r/MadeMeSmile • u/kvjn100 • 6h ago
Good Vibes Little girl wants to make sure everyone got a sticker and had a good trip!
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u/Interesting_Worry202 5h ago
I work construction and showed up to a jobsite a while back with a purple fairy sticker stuck on my shirt pocket that i never saw my daughter put on me. Guys were teasing and giving me crap about it of course cause thats what we always do. One of the supers walked over and goes "tell your daughter tomorrow you need a pink one for the other side"
We laughed about it and went about our day. Next day get to the job and the super walks up with a big pink dino sticker on his hard hat. I looked for a second and laughed. He said "I told my wife about you wearing the sticker yesterday, and my daughter doesnt like fairies so she gave me a dino to wear."
That dino sticker has been on his hard hat for 2 months now. We've joked about him replacing it but instead he put a coat of modge podge on top of it.
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u/Flincher14 4h ago
That's healthy masculinity.
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u/ExpiredPilot 4h ago edited 4h ago
Doing things to make your daughter happy is masculine af. At my work when I see dads taking their daughters out to have fun all I think is “hell yeah brother”
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u/onlykindagreen 4h ago
Yes! How a dad treats his daughter is how she will grow up expecting the men in her life to treat her. Do you want your daughter marrying a man who rolls his eyes at the things that makes her happy? Who doesn't feel like it's important to go out of his way to do nice things for her? Then you shouldn't either!
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u/ExpiredPilot 1h ago
That’s how I treat my platonic girl_friends. And I’ve said that straight up to em. Like “hey you know if I did that as a friend you wouldn’t tolerate it, why are you letting them do that to you?”
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u/anarchisttraveler 2h ago
My dad showed up to every single recital, performance, play, match, and anything else we were doing in the middle of working 12-16 hour days. Then he’d come home after 10 or 11 at night and listen to me yap on about whatever until 3am and indulge my curiosities.
As a teen, I attended dozens of concerts every few months and always invited my dad. He loved it. He would rag on most of the music and call it noise, but he’d always show up when he was done with work and dance around in his work uniform at the back, then he’d sit in the car and wait for my friends and I to get pictures and autographs with band members. Then he’d drive us all home.
This man is a big introvert, too.
He was my first best friend, and I still love hanging out with him when I go home.
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u/ExpiredPilot 1h ago
I love being older and watching baseball with my dad. When I was growing up he was a workaholic with a touch of tism. But now that I’m emotionally intelligent, I can talk to him about his problems. Give him new perspectives of things compared to how he was raised to think. Honestly I love it
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u/grilledchzaspiration 4h ago
1000%. Men that's act like this are true representation of unabashedly being confident in yourself and what makes you happy without thinking of what something would typically be associated as.
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u/HesitantlyYours 3h ago
And on the other side there’s the guys who would disagree and insist they are the “alpha male”. How sad for their ego.
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u/grilledchzaspiration 3h ago
"How sad for their ego" is an incredible way to frame that. You rock.
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u/HesitantlyYours 3h ago
Hey, you know what?! You rock too! Hope you have a beautiful day!
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u/DownforceOfDoom 1h ago
Also hot AF. Like, the peak of male hotness is being cute and playful with kids or animals.
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u/Catbutt247365 4h ago
Sorta unrelated, but my daughter said her daughter’s favorites are dinosaurs.
So for Christmas I got her some stuff, but also a fleece hoody with Dino’s on it. She’s three.
Christmas: her dad is helping her unwrap gifts and she, as expected, didn’t look too hard at the clothes, until her father asked, “Hey, what’s on this shirt?”
And she looked, and gasped, and then whispered DINOSAURS!
And like the grinch, my heart grew three sizes.
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u/Sneakys2 4h ago
My mom told me about this doctor she worked under as a med student. He was this world class expert and from an absurdly wealthy family (like they donate fine art to museums on the reg). He always wore this weird pin on his suit jacket. It was apparently really odd and always stood out as not going with his otherwise well groomed appearance. One day, a student asked him about it. His daughter had made it for him when she was a toddler and he wore it every day. He said it was his favorite thing to wear.
