#SMALL CHILDREN

[formerheroeswhoquittoolate]

back to the regularly scheduled programming of batfamily thoughts! anyway I got into a discussion with my mom about the incredibly specific ways small children act today so here's how I think the batfamily would have been as tiny tots:

dick was one of those kids that if you took his eyes off him, he would vanish. you'd find him in a few minutes and he'd be like. climbing onto on a table. or swinging from a curtain or rope he was clinging to. or rummaging through something you were pretty sure he couldn't open a minute ago. just generally causing chaos and being in places or playing with things he shouldn't. sweet kid, but being on baby grayson babysitting duty was like watching houdini on a sugar high.

jason wanted to do everything his mom did. even if it was taxes or cleaning the toilet. if she was doing it, he wanted to do it. always trying to be helpful, even though he usually just ended up getting in the way. he probably had an extremely small broom and dustpan or something like that.

tim asked so. many. questions. he would point to words and ask "what does this say?" he had a "why" phase but it was all questions that his parents had no idea how to answer. "why are there tides?" because of the moon" "how did the moon get there?" et cetera.

damian was a small creature kid. if it moved he would just stare at it. he was always collecting breadcrumbs to feed the birds and letting bugs crawl on his hands. he found them fascinating. (he has not lost this fascination and probably never will.)

cass was a duckling. especially with the minimal amount of human interaction she got, if someone was in her space she'd follow them everywhere. she was never in the way, never obtrusive, just a little shadow to whoever was around her.

stephanie had a sweet tooth and her parents bribed her with treats a LOT. she was pretty well-behaved until she learned that misbehaving just a little would get her candy. gamed the system from an early age. if there was a treat on the table she would eat it. do not leave cupcakes unsupervised around baby steph.

barbara took apart everything. which was cute when she took apart her dolls and put them back together. it was less cute when she figured out how to use a screwdriver and disassembled the remote. she put it back together eventually.

duke was the kind of kid who didn't talk in front of strangers basically ever. he'd smile politely but he just. would not say a word and escape as soon as he could. not shy -- he'd happily play in the corner when other people were around -- but completely silent around anyone unfamiliar.

kate was one of those girls who had a hat or a tutu or a pair of shoes that she absolutely had to wear everywhere she went or she would have an absolute meltdown. more specifically, it was socks with big sparkly ladybugs on them, and she would pitch a fit every time she wasn't allowed to wear them because they had to be washed.

bruce repeated things. everything. doesn't matter where he heard it -- from his parents, family members, on the street, wherever. he was a little parrot. as you can imagine, this posed some problems.

#batfam #dick grayson #jason todd #cass cain #damian wayne #duke thomas #headcanon #stephanie brown #tim drake #bruce wayne #small children #batfamily headcanons #but they're TINY

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Competing with Sparrows, printed in 1949.

Photo: Berenice Abbott via Live Auctioneers

#vintage New York #1940s #Berenice Abbott #b&w photography #children #fountain #playground #small children #vintage NYC

[james99999]

small child with a cute pet rabbit

#art #drawing #my art #artwork #pencil #small artist #artists on tumblr #graphite #pencil drawing #traditional art #traditional drawing #traditional illustration #traditional sketch #sketchbook #sketch #doodle #sketches #black and white #rabbit #bunny #animals #cute animals #baby animals #adorable #cute #child #children #small children #infant #aesthetic

[april-is]

April 6, 2024: First Birthday, Brad Leithauser

First Birthday Brad Leithauser

You have your one word, which fills you to brimming. It’s what’s first to be done on waking, Often the last at day-dimming: Lunge out an arm fiercely, As though your heart were breaking, Stab a finger at some stray illumination — Lamp, mirror, distant dinner candle — And make your piercing identification,

“‘ight! ‘ight! ‘ight!” Littlest digit, you’ve got the world by the handle. Things must open for you, you take on height, Your sole sound in time reveal itself As might, too, and flight. And fright. Some will be gone. But you will come right.

--

(I love the moment of thinking wait, is this a sonnet? ... it is!)

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#sonnet #rhyme #small children #parenthood #poetry #brad leithauser #babies

[forthehonorofraeskull]

me watching the newest neverafter episode and pinocchio tells ylfa he’s having fun during the snowball fight and i remember they’re both literally like 10

#SOMEONE PROTECT THEM #SMALL CHILDREN #neverafter #neverafter spoilers #d20 #dimension 20 #d20 neverafter #dnd #ylfa snorgelsson #pinocchio dimension 20

[intothestacks]

Adventures in Librarian-ing

Me: Do you guys know what a book dedication is?

Grade 1s: Nooo!

Me: It's kind of like the author is saying "This is who I wrote this book for, who I was thinking about when I wrote this." The dedication for the book that we're about to read says "For kids everywhere playing in boxes".

Grade 1: *gasps* I play in a box every day during after-school daycare!

Me: Yeah, I think I've seen you doing that too!

Other Grade 1: Wait, so they really wrote the book for us?! For real?!

Me: For real.

