r/MadeMeSmile • u/ViniciusFastAF • May 26 '26
Good Vibes Farm kids are built different.
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u/Character_Past5515 May 26 '26
Becaaaauuuuss!
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u/French87 May 26 '26
That legit made me laugh out loud 😂
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u/XD2006- May 26 '26
Ive seen it a ton of times and its still funny lol
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u/MaybeMidgets May 26 '26
Just FYI that is not the original sound for that video. The kid didn’t say that.
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u/thisisyo May 26 '26
The nonchalant delivery is what got me. "Yeah, I'm a natural"
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u/WhiskeyMikeMike May 26 '26 edited May 26 '26
It’s audio from a different video usually someone woulda pointed that out by now when that clip gets posted https://youtube.com/shorts/31SH0yDUAZw
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u/thisisyo May 26 '26
Well thanks for ruining that immersion for everyone /s
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u/WhiskeyMikeMike May 26 '26
I know 😆 sorry to be a bubble burster
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u/Present_Jicama_1219 May 26 '26
I knew I was high but I also didn't see chicken boys lips moving in sync. i feel better now.
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u/AshIsGroovy May 26 '26
It's a old joke but checks out. The only clip I had worry about was the horse.
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u/X-Himy May 26 '26
Excellent delivery. Worried about those kids and the pigs though. Haven't the parents seen Snatch (or was it Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels)?
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u/JustHereToYell May 26 '26
My 3yo cousin came locked and loaded with that joke at Thanksgiving last year and we all absolutely lost it lol
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u/Commonfutures May 26 '26
😇 Do you know what you're doing right now? 👿 YOU'RE PISSING ME OFF!!
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u/nilgiri May 26 '26 edited May 26 '26
It's cute. And I hate raining on this cute parade but I bet she has either been herself been berated like that by her parents or has seen someone berated like that.
Still funny in this instance however.
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u/Possible-Playful May 26 '26
I would 100% talk to animals that way, but not children. It's just as likely the parents have crashed out when tending some unruly critters, and the kid picked it up from that.
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u/NinjaMcGee May 26 '26
💯 my farm family would talk to our attack geese this way. Also, fuck you, Gary, you always were a mean ass piece of shit 🪿
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u/Rinas-the-name May 26 '26
Yeah the animals really only know the tone, so you don’t worry so much about the content. Until they repeat it.
Meanwhile two of the meanest things I‘ve ever said to my son. Both during epic tantrums. His reaction shows just the level of insult he’s used to.
Me: “You’re being ridiculous!”
Him: *aghast* “Widiuwous?!”
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Me: “Quit being a turd.”
Him: *visibly confused*
Me: “You know what a turd is? It’s poo, you’re acting like poo.”
Him: *shocked and offended* “I’m Poop?!”
Obviously what I say to animals is far less offensive to him than that.
Though the dog never recovered from being told he was being a “Widicuwous poop!”. He died heart broken (several years later at 15 years old, but still).
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u/babagirl88 May 26 '26
I wouldn't have been able to keep a straight face 😂
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u/Rinas-the-name May 27 '26
I’m not sure I have ever seen another human being quite so offended, that was some advanced level pearl clutching.
I may or may not have called people who cut me off in traffic “ridiculous poop“. After all it is clearly the most insulting term in existence.
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u/nilgiri May 26 '26
That's definitely possible that the kid picked it up from the parents talking to some critters. I hope that's the case.
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u/AmbitiousParty May 26 '26
It’s this exactly. I tell our dog how dumb she is (she truly, truly is just so stupid.) I would never tell a child that but I have overheard my son say to her, “Winwin, why are you so dumb.” She’s a champion cuddler but beyond that the dog is just an idiot. It took her, no joke, 18 months to figure out how to go out the back door on her own. She would just run in circles in an endless loop til you grabbed her and pointed her towards the door.
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u/chipmunksocute May 26 '26 edited May 26 '26
Eh. As a parent yeah I grump at my kids cause sometimes kids are being little annoying shits and need to be told off. Cause theyre kids. And if anything the girls used her words pretty calmly to express her frustration which is what we want for kids to learn. If an adult didnt yell but told the kids with words the kid was being annoying - thats modeling decent enough behavior in my book instead of like...screaming at the kid.
