'Why can’t you be more like your brother/sister?': People share tasteless questions adults ask children

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    9: ? 100 r/AskReddit u/Technical_Ad_4299 • 19h What is an inappropriate question that many adults ask to children?
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    SuvenPan ● 17h "why can't you be more like your brother/sister?" Reply 48.9K
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    OzNTM 15h ● As someone who was adopted into a family with older bio kids, I got "My kids were never like that"... 2.9k
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    triggeron 17h ● Asking a question and rejecting any answer the kid gives unless it's the adults own opinion. Reply 48.6k ↓ ...
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    O RoseLaCroix . 14h YEP. Then calling the kid a liar when they give the answer they think the adults expect. I had to deal with that all the time growing up. 41.5k ...
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    Upbeat_Tension_8077 16h If there's family dysfunction & a kid is going through a rough emotional period with moments of lashing out: "Do you really want to be like your mom/dad when you're older?" Reply 42k ↓
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    Melody71400 . 16h "Why wont you give me ahug?" At a family event where everyone is staring. Reply 44.5k ↓
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    autumn_floods. 16h Now if only the staring was "hold on, is that relative making the kid uncomfortable?" Instead of "hold on, is that kid being bad?" ... 1.2k
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    runawaybluess • 16h When I got my period and they would ask "Don't you feel like a woman?" or some like that. I was 11 and not amused ... Reply 628
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    loyaleling 16h ● "Why don't you have a girlfriend yet?" "Got any crushes at school?" Reply 41.8k
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    dissapointing_excuse • 11h At the same time "cant believe those two are in hs and already dating, school is too early for this kind of thing" ... 391
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    Keks4kruemelmonster 18h ● Asked by "family" most of the time: Do you really want to eat that (much)? Do you want to make me sad? Reply 3.5k
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    NancyintheSmokies4 • 17h What are you going to be when you grow up? I'm 67, and I still don't know ... Reply 1.6k
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    Atheist_Alex_C • 19h "Why don't you smile more?" ... Reply 43.3k
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    SuvenPan ● 17h "Can I go to the bathroom please?" "I don't know, can you?" Reply 43k
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    Nepo_Barbie . 17h "Do you still believe in Santa?" All you're doing is making them question Santa. ... Reply 41.3k +
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    Bicycle Salt2961 - 17h "Why are you playing with [gender specific toy]? That's for boys/girls." ... Reply 677
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    PatchworkStar • 16h Not so much a question, but when a little girl asks why a boy is being so mean, the answer, "because he likes you," has always me off. Sure, let's teach little girls to accept abuse as love, and little boys that being abusive means they really care about someone and gets them what they want. It's and I'm done with it. I tell the little girls in my life that if he isn't kind to you, he doesn't deserve your attention. Reply 4 1.3k ↓

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