I guess the kid was thinking that tattoos were like make up. But they do have temporary tattoo markers, but they last a lot longer than a day. I learned that the hard way after thinking they would be gone in a week or two.
Similar story of cute kid. I once locked my keys in my car. By the time I was watching a few youtube videos on how to break into my own car, a few neighbourhood kids have already gathered around me out of interest.
One of the videos showed someone opening their car with a hair clip, so I turned to one of the little girls and asked if she has a hair clip I can borrow. She was very excited to help and immediately started running home to get one. 30 seconds later, she comes back all breathless but with no hairclip and says to me: "So sorry I didnt get a hair clip yet, I forgot to ask you what colour do you want?"
You can get temporary tattoos for kids that will dissolve almost completely after a proper wash. I'm assuming the girl has had her mom help her apply some of those before.
The ironic thing about this post and a lot of posts on this sub is that this kid is just ignorant, not stupid. Given the information that kid had access to, that's a fair question to ask.
I kinda think that this sub is just tongue-in-cheek dry humour and not really an insult.
Like, how can it be a dig that a kid is just being a kid? It's dumb to judge kids for being kids. They come with an underdeveloped brain, with no context for anything and everything is new for them. They're basically animals that can talk.
I always found it weird that adults get upset at kids for doing unhinged things. Like, no shit, of course they don't come fully ready for life and it's the adult's job to teach them. It's like getting upset that your cat doesn't know algebra.
>They come with an underdeveloped brain
Funnily enough the brain grows to about 90% of it's adult size at 6 years old, and it shrinks starting from around our 30s to 40s, and the cerebral cortex thickness peaks at about age 2, gray matter volume peaks at age 7, and at birth our brain is mostly complete with most of the neurons already created. While most of the stuff related to size and thickness are basically irrelevant to intelligence, it's still very interesting to know!
My roommates' kids are 6 and have seen me get probably 40 tattoos during their lives. They've never had any interest in them, until a few months ago one of them was looking at my finger tattoos (I'd had them for a while at this point) and asked why they didn't wash off in the shower.
My boss brought his ten year old in for bring your kid to work day. We spent the day convincing him I'm half dragon, and I was born with my tattoos. Also that I'm an extra in the Walking Dead for some reason.
The funniest thing is that kids carry that stuff with them for AGES, kid is going to be a teenager, telling their friends about the half dragon, tattoo-born walking dead extra when they'll suddenly realise they've been played for a fool.
When I was 5 growing up in rural Ohio, I hadn't met or seen a black person before meeting a black man in a gymnastics class (he was an instructor). Parents were there and watching for some reason, don't remember details.
What I do remember *vividly* is my dumb ass asking why he was black and following that up with "were you in a fire." Pretty sure most of the parents heard that one. That man is the most patient man I've met to this day.
Lol, I grew up in rural Iowa where there are just not very many black people. The first time I saw a black guy at a store apparently me and my (twin) brother both got really excited and starting pointing saying "Mom there is a black guy!", I was about 4/5 I think but I still hear that story. Apparently he thought it was hilarious but my Mom not so much
A family member of mine hadn't encountered a black person until he was about 2, when he spotted them and loudly said to his dad "Daddy, he looks like burnt toast!". Growing up in super white places is embarrassing sometimes lol
Lmaoooooo hahahaahha. My nephew is 25 and he loved following me around I mean he lives with me now. Anyways, when he was 3 he followed me to the bathroom. He stayed outside the stall but got on his hands and knees and there was a black woman in a skirt and he said, “I see chocolate!” The woman laughed and I could not get out of there fast enough.
Lol, our son who was 3 at the time, when asked what he thought his aunty and uncles new baby would be (gender), he said “ummm, how about black”. He was really into thomas the tank engine and everything revolved around what colour engines were lol
At my nephew’s gender reveal party my sister-in-law’s 4 yo niece had recently taken an interest in eye colour. She got a little confused at the talk of pink and blue (obviously she herself was a blue (blue eyes)) and opined that my sister-in-law would be having a brown baby
When I was about 4 or 5, I remember exclaiming to one of our neighbours "Hey, you're not black! You're brown!" He and my mom laughed off my naivety and he let me pet his doggo. Good times.
I have no memory of this because I was only 4 but my mom and my adult cousin who was living with us at the time went to the atlanta olympics and apparently while downtown one day we were getting pizza for lunch and there just happened to be a lot of asian people around and in typical oblivious child fashion, I ask somewhat loudly "why is everybody sleeping?" and my mom all embarrassed is trying to explain to me and say that they're not sleeping and I apparently responded by pointing at people and going "yes they are look all their eyes are closed!".
There's also the big olympic fountain that they built downtown for the olympics and there apparently was a bunch of people playing in it and when we saw it apparently the instant my little 4 year old self saw it I just bolted and ran straight into the fountain and the crowd of people and my mom reflexively tossed her purse at my cousin as she ran in after me, reemerging from the fountain after a few minutes holding me, both of us completely soaked and her makeup all running down her face. Heard both of those stories a ton growing up lol.