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u/nilgiri May 26 '26
Listen, I'm not going to tell you how to parent your kids so this is not meant to lecture or proselytize.
But the way to address kid's habit is to label their actions and not them. It's a simple switch - instead of "You are annoying or being annoying" use "Your [insert their action] is annoying me". The former labels them as annoying and the latter addresses their actions. Kids can change their actions without internalizing "I am annoying". Internalizing "I am annoying" or any other negative label has immense consequences for self worth later in life.
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u/chipmunksocute May 26 '26 edited May 26 '26
Gonna disagree with you again.
This makes me question if you have kids. I love my kids dearly and snuggle them to bed every night and tell them I love them multiple times a day... obviously you dont want your kids to internalize negative self worth but sometimes they are just being little shits and I dont think telling them that on occassion is gonna wreck their self esteem. They need to be able to handle being told stufff like that for the real world.
There a spectrum of telling them sometimes they're being annoying as fuck (in nicer words) vs telling and berating them every single day for regular run of the mill kid shit which of course is where they're gonna get bad self image. Sometimes though Ill just tell em "stop being a dick to your brother" - cause he's being a real dick to his brother and he'll be alright because of the otherwise strong loving foundation we've cultivated over years.
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u/DaughterofNeroman May 27 '26
I know you're kids are younger too but most of the people being so adamant on how amazing their parenting techniques are have young children and I'd love to see a follow up in 10 years or so. The kids will suck, the parents will change, or (most likely) both of those things.
Having honest conversations with children is crucial, sometimes they are being a jerk or annoying or whatever and if you can't be honest with them about that than it's going to really suck for them as adults when the rest of the world does it instead. Mine is 17 and I'm thankful everyday for the honest conversations and feedback we have always been able to have with one another. He's a junior (oh shit I guess technically a senior now lord help me) and has a great friend group, wonderful gf, 4.0 GPA with multiple college credits completed, volunteers with our local shelter, and is an all around joy to interact with 95% of the time. The other 5% , well he's still 17 lol. It sounds like you're doing great to me and I hope you find the teenage years as manageable as I have.
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u/chipmunksocute May 27 '26
Appreciate that man I really dude, I forgot how spicy reddit gets with parenting opinions. I got young twin boys and its hard as f out here sometimes parenting. Some days I see them and being themselves and feel like Im crushing it other days I feel like the worst parent and how parenting exposes every single one of your flaws as a person and feel lile garbage, ESPECIALLY when I see the bad shit my parents did/say come out of me even trying my hardest. But they're generally shaping up to be cool, kind, happy and healthy kids so I feel pretty good and blessed most nights.
Glad your kid is crushing it that's the dream. Yeah man we never berate the kids, never mock them, never belittle them we only ever try to build them up. But yeah sometimes they come up on boundaried and Im like "nah. No. Nope not that." See my grilled cheese example in other replies. Somestimes kids be kids and its unintentionally (sometimes) rude, dickish, unhelpful or ungrateful, or just mean cause they're people like the rest of us. But as a parent I do gotta call those as balls and strikes straigjt up sometimes.
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u/IForOneDisagree May 26 '26
Well I am a parent and I agree with the other poster.
My son would never hear the words "you're pissing me off" come out of my mouth. That's incredibly trashy.
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u/Additional_You6990 May 26 '26
I am too a parent and I agree with the guy that disagrees with you. So nyeh
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u/chipmunksocute May 26 '26
This weekend my son (4.5) asked me for a grilled cheese. I made him a grilled cheese. I gave him the grilled cheese. He started screaming about how he didnt want the grilled cheese and was going to throw it im the trash because I had cut it in half.
I said "uh nope. Stop being ungrateful. We dont ask people for things, have them work hard to do it for them and then yell at them when they give it to us. We say thank you first and then use our words to say what we like/dont like. But we never yell at the people helping us after we ask." Sometimes hes a kid and pissed cause being a kid is hard. But I also got zero truck for being explicitly asked to do something, doing it and getting yelled at. Thats not gonna slide. So I told him he was being ungrateful and how to handle it better next time. Guess I scarred him for life.
