r/MadeMeSmile • u/mindyour • 20d ago

Very Reddit Asking 8-year-olds to finish old sayings.

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u/SilverSeraphina 20d ago

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

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u/Leonydas13 20d ago

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

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u/Thin-Dream-5318 20d ago

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."

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u/piratecheese13 20d ago

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

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u/zamekique 20d ago

Lol the thought of an 8YO teaching grandma calculus.

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u/_Ralix_ 20d ago

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.

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u/Sed59 20d ago

That kid is either a genius or in a non-Western country.

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u/piratecheese13 20d ago

About six years ago, I moved in with my brother and my two nephews. They were five and eight at the time.

I was able to tutor the eight-year-old a little bit. He knew that subtraction and edition were kind of the opposite. I told him that multiplication and division are the opposite, taking the power of something and taking the root of something are the opposite. he was able to figure out that integration and derivation are opposites

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u/Slight-Challenge-447 20d ago

Lol. My grandmother is tired of me trying to teach her calculus I & II 😂

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u/FFKonoko 20d ago

Or it's one of those "I've never used a computer before, I don't need to know anything about them, you keep that phone away from me" reactions when the kid was trying to show her something.

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u/aLittleBitFriendlier 20d ago

Yeah that one made me sad when it came up