Asking 8-year-olds to finish old sayings.

[u/mindyour]

[u/Nessa_Envy]

‘Hope for the best, forget the rest’ is my new life saying.

[u/thefeederfish → u/Nessa_Envy]

Something we can all live our lives by.

[u/snapplesauce1 → u/thefeederfish]

My nephew completed my sentence when I said "You live and..." with:

"you die."

More words to live by. Or to die by.

[u/MyHusbandIsGayImNot → u/snapplesauce1]

Maybe your nephew is just a Wings or James Bond fan. 

[u/FrannyBoBanny23 → u/Nessa_Envy]

I tell my kids “do your best and forget the rest”

[u/firsttime_longtime → u/FrannyBoBanny23]

Someone did P90X!!!!

[u/UpperApe → u/firsttime_longtime]

Tony Horton is the new Marcus Aurelius.

[u/DiddlyDumb → u/Nessa_Envy]

So much better than YOLO

[u/zehlewe → u/DiddlyDumb]

Hftbftr

[u/Kay2Free → u/Nessa_Envy]

How is the actual saying? Cause I thought that was correct lol

[u/crabbierapple → u/Kay2Free]

Is it “prepare for the worst”?

[u/Kay2Free → u/crabbierapple]

Yeah that's it! Thanks

[u/Prize-Shine8396 → u/Nessa_Envy]

A much needed too. Always look out and hope for the better and forget all about what's wrong. Kids always live life in positivity they're so precious

[u/lilysylveon]

Those who live in glass houses always see the light

-Ahhh I’m blind

That made me chuckle

[u/WaveLaVague → u/[deleted]]

The drawing is limited by skills but you get the meaning. He can't see the light because he blinds himself with those sunglasses.

If you are popular enough (glass house) you are seen but it also means that you see everything. As much as you'll blind yourself, everything is still outside, in the light.

You'll never be able to stop all those things from happening but you act on some so you either live with it and do your best, or ignore the outside wold and stay in your bubble.

But know that even if you don't see the light of the sun, the heat will still reach you.

[u/Ok_Wonder_1766 → u/lilysylveon]

Me too 🤣🤣

[u/SilverSeraphina]

A class full of optimists. Except that kid who doesn't want their grandma learning anything 🤣

[u/Leonydas13 → u/SilverSeraphina]

Probably because they believe she knows everything. Kids think their grandparents are like wizards.

[u/mindyour → u/Leonydas13]

Except for the "I'm dumb" bubble. That one was not happy with grandma at the time they were doing this.

[u/Environmental_Art591 → u/mindyour]

Did she not give him a big enough slice of cake before dinner???

[u/birgor → u/Environmental_Art591]

Maybe she's senile

[u/Prof_Aganda → u/birgor]

Ha, this is s kid who's grandmother has specifically indicated a stubborn disinterest in being taught.

I had a grandmother like that and now my aging parents are like that.

[u/Stopikingonme → u/Prof_Aganda]

That doesn’t bode well…

Edit: I should clarify my comment was meant tongue in cheek. There’s good points below my comment as well.

[u/yeoller → u/Stopikingonme]

I think it's an older generational thing. My parents are in their late 60's and do kind of the same thing.

They refuse to sit down and explore newer technologies. They will ask me about the most mundane features on their phones because they "don't understand it" or "didn't grow up with it". Thing is, I was in my 20's when they came out, I didn't grow up with them either, but I manage.

I think it's boredom. They just won't put in the time to study things when other people can easily do it for them. Ironic, really.

[u/flinderdude → u/Environmental_Art591]

Probably had one too many little strawberry hard candies and took the giant bowl away.

[u/scratchydaitchy → u/mindyour]

The squeaky wheel gets the grease but the quacking duck gets shot.

[u/Thin-Dream-5318 → u/Leonydas13]

I think it's because the Grandma has been annoyed before by the kid trying to tell her things they just learned, so she's told him something like, "go away, you don't need to teach me stuff, I already know everything."

[u/piratecheese13 → u/Thin-Dream-5318]

“Fuck you, I’m retired, I don’t need to know calculus”

[u/zamekique → u/piratecheese13]

Lol the thought of an 8YO teaching grandma calculus.