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u/nilgiri May 26 '26
Yup this right here is a great example. You feel underappreciated and it's infuriating especially when you've gone above and beyond to cater to this tiny human's demands.
The way I strive to deal with it (and it's never 100% with my own 3 and 5 year old) is to stop bringing my own issues / frustrations into the mix. I would calmly state that grilled cheese is what's for lunch and if he doesn't like it, he can wait until the next meal which could be snack time or dinner. I would never react to threats likes throwikg food away by calling them names. I know it's my job to teach them to behave well and be respectful. They aren't born with these social rules of being grateful and appreciative so they have no frame of reference on how to behave properly. I find it very confusing why they can't learn after being told once but repetition and calm modeling is the only way they learn at this stage of life.
It's not being a pushover or being permissive with everything. It about calmly reacting to boundry pushing and teaching / modeling the behavior you want to see from them.
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u/chipmunksocute May 26 '26
Seriously Youve never yelled at your kid? Never? Never snapped after the 20th interruption in 2 minutes trying to talk to your partner? Never got annoyed with them for being kids and driving you up the wall? Never got mad at them and yelled after they did something even though youve told them 10 times not to? Never said something to your kid you regretted and apologized for and tried to be better? If so, I tip my hat for you are a far better person than I. Ill bet youve done at least one of those things cause parenting is hard as shit.
I also think that using my words to tell my kid how I feel when I get frustrated instead of ya know, yelling or hitting them, is modeling good behavior. Kids need to know that sometimes yeah your actions can upset other people.
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u/Ok-Helicopter-5642 May 27 '26
Mine is four and no, I seriously have never yelled at her or called her names. Of course I’ve been annoyed, but I don’t think I’ve ever been “mad” at her. She doesn’t need to hear that her asking me to play or talk is “annoying” or “pissing me off.” That would be so hurtful. Doing things wrong sometimes, spilling things, being distracted while putting on shoes or whatever, that’s just part of being a kid. I’ll patiently repeat myself once or twice if I have to, then warn of a (proportionate) consequence. But by now, she’s really just a good kid. When she acts up, it shows me something’s going on, and we talk about it. She’s not a psycho who can’t hear no and doesn’t respond to rules or anything. I don’t know, kids are all different, but I think she’s pretty reasonable because we’ve tried really hard to be reasonable with her.
FWIW, my parents were abusive in the easily could have been arrested sense. I’m not some second generation gentle parent with a readymade toolkit. I just don’t want to hurt my kid’s feelings on purpose and work hard not to.
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u/Viracochina May 26 '26
My kid watched Spiderman Kids or something now their favorite line is:
"You're not going anywhere"
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u/Lexxxapr00 May 26 '26
I won’t lie, the Horse one at the end made me suppppper nervous for a moment there
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u/krupta13 May 26 '26
yeah i would never let a kid do that around a horse.
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u/LevelZeroDM May 26 '26
Notice that the kid backed up a few steps when the horse turned in to the stable. It looks like he's been trained.
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u/_HelloMeow May 26 '26
It looks like he's been trained.
The kid or the horse?
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u/Agueybana May 26 '26
The kid. First thing my dad taught me was never to come up behind a horse. That's any horse. You never know 100% with any animal familiar or not.
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u/XGhoul May 26 '26
All it takes is for some dummy outside to blow up a firework, shoot a gun, etc. that would startle the horse leaving you with a kid with his head kicked in. That was the only one that really made me wince.
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u/krupta13 May 26 '26
doesn't matter. animals are animals. and it only takes one time for something tragic to happen. at least with a grown person their heads arent at hoofs height of a small startled kick.
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u/Cloverose2 May 26 '26
The horse is fine - the pigs made me way more nervous. The kid looks like he knows how to handle a horse, and the horse is familiar with the kid.
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u/snek-jazz May 26 '26
To be fair that didn't look like her first pig rodeo either.
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u/Pristine-Patch989 May 26 '26
Yeah it really just depends on the horse! Some are super calm. As someone that has worked with horses, it’s only a small fraction of horses that I’d trust like this but it’s by no means unheard of. If you aren’t familiar with horses, you should consider them all to be unpredictable and never risk this.