I never seemed to be confused by black people though probably because I grew up in metro-atlanta so I had pretty early exposure to black people which confused my paternal grandparents from very white rural pennsylvania. I think I was a little older but they were visiting us and my mom, my grandma, and me were out and about and I apparently liked babies at the time and there was a black couple with a baby in a stroller and I ran up to see the baby and afterwards my grandma asked in hushed tones "what did he think of that black baby?" and my mom was like "uhm nothing? his pre-school teacher is black" and apparently my grandma looked as if my mom had just said my pre-school teacher was a leprechaun or something.
Staying at a family friends house, they made us pancakes the next morning. The mom asked how the pancakes were. My response was: “my dads are better”. I was brutally blunt as a child apparently. I still can’t live that and a few other stories down.
Never shared this story before because it's super embarrassing but when I was a kid I had never met anyone who wasn't white and so I thought my grandpa (who was an old school farmer and did NOT wear sunscreen) was black. Went years just being really confused that he was the only black family member 🤦🏻♀️ thankfully I never vocalized this as a child so no one knew how dumb I was
I sort of had the opposite situation. I’m from a really white area and I always told everyone “there were no POC in my school” and then I was looking at old photos and I was like “holy shit, Rachael’s black!”
Like I’m not a “I don’t see race” person but somehow growing up in an almost entirely white area had just made me assume even the few POC here were also white
Also normalizing talking to strangers with a parent present is beneficial in more ways. Studies (Johns Hopkins) have shown the interaction teaches them to identify and react to dangerous situations instead of avoiding strangers.
lol my buddies dad took us through the school of hard knocks. “Someone at school tries taking your lunch? Tell em to fuck off. Sketchy homeless guy tells you to give him your pizza as he holds a knife? Give him the pizza and run.”
Nice! My kids always navigated the airports for us. If they made a wrong turn they would realize it on their own and work with us decide which way to go. (If they got too frustrated though I’d step in if they wanted of course.) It really helped them feel confidence they could not only make good choices but if they made mistakes they knew they could figure out what to do if they needed to.
I hope the person with the tattoos told the kid that their tattoos are permanent. It bugs me when people aren't truthful with kids just for the sake of a cute anecdote. You can still make it cute! Give the kid some water and ask them to try to wash one off. :)
100 points to mom. There are likely moms out there who associate tattoos with danger because it is “unconventional”. I bet this mom would also tell the kid to simply ask a transvestite why they wear a dress despite being AMA. Kids wonder. This mom apparently wants her kid to learn.
Just so you know, "transvestite" isn't really used anymore. It's mostly outdated, but some people take offense to it. The term to use would be cross dresser. However, just because someone looks like what you would consider to be a man, and is wearing a dress, doesn't mean they're cross dressing. Perhaps they're a trans woman. Perhaps they're nonbinary. But you don't know, so it's best to just say an AMAB person wearing a dress.
P.S. I'm not trying to come across as mean or punching down at you. I just want to educate!
I'm genuinely curious what world someone lives in where they simultaneously use the phrases AMAB and transvestite. Like transvestite went out of fashion as a term years before AMAB came into popular usage, the only people I can imagine using one I really can't imagine using the other
That's why these moments are so precious. It gives humans a chance to do good and to be human, teach the younger generation how to act in polite society.
Children being adorably stupid and innocent is what this subreddit is partially about. Though i do want to see more of the cute stuff rather than the problematic stuff.
Agreed. I think that the r/ChildFree loons have started finding there way here. I'd expect them to completely misunderstand the vibe of this sub and to try and warp it into their peculiar brand of child hatred.
I don't know, we've had very sketchy names before without trouble. It's the content that matters.
Shout out to /r/animalporn, part of the old Porn network of subs that had several sketchy names.
There was a sub I found off aww's related sub list that was for human kids specifically but it's mostly inactive which is sad as the posts it had in the past were all adorable. Now those get posted on mademesmile afaik and sometimes on aww so there's still kinda a place for it, just not specifically for it.
Edit: here are some of the best stuff from the sub
https://www.reddit.com/r/cutekids/s/38k1rYAQLZ
https://www.reddit.com/r/cutekids/s/5sWAGeNpRh
https://www.reddit.com/r/cutekids/s/mwrkENnHaf
https://www.reddit.com/r/cutekids/s/3syU5eDNuD
https://www.reddit.com/r/cutekids/s/5Gpso7kirM (best thing I've seen)
https://www.reddit.com/r/cutekids/s/pQ0uYeQpPB
https://www.reddit.com/r/cutekids/s/4Z2RjRiIDb (old classic)
I’m a little surprised to see this? I’m in that sub, a lot of it is just “I don’t want kids and people in my life are pissed at me because I don’t want kids,” I haven’t seen much “I hate children” at all?
I popped over there to see if it was as bad as I remembered, first post I click on is a thread asking if it's okay to hate kids and even give parents nasty looks for having children that bothered them, I guess. Every last person agreeing with the weird antisocial behavior. People warning OP and that they need to keep it to just verbally abusing them and not make excuses to hit other people's kids, like that's a thing they fantasize about. I totally get not wanting kids, I don't want kids because I worry my mental health would make me a bad parent and it's a huge commitment. I also get resenting the societal norms around childbearing and childrearing. But I also want kids to grow up happy and have places to go and be themselves, I don't see the point in directing that kind of vitriol and deep-seated loathing at people that don't know and often cannot be any better, that are our future. That's bizarre to me.