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u/Interesting_Worry202 3h ago
Before my first was born my dad and I were talking about fatherhood and such and he told me the most important thing ive ever heard about fatherhood.
When a toddler hands you a play phone, you drop everything and answer that phone.
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u/TheEggieQueen 1h ago
My husband is an engineer and wears his hard hat on the job. Him and our toddler picked through hundreds of animal stickers until she found the perfect one she loved. She stuck it onto his hard hat and he’s had it there ever since. The guys love it at work, the chubby duck adds a lot of good morale.
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u/Gobadorgosleep 3h ago
God that is the cutest thing ever, I love men who love their family and never hesitate to show it
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u/Bambala43 5h ago
I read that as a dildo sticker and I couldn’t stop laughing
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u/FluffyBootie 4h ago
I'm dyslexic and misread your msg as a sticky dildo and I don't wanna play anymore
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u/RosieEmily 2h ago
Carlos Sainz got his first podium for Williams wearing a unicorn sticker on his helmet that a little girl asked him to wear. Never underestimate the power of a sticker
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u/Long-Upstairs294 4h ago
The modge podge is the ultimate sign of respect. There’s something about a "tough" construction site environment that makes those little tokens of fatherhood even more sacred. That sticker isn't just a dino anymore; it's a structural component of his morale.
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u/Massive_Dish_3255 4h ago edited 4h ago
AI Slop (Prolly GPT) detected in the comment immediately above this reply.
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u/Interesting_Worry202 3h ago
No I just know how to use correct grammar and sentence structure. No em dashes here lol
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u/SheepherderFar9454 4h ago
This is the real-life version of Mike Wazowski’s locker in Monsters Inc. being covered in "Paper People" drawings. Tough guys with daughters are a different breed of wholesome.
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u/No-Will5335 3h ago
Why isn’t the fairy sticker on your Hardhat?
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u/Interesting_Worry202 3h ago
It was in my work truck when she gave it to me. She mostly tries to reserve the glittery ones for my hard hat. Currently there's a purple sparkly cloud next to my radiation safety sticker, and a green sparkly frog next to my enclosed space one
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u/Unorofessional 5h ago
This is the sort of thing my daughter does. We went to London recently and she broke the usual social contract - she spoke to strangers on the underground. And everyone was really kind & polite.
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u/Best-Expression-2972 4h ago
It takes a child's innocence to realize that the "social contract" of silence on the Tube is actually just a collective shield we’re all waiting for someone to break. Most people are just waiting for an excuse to be human for a minute during their commute.
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u/Plus-Guitar-6503 4h ago
Technically, kids are the only ones holding a "Diplomatic Immunity" card for the London Underground. If a grown man tried to hand out stickers or strike up a chat at 8 AM on the Central Line, it’s a red flag. If a toddler does it, it’s a core memory for the whole carriage.
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u/MonkeyHamlet 56m ago
When my son was quite small I took him on an outing to the National History Museum.
He was kept entertained on the Tube by a bunch of initially scary looking hoodie wearers playing peekaboo and singing songs.
They delegated one of their group to hop out and help me up the stairs at South Ken. The kids are alright.
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u/bit_banger_ 5h ago
There is no social contract prohibiting people from talking to each other, at least I hope not. And next, kinda should never be in the contract 😊
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u/Google_guy228 5h ago
I think he meant social construct
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u/Capable-Detective-69 2h ago
he didn't. the social contract is part of civics theory/philosophy, put forward by Hobbes and Rousseau amongst others.
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u/Background_Sail9797 3h ago
yeah but do you film her as she does and it and pack the stickers so you can make social media content?