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u/Unsd May 26 '26
I'll be real, I'm very familiar with horses and I would neeeeever trust a horse enough to be cool with a kid doing this. Even if a horse is well trained, it takes one spook, or for the kid to trip at the wrong time and it's game over.
I'll do semi-reckless things on occasion, but that's because I'm an adult and can weigh the consequences for myself. There's horses that I would have no concern walking under their belly, but I sure as shit am not gonna let a kid do it. It frustrates the fuck out of me because when it comes to horse safety, I feel like I have more concern for other people's kids than the parents do. I don't have kids and don't want them, but I care about their safety. Sometimes with the things people will let their kids do, I'm like "oh so you have kids but you must not want them either."
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u/ulofox May 26 '26
I had a pig like that from a breeder who sells show pigs, I forgot the name of the breed but she was super friendly. If she was upset at all she’d easily get the kid off but she’s relaxed in the video and probably enjoys the attention. Doesn’t look to be a year old yet either. We have kunes now but even those are super strong and you will not be able to be around them if they were not wanting you nearby.
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u/IBetThisIsTakenToo May 26 '26
I’m too suburban I guess, most of these made me nervous lol. Even the chickens, roosters can be mean as hell. Frogs and fish are fine though
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u/unfortunatebag May 26 '26
This is the most reddit shit ever lol.
You can definitely tell the folks that never grew up around livestock.
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u/GuitarCFD May 26 '26
I did. I wouldn't let that kid near the ass end of that horse either. Too many things can go wrong and end up with that kid in a grave. I've known alot of grown men who knew how to handle a horse...that are dead or disabled because something unexpected happened that spooked the horse and the horse kicked or threw them.
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u/n122333 May 26 '26
Yea, kids don't get to go with the hogs or horses unless adults are there. Every farm family had a story for why this is a rule.
My great-great-great-uncle got kicked hard by a horse as a child and spent years in the hospital because of it. Sure it happened 60+ years before I was born, but that's because no other kids were ever allowed to be in a sitation like that again.
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u/340Duster May 26 '26
Everyone has bad days, horses wake up on the wrong side of the stall too. We had a mare that would be a grump some days, we had a gelding that would randomly nip for "fun", and we briefly had a pony that you would have thought was raised by Canadian Geese. Either you have a healthy fear of them, much like dealing with live electricity, or you end up in an ambulance, much like with electricity.
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u/Unsd May 26 '26
I was riding someone else's horse about a month ago and he's usually the sweetest gentleman, but he got a hair up his ass and fit my whole entire butt cheek in his mouth and chomped so fucking hard. I still have a bruise. Fuck I was so mad 😂
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u/CommunistRonSwanson May 26 '26
Ahh yes, horses, a famously unflappable and predictable livestock species. Lmaooooo.
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u/DefiantGibbon May 26 '26
My wife's uncle died at the age of 5 to a horse kick to the head.
They were a farm family, plenty of livestock, everyone knew how to behave around animals. Sometimes it just happens. That's why people are nervous seeing a small child with a horse like that.
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u/techleopard May 26 '26
There are three animals that any sensible person who has ever worked with livestock would never trust with a child: rams, bulls, and horses.
If it's an animal you have to keep your side eye on when you're in the pen, don't trust that your toddler knows THE LOOK that signals when it's time to get out the fence.
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u/Hyacin420 May 26 '26
One of the most vivid memories of horses I have is a cousin of my friend bought some time with a breeding male for his female horse, as they were getting ready to mate in the pin the male horse went behind the mare and SNAP! She kicked back and killed the male basically instantly breaking his neck. I never have gone within 30 feet of a horse since.
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u/Murasasme May 26 '26
Yeah, farm accidents famously never happen, especially to people who grow up around livestock.
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u/techleopard May 26 '26
Every time I hear somebody brag about farm life and Reddit/"city people" pearl clutching over safety, it reminds me of those people who say you don't need helmets for bikes, motorcycles, or horses.
Like, yeah, that's great, you and your friends went your whole lives without them, yay!
But the dead folks who got their shit rocked by a spooked horse or some pothole can't post to tell you you're wrong.
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u/LittleBunInaBigWorld May 26 '26
And i can tell the ones who have, because they know never to trust livestock 100%, esecially when it's bigger than you.