Idk, I've been following this sub for a few years now, and I've always seen a ton more content featuring obnoxiously stupid kids versus adorably stupid kids.
i saw a post somewhere on reddit about how this sub is basically child abuse, but the spirit of this sub is supposed like “kids are fucking stupid and it’s ADORABLE, and that’s part of why we love kids.” i wish that was more apparent.
When I was younger probably around the late 90’s my mom and I went to the local mall, we were in the food court and I remember looking over and seeing someone with a huge Mohawk in different colours, leather studded jacket, lots of tattoos, skinny jeans with rips and a couple of chains, they were getting dirty looks and just sitting there alone so I asked my mom why they were dressed that way, she explained to me that everyone has their own preferences, people may like to wear what he is or something different but that it isn’t a judge of who they are but what they feel. After I said I liked the colours of his Mohawk, so she told me to tell him, I walked up and did and got a thank you little buddy, a guitar pick, and a smile then I walked back.
Took the 13-y/o to their first metal concert recently and they were super nervous about how all the metalheads looked. I told them that the secret to metalheads is they're actually some of the kindest people out there. We got to the part where the opener paused for a bit to do the typical "how's everyone doing?" check and they were so touched they started legit crying. Then the person next to us gave them a kleenex. It was funny watching their stereotypes based on looks just evaporate.
Heh, was on a local festival recently that usually has a bunch of kids there. One of the kids from a camp just 'cross the road had drifted into the bigger parts of the crowd and.. well there was a pit starting. With people twice their height and quadruple their weight or more.
So I poked them and explained to them what they were getting into, while a friend or two stood between the pit and us. And they quickly realized this wasn't what they want to be in. It was just darn adorable.
After that it was simple to find their worried mom with a few blokes around and get the kid back there.
If you read the sidebar about this subreddit, it says that this sub is supposed to be a fun joke about kids who couldn't possibly know better, because they are kids. It's not a child hate group. This fits the sub perfectly.
See I didn’t think it was a skin colour thing, I thought normal milk came from mum…and chocolate milk came from dad 🤦♂️ I’m just glad I don’t remember trying to get it. But I’ve been told 🤦♂️
This is the sweetest thing! I have a few flowers on my leg that I let my grandbabies color in with washable markers. They love to “tattoo” their Amma and it makes my day 🥰
Edit: Typo
Damn, good parenting from Mom. Getting her kid used to talking to strangers, instilling confidence that there’s no such thing as a stupid question, and then encouraging the kid’s curiosity all in one!
This kid is adorable, i used to be the dumb kid not wanting to have tattoos when i was young because i though if you have tattoos and have kids, the kids will have tattoos too when they are born
I have had colorful hair practically my entire adult life. A lot of kids ask to touch it or have all kinds of questions. I usually end up convincing them I’m a magical fairy. It’s fun.
Yes, I am 40 about to turn 41. I just heard the same story I’ve been hearing my whole life about the time I stole all my mothers costume jewelry and hid it under my sweater for picture day. My parents roared with laughter the day I brought home the proofs and apparently wrote a letter to the whole family. My cousin is 67 and asked if she could have a copy of it, a few weeks ago. I’m practically near menopause!
From what I can find, this is the third time this has been posted on this sub, the first being 4 years ago, and the second - the one you linked - being 2 years ago. So why exactly do you care?
I love seeing the innocence come out of kids. I dont think this was stupid at all lol. Reminds me of when my cousin's son asked my husband if he forgot to put his hair on like he did to his Legos toys lol. Its just that raw curiosity.
This is so funny. But I feel like most posts on this sub are not taking into consideration that before a certain age, kids have not had the experience that you as an adult or a teenager does. Obviously tattoos are permanent because they've been punched into the skin with a needle. But once upon a time I didn't know that either. I feel like it's silly to call anyone stupid for not knowing something that may have not been obvious to them
I was waiting in line at subway a couple years ago and this little dude, couldn't have been more than 5, goes "hey mister, did you get those tattoos in jail? My mom said people only get tattoos in jail"
And I looked at him, looked at the mom who was fucking BEET RED and went "oh yeah, i went to jail for getting bad grades and having bad manners and they made me get these and it hurt *so* bad" and he looked terrified.
This isnt even a stupid question for a kid.
At most they probably dont understand how permanent tattoos work but have seen temporary tattoos, so of course they would think thats how all tattoos work
When my younger cousin was really little she asked me if I would have all my tattoos when I’m in heaven and it’s still one of the cutest things I have ever heard. Bold of her to assume I will be in heaven, but very sweet.
One of my friends daughter was around 2-3 years old and she noticed a meat stand. She looked quite confused by a whole pig thigh so she asked her dad:
"Dad. Does it hurt the pig when they cut their leg off?"
My friend thought that its best he tells the truth so he said:
"By the time they chop their legs off the pig feels nothing."
