I’m visiting extended family for the first time in a long time, and one of my nieces has reached the impressionable age where she keeps mimicking things that she sees me do. what’s a really funny but fairly harmless thing I should teach her to do?
I taught my kid to say “mom drinks beer for breakfast” as soon as she could talk. Wasn’t that popular with the family xD
Lol! That reminds me of how (when AOL was thing and I was probably way too young to be on it but would use it to talk to family) my mom had me type out and send “I bought a bunch of cars and RECTUM!” via email or AIM out of nowhere to random family members with no context, even though I had no idea why that was funny, but she thought it was hilarious. Which is pretty damn funny looking back!
Reminds me of the people who taught their bird to say “mom beats me! oOoOoOoOo”
I taught my 18 month year old niece the sound a dinosaur makes. ROOOOOOOAAAR
I have had pretty good luck with doing
High five Up high Down low Too slow
My nephew would just let me do it forever, always trying to beat me on the too slow bit.
Flicking your cheek just right to make the water drop noise
Or making the mouth pop effect with your thumb
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OP, do this one
This is evil
(not exactly the same noise but can be used to the same effect)
How to tie her shoes the instant/quick way. She’ll be the coolest kid to all her peers and even amaze other parents who witness it…
https://youtu.be/Q5qZpQe_4EA?si=6fPhLyHs5BwJoaoA
(I have no affiliation with that channel it was just the first thing that came up when I searched)
Make her chant for trump or biden depending on which will piss the elders off more.
Tell her a fun fact, in your best science teacher tone. It takes one billion microseconds to get to one second. Hopefully she can run with this and ask more questions.
I’m pretty sure that this is wrong? It should be one million. Am I too tired?
My mistake, yes one million.
How to disco.
Gang signs.
That it’s pronounced heliclopter and not helicopter.
My son came up with “epilopter” and that’s what we call them now.
Helico-pter
What I like to do with kids that age is cartwheels. One hand, two hands, one foot, two feet.
Good time to introduce them to interesting foods too.
Spitting watermelon seeds really far is also fun.
The macarena.
Pull my finger.
Greasy, grimy gopher guts
Mutilated monkey meat
Dirty little birdy feet
Floatin in snake eyeballsToo
Bad
I
Forgot
My
Spoon
But I got my straaaaaawwwwww. sluuuuurp
Wow!!! This is fascinating-- I was raised with
Great big gobs of Greasy, Grimy, Gopher Guts Propagated Porcus Puts Sterilized Monkey Eyes, And me without a spoon! scoop Too Bad!
I think my mom was crazy on second thought
A good mom is always a little crazy lol.
I’ve heard that version, and there was a version of the one I wrote out that started “great green gobs” too.
You wanna know what’s surprising though? We were taught the song in school, by the elementary music teacher. She’d come through the district one school at a time, once a week and we’d have music class. Basic rhythm instruments (like those ridged sticks you rub together that we canned rhythm sticks, maracas, cabasas, etc) and folk songs and such.
It was awesome. Mrs Gore was her name. Really tall blonde lady with an incredible voice that had infinite patience with kids that couldn’t sing worth a damn lol.
I’ve never been good at rote memorization, but I remember every damn song she taught us.
Michael row your boat ashore, Puff the magic dragon, she’ll be comin round the mountain, Mary Mack, John Jacob Jingleheimer Smith (usually pronounced Yon Yacob Yingleheimer), and a bunch more.
Oh man, and my entire class when I was in second grade took part in a school show, where each class did a song. We did Amazing Grace, and there were tears among the parents, and not just of boredom or because we sounded like a random group of kids trying to sing lol. We wore these blue vests and pants (I think the girls could choose to wear skirts, I remember that not all did, but not any discussion about it). It was so damn fun.
If you know how, teach her how to whistle real high using the fingers on top of the tongue. One way is by making an O with the thumb and the index finger, bending/rolling your tongue backwards a bit and pressing your fingers against it.
Oh look at Mr You can just do it this way or that way.
I STILL CANT WHISTLE ALL YOU WHISLTING ELITISTS!!!
😭
Me neither. I can buzz my lips to a melody without a needing an actual horn, though.
Do you play a brass instrument?
I did for like a decade. I’d still play, but I was never as good as my peers, and that shit’s expensive.
It still took a long time to nail the exact movements down, after I made the sound accidentally a couple times. There’s no resonance to rely on the way you can for low brass, at least.