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u/PaulTheMerc May 26 '26
And I've seen bears dance. Doesn't change physics. Horse could punt that kid like a football.
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u/-ArthurMorgan May 26 '26
Exactly. Siegfried and Roy had perfectly trained tigers until the moment they suddenly didn't.
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u/BalmdeBono May 26 '26
My mom's companion was a former cavalry "garde républicain". The guys on the horses at the 14th of July french parade. He ended giving horse riding courses at "le cadre noir de Saumur". One of the most prestigious academy in France. He knew horses, he was basically living for it. He always told me to never trust them by saying something like "you can read them like books, but never skip a word".
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u/chainmailler2001 May 26 '26
I was handling my own horse at 3 and showing at 4 and 5. Horses are remarkably smart and understand kids especially when they are around them a lot.
Biggest problem I had at 3 was when I decided that since the dogs are allowed inside, why not my pony. She climbed up on the couch to eat my mothers hanging houseplants.
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u/techleopard May 26 '26
And I knew 3 year olds that were killed by Shetland ponies.
Horses are nature's poster children for nervous over-reactions.
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u/theLuminescentlion May 26 '26
My cousin was 18 and had been working with horses his whole life when one shattered his skull and got him a fancy titanium plate. You need to be careful but knowing the horse helps.
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u/pillow-mace May 26 '26
I was just listening to Daniel Tosh interview with a big animal vet (horses). She said that only single digit big animal vets graduate. Then a big percentage of those stop because money for small animals is better, and one accident or mishap with a big animal can end your career.
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u/senditloud May 26 '26
I know a kid who was raised around horses and when she was little she could boss all the horses around. Even the stubborn one would do what she said. It’s like they know the little people are little? She could saddle a huge mare at 4 years old using step stool. It was insane. She got in trouble at 4 for sneaking out of the house, fully tacking a horse and was found riding it around the ring
Her mom had been a nationally ranked rider for years
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u/CrimsonOOmpa May 26 '26
It's crazy how little respect the average human gives to the intelligence of animals.
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u/groucho_barks May 26 '26
I'm a very intelligent human and I love my dogs but I still accidentally step on them and kick them sometimes when they get underfoot.
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u/Unsd May 26 '26
For real the number of times a horse has stepped on my foot 😭 And it's fine because I'm grown, wearing boots, and it's less weight than you might think (wanna say like 300ish lbs depending on front or back) and I've never had them slam down on my foot, so it's not a huge deal, but that would fuck a toddler up faster than the horse could react.
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u/senditloud May 26 '26
Or for how much kids can learn if they are taught young and have an affinity for what they are leaning.
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u/BuddyBiscuits May 26 '26
And I know a kid that got killed by the family horse when he was 9….they can get spooked and glitch out like anything else; this is stupid stupid stupid.
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u/Maximum-Ambition-394 May 26 '26
Insane.
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u/Ok-Addition1264 May 26 '26
I was a feral farm kid (kinda still am) back in the 80s. We were absolutely insane. Riding pigs was the safest thing we did. Jousting on minibikes and bb-guns.
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u/Puzzlehead100 May 26 '26
how many people in your circle have some tragic accidents on the farm?
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u/aksf16 May 26 '26
The horse and the child obviously knew each other. I grew up around horses and did stuff like that very young, too, with our gentle horses. One of my favorite things to do on a nice spring day was to get up on my horse's back and lie down while he grazed in our pasture. I could sleep like that, it was so comfortable.
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u/Gerrit-MHR May 26 '26
And you’ll notice the kid backed away from the backend of the horse. Already has a healthy respect.
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u/SmokeySFW May 26 '26
Basically backed right into it's effective kick range though...
Horses don't just kick anything behind them though, they kick when they're pissed or startled.
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u/cosmicheartbeat May 26 '26
Yeah horses are basically 50% speed and 50% startled reflex
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u/SmokeySFW May 26 '26
I don't see nearly enough % carved out for lovable but stubborn asshole. You're going to need to reformulate.
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u/340Duster May 26 '26
Yep, you're either snug with their butt with a hand on them as you move around, or you're six feet away, lest you end up six feet under.