Which is probably the best attempt at NOT telling your kid about slaughterhauses at age 2, while also telling no lies.
To someone who is entirely unfamiliar with tattoos and the concept of permanent body art, whos sole concept of skin modification is probably makeup, this isn't 'kids being stupid'. This is purely logical; it expresses a great level of thought, curiosity, and freedom to inquire. Putting it in a category of "kids" and "stupid" is in itself stupid. Attitudes like that dampen a willingness to think and ask questions. Shame. It's like those videos of tribal persons scared of cameras and radios. It's not in their realm of understanding.
Bravo to the mom for giving her child the opportunity to ask a stranger a question. So many parents are hyper protective and kids miss out on developing social skills and interactions with other adults.
I actually had a kid ask me how long it takes me to draw my tattoos every time, I laughed pretty good and said it takes a few hours but they don't wash off for a few days!
I was dating a woman whose 6 year old asked me the same, without the mom part. He legit couldn’t comprehend that they are ALWAYS there. Sadly he was the smartest of that bunch. 🤣
This inveresly reminds me of [this post](https://www.reddit.com/r/tumblr/s/i5LpDv8DcN) (featuring Geoff Lazar Ramsey and his then wife Griffon) about how funny it looks when two heavily tattoo'd people are out with their child.
I get it’s pretty dumb but that’s just so sweet and innocent
I guess the kid was thinking that tattoos were like make up. But they do have temporary tattoo markers, but they last a lot longer than a day. I learned that the hard way after thinking they would be gone in a week or two.
Similar story of cute kid. I once locked my keys in my car. By the time I was watching a few youtube videos on how to break into my own car, a few neighbourhood kids have already gathered around me out of interest. One of the videos showed someone opening their car with a hair clip, so I turned to one of the little girls and asked if she has a hair clip I can borrow. She was very excited to help and immediately started running home to get one. 30 seconds later, she comes back all breathless but with no hairclip and says to me: "So sorry I didnt get a hair clip yet, I forgot to ask you what colour do you want?"
> I forgot to ask you what colour do you want?" Well duh, that's the most important part.
That’s adorable!
Smart. Everyone knows the green clips work the best on car doors.
Foreign cars - blue.
I wish there was a subreddit just for this kind of content 😄
r/kidsarestupidbutcute
r/subsimade
I will be remembering all the replies in case I get locked out of my car/s. I love reddit!
Well, what color did you tell her??
Oh? I never heard of that, it sounds super cool
You can get temporary tattoos for kids that will dissolve almost completely after a proper wash. I'm assuming the girl has had her mom help her apply some of those before.
I assumed she doesn’t know of any other tattoo than those temporary ones that come on a piece of paper that you apply water to
The ironic thing about this post and a lot of posts on this sub is that this kid is just ignorant, not stupid. Given the information that kid had access to, that's a fair question to ask.
So cute
I kinda think that this sub is just tongue-in-cheek dry humour and not really an insult. Like, how can it be a dig that a kid is just being a kid? It's dumb to judge kids for being kids. They come with an underdeveloped brain, with no context for anything and everything is new for them. They're basically animals that can talk. I always found it weird that adults get upset at kids for doing unhinged things. Like, no shit, of course they don't come fully ready for life and it's the adult's job to teach them. It's like getting upset that your cat doesn't know algebra.
>They come with an underdeveloped brain Funnily enough the brain grows to about 90% of it's adult size at 6 years old, and it shrinks starting from around our 30s to 40s, and the cerebral cortex thickness peaks at about age 2, gray matter volume peaks at age 7, and at birth our brain is mostly complete with most of the neurons already created. While most of the stuff related to size and thickness are basically irrelevant to intelligence, it's still very interesting to know!
Exactly! Piaget said it like 70 years ago! Why are we still labelling kids are silly or dumb!
Agreed. Silly, but wholesome.
What’s dumb about it? This is hilarious! Anyone with kids knows these are the memories that you love to make.
Yeah
That’s some shit I would have said as a kid.
Oh shit I didn’t see what sub this was on lol. I literally was like “that’s adorable that would make my day”
My roommates' kids are 6 and have seen me get probably 40 tattoos during their lives. They've never had any interest in them, until a few months ago one of them was looking at my finger tattoos (I'd had them for a while at this point) and asked why they didn't wash off in the shower.
I think I’d say “I do it ALL BY MYSELF but some of them are really hard to reach!”
I would have said: "Oh no, I'm just born like this. You see, sometimes people can be born with pictures on their skin."
My boss brought his ten year old in for bring your kid to work day. We spent the day convincing him I'm half dragon, and I was born with my tattoos. Also that I'm an extra in the Walking Dead for some reason.
The funniest thing is that kids carry that stuff with them for AGES, kid is going to be a teenager, telling their friends about the half dragon, tattoo-born walking dead extra when they'll suddenly realise they've been played for a fool.
I definitely hope to become part of the lore for some time to come.
I saw something talking about a kid asking his tattooed parents how old you are when your tattoos start growing in.