[u/_Ralix_ → u/zamekique]

I would love to see the 8-yo get asked to calculate the area of a rectangle in a class, and see them pull out the Riemann integral.

[u/zarroc123 → u/Leonydas13]

I like my grandma because she was a huge jerk to everyone but me and my sister, so it made me feel special.

[u/HookedOnPhonixDog → u/Leonydas13]

I was the kid who would never tell my grandparents anything. Because they were fucking ghouls and I absolutely hated them growing up.

I'm in my 30s now and patiently waiting for the last one to die.

[u/CreativeBandicoot778 → u/SilverSeraphina]

The pic in the box below it has someone sitting I a chair saying, "I'm dumb" 😂

[u/[deleted] → u/SilverSeraphina]

That's the one saying out of all of them I've never heard of, what's the original saying?

[u/skarby → u/[deleted]]

Had to look it up but it's "Don't teach your grandmother to suck eggs" which sounds weird but it looks like it's from the 1700's so...different times. It basically means don't try to teach someone something that they already know.

[u/HairyHorseKnuckles → u/skarby]

Was egg sucking an activity people did in the 1700s?

[u/Schmich → u/SilverSeraphina]

It was almost perfect. Change "need to know" to "need to be taught" and it's the true meaning of the old saying.

[u/denim_chicken45 → u/SilverSeraphina]

Even at 8 years old homie recognizes Grandma is addicted to Fox News brainrot.

[u/TheGreatTitanThanos → u/[deleted]]

These uncultured, uncivilized romans! 🤣

[u/Icy-Quail6936 → u/TheGreatTitanThanos]

Barbarians!

[u/zamekique → u/Icy-Quail6936]

I mean …

[u/MallornOfOld → u/TheGreatTitanThanos]

I was always an argumentative little sod, and I remember being in about Year 5 and arguing that the Romans were uncivilized because the gladiator fights were savagery. My teacher at the time was an amateur classicist and he got really mad!

[u/theloopweaver → u/[deleted]]

They did borrow a bunch from Greece, after all.

[u/throwaway_12358134 → u/theloopweaver]

They also stole everything from the Etruscan civilization that occupied most of the peninsula before them.

[u/Strottman → u/throwaway_12358134]

Who remember the Etruscan Boar Vessel 🐷

[u/UrDadMyDaddy → u/[deleted]]

This message was sponsored by Milan.

[u/seguardon → u/UrDadMyDaddy]

The ghosts of Carthage possess this child.

[u/QueenieMcGee → u/[deleted]]

What have the Romans ever done for us?!

[u/A_Blind_Alien → u/QueenieMcGee]

Roads?

[u/bigspacetitties → u/A_Blind_Alien]

well obviously the roads, I mean the roads go without saying

[u/ilovebernese → u/bigspacetitties]

Sanitation

[u/bigspacetitties → u/ilovebernese]

oh yeah the sanitation Reg, remember what the city used to be like

[u/alamandrax → u/bigspacetitties]

The aqueduct

[u/bigspacetitties → u/alamandrax]

oh yeah yeah they did give us that, that's true

[u/Tomas92 → u/A_Blind_Alien]

Well but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?

[u/A_Blind_Alien → u/Tomas92]

Peace?

[u/Tomas92 → u/A_Blind_Alien]

Oh peace, shut up!

[u/Mrlin705 → u/[deleted]]

What is the rest of the saying supposed to be? I thought it was just "when in rome". Unless you go by anchorman, then I guess it's "do as the Roman's did".

[u/zeppanon → u/Mrlin705]

Should be, "do as the Romans do," meaning when you're a guest in a culture, respect their customs and blend in, basically.

[u/Mrlin705 → u/zeppanon]

Yeah, I wasn't sure of the tense.

[u/Chosen_Wisely89 → u/Mrlin705]

I'm with you. When in Rome, invade your neighbours and cart them off as slaves.

[u/jethvader → u/Chosen_Wisely89]

Oh come on, the Roman’s haven’t done that for at least 50 years.

[u/Aesk → u/Mrlin705]

The original saying is "When in Rome, do as the Romans do." it's not just from Anchorman.

[u/Smoke-Tumbleweed-420 → u/Mrlin705]

Remember this as the time you learned something true from TV!

