50 Things Kids Said Or Did That Were Beyond Their Years

It's not uncommon to have kids perform as translator when with parents, who don't speak much English, come into our clinic. One young boy stuck out, though, because he was so earnest. He was about 6 or 7, translating medical information as best he could. He was learning as he went, asking very good questions so he could understand and relay the information well to his mother. I was so impressed with his politeness and patience, as well as his intelligence. After they left, he ran back in just to say "I forgot to say thank you for your help!" That is a kid I would hire in a heartbeat down the road.

When I was 4 years old, I started going into anaphylactic shock from eating something I was allergic to. We were walking outside, but I was drooling and spitting and slowing down. My dad was with us at the time, but he’s never taken my allergies seriously and continued walking - didn’t even notice I was lagging behind.

My brother, 8 years old at the time, was the one who noticed. He convinced my dad (yes, he had to convince him) to get us back to grab the epipen (which my dad purposefully left behind to prove a point to my mom). An eight year old kid looked out for me better than a full grown adult could.

I saw a kid, maybe 5, walk into the grocery store saying in total seriousness, “ok, so the deal is we’re just going to grab what we need and leave, right? Because I don’t want to be here longer than I have to.” His parents replied, “yes that’s right.” And he was like, “ok good, because I didn’t want to come shopping in the first place.” That child had the soul of a grumpy old man and I loved it.

To put it simply, my niece’s mom is an absolute piece of s**t. my niece is 8 and her mom has been in and out the entire time. my niece hasn’t seen her in over a year. she constantly looks forward to next time she will see her even though her mom disappoints her every single time. so this past mother’s day instead of being depressed about not seeing her mom, she and her friend (who i think also has mom issues) decided that each month they would pick a woman in their life to look up to. my niece has a ton of women in her life and it was just really amazing to see her begin to accept that she will never have a genuine relationship with her mother. she’s always been way too f*****g intelligent for her age.

The day after my ex husband almost beat me to death, I woke up to my 5 year old daughter dragging suitcases & his clothes out of drawers & the wardrobe, I was fuzzy from pain killers & had to go back to the hospital for scans & tests, I could barely stand, couldn’t talk & one eye was completely swollen shut, she was packing his s**t & tossing the bags down the stairs, I tried to stop her but she looked at me & said very sternly, “ What daddy did to you is terrible mummy, he’s a bad daddy & he can’t live with us anymore” She put the bags outside the front door & locked it. When he came knocking after he got out on bail she yelled at him to go away or she would call the police.

Out of the mouths of babes, I started divorce proceedings the next week.

When my mom was dying. I was rushing around packing a bag to be at the hospital with her. My daughter caught on to my frantic energy and calmly helped me remember everything I needed. Then when I was going to pick her up from my FIL's house, I got a call from the hospital that they were putting my mom on a vent. I got to my FIL's house and just sobbed and screamed at their kitchen table. She sat across from me (she was 9 at the time, 16 now) and calmly told me she loved me and that I would be okay. She hugged me. I was told that after I got myself together and left, she let herself have her own breakdown.

I often tell myself that I don't deserve my daughter. I must have done some great in a past life to be blessed with a kid like her.

I work as a waitress near the beach, and i always get sunburn at the start of the season when i forget my sunscreen or something like it in the chaos of the shifts. This little girl comes up to me to tell me "miss, you are burning and you need to put on sunscreen" and handed me her 50spf kids sunscreen. I dont know if her parents maybe said something to each other about me or she was just really bright and caring.

I was in my local corner shop buying some snacks. 2 middle aged women walk in with a young child, probably 8 years old. The 2 women are in a full on argument, screaming at each other in the middle of this small shop. I just ignored them and went about my business. After a minute or two the young girl says "mum, be quiet! You're embarrassing yourself!"

When you're 8 year old daughter has more comment sense and better manners than you, you know you've gone very wrong somewhere in your life.

My 4 year old son walks around the house turning the lights off in unoccupied rooms and scolding me because it’s bad for the “enviromen”.

My son Ethan. My wife’s mom passed when he was only a year old, but in the span of about 4 years, (ages 6-10), he lost the rest of his remaining grandparents.

After my mom passed away, (his last remaining grandparent), I waited a few hours before I told my children. I’m sure that they knew because I was home and had not been home in three days, but I waited anyway.

A few hours later I was walking by his room and could hear him crying so I went in there to talk to him. I made sure that he understood that she wasn’t in pain anymore, and that she wouldn’t suffer from cancer ever again.

I’ll never forget the look on his face when he said “I know that, dad. It still hurts. It just feels like every time someone dies, a part of me is ripped away”.

There’s nothing you can say to that.

