• toynbee@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    When my child was young enough that they couldn’t talk but could express themself, once I put them to bed and told them it was time to sleep. They squinted their eyes to pretend they were closed and said “honk shoo, honk shoo.”

    I was flabbergasted. Turns out their mother had taught them that as a kind of meditation to progress towards sleep, but I didn’t know that and briefly thought they’d manifested it on their own.

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      1 day ago

      Little kids are so funny with this kind of thing. They’ll go from these useless uninteresting helpless little blobs, hit you with a sudden flash of personality, then just sit there and smile/ giggle at your dumbfounded face