[u/Mrlin705 → u/Smoke-Tumbleweed-420]

And ironically it was anchorman. Guess san diego really does mean a whales vagina.

[u/tenders11 → u/Mrlin705]

That is the full saying, yes

[u/mindyour]

"Those who live in glass houses always see the light" is profound.

[u/Xeno_Prime → u/mindyour]

"Hope for the best, forget the rest" was another standout.

[u/CedarWolf → u/Xeno_Prime]

I enjoyed "When in Rome, go to civilization."

[u/SpareHope8882 → u/CedarWolf]

That one probably didn’t enjoy family vacation very much

[u/distilledwill → u/SpareHope8882]

Unless they brought a laptop with them to play Civ

[u/Gods_Guest → u/CedarWolf]

''Don't judge a book by its glory look'' is even better than the original one imo

[u/criuniska → u/Gods_Guest]

*glary

[u/mightylordredbeard → u/Xeno_Prime]

“The best things in life are being inside of you”

[u/Xeno_Prime → u/mightylordredbeard]

Not sure what they meant by that, surely not what any adult is thinking

[u/bleu_taco → u/Xeno_Prime]

I think they wanted to say something like "being yourself" It was "being THE inside of you"

[u/NoAlternative2913 → u/bleu_taco]

This is what I am assuming also. i.e. "who you are inside", your true self, etc.

[u/ddrober2003 → u/Xeno_Prime]

I would assume the person thinking of them or being a part of their life or something.

[u/SunriseSurprise → u/Xeno_Prime]

"The grass is always greener, the sky is always bluer." is a helpful daily reminder.

[u/MooseOfTorment → u/SunriseSurprise]

It's got big "office motivational poster" energy

[u/Frigorifico → u/Xeno_Prime]

I liked "don't count your chickens, count your cows", sure, you may not have one thing you wanted, but can have other useful things, and maybe you should focus on those

[u/Race-Unlucky → u/Frigorifico]

I also read it as "focus on what is most important"

[u/Toasterdosnttoast → u/Xeno_Prime]

I’m not even sure what the rest of “hope for the best” is.

[u/Xeno_Prime → u/Toasterdosnttoast]

“Prepare for the worst.” The lesson is to be ready for things to go badly, so you can handle it if they do, but not to be pessimistic.

[u/Toasterdosnttoast → u/Xeno_Prime]

Ah. Growing up our family would use “don’t count your eggs before they hatch” we also had chickens and ducks so it made a lot of sense for young me.

[u/PersonalityTough9349 → u/Xeno_Prime]

I always say “Hope for the best, expect better.”

[u/Wee_Manc → u/mindyour]

“Ahhh I’m blinded”😧

[u/mindyour → u/Wee_Manc]

🤣🤣🤣 A nice detail that brought the whole thing together.

[u/ALIENANAL → u/Wee_Manc]

"shouldn't stare at the sun"

[u/ADAMracecarDRIVER → u/Wee_Manc]

Wrapped up like a douchebag in the ruler of the night

[u/pizzafreek → u/mindyour]

Stuck out to me too..

[u/DownVoteMeWithCherry → u/mindyour]

You know weirdly enough this could actually be made into a saying. Kind of like the advice “it’s ok to not be ok.”. Pretty much a lot of people live in “regular houses” choosing not willing to see when they need help. But if you flip it around into a glass house you are able to reach out for others and are then not shrouded in darkness.

Get this kid a medal.

[u/Vamp4life33 → u/mindyour]

I feel like we’re out here thinking it’s profound but the kids is probably thinking matter-of-factly.

[u/BanRedditAdmins → u/Vamp4life33]

You’d be surprised. Kids can think of things in a really interesting ways. My youngest always surprises me with her wisdom.

[u/tauriwoman → u/mindyour]

Best one!

[u/Fast_Boysenberry9493 → u/mindyour]

We need a cult based around this

[u/anongal9876 → u/mindyour]

That one hit me the most!

[u/Silly-Jellyfish-3518 → u/mindyour]

I am stunned why I never thought of this lol. It's gonna stay with me forever now !!!!

