@ASAHBI01 The story is a sweet, funny kid moment!
The 4-year-old is literally saying she's constipated. Normally when she poops, her tummy "goes down" (deflates). This time it won't, so her belly is still bloated/full.
Kids describe things so directly—parents overthought it,
Our 4-year-old suddenly came to me, on the verge of tears, saying, "My tummy won't go down anymore."
My husband, unable to grasp the intent, asked, "Do you mean your tummy hurts?" but got scolded with, "No, that's not it!" "When I go poo, my tummy goes down, but it won't this time," she said.
The two of them came to me in bewilderment. For some reason, I immediately
That was the moment I understood something.
The biggest lessons our children learn aren’t from what we tell them.
They’re from the habits we accidentally teach them.
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My husband, when I first visited his family home during our dating days, was warned by his parents, "This guy's an unbelievable rain magnet, so watch out." Ever since, every trip he planned, like the golf outing he took with his friends for the first time without me, and countless other things I can't even list, got drenched in rain. Even when we went to Perth, the days I wanted to visit my spots were perfectly clear skies, but the one he insisted on booking—the one he wanted to go to
On the day of Pinnacles (it's a desert, so it hardly ever rains anyway), it rains. Even on regular days, the moment I step out alone, the rain picks up, and it stops the second I get back home lol
And today was the kindergarten's parent observation day, where only one person can go, but my husband took the morning off and said he wanted to go, so I let him
Then with this weather, they unexpectedly canceled school
I was so looking forward to it, it’s just too heartbreaking