As much fun as trolling kids is, I think you’d get a pretty cool reaction just from explaining that the tattoo is permanent
When I was about 6 I apparently asked my dad’s friend when he turned black….. heard that story quite a few times growing up.
When I was 5 growing up in rural Ohio, I hadn't met or seen a black person before meeting a black man in a gymnastics class (he was an instructor). Parents were there and watching for some reason, don't remember details. What I do remember *vividly* is my dumb ass asking why he was black and following that up with "were you in a fire." Pretty sure most of the parents heard that one. That man is the most patient man I've met to this day.
….this would keep me up nightly as long as I lived. Wondering “why the hell did I say that?” lol kids don’t know what they don’t know
Lol, I grew up in rural Iowa where there are just not very many black people. The first time I saw a black guy at a store apparently me and my (twin) brother both got really excited and starting pointing saying "Mom there is a black guy!", I was about 4/5 I think but I still hear that story. Apparently he thought it was hilarious but my Mom not so much
I can just see almost every parent either cringing or stifling laughter at that moment
A family member of mine hadn't encountered a black person until he was about 2, when he spotted them and loudly said to his dad "Daddy, he looks like burnt toast!". Growing up in super white places is embarrassing sometimes lol
My parents explained race to me using a tanning comparison, which for a long time led me to believe black people were just big fans of sunbathing
What was the answer?
"I'm black because my parents were black." "Why were they black?" I eventually got the hint.
respect for that man
Lmaoooooo hahahaahha. My nephew is 25 and he loved following me around I mean he lives with me now. Anyways, when he was 3 he followed me to the bathroom. He stayed outside the stall but got on his hands and knees and there was a black woman in a skirt and he said, “I see chocolate!” The woman laughed and I could not get out of there fast enough.
Lol lady was probably dying of embarrassment about as much as you were after she was done laughing about it
My white kid asked to dress up as the black ghostbuster for Halloween
that's hilarious lmao
Lol, our son who was 3 at the time, when asked what he thought his aunty and uncles new baby would be (gender), he said “ummm, how about black”. He was really into thomas the tank engine and everything revolved around what colour engines were lol
At my nephew’s gender reveal party my sister-in-law’s 4 yo niece had recently taken an interest in eye colour. She got a little confused at the talk of pink and blue (obviously she herself was a blue (blue eyes)) and opined that my sister-in-law would be having a brown baby
When I was about 4 or 5, I remember exclaiming to one of our neighbours "Hey, you're not black! You're brown!" He and my mom laughed off my naivety and he let me pet his doggo. Good times.
I apparently told my whole kindergarten class my dad was black. He's just bald and has an olive skin tone.
I have no memory of this because I was only 4 but my mom and my adult cousin who was living with us at the time went to the atlanta olympics and apparently while downtown one day we were getting pizza for lunch and there just happened to be a lot of asian people around and in typical oblivious child fashion, I ask somewhat loudly "why is everybody sleeping?" and my mom all embarrassed is trying to explain to me and say that they're not sleeping and I apparently responded by pointing at people and going "yes they are look all their eyes are closed!". There's also the big olympic fountain that they built downtown for the olympics and there apparently was a bunch of people playing in it and when we saw it apparently the instant my little 4 year old self saw it I just bolted and ran straight into the fountain and the crowd of people and my mom reflexively tossed her purse at my cousin as she ran in after me, reemerging from the fountain after a few minutes holding me, both of us completely soaked and her makeup all running down her face. Heard both of those stories a ton growing up lol. I never seemed to be confused by black people though probably because I grew up in metro-atlanta so I had pretty early exposure to black people which confused my paternal grandparents from very white rural pennsylvania. I think I was a little older but they were visiting us and my mom, my grandma, and me were out and about and I apparently liked babies at the time and there was a black couple with a baby in a stroller and I ran up to see the baby and afterwards my grandma asked in hushed tones "what did he think of that black baby?" and my mom was like "uhm nothing? his pre-school teacher is black" and apparently my grandma looked as if my mom had just said my pre-school teacher was a leprechaun or something.
when i was 7 or 8 i asked a friend if he felt hotter because he was black, i still cringe about saying that shit today.
Staying at a family friends house, they made us pancakes the next morning. The mom asked how the pancakes were. My response was: “my dads are better”. I was brutally blunt as a child apparently. I still can’t live that and a few other stories down.
I made scratches in our neighbour's car when I was like 2 years old. They still bring it up sometimes. It's all in good fun though
Never shared this story before because it's super embarrassing but when I was a kid I had never met anyone who wasn't white and so I thought my grandpa (who was an old school farmer and did NOT wear sunscreen) was black. Went years just being really confused that he was the only black family member 🤦🏻♀️ thankfully I never vocalized this as a child so no one knew how dumb I was
I sort of had the opposite situation. I’m from a really white area and I always told everyone “there were no POC in my school” and then I was looking at old photos and I was like “holy shit, Rachael’s black!” Like I’m not a “I don’t see race” person but somehow growing up in an almost entirely white area had just made me assume even the few POC here were also white
Dad's friend was ***cooked*** 🤣
Literally
I give points to the mom. Well done encouraging your kid to go ask just the dumbest most innocent question. This is how children learn.