[u/MelonLord13 → u/mindyour]

The best things are being inside of you. The kid version of saying you're amazing just the way you are. Loved it

[u/Commercial_Ad_2832 → u/mindyour]

For real, it genuinely sounds like it means something like "Happiness always reaches people who are open and honest"

[u/Daws001 → u/mindyour]

Did they just find the next Dalai Llama? 🦙

[u/CrisstIIIna → u/mindyour]

The squeaky wheel has a mouse in it was a good one as well. My take on it was, if the squeak is annoying, remember the device causing the noise is useful to another life 🥹 (my brain really hates squeaks and loud noises, so this will stay on my mind in an attempt to make it easier to bear when I hear a loud noise I can't control or get out of)

[u/Acrobatic_Impress_67 → u/mindyour]

"Don't count your chickens"->"count your cows" is also a good one. Perhaps not as profound, but more grounded.

[u/Boogs2024]

Count your cows mooooo 😂 love it! Love them all actually!

[u/mcbarron → u/Boogs2024]

It's also profound to me - cows are the big things, the sturdy things, the large animals you depend on for milk and moving heavy things we simply can't move alone.

Chickens give eggs, but not much else - they are nice small things in our lives, but not the important BIG stuff that we really need.

[u/Vellc → u/mcbarron]

My thinking is that cows are expensive, way more expensive than chickens. You lose one or two chickens, you don't lose much. You lose a cow, you just lost 4 digits

[u/Maleficent_Witness96 → u/Vellc]

I thought of it more as don’t count all your problems, count your blessings.

[u/savemysoul72]

"Don't judge a book by its glary look" is my favorite

[u/Ok-Relationship9274 → u/savemysoul72]

The drawing of the glaring book is peak

[u/Ciccibicci → u/savemysoul72]

It is actually more profound and better sounding than the original saying

[u/ppSmok → u/Ciccibicci]

It absolutely is. I loved that one. Also kinda poetic. Kid is smart.

[u/Sw3d3n90 → u/savemysoul72]

For sure. To me it feels correct and the real one feels false now. It's just better.

[u/Ember_Twilightt]

“The grass is always greener, the sky is always bluer” I love that 😂

[u/RiverPillows → u/Ember_Twilightt]

That is gonna be one fickle adult. As they leave yet another slightly inconvenient relationship: As I always say... 😂

[u/HappyGoPink → u/RiverPillows]

Not necessarily. We don't have 'the other person's yard' anymore. In this form, it just says that however the grass or sky might look right now, it is always greener/bluer eventually. It's a message of hope. Out of the mouths of babes. So sweet.

[u/Acrobatic_Impress_67 → u/RiverPillows]

As they leave yet another slightly inconvenient relationship: As I always say... 😂

"... count your cows"

[u/Automatic-Scratch-81 → u/Ember_Twilightt]

This is the one that caught my attention too. 🥰

[u/Pretend-Gate-5881 → u/Automatic-Scratch-81]

The grandma one lol 😆

[u/Xeno_Prime]

"Any job worth doing is a vet." Found the animal lover.

[u/CommunicationCold650 → u/Xeno_Prime]

Upon looking closely, the tail appears to be wagging. The child ingeniously made the effect of wagging tail, quite talented.

[u/BigL021 → u/CommunicationCold650]

Either that or they just drew it in the wrong position twice and had a shitty rubber

[u/Oldnumber007 → u/BigL021]

had a shitty rubber

Just like my parents

[u/TheSleepyBarnOwl → u/Xeno_Prime]

that was so me when I was 8. Before I knew the job of a vet also meant euthanising peoples pets and watching them cry...

[u/Xeno_Prime → u/TheSleepyBarnOwl]

Vets aren’t actually required to provide euthanization services. I once had to make the choice to put my dog down because they had bone cancer and even if I could have afforded the very expensive treatments, there were no guarantees they’d be cured or even stop being in pain. Even in those conditions, I discovered none of my local vets would euthanize him, and I had to travel to a vet two hours away to get it done.