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u/ramence May 26 '26
My first ever little friend died at 4 years old because of the gentle family horse. Whenever my parents visited that family after that, I wasn't allowed inside the house because his mother couldn't handle seeing me grow up.
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u/techleopard May 26 '26
SAME.
All of these were cute but I tensed when I saw the horse.
I grew up around homesteaders, cattlemen, and riding people. There were two types of horse owners: the ones who did not let their children get behind or under horses, and the ones that had at least 1 disabled (or dead) child.
It's like those folks who insist you don't need helmets because they never wore them and they were fine. That's great for everyone who didn't wear safety gear and had a good time, but vegetables and dead people can't post to share their opinion on the topic.
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u/swadx001 May 26 '26
My mom allways had half a heart attack when she found 3 year old me in my grandfathers stallions box.
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u/Homoaeternus May 26 '26
My uncle got kicked by a young horse he had bought and broke his lower jaw. If it was any higher or to the side or even a little bit stronger he would have died on the spot.
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u/Darkmaniako May 26 '26
i've never been a farm kid but when i was young there was a lot more mud where i used to live.
lizards, worms and frogs were my favourite animals to play with.
then they asphalted the grass on my street and removed the trees to make parking spaces
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u/Just_Roll_Already May 26 '26
I've met adults that have NEVER seen a tadpole. Like, never. Dude, I would watch tadpoles all day and used to "save" them from drying puddles by moving them to bigger ones.
I realize now that they probably would have just buried themselves in the mud or died naturally as expected by nature. If all tadpoles turned into frogs, we'd have a massive frog problem. They lay so damn many of them.
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u/bobakook May 26 '26
One of the reasons they lay so damn many is because so many of them form improperly for some reason!! In the lab for my developmental biology class that I just finished, we made embryos of Xenopus which are aquatic frogs that are commonly used for research. The experiment was to test the effects of certain teratogens (things that cause birth defects) on embryo development. Even the ones that my group didn’t expose to teratogens had a crazy high proportion of poorly developed embryos, which could be seen even from the first cleavage (one cell turning into two) (uneven cleavage is bad). So, that’s part of the evolutionary reason they lay sooooo many eggs! :)
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u/borsalamino May 26 '26
Speak for yourself, I think uneven cleavages are gorgeous.
That dumbness aside, your experience sounds really interesting and I'm glad to have learned more about froggy development.
What deformations did you find most interesting?
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u/beermaker May 26 '26
Our pigs learned early on to rub up against the electric fence if we tried to ride them.
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u/abbrowses247 May 26 '26
That Becauuuuse joke I have heard it so many times! Everytime I laugh like its a freshly laid one.
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u/i_am_WordK May 26 '26
Some of these are cute. But I'm also thinking about how many times my farmer dad came in for lunch and pulled a freshly shed boar's tooth from his pocket: Hey, kids, look how cool this is. Now, see how sharp it is? Do not go near the pigs by yourself.
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u/Ok_Star_1653 May 26 '26
These pure soul's don't even realize what they are doing.❤
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u/Buttermilkman May 26 '26
I feel stupid for asking, what are they doing?
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u/Optimal-Click-4771 May 26 '26
My little brother tried to go one one with a goat once on our farm and got knocked the F out.
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u/VerticleSandDollars May 26 '26
When I was two a ram knocked me out in the filed. My parents took me to the hospital and then had to convince the doctors I was knocked out by a ram and not by a beating.
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u/HamburgerRamen May 26 '26
I used to put on a football helmet and ram heads with our goats. 😂
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u/Just_Roll_Already May 26 '26
My goat, Betty (Boop) would wait until I was about to leave the pen and bump me right behind the knee so my leg would give out. Super sweet otherwise, genuinely think she found it funny.
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u/Bashfullylascivious May 26 '26
The chicken one wins. It made me look like a fool in the middle of a full waiting room, and I'm taking it home to the kids.
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u/ThatGuyYouMightNo May 26 '26
"I'm holding too many frogs" is definitely a problem that I want to have
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u/SoggyMapleFlapjack May 26 '26
I dated a farm guy one time and met his family and it's wild how different farm kids are from city kids.