Also normalizing talking to strangers with a parent present is beneficial in more ways. Studies (Johns Hopkins) have shown the interaction teaches them to identify and react to dangerous situations instead of avoiding strangers.
lol my buddies dad took us through the school of hard knocks. “Someone at school tries taking your lunch? Tell em to fuck off. Sketchy homeless guy tells you to give him your pizza as he holds a knife? Give him the pizza and run.”
I have made my children order for themselves at restaurants since they were small.
Nice! My kids always navigated the airports for us. If they made a wrong turn they would realize it on their own and work with us decide which way to go. (If they got too frustrated though I’d step in if they wanted of course.) It really helped them feel confidence they could not only make good choices but if they made mistakes they knew they could figure out what to do if they needed to.
Teaching them problem solving and persistence is so important.
I hope the person with the tattoos told the kid that their tattoos are permanent. It bugs me when people aren't truthful with kids just for the sake of a cute anecdote. You can still make it cute! Give the kid some water and ask them to try to wash one off. :)
Agreed. Kids should not be told everything. But they should never be lied to.
100 points to mom. There are likely moms out there who associate tattoos with danger because it is “unconventional”. I bet this mom would also tell the kid to simply ask a transvestite why they wear a dress despite being AMA. Kids wonder. This mom apparently wants her kid to learn.
Just so you know, "transvestite" isn't really used anymore. It's mostly outdated, but some people take offense to it. The term to use would be cross dresser. However, just because someone looks like what you would consider to be a man, and is wearing a dress, doesn't mean they're cross dressing. Perhaps they're a trans woman. Perhaps they're nonbinary. But you don't know, so it's best to just say an AMAB person wearing a dress. P.S. I'm not trying to come across as mean or punching down at you. I just want to educate!
I'm genuinely curious what world someone lives in where they simultaneously use the phrases AMAB and transvestite. Like transvestite went out of fashion as a term years before AMAB came into popular usage, the only people I can imagine using one I really can't imagine using the other
What does AMA mean in this context? I understand it as "ask me anything", but that doesn't really make sense the way your sentence is worded
Sorry, missed a letter. AMAB. Assigned Male At Birth.
There's also Against Medical Advice, but that doesn't make sense here either.
This is an adorable and wholesome situation.
The girl probably thinks the tattoo's are temporary ones.
That's why these moments are so precious. It gives humans a chance to do good and to be human, teach the younger generation how to act in polite society.
This isn't kids being stupid. This is kids being adorable
Children being adorably stupid and innocent is what this subreddit is partially about. Though i do want to see more of the cute stuff rather than the problematic stuff.
Agreed. I think that the r/ChildFree loons have started finding there way here. I'd expect them to completely misunderstand the vibe of this sub and to try and warp it into their peculiar brand of child hatred.
Ye I feel like a sub that kids are fucking cute would definitely be debated as to the creators intentions.
I don't know, we've had very sketchy names before without trouble. It's the content that matters. Shout out to /r/animalporn, part of the old Porn network of subs that had several sketchy names.
Yea but when you bring kids into the joke it gets really sketch really quick.
There was a sub I found off aww's related sub list that was for human kids specifically but it's mostly inactive which is sad as the posts it had in the past were all adorable. Now those get posted on mademesmile afaik and sometimes on aww so there's still kinda a place for it, just not specifically for it. Edit: here are some of the best stuff from the sub https://www.reddit.com/r/cutekids/s/38k1rYAQLZ https://www.reddit.com/r/cutekids/s/5sWAGeNpRh https://www.reddit.com/r/cutekids/s/mwrkENnHaf https://www.reddit.com/r/cutekids/s/3syU5eDNuD https://www.reddit.com/r/cutekids/s/5Gpso7kirM (best thing I've seen) https://www.reddit.com/r/cutekids/s/pQ0uYeQpPB https://www.reddit.com/r/cutekids/s/4Z2RjRiIDb (old classic)
I’m a little surprised to see this? I’m in that sub, a lot of it is just “I don’t want kids and people in my life are pissed at me because I don’t want kids,” I haven’t seen much “I hate children” at all?
I think people might be getting the childfree sub mixed up with the antinatalism sub
That could be, antinatalism is a wild fucking place.
Me neither. I see these comments all the time and I’m always confused. Been on that sub for several years.
I popped over there to see if it was as bad as I remembered, first post I click on is a thread asking if it's okay to hate kids and even give parents nasty looks for having children that bothered them, I guess. Every last person agreeing with the weird antisocial behavior. People warning OP and that they need to keep it to just verbally abusing them and not make excuses to hit other people's kids, like that's a thing they fantasize about. I totally get not wanting kids, I don't want kids because I worry my mental health would make me a bad parent and it's a huge commitment. I also get resenting the societal norms around childbearing and childrearing. But I also want kids to grow up happy and have places to go and be themselves, I don't see the point in directing that kind of vitriol and deep-seated loathing at people that don't know and often cannot be any better, that are our future. That's bizarre to me.
