Comment on How to avoid a kid who really likes you?
givesomefucks@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Treat him like a grown up.
Be honest that some people need peace and quiet and while you enjoy spending time with him you can’t handle it all the time.
He’s old enough to understand it, and you’ll do a better job explaining it than some 10 year old he knows from school.
Kids are sponges and learn social cues like that really quickly, but someone has to tell them what’s going on. There is absolutely nothing wrong with telling a kid that age to chill out
kiwifoxtrot@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Treating kids like grown ups is very important for development.
givesomefucks@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It’s what they want more than anything too.
Like, all the tools are baked in, but kids who don’t run into limits grow up to be adults who can’t recognize limits.
Empricorn@feddit.nl 1 day ago
I thought they “yearned for the mines”?
Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
That’s why we gave them minecraft.
Im_old@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Yeah, the AP ones
Phen@lemmy.eco.br 1 day ago
And treating grown ups like kids is useful sometimes too!