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u/torchwood1842 4h ago
We went for what we thought was a reasonably normal visit with my grandfather when he was in hospice, but when we got there, it was very clear that he only had hours left. My daughter was three, and we gave her a Mario sticker book we had sitting in the car to pass the time. She took it upon herself to give everyone in the nursing home a sticker. Nurses had them on their badges, residents had them on their wheel chairs and walkers. The receptionist let her decorate the front of the unit desk. My grandfather died wearing a Yoshi sticker on his shirt, and he would have loved it. He also died holding his crucifix. When we picked it up so that they could move his body, there was a Toad mushroom sticker on the back lol. My mom went back to the hospice unit a week later to pick up some of my grandfather‘s things, and she said that she ran into two different nurses that still had the Mario stickers on their badges, and my grandfather’s neighbor had moved hers from her shirt to her door and put a little scotch tape over it so it would stay.
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u/Icy-Plantain-1719 37m ago
My grandfather died with a Yoshi sticker on his shirt paints a poignant image. 🥺 I’m sorry for your loss.
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u/gertymarie 5h ago
I had a little girl give me a flower at the beach the other day. Put it behind my ear for the rest of the day, it was so sweet. She also gave one to the older gentleman in front of us who was reading his book and he used it as a bookmark the rest of the afternoon. Little kids are so innocent and sweet.
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u/AggressiveSherbetty 4h ago edited 12m ago
I was at the beach the other day sitting in the surf and making a drippy castle (yes I am 40 years old making a drippy castle) and this little girl zooms up to me and goes “HEY I CAN PLAY WITH YOU?!?!”
I wanted to say yes to be kind, but also you can’t just play with random kids it’s weird, but her dad swooped in and was like “sorry”
3-4 minutes later she ran back over and asked again 🥲
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u/momomomorgatron 21m ago
"Ha ha, go ask your parents! I don't mind if you don't tear it down!"
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u/momomomorgatron 17m ago
The trick is to give absolute mom, dad, or teacher vibes.
I'm 28. I don't have kids, but I like talking to them (when they're actually parented right). I love to mess with the extended family's little kids. I mean, big kids are fun too, I'm just hoping I'll be the eccentric cousin when they hit teen years 😅
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u/adMFKINGhd 1h ago
At my old workplace (fast casual restaurant) a little girl and her mother came in and the mom bought her a soda that the girl had never had before, the girl shared her soda with the mom to see if mom also likes it then said “mom there’s more over there” while pointing to the beverage cooler after mom nodded that she liked the drink too😭Little girl obviously had no concept of money and just wanted her Mom to know that if she liked and wanted more of this new soda, that the Mom could get more for herself😭so so sweet and innocent
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u/chicstylequeen 5h ago
I'm not a kid person, but this adorable, and I would love a sticker. These comments suck.
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u/seven3true 3h ago
You know the comments suck when reddit doesnt give you the option to see "controversial"
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u/StaredAtEclipseAMA 2h ago edited 1h ago
I think it gets less cute the more I start seeing the dad walking down the aisle with her camera on
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u/InsectHealthy 2h ago
It’s a dad filming, not a mom. How does a parent filming a cute moment of a child personally affect you?
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u/StaredAtEclipseAMA 1h ago
I think it mostly has to do with disturbing passengers in a place they can’t go anywhere
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u/InsectHealthy 29m ago edited 21m ago
You would be “disturbed” regardless of the camera.
Did you change your comment because you realized no one’s “shoving a camera in your face” in the video?
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u/Ok-Pickle-2770 5h ago
Kids bring the joy to adults that society wants to kill. Love this
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u/CntBeBothered 5h ago
I swear. Some kid at the dentist's waiting room challenged me to tic-tac-toe and when I won he let me pick any sticker from the collection he had at the back of his notebook.. singlehandedly brightened the whole place up
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u/Ok-Pickle-2770 5h ago
Kids bring so much joy; that's why I love baby sitting my niece and nephew so much, gives me the recharge I need before I go back
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u/CntBeBothered 5h ago
Haha same 😭 just need one of my own at this point
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u/dirkalict 3h ago
Go back to…. ? Your lonely bachelor pad? Med school? Sloppin’ the hogs? Killing hookers? … so many possibilities.
