Tag: children

bizarrolord:

cloama:

thatwriterchickyouknow:

charlotebronte:

fromrushhourwithlove:

charlotebronte:

every fall teenage girls are like.. “oh , im gonna enter a place of business and order a product which is offered by that place of business because i like the flavor of it” and honestly? how dare they. that’s so annoying. why can’t they buy the beverage that i, a smart man, would prefer to drink

Probably because they’re generally indifferent to the flavor of it and rather use it for in group/out group signalling like the giant basic bitch wall-decorations-from-target early childhood education/nutrition hive mind they are.

dude shut the fuck up lol

ok i spend all day with teenagers and am paid to educate them and let me tell you most of my girls may love leggings (comfy) and iced coffees (yummy) but i have never, NEVER, seen thirty of them spend a solid month all playing the same boring goddamn video game or had to pry them off their tablets and phones the day some ugly-ass overpriced sneaker drops

try and get a group of teenage boys to all stop making the same fucking meme reference all. goddamn. day. then, and ONLY then, can you talk to me about hive mind

Can you imagine being a middle or high school teacher when Pickle Rick dropped.

This is the most succinct explanation of what teenage boys are like, TBH.

You know what? You’re right. You’re actually spot on. I just got flashbacks to working at camp and hearing the same damn phrases being repeated over and over again because it was funny the first time. You’re right.

libertarirynn:

spinningyarns:

takenbyzico:

Be real, though, we were all this kid at *some* point, however briefly. It’s when you don’t *stop* being this way that we have a problem.

I’ve made the observation that 12 to 13-year-olds are in the stage where they think they have the world figured out. Most people accuse teenagers of thinking they know everything but actually most teenagers are keenly aware that they don’t know anything, they’re just putting up a front. When you’re 12 or 13 you legitimately think you have the world figured out because you’re old enough to understand some things for the first time but still young enough to be that dumb. The preteen years contain the biggest ratio of confidence to cluelessness.

Source: takenbyzico-blog

totalspiffage:

oops-hi-boybandersinlove:

hobbitry-in-arms:

smokingchocolatecake:

somethingratchet:

boredpanda:

Heartwarming Pics Of Children Who Were Just Adopted

I love adoption stories. My mom adopted 3 kids and she never let us or anybody else make a difference out of the 6 of us. My biological brother had the same name as my adopted brother and people could not understand why my mom would name 2 sons in succession, Johnny. But we wouldn’t explain it. Adopt kids. Make it normal. Not the the thing u do simply when u cant.

This will melt a heart of stone.

^^^^ THAT PERSON UP THERE

please normalize the fuck out of adoption, i’ve given speeches and lectures and written papers about all the misconceptions and fears and rumors that plague the issues of adoption and make this perfectly normal, healthy, happy thing a rare occurrence in our society and that is sad and wrong

adoption is not “giving up” on a child, adoption is not a last resort, adoption is not just for certain types of families

please normalize adoption

Also please normalize adopting teenagers. I’m not saying you shouldn’t adopt young children and babies, but there are so many teens out there that just don’t get adopted because of their age. So please normalize adopting teens! 

I hate adding on to long posts, but as someone who spent time in foster care growing up I have to chime in. Foster parents are amazing, and so are adoptive parents. My foster parents, brothers and sisters made a huge impact on who I am. Please adopt. Adopted kids are not worth less than blood relations. Stop that line of thought.

Source: boredpanda

saradesign4fun:

novastar134:

once-a-polecat:

turning21wasunimpressive:

madmadmadamem:

galpalsincorporated:

Stop asking little girls if they have boyfriends
Stop referring to the boys that little girls are friends with as their “little boyfriends”
Stop telling little girls they’re going to have boyfriends or be “boy crazy”
Stop raising children on heteronormativity and let them be children

Additionally:
1. It’s not funny
2. It’s not cute
3. You are embarrassing them
4. You are completely disregarding them when they tell you “no” and you insist

Stop doing the same to little boys too.

They are not “a little lady’s man.”

Don’t excuse him picking on a girl as him having a crush. Correct the behavior and stop treating it like it’s cute and normal.

Also stop insisting little boys have crushes on significantly older women. It’s gross.

Just let kids be kids.

Also, if a child has a crush, don’t keep referring to it over and over for months on end.  They grow.  They change.  They don’t want you harping on the fact that they used to have a crush on someone who’s now just a friend, or an enemy or someone who they just see in the halls.  Leave it be.  You’re embarassing them.

