Adults Forget Kids Have Big Ears
@Hatley (163776)
Garden Grove, California
January 23, 2017 2:40pm CST
From my memories I was six. The adults were
talking about me being shy but tjey used the
'word bashful. I heard d my dad apologize for me
not being friendly to some friend of my dad's.'
He was scowling and I shriveled up inside as
back then he was it for me. My point do not criticize
y our kids in front of them, Those words c an hurt
and if the child does not know just what the words'
mean she can think the very worst.
So I wore the stigma of my dad feeling i was very
awful as a small child until I learned that bashful was
'just the same as being shy ,that I decided was
not a major crime.Your take mylotters?
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@celticeagle (166911)
• Boise, Idaho
24 Jan 17
Being as positive as one can around young children is a good thing. Take care of adult situations away from young children. Good rule.
@lovinangelsinstead21 (36850)
• Pamplona, Spain
23 Jan 17
Oh hats. How awful I have had to go through that too for wearing glasses and a few other things. You must have loved your Dad so much from the sound of it. Mine well I won´t say about mine but this is not the case I was painfully shy for a while until a Girl stood up for me and told the Teacher to leave me alone. I was so full of admiration and shock at the same time but it taught me to come out of my Shell and from that time on I started to affirm who I really was and I have always been so thankful to her but could not get to say it to her as she had a lot of Friends and that was it I had to leave School suddenly and I never got a chance. It was a very strict School hats.
@ElusiveButterfly (45940)
• United States
23 Jan 17
My second child was shy. She wouldn't talk to anyone, including family, unless she was around them consistently. Even then it was short sentences. She was okay with other children and would chatter away with them in our home setting.
I didn't force her to talk to people. However, I would introduce them to her as I did with my older daughter. She eventually learned not to hide behind me and overcame her inability to socialize.
@PatZAnthony (14749)
• Charlotte, North Carolina
23 Jan 17
Isn't it funny how young ones get the wrong idea and are afraid to ask an adult what they mean?
@Happy2BeMe (99380)
• Canada
23 Jan 17
I was very shy as a kid. I remember hiding behind my mother when we went anywhere and people would talk to me.
@jstory07 (139697)
• Roseburg, Oregon
23 Jan 17
There is nothing wrong with being shy I have been shy my entire life. I am more shy around women than men . It was women that made fun of my eyes not men.
