#kids are the best

[txmel]

My student's artistic interpretation of Pedro Pascal (minus the beard). They even added a detail of a little gray in his hair.

They could tell how rough this week was on me and they wanted to make me feel a little better. I love my students so much! 🥰

#teacher life #pedro pascal #kids are the best

[poetry-protest-pornography]

This is so stinkin' cute

#things to make you smile #faith in humanity #museums #kids are the best

[quotidian-oblivion]

Helloooo! Don't think I've done one of these in a while :)

Tell me about a time a kid younger than you (sibling, cousin, child you babysat) did something you were proud of them for, but you knew an adult would not approve of.

bye now!

I love this one. Thank you.

Boy oh boy, with three little siblings, you know I have stories. Many of them.

Oof, which ones to choose...

Sister B, when she was around two, cat-fought another toddler-age boy over a balloon which he was trying to steal from her very own hands at McDonalds. His dad was around but didn't stop him. My sister won the fight against that boy with her own two violent toddler hands.

Sister A, she goes picks and chooses friends like one does strawberries, never minding their feelings, and putting herself first. Though I do lecture her about being nicer to people, she managed to do something which I could not: dictate her own life with the people she wants to hang out with.

Sister C, when she was in her toddler years, just. did whatever she wanted. She was the embodiment of "do what you want with life". While the rest of us were keeping a five foot distance from a dog and trying to be on our best behavior for the adults, she was there, slaying, getting licked by dogs twice the size of her, and entering an unknown apartment and eating their washing powder while the whole family ran up and down looking for her. She doesn't do that now, but by God, was she a handful.

Regarding other kids, I've worked with children a lot and since I'm the eldest daughter, I've looked after them a lot at parties and such too.

I've seen a kid say "No" to someone who wanted to cuddle them, horrifying the adults and her mom.

I've seen a kid run a line of questions over an order their parent gave them which was perfectly logical and warranted while the parent was frustrated they just didn't do what they were told.

I've seen a kid on the bus who stared at their grandmother with the most neutral face and responded to her very public yelling with calm, yet firm statements and handle her temper in such a diplomatic way, it would put any president or monarch to shame.

I've had a student who was the class clown and disrupted the class so much that he even drove me crazy, who talked back to me with statements and comments which had the understanding and knowledge level of a young adult while he was just a 10-year-old boy that he ended up being my favorite despite making fart noises to make everyone laugh in the midst of me explaining something.

I've had a kid who continued crying and wailing loudly in the face of someone telling him that he's not allowed to cry because he's a man.

I've seen so many kids display such brave, confident, intelligent, kind and admirable actions. I don't know why or how so many adults get irritated with them just because "they're kids" and are "supposed to do what they're told".

But overall, my absolute favorite and top moment, is with my youngest sister when after a line of questioning, she admitted that a bad thing she did was her fault and she did that by herself, moving me to tears because grown, mature adults would never admit to something that was their fault, but a 7-year-old said it with genuineness and regret so freely by herself.

Hell, so many children display strong levels of emotional intelligence but are squashed down by adults undermining them instead of supporting them and teaching them how to use their skills for good.

#quotidian asks #children #humanity #kids #parenting #child development #parents #emotional intelligence #kids are the best #parenthood #boundaries #understanding #personal growth #parenting tips #good parenting #tristi <3 #i'm not proof-reading this one sorry #you get my haphazard english #quotidian&sisters

[th0tcrates]

Ok so I teach elementary school and also obsessively crochet

This year I started teaching my third graders to sew.

It is important to note that my class is populated with students of many personality types, but they are ALL aggressively curious, and I indulge it at every opportunity (to the greatest extent I’m able)

One step ahead of everyone, one of my quietest beans sewed a little stuffy to show me (which I then, with permission, showed to everyone) which got a lot of his friends to try sewing at home

Now they’re doing it with crochet!!! I can’t even teach them that (we’re running out of school year) but I posted tutorial videos (and quietly got crochet hooks to about four kiddos- (it was all my extra)

But!!! One of my beans that missed out on the initial opportunity looked delighted when the idea of crochet came up in his conference, so I straight up just gave him my first size 6mm hook right before he got on the bus yesterday

His sister already crochets, now his mom is buying him yarn and I think he’s going to mess with it all spring break, I guess he showed off his new hook to everyone when he got home

The funny thing is that it’s like the first hook I ever used, now it’s his first too.

#crochetblr #teaching #crochet #shut up th0t #kids are the best

[void-galaxy-shenanigans]

#kids are the best #advice #~Nico

[iibislintu]

overheard on the morning train downtown

"daddy, is it the train that moves or the houses?"

"well i hope it's the train and not the houses."

"but it would be way cooler if the houses moved!"

#children #kids are the best

[intothestacks]

Adventures in Librarian-ing

This year Thursdays are Kindergarten days (like, I literally have ALL the school's Kinders coming in on the same day at different times), so I try to wear fun shirts to help with being approachable. Yesterday I wore the following shirt from Threadless:

The Kinders were suuuper excited about it.

"I like your shirt!" was a common refrain in every class.

My favourite interaction went as follows:

Kinder 1: *gasp!* It's Spider-Man!

