r/facepalm • u/LostMiddleAgeMan • 16d ago
So your kid ate a mask and the mandate is the problem?? 🇨​🇴​🇻​🇮​🇩​
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u/PM_ur_P_values 16d ago
I have a three year old that has no problem wearing a mask. Maybe don’t make your kids first time ever wearing a mask the day he has to wear it all day.
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u/noobzilla 16d ago
Some kids might have increased problems with fidgeting. In the past, chewing on shirts has been be observed with children that have disorders that lead to increased fidgeting. If they'll go as far as a shirt, they're going to find the mask when it's right there. There's an opportunity here to help out a kid who might be showing early signs of a disorder. The parents are clearly not going to catch that, so hopefully there are school resources that can.
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u/hoi4enjoyer 16d ago
I know right? Ween him into it, get him used to it and teach him to not chew on it.
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u/bonzombiekitty 16d ago
Yep. Daughter started wearing a mask for day care last year when she was a couple months shy of four years old.
She's never complained about it in the year+ she has had to wear it, and she generally wears it correctly, as do all her classmates. Somehow a whole day care of 3 to 5 year olds have no issue at all with wearing a mask.
My two year old son on the other hand... He's still a bit too young to explain the concept of a mask to him and get him to wear one.
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u/Elaine1959 16d ago
Does he has favorite cartoons characters? Most kids mask has cartoons characters on them. That might help. Although I think 2 years old and younger are excluded.
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u/bonzombiekitty 16d ago
No favorite cartoons or anything. He's at a stage where he just likes watching trucks, trains, and buses (my youtube search history over the week he was home with hand foot and mouth disease was "trucks", "trucks and trains", "yellow train", "red truck"...)
He just doesn't like things on his face. But we're slowly working on it. It took a while for him to accept wearing his helmet when riding his scooter. Now it's routine and gets mad if I forget it.
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u/Dominant-Species-Mid 15d ago
My parents always told me I didn’t like to watch cartoons when I was really young. I just like watching trucks and trains and construction equipment.
Now I’m an engineer. Maybe you have yourself a little engineer in the making!
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u/YoMommaHere 15d ago
My great niece just turned 2 and has been wearing one for months. The problem is your kid lady, not the mask.
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u/honkyklown 16d ago
It’s not the first time ever wearing a mask. It’s the first they had to wear one all day
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u/OutsideBoxes9376 16d ago
I feel like they aren’t going far enough with this. Why keep your infants in diapers? So uncomfortable, cause rashes, too hot in the summer. For the safety and the freedom of your child, go diaper free and let them shit all over your house.
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u/CaptainEasypants 16d ago
That kid has no hope with a parent so fucking dumb
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u/Vallon1337 16d ago
Canaan... The name kinda gives it away. There is not much sense to be expected.
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u/SlowInsurance1616 16d ago
Time for a New Canaan. I hear there's one in Connecticut.
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u/HeavyWhereas 16d ago
Listen if you feed your kid masks at home, what do you think he’s gonna do at school? Duh!
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u/SmallSaltyMermaid 16d ago
Living in Florida with a preschooler has made me realize how “selective” parents are with their children wearing masks.
If your child can wear a mask all day long at Disney World this past spring, they can wear one inside at school.
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u/infinitbullets 16d ago
Let’s flip through the bible forever, honey, until we find a suitable religious fruitcake name for our little angel!
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u/deadtwitch66 16d ago
And the kid is named Canaan. How much do you bet they're a strongly religious family that only trusts god to save them.
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u/Labradorite-Longboi 16d ago
Kids don't listen? What a shock! It's almost as if they have no frame of reference for how important it is to wear a mask, jeez have they never been through a pandemic before! So inconsiderate
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u/Mudokon-Abe 16d ago
It's almost as the parents should teach them to be civilised and not act like rabid dogs!
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u/Labradorite-Longboi 16d ago
Yeah damn, it might take 18 or so years but sure
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u/NoLibrarian6691 16d ago
My youngest was 5 when this pandemic started and always wears a mask in public. He has never chewed through it. Children are very capable of quickly learning shit like this.
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u/Alceasummer 16d ago
Mine had her fifth birthday shortly after the first wave of shutdowns in my area. And well, she does complain that masks are more uncomfortable when it's over 90 (F), and that they tend to make her glasses fog up. (both are reasonable complaints in my opinion) But she wears them, and hasn't chewed a hole in one.
(please tell me it was a disposable mask! Because how much chewing would a kid need to do to chew through a fabric mask in one day?)
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u/Brilliant-Engineer57 16d ago
Yes he should, our two year old twins can do it, so your five year can. Why do surgeons wear them all day,
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u/wyldwood512 16d ago
What is he, a fucking dog? JFC!
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u/hoi4enjoyer 16d ago
Dont be rude to the kid, he wouldn’t know any better at such an age. Shit all you want on the stupid parent who cant teach their kid whats ok and what isn’t.