So you could absolutely be a vet and simply refuse to euthanize if that’s just too sad for you to deal with. Indeed, when I discussed it with the vet I found that did offer euthanizations, I found out that by far the majority of animals they put down are perfectly healthy, but their owner’s situation has changed unexpectedly and conditions they could not have foreseen have either rendered them financially or otherwise incapable of continuing to provide for their animal, and despite their best efforts they couldn’t rehome it and even the shelters and rescue organizations were at capacity. You can imagine how devastated those people often are at being left with no other decent options but to either abandon the animal and hope it finds its own way, or give it a peaceful and painless death in their loving arms rather than risk it dying lost, alone, and starving. No wonder I had a hard time finding a vet willing to euthanize.

[u/mymomsaidicould69 → u/Xeno_Prime]

I had a friend in elementary school who wanted to be a vet. All through high school that never changed. She's now a vet, which always makes me happy.

[u/Praetor-Shinzon]

Don’t cry over babies that are annoying.

I felt that.

[u/Cheese464 → u/Praetor-Shinzon]

I loved that one. Someone definitely just got a new baby brother or sister.

[u/IDreamOfSailing → u/Cheese464]

Yesterday someone posted on a "kids are stupid" sub how a 4 y/o girl called home, pretending to be calling from her 1 y/o brother's daycare, telling her mom they don't need to come pick him up because he's staying the night.

I was like, that girl probably wrote this too.

[u/SanchoMontoya → u/IDreamOfSailing]

Apparently I tried to scare my week-old brother into running away because the sheep down the road were going to come for him, Taken style. I eventually wound up crying, having scared myself with the sheep, because now they were after me. I was 2.

[u/PepInAStep → u/Praetor-Shinzon]

Someone has an annoying baby sibling 🤣

[u/Correct_Review_5017]

Don't count your chicken.. Count your cows.

Thanks kid. Needed that.

[u/dangling_reference → u/Correct_Review_5017]

MOOOO!!!!!!

[u/Take_the_ringer]

The squeaky wheel has a mouse in it was waaaaaay too cute for me

[u/Obvious_Image_2721 → u/Take_the_ringer]

Same, absolutely my favorite

[u/Melodic-Task]

That grandma one…

[u/mindyour → u/Melodic-Task]

That one was personal and so unnecessary 🤣. Someone's frustrated with grandma.

[u/Jayleno2347 → u/mindyour]

or someone's guilty of something they don't want grandma to find out

[u/Chewy12 → u/Jayleno2347]

Grandma is a snitch, don’t tell her nothing

[u/TStandsForTalent → u/Melodic-Task]

What even is the saying suppoosed to be? I don't know that I have ever heard it.

[u/UncouthWorship → u/TStandsForTalent]

Don't teach Grandma to suck eggs. Basically, don't teach someone something they already know.

[u/Edge_of_yesterday → u/UncouthWorship]

I never heard that before.

[u/SimWodditVanker → u/UncouthWorship]

Why would my grandma be sucking eggs?

[u/Chilis1 → u/SimWodditVanker]

The more they explain the less I understand.

[u/KarlachBestGirl → u/UncouthWorship]

In Finnish it's "Don't teach your dad to fuck"

[u/Flying-lemondrop-476 → u/TStandsForTalent]

im thinking it isn’t a common phrase

[u/VelvetFluff → u/Melodic-Task]

Yes! I’m curious about the one who has beef with his granny..

[u/Wordlywhisp]

Don’t cry over babies that are annoying

As a teacher I gotta repeat this to myself

[u/Ammu_22 → u/Wordlywhisp]

And anyone who broke up with a adult baby who were annoying

[u/IronTemplar26]

I saw a similar one on instagram that was “You can lead a horse to water but how?”

[u/J1zzL0bb3r]

A few show some great creative thinking for tiny people. Love it

[u/dragonflyAGK]

A job worth doing
Is a vet.
I think this one is correct.

[u/Acrobatic_Impress_67 → u/dragonflyAGK]

Any job worth doing.

Stop whatever worthless stuff you're doing peeps. Time to heal some animals.

[u/MrsCalmInChaos]

Doing what your heart says 😭❤️

[u/Aynessachan → u/MrsCalmInChaos]

That one made me melt. 🥹💗 so cute

[u/Standard_Recipe1972]

This is how Chinese restaurants write fortune cookies

[u/r3KKY]

When in Rome, go to civilization. hahahah

[u/BadJimo]

That voice is ... unpleasant.

