Kind of sad they "used to". Never forget mushroom bro. ๐ฅฒ
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He was a fun guy ๐ญ
There will always be that fungus among us.
You wouldn't believe what parents make up to get kids to do stuff they don't wanna do. I tell my 4 year old that the boogie man hates reading and stories, so as long as we read a bedtimes story, he won't come to get us.
"The boogie man hates it when you grab daddy a beer"
Yeah, I wish he was tall enough ๐.
why doesn't your kid want to hear stories
IDK, he just doesn't ๐คท.
I think the reading part is boring for him. He's also not really keen on learning new things, he doesn't want to actually turn on his brain, and that makes the learning process kinda harder.
Don't use fear to program your kids. You're confirming the existence of the boogie man to a child, imagine how traumatic it could be for the kid to be left alone in the dark once you leave.
There has to be a better way. Not saying this is messing your kid, I just think it could mess someone's kid. Kids have pretty vivid imagination, I'd never tell them monsters that want to kill them on their sleep exist.
We have tried almost everything else (talking to him about it, puppet play where one puppet reads a story to the other one, us reading stories to each other, etc.), but nothing worked. He's just stubborn, he's like that, ever since he was a toddler. The first word he learned was "no" ๐... and it was the only thing he said for a very long time (3 or 4 months). Why? He just doesn't like to learn new things ๐คท. Actually, he does, but only what peaks HIS interest. Son, that's not how life works...
And I never told him the boogie man was gonna kill us, just get us. He asked me once where is he gonna take us, I told him he was gonna take us far far away and we won't see anyone ever again, not mommy, not grandma/grandpa, not Sofie (this girl from kindergarten he really likes ๐), no one. In fact, he told us a few times (while he was enraged over god knows what, he can be like that) that he was gonna beat us up... have no idea where he heard that, maybe some of the cartoons he watches, IDK... or maybe kindergarten ๐คท. Still, we had a nice little talk over this and I think he started grasping the gravity of what he said because he mentioned it only once after that and immediately showed remourse (he doesn't like to say he's sorry... you have to get it out of him with pliers, lol ๐).
Have you had him tested for ADHD?
No, there are no test like this where I live, we'd have to go abroad for that.
My parents told us we had an older brother who they shipped off to military camp because he was so badly behaved. We never heard from "Oscar Hermes" again. ๐
Are you still traumatized? I need to know more about your experience. My parents told me that at night there's a wolf in town knocking on doors taking misbehaving children. I was scared shitless for a while, I was constantly looking out the window to see if he was walking around down and I was fucking frightened when I heard the door knock or any kind of sound on the stairwell at night, always thinking that he can be here any time to take me.
Sorry you had that experience! In my case my parents were not very good liars so even though I was probably six I could tell it was made up. No trauma ever ๐คท
When my daughter was little i tried to convince her she had a sister but they were never in the same room at the same time so she kept missing her. Even at 6... She didn't buy it
You would have loved me as a little sibling. I believed everything like that
Hey I still have that yellow and blue table
This is hilarious I love it
pretty sure the truth is your dad actually ate him...