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u/safn1949 16d ago
My son started wearing a mask at 6, fortunately he is not that stupid and has never tried to eat one, our dog on the other hand.
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u/TheSpiggott 16d ago
Whether you’re behind masks or not it’s still important to teach your kids not to eat shit that isn’t food.
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u/MightyArd 16d ago
How common is it for children this young to be required to wear a mask?
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u/ventiverryberry 16d ago
My babe had to start wearing a mask all day at daycare once he turned 2. He had no problems whatsoever.
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u/MightyArd 16d ago
It's very foreign to an Australian. Nobody under 12 wears a mask here. Though I guess that's the advantage for mostly keeping COVID out.
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u/Yosoy666 16d ago edited 14d ago
The preschoolers at my school started the year wearing masks last year. 3 to 5 year olds wore them all day
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u/acciodragons 16d ago
What happened to all the funny posts on this sub? All I see now is mask and vaccine crap.
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u/chilehead 16d ago
Kids shouldn't have to die from preventable diseases either, yet here we are in America - where people think doctors are only trying to save lives to score political points.
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u/Successful-Engine623 16d ago
I’m pretty sure masks for kindergarten kids is fairly pointless….I mean…I get it ya gotta require it but they are trading boogers all day….
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u/DIYlobotomy9 16d ago edited 16d ago
r/Holup - August 9, 2021 is the first time this kid ever wore a mask? Mask mandates started in like April 2020 - 16 months prior 🤔
Edit: “for an entire day” - ok fine.
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u/Grouchy_Donut_3800 16d ago
I mean to be fair it seems like it was his first day of school and we all know that Karen didn’t ever put a mask on him (or ever use one herself) so quite possibly one of the only times that kid has ever worn a mask.
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u/dunndawson 16d ago
It’s a pandemic. And this is your first time with your kid wearing a mask? Maybe you should re evaluate yourself as a parent
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u/bradford68 16d ago
don’t worry, he’ll be unconscious on the respirator so he won’t chew that.
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u/JuBangaz 16d ago
What really sad conversations happening in the comments. It really sucks to have very little kids wear masks. That's just a fact.
I got vaccinated as quickly as possible, and am very dismayed and upset that masks are back.
I am so tired of half this country deciding they don't have to live in a society. Masks aren't for the vaccinated, and if adults would have gotten them, we wouldn't have to force kids to wear masks either.
If you're not vaccinated at this point, I have zero desire to ever talk to you (special circumstances notwithstanding).
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u/Ok-Letterhead4601 16d ago
This sounds like the child might have a bit of a sensory thing going on I.e. chewing on things. As the father of a sensory kiddo these things happen. The teacher was simply passing on a note about a part of the day but the parent it seems doesn’t understand or isn’t willing to work on or help in this situation and from what it seems like is also a ani-masker and probably doesn’t recognize a possible sensory issue or doesn’t “believe” in it.
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u/Fiftywords4murder 16d ago
My 6 year old nearly did this too. I just bought her a new one and told her to stop.
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u/mama_emily 16d ago
My daughter is in a class of 3-4year olds, they all wear masks and don’t bitch like some of you grown ass adults smh
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u/Godlovesyouthere4ido 16d ago edited 16d ago
You all do realize that putting masks on kids, keeping them in social isolation, and having them grow up in constant fear for 2 years will undoubtedly cause mental health issues, right?
Nope. None of you realize that and it’ll be funny when millennials and Gen Z are hated by the youngest generation for fucking up their mental health.
Millennials don’t care about mental health. They sure like to pretend they do though
Downvote this because you don’t like the truth. Go ahead. I listen to the health experts. Rising mental illness such as depression in children and adults since lockdowns began. It’s going to be a fucking mental health crisis caused solely by millennials and any other advocate of treating children like muzzled dogs. What’s sad is that almost no one cares
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u/4timesthesteak 16d ago
I don’t know about you, but there hasn’t been 2 years of social isolation for my kids, they were allowed to play sports with masks and they saw their friends online during that whole thing, and then school resumed normally in March.
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u/agrapeana 16d ago
Wow if only there was a free, safe, widely available selection of vaccines that you could get at any drugstore to end all this.
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u/ChameleonParty 16d ago
Really? He’s five… no way he’s going to understand this. To enforce masks on young kids is crazy - leave them be…
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u/ViolentAversion 16d ago
I guess this wasn't facepalm enough to keep you from giving it the "haha" reaction.
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u/RedsDeadWhosZed 15d ago
He’s going to grow up to eat his own homework one day. I’m sure mom will be proud.
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u/Germanbluecichlids 15d ago
Also, you named him Canaan? Do you hate your child? Oh wait, of course you do. That's why you don't want him wearing a mask. Can't have our kids protected in any way. I already know you don't believe in protection.
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u/mothwithspiderlegs 16d ago
Kid still got a smiley for behavior, what's the problem?