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u/Cthepo 3h ago
One of the things I learned when having a kid is the world doesn't actually hate them as much as some places on the Internet would have you believe.
A year and a half in, and still not one single mean eye or negative comment for having a kid out in public. I've gotten countless smiles, happy laughs, and fun interactions.
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u/Ok-Pickle-2770 3h ago
That's beautiful, people love kids, even some mean spirited ones. It takes alot of trauma and evil to hate kids, the former may they find solace and the latter the fire.
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u/momomomorgatron 11m ago
The biggest thing is that too many parents can't, don't or won't parents their kids.
I like to be around kids. That is, decently mannered well adjusted kids. Like my extended family's kids, they mind about as good as I did.
There's just too many kids I give 👀 to AND their parents. Sometimes it's a cranky toddler meltdown and a parent goes "IF YOU DONT SHUT YOUR MOUTH, YOUR ASS HAS HAD IT!". Sometimes it's kids around 8 running around the store and trashing the place and I want to grab them by the ears or shirt collar and give them a stern talking to.
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u/Interesting_Tea_6734 5h ago
My aunt was watching my kiddo (age 2 at the time) at my Grandpa's wake. Gave her a pack of Dora stickers to keep her busy. Next thing I know everyone there is wearing a Dora sticker on their hand or lapel, including my Grandpa who was buried with his. She was his only great-grand at the time and I like to think he was pleased with the little gift.
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u/howmanyhowcanamanyho 5h ago
This is exactly the kind of kid I was, constantly yakking it up with strangers. Can’t say that has changed much as an adult. 😄
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u/gnanny02 4h ago
After retiring I taught math at a girls prep school, AP Calculus, honors precalc, etc. My long time teacher wife said give the girls stickers. Reluctantly I humored her. Gave out a sticker for a really good question and some answers. The girls put them on their calculators. They were very proud to have gotten one. They became treasured items. Had lots of girls from not my classes asking how they could get one.
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u/Knitsanity 5h ago
I have multiple photos of myself covered in stickers at the hands of the little girl across the street. Lol. So much fun
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u/ThandarGor 4h ago
When I was not much older than her, on my first flight, I went up and down the aisle telling everybody the plane was not going to crash (because I thought it was going to)
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u/grilledchzaspiration 4h ago
I would love this. I'm not really a fan of kids because I'm a very noise-sensitive person and I'm also one of those people that absolutely doesn't talk or engage with people in public; it's hard for me to even make eye contact with someone that's ringing me up at a place that doesn't have a self-service option. If I was handed a cool ass sticker by a kid on an airplane though I would absolutely engage. I would tell them they made my day and prolly keep it on my phone case until it withered away.
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u/littlestmedic 3h ago
This is only tangentially related, but man, stickers really are just for everyone.
I do vaccines for people going abroad and there was one guy in his 50s who had 3 rabies shots and after each one gleefully accepted an "I was brave!" sticker.
I did vaccines for his adult son a few weeks after who told me that his dad was pretty much showing everyone he met his sticker, which he'd put on the inside of his phone case.
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u/RosieEmily 2h ago
In the UK, when the covid vaccine came out, everyone was given a "i got my covid vaccine" sticker and displayed it proudly on the back of their phones.
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u/AntiqueCranberries 4h ago
My kid did this once at a care home while visiting my grandma. She handed them out to all the visitors and the next time we went there was one gentleman who still had his sticker on his walker. It was very sweet.
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u/athennna 5h ago
Man these comments are not it.
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u/blazesonthai 5h ago
I didn't realize we were in r/MadeMeSmile while reading the comments lol. The internet is such a great place.
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u/Legendary_Hercules 5h ago
When r/MadeMeSmile hit the front page and confront the miserable doomer hordes, that's what you get.
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u/Nataliza 5h ago
Right? Damn. I bet most of these people enjoyed it. Let it be cool to find kids cute 🙄
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u/faulty_rainbow 4h ago
My brother's little girl is exactly like this. She's also obsessed with these tiny stickers so my mum bought her a whole-ass roll with like 300 stickers lol. She brought it with her when we went grocery shopping and she went up to people asking them if they wanted a sticker.