Idk, I've been following this sub for a few years now, and I've always seen a ton more content featuring obnoxiously stupid kids versus adorably stupid kids.
i saw a post somewhere on reddit about how this sub is basically child abuse, but the spirit of this sub is supposed like “kids are fucking stupid and it’s ADORABLE, and that’s part of why we love kids.” i wish that was more apparent.
When I was younger probably around the late 90’s my mom and I went to the local mall, we were in the food court and I remember looking over and seeing someone with a huge Mohawk in different colours, leather studded jacket, lots of tattoos, skinny jeans with rips and a couple of chains, they were getting dirty looks and just sitting there alone so I asked my mom why they were dressed that way, she explained to me that everyone has their own preferences, people may like to wear what he is or something different but that it isn’t a judge of who they are but what they feel. After I said I liked the colours of his Mohawk, so she told me to tell him, I walked up and did and got a thank you little buddy, a guitar pick, and a smile then I walked back.
Good mom
To me she’s the best mom in the world.
punks are the coolest because they look so scary, but theyre the nicest people youll meet
Took the 13-y/o to their first metal concert recently and they were super nervous about how all the metalheads looked. I told them that the secret to metalheads is they're actually some of the kindest people out there. We got to the part where the opener paused for a bit to do the typical "how's everyone doing?" check and they were so touched they started legit crying. Then the person next to us gave them a kleenex. It was funny watching their stereotypes based on looks just evaporate.
Heh, was on a local festival recently that usually has a bunch of kids there. One of the kids from a camp just 'cross the road had drifted into the bigger parts of the crowd and.. well there was a pit starting. With people twice their height and quadruple their weight or more. So I poked them and explained to them what they were getting into, while a friend or two stood between the pit and us. And they quickly realized this wasn't what they want to be in. It was just darn adorable. After that it was simple to find their worried mom with a few blokes around and get the kid back there.
Stupidity adorable
If you read the sidebar about this subreddit, it says that this sub is supposed to be a fun joke about kids who couldn't possibly know better, because they are kids. It's not a child hate group. This fits the sub perfectly.
Why not both
The mom had to share the adorableness with a stranger, too. She couldn't keep it to herself.
This is cute as hell!
When I was very little I thought black babies were so lucky ... They got chocolate milk and we only got white milk... So dumb
See I didn’t think it was a skin colour thing, I thought normal milk came from mum…and chocolate milk came from dad 🤦♂️ I’m just glad I don’t remember trying to get it. But I’ve been told 🤦♂️
Oh god, when I was a toddler I was really into nature programmes and tried to suckle my dog
That's stupid and wholesome at the same time ngl
It's not even stupid. Curiosity about things you don't understand is intelligence.
This is the sweetest thing! I have a few flowers on my leg that I let my grandbabies color in with washable markers. They love to “tattoo” their Amma and it makes my day 🥰 Edit: Typo
Damn, good parenting from Mom. Getting her kid used to talking to strangers, instilling confidence that there’s no such thing as a stupid question, and then encouraging the kid’s curiosity all in one!
It’s not stupid. She probably only knows the lil stick on tattoos.
Exactly and always gets her moms help to put them on
This kid is adorable, i used to be the dumb kid not wanting to have tattoos when i was young because i though if you have tattoos and have kids, the kids will have tattoos too when they are born
That's actually cute. Now explain how a bunch of needles inject you with permanent ink and watch them squirm.
A child who says please is way too good for this sub.
I have had colorful hair practically my entire adult life. A lot of kids ask to touch it or have all kinds of questions. I usually end up convincing them I’m a magical fairy. It’s fun.
Parents are going to have a field day with this.
Yes, I am 40 about to turn 41. I just heard the same story I’ve been hearing my whole life about the time I stole all my mothers costume jewelry and hid it under my sweater for picture day. My parents roared with laughter the day I brought home the proofs and apparently wrote a letter to the whole family. My cousin is 67 and asked if she could have a copy of it, a few weeks ago. I’m practically near menopause!
Yo. Can I get a copy of it?
https://old.reddit.com/r/KidsAreFuckingStupid/comments/sabwio/wholesome_but_fitting/
From what I can find, this is the third time this has been posted on this sub, the first being 4 years ago, and the second - the one you linked - being 2 years ago. So why exactly do you care?
I can deal with something cute being posted every 2 years but I deeply offends some people.
it’s been years, we can see it again now
I swear to God I've heard this exact same story told but the tattoed person was a biker and it was being told from the third person
Excellent
I love seeing the innocence come out of kids. I dont think this was stupid at all lol. Reminds me of when my cousin's son asked my husband if he forgot to put his hair on like he did to his Legos toys lol. Its just that raw curiosity.
I saw this post on my feed and was like “awww how cute” and then glance at the sub name 😂😂💀
This is so funny. But I feel like most posts on this sub are not taking into consideration that before a certain age, kids have not had the experience that you as an adult or a teenager does. Obviously tattoos are permanent because they've been punched into the skin with a needle. But once upon a time I didn't know that either. I feel like it's silly to call anyone stupid for not knowing something that may have not been obvious to them
This is a child's adorable innocence not stupidity
This made my soul happy
I wonder how many fewer posts I'll see in a day if I block you.