I was roommates with my cousin when she was pregnant with her twins and just after they were born. When they were about 2 I moved to another state and rarely saw them. When they came to my wedding four years ago I hadn't seen either of them in five years and they were about 8 or 9. Context is important because while I was there for some important parts of their life, we weren't close.

Anyways, just as the wedding march is going to start I was sitting in the back on the stairs waiting for the prompt and everyone had taken their seats... except (let's call her) M. M is one of the prettiest little girls you've ever seen, first of all and she has this absolutely Disney Princess kind of temperament. She is just sweet and soft spoken and polite almost to the point of weird, but it's absolutely endearing. Anyways, for whatever reason she was the only person not seated and she was back there with me on the stairs. She then says

"Wow. So, it's your wedding."

I'm like "Yeah, it sure is!"

She says "Are you nervous?"

I was a little taken aback that not only did she even know what that meant but that she had the presence of mine to actually give a s**t. Most kids don't really think about other peoples feelings very much let alone something so abstract. So I told her "A little bit."

She then put her little hand on my shoulder, like she was an old wise woman and said "Just breathe." Then she took a deep breath and said "You're going to do great. You look beautiful." and then got up and ran out of the room.

It almost felt like I dreamed the interaction it was so bizarre.

Today I was bummed that my leaf blower quit working. I went to put it in the trash can. My 11 yr old heard me talking about it, went and got it, took it apart, fixed it, and brought it back to me. He’s never fixed anything like that before. Love that kid!

Mu 5 year old said to me "just because I'm a child, doesn't give you the right to shout at me"

I no longer shout.

My son went to the store with my parents and saw a few toys he wanted. They said no. He was ok with that and the next day he asked them if he could do work to earn money and they said yes. For a week my son did work for my parents all day to earn money to buy a toy he wanted. He saved his money and when he went with them to the store he brought his money and even tho he wanted this big LEGO set he saw a smaller one that it’d be over his budget to buy both so he ended up buying two small LEGO sets he really wanted and saved the rest till he could work off the difference so he can get the big one. He’s only 6 and understands the concept of money and that nothing comes for free and that you have to work if you want something.

My grandfather died when my son Sylas was 3. It was his first exposure to a death. He had never met my grandpa.

We boarded a plane to Saskatchewan to attend grandpa's wake and funeral. As I stood beside my grandad's body, crying, Sylas ran outside. I thought he was freaked out but my mom was out there so I knew he was going to be safe. I took the opportunity and said a few things to Grandpa in silence. Sy came running back in and motioned for me to pick him up. I did.

He placed a flower that he had picked from the church garden into my grandpa's clasped hands. Then Sy put his little hand on my grandpa's heart and said "I love you Grandpa" and then he cried quietly while looking him.

Later on, he dragged a chair up to the podium to say a few words. "My heart hurts. It's everywhere. What the heck?"

I have no idea how he knew these customs. He handled the entire 5 day stay with family with so much grace. Oh! He kept asking my family members how they were "holding up" and saying things like, "he's not really gone" or "he's always with you."

He blew my mind.

My five year old took the newspaper one Saturday morning and said he wanted to read about Corona "I have to know about these things." he also told his 3yo sister who was having a tantrum: "I can see you are upset, but this doesn't help you. Please tell us what's wrong."

He also threw a skin cream can out of our window to see what would happen (we live on the sixth floor) and eats ants, so the wisdom is not consistent.

Develop a savings plan at 16 to buy a house when he turned 18. Dude worked at McDonald's at the time, but was way more mature than all of the adults that worked there.

I have a little cousin (he’s about to turn 3) and some lady was yelling at his mom and he yelled out the car window “stop yelling at my mom and mind your own business and go on with your day.” I WAS SHOCKED BECAUSE I DIDN’T KNOW HE COULD TALK LIKE THAT.

My little nephew and niece were having a serious discussion about what should be done about “the baby,” this morning. My nephew wanted my niece to put the baby in her bed so that it could continue sleeping there. My niece argued instead that the baby was better off on the couch where both “parents” could keep an eye on it.

The baby was me. I crashed on the couch and they came downstairs very early in the morning and I guess they started playing pretend that I was their baby. They then tried to cram ice cream down my throat as I pretended to sleep, because I’d been a “good baby.”.

Son aged maybe 7, sitting at an outdoor table at a cafe in France, very solemnly put down his knife and fork after eating, and said "I think I'd like to speak to the chef now". We asked why, and if we could help, or the waiter, and he said "I would like to speak to him myself, thank you". So the waiter went to fetch the chef. Son asked if the chef spoke English, and when told he did, stood up, walked over and shook his hand, and said "That was the very best croque monsieur I have ever had". The chef kept a straight face, bowed, and thanked him for the compliment.

I have no idea where he got this from - we weren't in the habit of being quite that formal when we went to restaurants, and although we often thanked the waiters and chefs in this particular cafe it was usually very casual. He put us to shame.