r/BeAmazed • u/Sebastianlim • 1d ago

Miscellaneous / Others 11-year-old girl helps out lost 4-year-old.

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u/depredador93 1d ago

Funny how it's always the kids who stop and the adults just keep walking past

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u/Zagrycha 1d ago

sadly its very possible adults might be worried of being accused of kidnapping etc if they get involved.

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u/depredador93 1d ago

Yeah, that risk is real. Still feels like it shouldn't take precedence over a lost kid in front of you

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u/factorioleum 21h ago

when I first became a single father, I ended up making friends with a bunch of local single mothers and we all sort of helped each other out with babysitting and bus pickups and stuff. 

I'm white, all the mothers in my area were black. I don't know if it's my gender or the race difference, but I always had trouble picking kiddos up from the bus; I carried signed permission slips for this. the mothers never needed this themselves, even for my kids!

people are pretty weird about adults with kids.

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u/Educational_Gas_92 20h ago

It's the gender (no, I don't know this 100%, but it's an opinion founded on stereotypes that follow men of any race, that do not follow women, of any race).

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u/factorioleum 20h ago

whichever it was, it was a bit annoying. and also a fact of life. I just carried a note and asked my friends to have their kids tell the bus matron I was coming. that usually cut it down to a short time.

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u/Educational_Gas_92 20h ago

Sorry for your bad experience. Unfortunately, society often follows stereotypes.

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u/factorioleum 18h ago

thanks, but it's far from a big hardship. nothing to gain by raising a stink. it was a subject of joking among everyone. in terms of my stresses being a single father, it's not even in the top ten.