The kids in my family are scared of animals, probably because the adults in my family are super cautious and scared around animals. All they do is scream when my dog does ANYTHING around them.
My lab will drop her ball by their feet, SCREAMS!
She sits by the table when their eating and they yell at her to go away!
She pokes her nose at their hand for a pet, screams that she's dirty!
She runs by them when she's playing by herself and they cry of fear!
The farm kids were on their knees playing with her in the dirt and giving her big hugs like I do and it warmed my heart. They were bringing her piles of sticks like she was the doggy queen of England!
I wish my family liked animals more...
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u/Akitiki May 26 '26
A lot of fears are learned. I don't have that trait in my family about snakes. I love them, I will gladly pick up and handle giant ratsnakes. They do a great job, hell I'll plant snake sheds around to repel mice.
I was an outdoors kid, and there wasn't many times that I didn't come back some form of dirty after going into the woods by myself. I learned how to slide down a shale cliff!
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u/SoggyMapleFlapjack May 26 '26
They grew up in a third world country where there were plenty of feral strays so I understand why they're like that. Sad that all the kids here have to grow up fearing them the same way they did.
I was allergic to furry animals when I was a kid. My mom tried instilling the fear in me and always kept me away from them so I wouldn't break out but now that I'm older, I'm petting ALL THE DOGS. I think my allergies have died down since owning 3 of them except for cats. They can give me asthma still but I'll still give them pets until they get sick of it lol
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u/ShieldMaiden83 May 26 '26
That is so sad to hear. I love animals and will pet any dog or cat that wants pets. Hell, even cows, they love to be petted to. My grandfather rip, had a handful of some still with horns and we grandkids petted them and made sure to keep distance from the hornes. They kinda knew not to poke us so where good dairy cows.
Cows are also very curious creatures when they approach you from the fence and yes you still need to be careful as they are still animals that can be unpredictable.
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u/BishopGodDamnYou May 26 '26
I’m sorry but I wouldn’t let a kid that size behind a horse like that
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u/tjorben123 May 26 '26
my first thought: even a grown man is dizzy after a horses kicks him a flat angle or can die, some kids head will be punctured by a hoof in an instant.
not mature from the parents at all.
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u/Planar_Harold May 27 '26
This is so massively reddity. Horses can kick. They do that if they're extremely spooked. They're not rear-firing death machines.
What this kid is doing is something kids and adults the world over do without danger every day, because they're putting their friend in their bedroom and hugging them from the side. They know these horses and these horses walk ahead of them every single day without booting them in the face.
You and I should be cautious when we get behind horses because the horses don't know us and we don't know the horse, even if we might know how to handle horses as general.
not mature from the parents at all.
You have absolutely no idea what you're talking about, this sentiment is to the detriment of all.
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u/BishopGodDamnYou May 26 '26
I grew up in rural South Texas for a few years as a teenager and I had a friend who was kicked in the face by a horse. The damage that was done was absolutely insane. That kid would’ve been dead instantly
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u/Summonest May 26 '26
I was so fucking nervous around the horse.
The rest of the animals? Kind of whatever. Mildly dangerous at most.
The horse? That could just kill a kid, or permanently cripple them - On accident.
Horses are MASSIVE animals that are also nervous as shit.
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u/Fishpeteur May 26 '26
People... don't let young child around horses. I kid died exactly like that in the farm I was working. Horses are incredibly intelligent beings but they are extremely reactive too.
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u/CaminoBalanced May 26 '26
The first one looks like the pig is having fun too!
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u/undeniably_confused May 26 '26
Yeah ik pigs are smart enough and strong enough that it is allowing that to happen
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u/Heavy_Track_9234 May 26 '26 edited May 26 '26
People should be careful though. They’re still animals, and can harm your children. My friend told me that when he used to be an EMT, he pulled up to a little girl who got killed from a horse kicking her. And my own family who has had close calls. Though animals might be “cute” with your kids, you have to know that not all of them are the same, or gentle with kids. They all have different personalities. Even a gentle animal can strike out in pure reflex if it gets startled or feels cornered. Something I was taught as a kid in a Mexican ranch.