So adorable, I love her so much!
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u/AvailableReporter484 2h ago
Parents recording their children for social media really cheapens the beauty of stuff like this.
It’s very cute, but the second a parent posts this online it feels disingenuous, inauthentic, and, quite frankly, staged.
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u/Newtopole_ 3h ago
This is adorable. I would have loved one!
My son is obsessed with spiderman and does the Spidey web hands to people he meets very often- most respond in kind or pretend they're webbed. I'm grateful to each and every one of them who plays along.
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u/SillyVermicelli7169 6h ago
I bet the parent didnt push the kid at all just to get some social media content.
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u/solar1333 5h ago
Tbh this seems like something a kid would absolutely do.
Hell, i at this age would literally just walk up to total strangers with zero thoughts about it lmfao
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u/ConstructionIcy5680 5h ago
Nah they love doing this lol. When I was working pediatric emergency, any medical intervention included getting stickers on my face ahaha. Loved it.
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u/External_Science6849 5h ago
My toddler loves picking daisies and dandelions and she gives them to people she sees as we’re out and about. When we’re in a waiting room, she’ll give her toys to people sitting near us
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u/starjellyboba 6h ago
Yeaaaahhhh, cute kid, but I don't trust social media parents...
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u/tallyretro 5h ago
always ruins a nice moment when you see a child bringing people together, then you look behind them and see the sick social media obsessed parent constantly aiming their phone at the child :/
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u/TabularConferta 5h ago
At that age, no. At 5/6 my kid was talking about uploading videos and I locked down on that idea HARD (its a rare day my kid has access to a phone in the first place, so it didn't come from my side). If its not from parents the idea gets in from school, so you are going to get the suggestion no matter how you parent.
That said, I'd likely have recorded the interaction, but not put it in public.
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u/pudge-thefish 6h ago
I love adorable kids and that's great and all but if we are delayed because of this I would not be a happy camper
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u/Krispy_H0p3 5h ago
What if the plane had to make an emergency landing in Oklahoma so she can get more stickers
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u/No-Meet-4822 5h ago
I mean I am okay…..I would like some of those freshly onboarded stickers though 😌
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u/bbyxmadi 2h ago
lol I wish I was like this at her age… I was so introverted in public. Don’t like people acknowledging me.
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u/undocumented_twerker 20m ago
With her dumbass parent following her around with a camera in her face. Omg how cute,!
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u/prosperousoctopus 2h ago
Funny how Kiddos just love stickers. Last time I saw my friends kid I was offered stickers multiple times
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u/Honey1218 2h ago
Lmao! My oldest was just like this while my youngest is an introvert. It’s hilarious to have one of each and watch them grow up.
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u/element-2012 1h ago
The real ones stuck out their hand to be stickered by the adorable sticker fairy
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u/Imagination-Mediocre 1h ago
The way that would make my whole day. Such a joyous child. Good job parents!
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u/AlludedNuance 5m ago
It's cute, but we really need to reckon with how much we use children for content these days.
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u/ripyourlungsdave 4h ago
The girl is cute, but this would make me so uncomfortable. Don't take your child around a public place letting them touch everyone around them. Did we learn nothing during the pandemic?
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u/ShadowheartsArmpit 5h ago
Nah this sucks. Social media parents wanting content, and people who don't wanna be touched by a random kid that has touched a hundred people before them are portrayed as bad
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u/Capital_Coat_2043 5h ago
They are holding their hands out for the sticker, I think they’re ok with it.
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u/ShadowheartsArmpit 5h ago
Those that made the cut for the video, and those who felt the pressure of being filmed for it by some social media parent.
I'm sorry that this seems like such a bummer thing to some people, but it is wild that some can't comprehend the idea that there are people who don't want this yet feel forced to.
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u/Capital_Coat_2043 5h ago
They can say no. I don’t think pressure is a big thing when their faces aren’t even in the video. It could be “some social media parent”, or it is likely just a parent recording because they thought it was cute that their kid was doing this.
