Top 10 Things Only Kids Do and Think It's Normal
#10: Walking Habits
Walking is such a basic, boring action that kids are bound to spruce it up to make it interesting. Kids love to make up little rules about where they can walk or not, like only stepping on certain colors on tiled floors, or the classic adage “step on a crack, break your mother’s back.” That’s if they’re not just walking backwards for fun, or making outlandishly big steps or something else weird. As famously illustrated by Monty Python, while adults doing the same thing is hilarious, it does stand out far more than if kids do it.
#9: Mixing Strange Ingredients
Children have no concept of what’s normal when it comes to food – they haven’t been alive long enough. If they like two things separately, why wouldn’t they go together? Seeing adults cook, they’re naturally curious as to whether they can create culinary masterpieces like their parents. This can range from just mixing all the sodas at the fountain together, to mixing the contents of a cupboard together. While adults are certainly guilty of this too, weird mashups of foods are far from the norm. Most people aren’t busting out the bizarre flavor combos at dinner parties, is what we’re saying.
#8: Running Upstairs on All Fours
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Kids like to run around on all fours. After all, it wasn’t too long ago that they were crawling on their hands and knees, so it makes sense. They especially love doing it on stairs, either because it’s easier to get up them that way or because they want to imitate their pets. While it can be endearing for children, this kind of behavior is generally frowned upon among adults, especially in public. Something about adults moving about on four limbs produces a kind of uncanny valley effect, or else it feels like something out of a horror movie.
#7: Making Marker Swords
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Markers - or felts or felt pens (depending on where you’re from) - are brightly colored drawing implements. Generic brands usually have a circular knob at the base and a gap in the cap. This lets kids and kids at heart attach multiple markers together. Naturally, we all did what any kid would do and made swords with them. Of course, hitting them against anything harder than a feather makes them come apart, but it’s nice to dream. In this case, it’s not that adults think marker swords are weird – most of us just don’t use or even see markers often enough to make them regularly.
#6: Licking Everything
Children are far more willing to put things in their mouths or their mouths on other things than adults are. You ask an adult to lick something on the street, and unless they’re strange, they’re not doing it unless there’s money involved. Kids on the other hand, will lick everything from windows, to poles, to markers – you name it, they’ll touch it with their tongue. Which, quite frankly, is weird. This is the age group worried about an imaginary disease like “Cooties!” What they should be concerned about are the real germs they’re picking up from licking everything!
#5: Sleeping in Awkward Positions
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Adults love sleeping just as much as kids do. However, most of us have figured out how to avoid falling asleep if we’re not in bed. Kids have no such restraint. They’re far more likely to nod off wherever they happen to be, whether it be flat on their faces, on the toilet, on a ride at an amusement park, or just standing. Kids are also prone to the wildest positions when they fall asleep. Whether their limbs are stuck out at odd angles, their heads are on hard surfaces, or their feet are up in the air, kids can fall asleep wherever or however they want. On the one hand, we’re a little jealous, but on the other, there’s no way that’s comfortable!
#4: Running Away From Home
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Let’s be clear here – sometimes, running away from home is warranted. There are some bad situations out there, and, regardless of age, if you’re in one, leaving home can be a good option. That’s not what we’re talking about though. Kids are far more likely to leave home for perceived slights, like not being able to stay up as late as they want, or not getting to have ice cream for dinner. Of course, usually, they realize that having to listen to their parents is a much better option than trying to sleep at the playground or wherever they run off to. When adults depart their homes, it’s usually, though not always, for more serious reasons.
#3: Playing the Recorder
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Millions of kids for generations have taken practical music classes in school. And the first and most popular instrument for kids to learn on is the recorder. It’s cheap, easy to learn on, and doesn’t take up a lot of space. However, as kids get older, middle education tends to drop recorders as an option, and because of its association with children, as well as their high pitch, adults rarely use recorders to make music. Parents who have to listen to their kids practice certainly don’t favor them either. Unless they’re still learning notes themselves or going for something different, you won’t catch most people over ten using a recorder.
#2: Screaming For No Reason
Look – kids are emotional beings. Logic doesn’t really enter into their behavior sometimes. If an adult screams, chances are they’re surprised, scared, or on a roller coaster, the last of which may involve surprise or fear, too. Or they’re just a jerk. But kids are a lot more free with letting loose and yelling themselves hoarse. While kids yelling at the top of their lungs when they’re angry or upset is all too common, they’ll also go full volume when they’re playing or having fun, if for no other reason than they can. Society or their parents haven’t conditioned them to consider others when expressing themselves.
#1: Having Imaginary Friends
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Children have boundless imaginations. When they play, they can conjure landscapes, objects, and people within their own minds. The last of these leads to the phenomenon of imaginary friends – people or creatures that kids think up and pretend to interact with. Most kids usually grow out of them, either making real friends or not finding their imaginary ones necessary anymore. This is the main reason you don’t see adults making fictional friends. They also realize that speaking to someone who isn’t there can come across as more than a little odd, particularly when in the company of real people.