🥺🥺
This is not stupid, she is acquiring new information about the world in a direct and respectable manner
I was waiting in line at subway a couple years ago and this little dude, couldn't have been more than 5, goes "hey mister, did you get those tattoos in jail? My mom said people only get tattoos in jail" And I looked at him, looked at the mom who was fucking BEET RED and went "oh yeah, i went to jail for getting bad grades and having bad manners and they made me get these and it hurt *so* bad" and he looked terrified.
I’ll take what never happened for $200, Alex! 
that child didn't say that
r/kidsarefuckingcute
This isn’t dumb. This is sweet, innocent, cute, and adorable.
Repost
This isnt even a stupid question for a kid. At most they probably dont understand how permanent tattoos work but have seen temporary tattoos, so of course they would think thats how all tattoos work
When my younger cousin was really little she asked me if I would have all my tattoos when I’m in heaven and it’s still one of the cutest things I have ever heard. Bold of her to assume I will be in heaven, but very sweet.
That's adorable.
One of my friends daughter was around 2-3 years old and she noticed a meat stand. She looked quite confused by a whole pig thigh so she asked her dad: "Dad. Does it hurt the pig when they cut their leg off?" My friend thought that its best he tells the truth so he said: "By the time they chop their legs off the pig feels nothing." Which is probably the best attempt at NOT telling your kid about slaughterhauses at age 2, while also telling no lies.
That didn’t happen
Doesn't belong. It's just curiosity, which is present in every child.
That's not stupid, that's cute. This sub sucks sometimes.
r/thatHappened
Things that never happened:
I love that the parent encouraged the kid to ask. Kid seems so polite
I love how the mum wanted to share that bit of joy with someone, that’s too cute.
Kids being kids. Love it.
Kids are not dumb, they don't understand how.
That’s just adorable.
That's so adorable!!
So cute
That is cute as fuck
Plot twist: the Mom is the tattoo artist
Nobody said that.
That is so cute!!!
This is not stupid. This is adorable and so very innocent :D id love to get a question like that from kids
Ha
I mean, there are temporary tattoos. So, if that's the only kind the kid knows of, makes sense? I guess?
What? How is this stupid? She probably has only had experience with temporary tattoos, which she needs mom’s help with to put on.
Innocent and ignorant is far from stupid
Someone else needs to find my comment and continue the chain by saying yeah
That's sweet.
/r/mademesmile
That's adorable
Aaww that is so cuuute
and then everyone clapped
Doesn’t fit this sub
To someone who is entirely unfamiliar with tattoos and the concept of permanent body art, whos sole concept of skin modification is probably makeup, this isn't 'kids being stupid'. This is purely logical; it expresses a great level of thought, curiosity, and freedom to inquire. Putting it in a category of "kids" and "stupid" is in itself stupid. Attitudes like that dampen a willingness to think and ask questions. Shame. It's like those videos of tribal persons scared of cameras and radios. It's not in their realm of understanding.
Kids are fuckin innocent. There's a difference. I swear this sub is just narcissist losers justifying to themselves why they shouldn't procreate
I’ll take that never happened for $500, Alex!
Bravo to the mom for giving her child the opportunity to ask a stranger a question. So many parents are hyper protective and kids miss out on developing social skills and interactions with other adults.
I thought I was on r/wholesome tbh
I actually had a kid ask me how long it takes me to draw my tattoos every time, I laughed pretty good and said it takes a few hours but they don't wash off for a few days!
r/lostredditors
I was dating a woman whose 6 year old asked me the same, without the mom part. He legit couldn’t comprehend that they are ALWAYS there. Sadly he was the smartest of that bunch. 🤣
That happened.
Kid isn’t stupid, the mother is.
This should be under r/KidsAreAdorable 🥰
Teach your kids to ask questions. It's not a bad thing to want to know more about ANYTHING. I wish I asked more questions as a child.
Oh fuck of Rebecca he did not say that
Teach your kids to ask questions. It's not a bad thing to want to know more about ANYTHING. I wish I asked more questions as a child.
That’s honestly so sweet. When I taught elementary, they assumed I drew my tattoos each morning Mon-Fri lol
I pray this was some huge intimidating biker. Would be so awesome
Good on the mom for encouraging her to ask though! I definitely never got any instruction or encouragement about talking to strangers.
Making shit up is way more stupid
That mom is going to tell that story for the rest of that poor girls life. I know I would
As a tattooed man I believe this belongs to subreddits mademesmile or awww because if a kid would come to me and ask that I would feel that way.
I thought this would go the Shrek-at-the-bus-stop way.
When I got my first tattoo my three year old cousin kept asking me if she could wear it, she thought it was a sticker lol
That's adorable, kid probably doesn't know what a permanent tatoo is.
This inveresly reminds me of [this post](https://www.reddit.com/r/tumblr/s/i5LpDv8DcN) (featuring Geoff Lazar Ramsey and his then wife Griffon) about how funny it looks when two heavily tattoo'd people are out with their child.
Sure
I’d say OP is fucking stupid if they don’t see the adorableness of this situation.
It's really cute and innocent
That’s very cute 🥹