• Lovable Sidekick@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    My wife, an elementary school teacher, told me about this phenomenon where the kids would get really excited about doing something and for some practical reason she had to tell them they couldn’t do it. She hated to see “their little shoulders fall.” We noticed our own kids doing the shoulder thing when we had to cancel plans, ran out of ice cream or whatever. It’s a very deflated gesture.