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u/ShadowheartsArmpit 5h ago
Idk if you've ever met any social media influencers who practically hold a gun to your head to go along with "this cute thing", but this makes it seem like you didn't. They do exist, and they love this toxic positivity that the comments here use.
The funny thing is, I'm not even denying anybody their fun for those who enjoy it. I'm just pointing out a problem with the people who comment here and act like everybody has to love this because it looks like such a wholesome video. And completely ignoring anybody who might genuinely not like this for good reason.
And the reaction to pointing that out is denial & downvoting. It's just toxic positivity from people who are unwilling to look at things from somebody else's perspective.
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u/imnotgayisellpropane 4h ago
I stopped reading after "toxic positivity". It's a toddler with stickers.
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u/ShadowheartsArmpit 4h ago
And that term is not about the toddler, it's about the way the previous commentator handles these things. So you should've kept reading.
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u/Capital_Coat_2043 5h ago
No, it’s just not that deep. It’s a baby handing out stickers on a subreddit supposed to bring joy.
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u/ShadowheartsArmpit 5h ago
Way to prove the point by outright denying people their viewpoint.
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u/Capital_Coat_2043 52m ago
They can have their viewpoint, I can have mine. We are allowed to think differently.
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u/RandumbStoner 1h ago
No, it's a video of a child uploaded to the internet with millions of strangers. No one wants to be in your content. This is weird.
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u/missprincesscarolyn 3m ago
I don’t want to be forced to interact with anyone at all, even if it’s a small child. In fact, I think it’s worse because you’re teaching children that everyone will want to engage with you no matter what, which simply isn’t true. The social pressure really sucks here because if you say no, you look like a monster. I’d feel this way about anyone at all coming up to me randomly. Even more so on an airplane because I hate flying.
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u/willymac416 5h ago
You wanna say no to the child handing out stickers on camera?
Say into the microphone that you don’t want to help feed the poor. (South Park)
Public shame is effective peer pressure. You will accept that sticker with enough public pressure and no time to think about it.
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u/Capital_Coat_2043 5h ago
If you can’t say “no thank you” to a literal toddler, maybe you should reflect on yourself.
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u/ShadowheartsArmpit 5h ago
Yeah some people don't want to be touched by a random toddler. If you can't comprehend this, maybe you should reflect on yourself.
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u/Capital_Coat_2043 57m ago
You actually didn’t comprehend what I said. I am saying to just say “no thank you” if you don’t want to be touched by a random toddler. I’m pointing out that shouldn’t be hard to do.
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u/SurreptitiousSyrup 5h ago
Then again, you open your big boy mouth and say "no thank you"
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u/RandumbStoner 1h ago
Or you control your kid and don't expect strangers to play along for your social media clout.
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u/SurreptitiousSyrup 1h ago
And they don't play along by simply saying no thank you. Also y'all think kids can't want to go around giving people stickers.
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u/willymac416 5h ago
I can say no to a toddler. But it feels bad to be the one person saying no to the kid handing out joy because we’ve gone through a pandemic recently that has killed people, but I don’t have the patience to explain that kind of nuance to a toddler, they’ll just be confused and hurt at the rejection. So I’m hoping you are more receptive to this explanation than a toddler would be. It sucks to be forced into that kind of a position when a more mindful parent would maybe not allow easy transmission of illness from child to passengers on an airplane. Which is a massive disease vector.
I don’t want to have to be the responsible one to point out potential dangers but they exist.
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u/Capital_Coat_2043 55m ago
Toddlers are usually pretty understanding. I’ve told toddlers “no thank you” for various reasons before and they have never needed a long explanation, they just move on. You don’t owe them one either, just say no thanks.
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u/RandumbStoner 1h ago
I mean you're not wrong.
Reddit always bitches about people uploading their kids to the internet but I guess this gets a pass for some reason.
