha I secretly hate my kids and would literally rather die than be annoyed with curios questions!

    Haha, but fuck you and don’t have kids then. Especially if you’re a thousands of years old frog man on his death bed. Lock in, be a good parent and don’t make your kid feel annoying or unwanted for being curios.

    “Well that’s not what the meme is saying.” 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 won’t get any questions from them.

  • Allero@lemmy.today
    4·
    4 hours ago

    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?

    • Axolotl.cpp@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      21·
      1 hour ago

      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

    • cøre@leminal.space
      21·
      2 hours ago

      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.

      • Allero@lemmy.today
        4·
        2 hours ago

        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.

    • Dave@lemmy.nz
      5·
      3 hours ago

      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).

      • Allero@lemmy.today
        2·
        2 hours ago

        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.

    • Agent641@lemmy.world
      33·
      7 hours ago

      I decided not to have kids too. My wife understands, but my two sons are a bit shaken by it.

  • Drusas@fedia.io
    6·
    8 hours ago

    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.

  • BCsven@lemmy.ca
    37·
    12 hours ago

    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

      • BCsven@lemmy.ca
        1·
        14 minutes ago

        The old RTFM.

        But actually I was referencing the manuals for the questions being asked.

        When it’s the 80s and computers were ‘new’ to the home, seeing a data array in a manual didn’t explain how or what you do with it.

        So next step ask parents, whom also didn’t know.

        Next step go to the library and ask if they had a book on BASIC or computers. The librarian shakes her head but leads you to the only computer book, which is like the 1960s history of the Mainframe. LOL

        Data Array question finally got answered in a 1986 computer course offered at the highschool.