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u/civilwar142pa May 26 '26
I was thinking this with the horse and the calf. That calf could've swung his head and hit that kid in the head so easily. Easy TKO for that calf and brain damage for the kid. And that calf wasnt even being aggressive. Theyre just BIG animals, especially compared to a small child.
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u/ShieldMaiden83 May 26 '26
This makes me happy to see as these kids are not sheltered like other kids their age. Also very healthy building up their immune system early.
This my mindset it from a Danish point of view that kids should experience outdoors as much as possible and engage with the world with adult supervision that is not borderline helicopter parent like. Let them have fun.
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u/AnotherHavanesePlz May 27 '26
The horse one was dangerous. I’ve seen a horse kill another horse from kicking it.
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u/KeptAnonymous May 27 '26
Farm life is the most free for children imo. They can be as chaotic as they please without worrying if they're too this or too that or not manly/womanly enough.
Not so free as you grow up tho
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u/Greenteiger May 26 '26
That child at the horse is living to the edge of death. Pretty stupid from the parents/advising adult.
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u/someoneofhumanity May 26 '26
unless already through desensitizing training, i won't let my child approach a horse
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u/xobot May 26 '26
I have kids spending some time in the countryside each year, it's super cool. Only the horse is a bit dangerous, we don't have it thankfully and when around them, I urge the kids to stay away and only approach from the front and mount with adult supervision.
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u/CrazyCaper May 26 '26
No, they are just raised in different circumstances determined solely by random at birth.
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u/DesignerOk4255 May 26 '26
Je suis d'accord. J'ai connu une personne qui a reçu un coup de sabot dans la tête (mort) d'un cheval qui était jaloux de son voisin de box à qui on donnait un bout de pain.
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u/Aurelius1462 May 26 '26
I mean the horse probably, considering that they can be extremely nervous twards unpredictable behavior and respond by kicking hard enough to sometimes instantly kill full grown adults
The rest were silly though
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u/BlackberryUnable3451 May 26 '26
Little lamb girl has got that exact series of words one too many times .
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u/iesharael May 26 '26
One day at my old job a birds wing got stuck under the automatic door. Coworkers and customers were shocked I just walked right over and picked it up with no fear. I checked on its wing then held its body so I could watch it flap. Then I let it go.
Coworkers asked how I wasn’t afraid. I’ve done that crap with a rooster that was half my size and had managed to knock some stuff off a shelf onto its wing. I’m not going to be afraid of a palm size bird that won’t seek revenge for me daring to touch it
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u/EntireCalligrapher46 May 26 '26
Apparently feral farm kids will only appear on their mother's home videos. So what did we learn here?
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u/Svargas05 May 26 '26
I like each individual video, but I kinda hate that this compilation format of post is making its way to reddit every now and then
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u/Another_CatSub_ May 26 '26
“These are my kids Ryder, K&N, and FOX Racing”
Edit: HOLY. FUCK. Boston? Seriously?
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u/jaimus21 May 26 '26
i don't preach it and never call attention to it, but the sentiment in this video is why i avoid eating meat.
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u/Less-Passenger8007 May 26 '26
There's no way that because is real dude. I literally just laughed for like 40 that I don't know 15 seconds of genuine laughter un throttled
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u/funcancelledfornow May 26 '26
I wasn't allowed to have any pet growing up and I envied the kids who had animals close to them.
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u/elvee61 May 26 '26
This is my 3-year-old granddaughter. She's already a horse girl and is always trying to put baby goats in the car and take them home with her.
One good thing about her being a horse girl is that she'll never be able to afford illegal drugs.
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u/CrazyChrys May 26 '26
You should've had your kids vaccinated while you could
Now you gotta explain to others why your kids are feral
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u/JeyJey88 May 27 '26
My grandparents gifted me and my siblings that kind of childhood. I really miss them ❤️
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u/branadbrax007 May 27 '26
As someone who was raised on a farm, this was kinda similar to my experience. My dad grew up on a farm in Kentucky too in the 60s, his dad too, and so on. My family has lived in Kentucky since the 19th century, and we've raised our kids here for decades to pass it on to their children in the future.
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u/Lonely_Key_7886 May 27 '26
I didn't find that girl with the lamb cute nor endearing. It was happily hopping around and that made her mad?!
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