Me: It's Spider-Cat because he's a kitty. :)

Kinder 2: Like Spider-Ham is a piggy! [from Into the Spider-Verse]

Me: That's right!

Kinder 3: Is Spider-Cat Spider-Man's cat?

Me: I don't know, but maybe! That would make a lot of sense, wouldn't it?

Kinder 3: And who's the kitty at the top?

Me: That's a kitty version of Doctor Octopus, he's a bad guy, do you know who that is?

Kinder 4: Yeah! She's a scientist who works in a lab. [probably referencing the Miles Morales version from Into the Spider-Verse]

Kinder 5: Yeah! And he's usually a bad guy but sometimes he's good.

Me: Oh, that's true, sometimes he's good.

Kinder 5: *eagerly* I saw Spider-Man: No Way Home and he's usually a bad guy, but in that movie he saves Spider-Man. All the Spider-Men.

Kinder 6: I saw a Spider-Man movie where a bad guy with a big belly hurt the Spider-Man named Peter! [Into the Spider-Verse, probably]

Me: Oh, I know who you're talking about, his name is Kingpin.

#adventures in librarian ing #librarylife #libraryland #school librarian #school libraries #libraries #the real life of me #canada #kindergartners #kindergarten #little kids #kids are great #kids are the best #tiny nerds #spiderman #spider man no way home #peter parker #spidey #no way home #marvel mcu #marvel cinematic universe #marvel movies #spider man #miles morales #doc ock #doctor octopus #doctor octavius #spider ham #marvel #elementary school

[yippeecahier]

So I put this sticker I got using the art from @sugar-drift that I am completely obsessed with on the back of my phone (dw I got permission to get stickers as long as they are for personal use and not for sale. They are occupying every little nook and cranny because, again, I'm OBSESSED). When I put my phone down on my desk before math class one kid bent down to retrieve a fidget from my bin, saw Orion with upended coffee Ace Attorney style and exclaimed "OH NO POOR THING," to which I laughed as the other kids came to see what the commotion was and all collectively pity my little fursona (I didn't tell them that's what it was, just that it's a dog in a business suit when one asked what animal it was, but still funny to me).

#kids are the best #kids are funny #yip speaks #art for me #furry #other people’s art #furry art #humor #art i like #furry commissions

[sweetasteriaa]

My niece gave me her tooth in this lovely Halloween jar so I can put it on my tarot card and other assorted witchy paraphernalia bookshelf.

#kids are the best

[thingsworthexistingfor]

- hanging out with my 8 year old brother

- it’s raining

- stuffing a monster can with leaves

Him: hay you know what metal music sounds like? (Before I can respond) THBKfgwjejlejHKVfyDTUGJVGRUUH

#just why #kids are the best #kids are hilarious

[geek-fashionista]

Thought my heart was forgetting how to love and then my friend in Japan sent pics of my favorite fourth-now-fifth graders and my heart overflowed with so much love that it almost exploded

so yeah, I’m fine. 😊

#kids are the best #funky little humans #dear future husband I hope you’re ready cuz I ain’t waiting #life #text

[zibah-ho]

me, every time I have a sad thought about mr.green arrow: I need to hug Oliver so bad

2 year old at work named Oliver: 👀

#little man has not let me out his sight today I love him #using him to make endless Ollie jokes bc I can #we did make bows with sticks the other week but I dont think he did that #going to start calling Oliver Jonas Queen dumb shit like olliebobs and poppet as if he’s 2 and not 45+ minimum #kids are the best #zh.txt

[brbremaking]

my favourite kiddo at work spent an hour today convincing me to “grow a baby” and I didn’t need to worry about taking care of it bc he’d do it for me like I take care of him so he can practice for when he grows up and becomes a daddy

#im just 🥺🥺🥺 #I love him! #he told me he loves me like 50 times today #kids are the best #my other favourite woke up and didn’t wanna get off my lap for half an hour and kept mumbling about his day still half asleep #can’t even blame pms for being baby crazy today theyre just being really cute #i need a self obsessed tag

[fischotterkunst]

my sister doesn’t have a tumblr so its my duty to relate what happened with one of her day camp kids today

she’d had to explain to a five-year-old why you can’t just take things from the gift shop and that stealing is wrong. not long after, the kiddo saw a chipmunk munching on a discarded granola bar from the gift shop. pointing, he hollered to my sister, “that mouse stole! 👀”

#kids are the best #river babbles

[intothestacks]

Adventures in Librarian-ing

Grade 4: *super proudly and excited* I'm taking this book out to make my brother jealous.

Their Teacher: ...That's such a twin thing to do, I'm not even surprised.

Grade 4: *grins even wider*

#lol #things kids say #libraryland #librarylife #libraries #school librarian #school libraries #the real life of me #canada #kids are the best #elementary school #kids are funny #twin things

[baconandvibrators]

My 7 year old niece seeing her toy from the new Thor movie that came with her happy meal: oh is this Jamal? I mean Groot?

Us:???????

We still don’t know where Jamal came from but I’ve now decided that Groot’s given name is Jamal but nobody understands him except my niece apparently.

#spoiler alert #it wasn’t Groot either #kids are the best #kids say the darndest things #Thor #groot #guardians of the galaxy #mcu