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submitted 2 weeks ago by mybryagoni to c/comicstrips

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[–] [email protected] 93 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

Wild how accurate this is. My five-year-old is tough as nails because we've never once overreacted to her having a spill. Always, always play it cool like nothing even happened. Smile and make light of it. "Holy smokes, kid! You're like a tumbling monkey!" They'll usually realize it was kind of funny.

Unless they get up and start bawling frantically, they're neither hurt nor afraid.

[–] thebestaquaman 29 points 2 weeks ago

Exactly this. I think it's important to make a point out of checking that they're not injured, but without exaggerating the situation. If we adults get stressed out, they're more likely to get stressed/scared as well, even though they're not injured and not even really in pain.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Yeah the accuracy is amazing. My four-year-old got hit by a meteor, and even though earth veered off course and billions died, I never acknowledged it and they're A-OK.

[–] Sam_Bass 6 points 2 weeks ago

Such was the life of little Clark

[+] essell -10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

This is how people end up in therapy thirty years later asking "why has a lifetime of ignoring how I feel Led me into such difficult places in my life?"

[–] LwL 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

But the kid is feeling fine. Ignoring how they feel would, in this case, be acting overly worried.

[–] essell 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

If the kid is feeling fine, yeah.

Its the conditions of worth that get created around it, like rules for life.

[–] Cliff 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

You should totally acknowledge the actual feelings of the kid and give it the sentiment of being taken serious. I think this here is about a phenomenon you might see sometimes, when adults are acting extremely worried as soon as a kid has a little accident and the child starts crying just because of the alarming behavior of the adults.