Boys and girls can be close without having to be in a “relationship” or “together”

Teach them to be nice to eachother. Don’t force the girlfriend/boyfriend status just because they’re close. Let people be friends!!! Let them live their life without constantly being asked about their personal relationship or forced into one because you think it to be so.

Platonic relationships exist.

And teach them that they don’t need a significant other if they don’t want one. Don’t force it upon them.

PLEASE don’t have children

jjsupremacy:

-If you are not financially independent.

-If you are mentally ill without consistent means of treatment

-If you cannot afford doctor’s bills

-If the thought of having a gay, trans, or nonbinary child makes you upset.

-If the cant accept having to care for a child with a disability or special needs.

-If the thought of having a fat child makes you upset.

-If you have a bad/short temper

-If you’re in an abusive relationship

-If you’re not ready to put someone else’s needs first, EVERY SINGLE DAY, for 18 years.

-If you have an ideal of what this person is going to be like and anything other than that image makes you upset. 

-If you need to have a quiet and tidy home at all times.

-If you need to control all aspects of their life even into adulthood.

-if you believe they owe you unconditional, unquestionable respect regardless of your own behavior. 

-If you don’t believe they have the right to privacy in their own home.

-If you’re unwilling to change your lifestyle to accommodate the demands of parenthood.

-If you do not believe ALL humans of every race, gender, sexuality, religion, and career deserve the same rights and respect. 

Look. Your baby could be fat. Your “son” could actually be your daughter; or both or neither. They could be a lawyer or a porn star. You could have a boy who loves makeup and grows up to be an athiest that brings home an alaskan lumberjack named Boris and the two make a living doing gay camshows . You could have a daughter with blue hair, pierced tits, who is a YouTube rapping sensation called Krispee Kareem and marries a black man and wants 8 kids with him

YOU NEVER KNOW

But what I DO know is that parenthood isnt Build-a-Baby; you get what you fuckin’ get and if you’re not prepared to love and support the shit outta that baby; WHOEVER they grow up to be–

Do. Not. Have. Kids.

naksworth:

kinkyfemmequeer:

tigerator:

before you ever even consider having a child you should be ready to handle a disabled child, you should be ready to handle twins, you should be ready to handle a gay child or a trans child

because if you’re not ready for your child to be anything other than one straight, cis, able bodied and able minded child, you’re going to end up neglecting and abusing somebody for years to come

and even if your child is all that, you might have a feminine boy or a masculine girl on your hands. so be fucking ready for your child to be a human being and not YOUR PRODUCT or PROPERTY or CREATION

fucking sort your shit out, i am so tired of shitty parental sob stories about how “hard” it is to “raise” (read: beat the divergency out of) an autistic child or whatever. do you know what’s harder? being the divergent child of parents who you’ve already let down by virtue of existing in a way they didn’t ask for. putting up with years of neglect and abuse because you’re just not good enough for them, you weren’t what they were planning for or expecting.

Last paragraph is a fucking mic drop

Okay but hold up

It is absolutely 100% possible to completely love and support a disabled child or unexpected multiples AND acknowledge how much harder it is to raise a disabled child than an abled one or multiples than one.

The idea that any person has to be 100% prepared for literally anything involving a child is absurd. Being a parent is automatically HARD as shit, there’s about a billion different things that can happen that are totally unexpected, and adding other difficulties to that only makes an already hard job more difficult.

Parents are also people, and it’s okay to acknowledge being a parent is exhausting and that it is WORK. You can love something and acknowledge that it is work, and that it physically, mentally, and emotionally drains you. Added stress or difficulties, like multiples or a disability, makes that work harder, and the idea that someone can’t acknowledge that is ridiculous.

That being said, there is a HUGE difference between acknowledging something for the sake of a parent’s mental health and child abuse, and the former doesn’t justify the latter. Ever.

I think people need to go into it with a realistic mindset and not an idealistic fantasy, though. Because you’re not perfect so your child sure as hell won’t be either, and even if you’re clear of hereditary diseases/disabilities there’s still all kinds of things that can pop up during development. Parents need to acknowledge this before they have kids instead of going into things with a “well that won’t happen to ME” mindset.

I know a lot of people don’t want to adopt because a lot of foster children have “problems” and it’s a “crapshoot”, but guess what? So is making your own kid. The moment you sign up for parenthood, be prepared to do your best for that kid regardless of what they may be like.

And I’m not denying that parenting is hard and exhausting, but it really irks me when people complain about how it’s so hard being a mom, etc. (at least in situations where they’re dealing with nothing out of the ordinary). That experience is literally what you signed up for. It’s not all hugs and kisses.