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[Parent’s Corner] his question on work
267 sats \ 9 comments \ @cryotosensei 3 Jun alter_native
My six-year-old strikes again.
Upon learning that I went back to school to attend a meeting, he asked in all sincerity, “Why do adults have meetings?”
“So that we can work with one another,” I answered after a brief pause.
“Why?” he asked.
“So that we can create beautiful things,”
“Why?”
“So that the world will be a nicer place,”
“Why?”
“So that you can eat shit” I wanted to put an end to this conversation because he was in a persistent enquiring mood. My six-year-old boy seems to be all about human wastes, so I was just parroting him.
Anyway, I hope that he finds a good reason to explain the purpose of meetings when he grows up.
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24 sats \ 2 replies \ @flat24 3 Jun
Believe me at any time will stop doing what I call the "Bur mode of why?" And you will miss it.
My daughter did not stop doing it when I was between 5 and 6 years old.
Now your questions and conversations are much more fluid and does not fall into the loop, which used to lead us to very crazy and fun answers.
Something I used to do was answer the first with coherent context. After the Quito "why?" I began to invent fun and crazy things, which finally led us to a moment of high doses of laughter.
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @cryotosensei OP 4 Jun
Ya I think the inconsequential conversations are what we remember most
How old is she now?
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @flat24 4 Jun
8 💕
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24 sats \ 1 reply \ @Undisciplined 3 Jun
We have to make things other people want, so that they'll make things for us.
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @cryotosensei OP 4 Jun
I will try this answer next time now that he is fascinated with Minecraft
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24 sats \ 1 reply \ @grayruby 3 Jun
Haha. At least you didn't say "meetings are for fucking spiders".
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @cryotosensei OP 4 Jun
Omg
Hopefully it will take him ages to learn the f word, but knowing kids these days…
He has learnt “Shut Up” from school 😱
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24 sats \ 1 reply \ @guerratotal 3 Jun
Honestly, your kid might be onto something. Most meetings could probably be summarized as "gathering to generate highly sophisticated, well-compensated... fertilizer."
But hey, sometimes from all that... compost, something useful actually grows — like ideas, projects, or maybe just the realization that it could’ve been an email.
Tell him he’s asking the right questions. Stay curious, little sensei. The world desperately needs more people who ask “why” until the nonsense collapses.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @cryotosensei OP 4 Jun
Let’s hope the education system doesn’t squeeze his curiosity out of him haha
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