@pteryx@196 fun fact about child development: Kids don't develop proper Theory of Mind until they are about 7 years old. Before the age of 7 every child is a little sociopath that is barely capable of comprehending that other people also have feelings.
Its not impossible for them to develop empathy, though it's hard. You can get those Empathy neurons firing by forcing the kid to think about other people's feelings at least once a day. So, any kid with good Empathy just has good parents.
@Shkshkshk@196 Suffice it to say that I suffered through over a decade of "bad classroom management", a lot of which went above and beyond mere attempts at containing screaming and crying... and meanwhile, the "teasers" (the teachers insisted that the verbal bullying be called "teasing") got away scot-free.
I ultimately dropped out of school because of the way the teachers treated me, even two years after they actually finally decided putting the bullies on notice was a worthwhile step.
I feel like I should be concerned about the emotional intelligence of today’s youth, but at the same time I’m imagining this pokemon-esque abomination flying around and saying “Homander” before laser blasting the hell out of things and it makes me giggle as it probably did this child.
As somebody who was a kid once, it’s more likely they ignored the prompt and just drew what they thought was funny instead, because kids don’t often care about doing what’s asked of them. This is absolutely something I would have drawn in first grade or something in response to a prompt like that. Minus the pop culture references because I wasn’t allowed to watch much.
I absolutely would have lied about not understanding it to not get in trouble though.
I could see a kid drawing that, though I think the page has been…edited by somebody. There’s a lot of erased text in that speech bubble, and the “homander” is written in a different hand compared to the rest of the text. It’s too composed compared to the rest of the handwriting, sticks out like a sore thumb. I can read what looks like “shoom, eliminait…whatever the fuck I want” underneath it that looks closer to the rest of the text, but it’s hard to say.
I can’t tell if somebody was okay with everything else but thought the F word was going too far, or what.
@sbv they tend to see clips on either YouTube shorts, TikTok, or incorporated into other things. They don't need to watch the actual show to think Homander is cool
My 5yo started asking a lot of questions about war all of a sudden. The Ukraine war had just started so I figured a bunch of kids saw it on the news with their parents. Turns out these dumb fucks were watching Squid Games with them, so they started playing out executions during recess… Between that and the little boy who was lighting girls’ hair on fire because “girls should cover their head”, she didn’t stay too long in this school.
My 6yo mentioned the war in Ukraine out of the blue the other day, we found out he’s been watching the evening news with his grandpa though.
His buddies at school are Minecraft and Spider-Man obsessed. He’s all about Lego Star Wars so it’s going ok all things considered. Still a bit more violent than the early preschool days.
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