Grade 1s: :O

[The book I was about to read was Not a Box by Antoinette Portis]

#kidlit #children's literature #children's librarians #children's books #libraryland #librarylife #librarians #school libraries #school librarian #elementary school #they felt very important #grade 1 #small children

[toontanic297]

Hey there TADC fans I have created a caine x pomni fankid I hope you like her it toke me a minute😁

#tadc showtime #amazing digital circus #the amazing digital circus oc #tadc oc #tadc fanfiction #tadc fankid #caine x pomni #small children #baby

[withascaleandafeather]

I can say "they're just boobs" all I want and still be mortified when smalls grabs the neckline of my shirt and exposes them.

I'm a mother; we contain multitudes.

#small children #consent dear #consent is key #parenthood

[lilydoindeedlive]

I randomly had the idea, since Pokemon usually has evil teams. What if the evil team leader had a kid that they actually care about? Like I made one but I have no ideas for her. Her names Sadie, She's 8 and I gave her overwhelming fear of the dark and mysterious figures! Idk what Pokemon to give her though. Be free to add your own ideas.

#pokémon #oc ideas #small children

[flannelepicurean]

Okay, homies, have I got a story for you! 😂😂😂

So, li'l while back, I ordered myself some new loungewear to get me through some tough times, including some pajama pants with the print pictured here.

My four-year-old, who has been informed, and has finally accepted, that he is a Baby Goku, but doesn't yet understand what "chibi" is, saw my pajamas and went, "THAT'S BABY GOKU! I'M BABY GOKU!" and I was like, "Correct, young man." He then made some inquiries about the two other fellows, having not seen Dragon Ball Z, on account of he's four years old, and I do not want him imitating that behavior, because he ain't got but maybe half a lick of sense on a good day, and 0% accurate estimation of danger.

With no knowledge of the source material--and I really wanna emphasize this--he went on to inform me of the following:

THAT'S BABY VEGETA. VEGETA IS VERY FIERCE!!!

BABY PICCOLO IS SERIOUS.

VEGETA GETS MAD. HE YELLS A LOT.

I then tried to explain Vegeta's character arc to my four-year-old in an age-appropriate way. Which kinda went like, "Uh...yeah...well...uh. When he first shows up and meets everybody, Vegeta's...a bully. And he wants to fight. But...he...learns...better? And they solve some problems together, and after a while, he's their friend???" Which resulted in:

THAT'S BABY GOKU. HE'S MY FRIEND. HES MY BEST FRIEND!

PURPLE PICKLES IS GOOD. AND GREEN...GREEN PICKLES ARE VERY GOOD FOR YOU!

And I was like, "Ya darn right, homie. That's what's up." 😂😂😂

Because HE'S NOT WRONG!!! THAT'S AN EXTREMELY 💯 TAKE!!! And I'm adopting "Purple Pickles" as my headcanon for Piccolo's online handle for his troll accounts that he uses to troll Vegeta, who is an absolute Boomer On The Internet, on the internet.

I freakin' love kids, man.

#kids #parenting #small children #my irl kid #dbz #dragon ball z #goku #vegeta #piccolo #baby goku #accurate #character interpretation #clocked those character traits immediately #lol #bout had their backstories intuited #my boy #purple pickles tho #purple pickles #ice cold take #he's not wrong #kids say the funniest things

[infinitelytheheartexpands]

they had all the children screaming offstage before they even came on, which is a correct portrayal of how children behave when they are allowed to run

#opera tag #opera #tosca #puccini #giacomo puccini #small children

[enbeemagical]

Yesterday my grandmother said she'd just learned that the lights of fireworks and the BOOM of fireworks do not go together. You can have the lights without the bang boom loud.

1. Was this common knowledge and everyone else knew this except me and my grandmother and Indi

2. Why do they not have more fireworks that have the lights without the bang

#the bang is bad for so many! #people with ptsd #people with sensory issues #people who want to talk to each other during the fireworks show #cats #dogs #small children #hurts my head and my ears

[chunkletskhl]

2023 NHL All-Star Game shenanigans!

#All-Stars #Videos #Alexander Ovechkin #Sidney Crosby #Sergei Ovechkin #Small Children #Funny #Cute #Breakaway Challenge #NHL #Russia #Russian Hockey #Canada #Youtube

[james99999]

old drawing of mine

#duck #animal #artwork #my art #pencil #small children #baby #infant #child #colored pencil #aesthetic #artists on tumblr #small artist #yellow #drawing #art

[april-is]

April 22, 2023: Dearest,, Jean Valentine

Dearest, Jean Valentine

this day broke at ten degrees. I swim in bed over some dream sentence lost at a child’s crying: the giant on her wall tips the room over, back: I tell her all I know, the walls will settle, he’ll go.

Holding her fingers, I watch the sky rise, white. The frost makes about the same lines on the same window as last winter, quicker, quieter. . . I think how nothing’s happened,

how to know to touch a face to make a line to break the ice to come in time into this world, unlikely, small, bloody, shiny, is all, is God’s good will I think, I turn to you, and fail, and turn,

as the day widens and we don’t know what to do.

--

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#motherhood #winter #parenthood #poetry #poem #jean valentine #small children

[axel-or-max]

My favorite way to get people who are taller than annoyed/irritated is referring to them as small child.

This sets it up to where they walk up real close and are like either raising an eyebrow or saying are you sure about that.

These reactions make my day and my life. That and this is how they sort of walk up to you.

#tall people #irritate tall people #small children #teasing #fyp #irritate people #annoy people