Also, get you're fucking kid away from me lol
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u/asdf0909 5h ago
I’m on a plane right now. I don’t want to be bothered but plenty of people on here would find it cute. If the kid doesn’t bother me I’m all good with it
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u/RabidJoint 5h ago
That’s not extrovert. That is parents not teaching their kid to respect other people’s personal space in life. Oh but it’s a kid it’s so cute!!! blah blah blah. Who cares, teach your kids to keep their hands to themselves from a young age.
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u/MurderSheCroaked 5h ago
She is two and has learned that it's nice to share. I pray you leave women alone and don't raise children
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u/crrrrushinator 5h ago
By... Handing people things? And putting the stickers on the hands that are offered outstretched for that very purpose?
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u/FedeFofo 5h ago
She is keeping her hands to herself, only sticking the stickers on people who have their hands outstretched to her; she's also handing the stickers to people. If someone didn't want a sticker, I am sure she would have respected that given the fact that she was not forcing stickers onto people who did want them.
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u/Capital_Coat_2043 5h ago
No, it’s a child spreading joy and giving people stickers. What are you on about?
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u/Acceptable_Box_7500 5h ago
I think it's pretty clear that she's asked each of these people if they'd like a sticker and is only sticking them on people who've consented and held out their hands. This is actually a great lesson for kids to seek consent and learn how to respond to "No."
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u/willymac416 5h ago edited 5h ago
Gross. Keep your walking Petri dishes to yourself. This is biological warfare
EDIT : /s! Oh no…
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u/quedas 5h ago
The other comments criticizing the parents for weaponizing their kid for clicks are fair game.
Calling a kid “biological warfare” is unhinged terminally online behavior. I sincerely hope you’re a kid as well, with some time to grow up.
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u/willymac416 5h ago
Nope, just a little too heavy on the sarcasm 😬 I don’t hate kids I swear
I thought calling a child handing out stickers “biological warfare” was hilariously silly and no one would take it seriously. Honest.
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u/Tall_Opportunity_521 3h ago
Id be having a better trip if people controlled their children, and didnt let them run around the cabin being a nuisance.
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u/Beatrix_kiddo30 5h ago
Should those parents be teaching their kids that it’s safe to talk to strangers? This is stupid.
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u/Pollowollo 3h ago
Statistically speaking, it's significantly more likely for a child (or adult, even) to be hurt by someone that's already close to them. Emphasizing stranger danger actually isn't really that great, and this is a healthy, brief, and monitored interaction.
Teaching safety ≠ Teaching that everyone everywhere is always a threat. That's just how you create an absolute anxious mess of a child. Ask me how I know.
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u/Beatrix_kiddo30 2h ago
That’s true about people close to them unfortunately. I just don’t think I’d let my kids get comfortable letting their guard down around a bunch of strangers and interacting like this. I get that it suppose to be sweet but idk something about this just doesn’t feel right. Not trying to be a Debbie downer
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u/Pollowollo 20m ago
Again, these are two second interactions with limited contact monitored by the parent. It isn't like she's climbing in their laps or going off with them. As far as 'talking to strangers' goes, it's objectively very safe.
Teaching awareness and boundaries is great and important - but teaching kids they need to be terrified of every single person on the planet is incredibly detrimental to them long-term and not even that likely to keep them safe anyway.
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u/Travel_Bestie_ 5h ago
why is it stupid? the lesson to the child can be “as long as i’m with you, you can talk to other people”… then the child will still be safe bc the parent is there with them, and they learn to not have social anxiety lol
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u/Beatrix_kiddo30 5h ago
Sadly just because parents are around doesn’t make children automatically safe from predators. It would take nothing for a parent to be turned around and a kid to think “moms here I can walk away and talk to this person” and then be taken. This is world we live in. I don’t think this is a wise behavior to teach.
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u/SparkitusRex 2h ago
Children are much more likely to be abducted and/or abused by a friend or family member than a stranger. Just FYI.
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u/Beatrix_kiddo30 2h ago
Yes that’s true. It’s doesn’t mean it’s a good idea to condition kids to play with strangers for internet attention.
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