ariosedreamer:beckaford:micahelizabeth: “Eat” the damn Play-doh cookies. Slurp the invisible s
ariosedreamer: beckaford: micahelizabeth: “Eat” the damn Play-doh cookies. Slurp the invisible soup. Pretend that they’re not causing grievous bodily harm as they “brush” your hair. Always be serious when asked what you’d like for dinner, and never say something silly like rabbit soup. Because they will go get their stuffed one off the bed, put it in your best pot, and fill said pot with water. Then place it on your desk. Greet their make believe friends and ask how their day was. Always kiss the teddy bear goodnight. It has feelings too. Always pretend to die when they shoot you. If you are having a fake war with them and you shoot them and they say they can’t die because they are invincible, you don’t shoot them again, because they are invincible. Yes, their drawing does look like a butterfly, not a bunch of jumbled up lines. Them pounding on the piano is the best thing you have ever heard. THISTHISTHISTHIS no but seriously it’s very important to a child’s development to not be shut down by parents and other caregivers Yes^^ Even if you have nothing to do with the child, if there’s a scenario in their head, play along, because I promise it won’t kill you. I once had a mom come through my checkout line with her young son. When she handed me her coupons, her son handed me a bunch of torn up paper, because he’d seen his mom tear coupons out of our flyer. He wasn’t very coordinated yet, so he ended up dropping most of that on the ground. When his mom stooped down to help me pick them up, she explained to me that they were his coupons (honestly, I hadn’t realized what was going on with the wads of paper he was trying to hand me, and I was probably visibly confused to the mom). But let me tell you, when I pretended to “scan” his coupons along with his mom’s, that kid was probably the happiest kid I’d ever seen on a grocery shopping trip with mom. And if you’ve ever worked in retail, happy kids are 1000% better than the ones who scream and cry through checkout. I don’t care how important you think you are, you play along with little kids. I’m pretty sure that’s a law of the universe. -- source link