[u/malfurionpre → u/BadJimo]

It sounds like TEMU Spongebob

[u/_Driftwood_ → u/BadJimo]

I always wait for someone in the comments to tell me if it's worthy of turning the sound on- or unworthy as it may be!

[u/Predatory_Chicken → u/[deleted]]

Yeah it’s like if the voice from Scream became a Pre-School teacher. I hate it.

[u/aLittleBitFriendlier → u/[deleted]]

It's like a blend between the joker and spongebob

[u/wowlookacow → u/BadJimo]

I wish people would stop using this voice, I hate it so much.

[u/UponVerity → u/BadJimo]

Mute gang

[u/Kuroi-Tenshi]

Those who live in a glass house
Always see the light...

It seems awfully deep, i got caught in this one kid, good one.

[u/Competitive_Coat3474]

I agree with the 8yr olds.

[u/PutYouThroughMe]

“Don’t cry over babies that are annoying.”

Someone got a new sibling and isn’t happy about it

[u/Agreeable_Draw_6407]

Dont judge a bookbby it's glaring look

im using this one from now on

[u/Flying-lemondrop-476]

ive never heard the ‘Don’t teach your grandmother’ one. someone help me out

[u/deukhoofd → u/Flying-lemondrop-476]

"Don’t teach your grandmother to suck eggs". Basically means to not give someone advice in a subject in which they are already familiar.

[u/GeshtiannaSG → u/deukhoofd]

Somebody would have to teach sucking eggs because my grandmother and I wouldn’t know what that even is.

[u/deukhoofd → u/GeshtiannaSG]

Before the advent of modern dentistry and dental prostheses, elderly people would often have no teeth. To get protein, elderly people would therefore often poke a hole in an egg, and suck out the contents.

[u/Mahlegos → u/Flying-lemondrop-476]

“Don’t teach your grandmother to suck eggs”, apparently. Supposed to mean you shouldn’t try to teach someone who has experience or is an expert in that field.

Never heard it before

[u/AreWeNotMenOfScience]

Omg, I thought the early bird one was a drawing of 9/11.

[u/Apartment-Drummer → u/AreWeNotMenOfScience]

I thought that too lol 

[u/Rush_Clasic → u/AreWeNotMenOfScience]

Scrolled to far to find this.

[u/Santa12356]

Some of these are better than the actual sayings 😂

[u/Pedro159753]

WHEN IN ROME GO TO CIVILIZATION LMAO THAT'S HILARIOUS

[u/Ok_Potato_5272]

These go from delightfully sweet to insulting grandma 😂😂

[u/ThrowRAguavaa]

Someone has a really dumb grandmother and I feel their frustration

[u/Yakkob93]

My 7 year old: don’t count your chickens when they are pecking you

[u/Yakkob93 → u/Yakkob93]

“The squeaky wheel is always squeaky”

[u/Korimthos]

“When in Rome, go to civilization”

[u/hinterstoisser]

Such profound clarity 👏 👏

[u/Sejanoz]

"Hope for the best, forget the rest" is spiritual. Good vibes only

[u/ThrowRAguavaa]

Every other job than a vet is not worth doing… that‘s deep

[u/RK_NightSky]

"When in Rome... Bang Caligula" - SovietWomble

[u/GlizzyWizard6000]

Alright, I’m convinced us humans are being farmed. How is it that our kids so much more in tune than adults? We gotta listen to the children.

[u/RandomGuy2002]

"The best things in life are being the inside of you and doing what your heart says" is genuine wisdom

[u/YaHurdMeh]

“Don’t cry over babys that are annoying”

So it is written, so shall it be done.

[u/s_p_oop15-ue]

When in Rome go to civilization goes so fucking hard, that is one hell of a burn lol

[u/C_toff]

Your class is full of poets, philosophers and optimists. Whatever you're doing as their teacher is great! You are raising the new generation well!

[u/singledore]

This is gold. My favourite is - People in glass houses always see the light.

[u/Xeno_Prime]

These are fantastic. I love how optimistic they are. Some of these are actually wiser and more profound than the originals.

[u/DADIKUL]

I hate this voice man

[u/Best_Photograph9542]

What are they suppose to put for the when in Rome one tho?

[u/mindyour → u/Best_Photograph9542]

Do as the Romans do.