what would be a funny thing to teach my 5 y/o niece?

2 years ago by pelletbucket to c/asklemmy

I'm visiting extended family for the first time in a long time, and one of my nieces has reached the impressionable age where she keeps mimicking things that she sees me do. what's a really funny but fairly harmless thing I should teach her to do?

Sanctus 140 points 2 years ago

It'd be hilarious if you taught her how to code Fortran.

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cm0002 85 points 2 years ago
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tiefling 21 points 2 years ago

Hey this might make her millions in the future

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dactylotheca 7 points 2 years ago
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snausagesinablanket 9 points 2 years ago

You sick bastard! Have her do a print loop in BASIC.

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ICastFist 4 points 2 years ago

I don't think his niece is named Fortran, tho

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SidewaysHighways 89 points 2 years ago

Flicking your cheek just right to make the water drop noise

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DessertStorms 17 points 2 years ago

This is evil

donkey makes popping noise

(not exactly the same noise but can be used to the same effect)

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rockSlayer 13 points 2 years ago

OP, do this one

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tiefling 5 points 2 years ago

Or making the mouth pop effect with your thumb

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BippinThatBop -2 points 2 years ago

💯

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kromem 69 points 2 years ago

On a vacation when I was a teenager I taught my younger sibling the "SYN/ACK" game.

They still remember the TCP stack handshake protocol including resets and acks years later.

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0_0j 22 points 2 years ago

Lol, kid will sniff packets next

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pineapplelover 12 points 2 years ago

What kind of game is this? Never heard of it

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Iamsqueegee 65 points 2 years ago

My niece and nephew loved the “this guy” gag. What’s got two thumbs and thinks you’re the coolest? THIS GUY! and point to yourself with your thumbs.

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Hugh_Jeggs 4 points 2 years ago

Nah here it's Good guy/Wank

Teach her that, it's an important life lesson

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UnderpantsWeevil 54 points 2 years ago

Teach her to order something off a foreign-language menu, invite the family out to dinner, and see if she can place her order fluently.

Doing the "Five year old white girl shocks waitress by ordering Orange Chicken in perfect Mandarian" bit IRL would be pretty funny and adorable.

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zakobjoa 47 points 2 years ago

I've thought my niece that policemen go "oink oink" and that pigs go "You have the right to remain silent!"

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notfromhere 5 points 2 years ago

I’ve thought that too.

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TootSweet 45 points 2 years ago
  • Beatboxing. "Boots and cats and boots and cats"-style.
  • The pulling your thumb off trick.
  • The Macarena.
  • "The Game". ("You just lost The Game.")
  • Chopsticks on the piano/keyboard/toy xylophone/etc.
  • "The Name Game."
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kitnaht 43 points 2 years ago

A buddy of mine taught his 5 yr old daughter to tell people "One time, at band camp...I stuck a flute in my..." *long pause* "nose".

And he gets joy remembering all of the people go wide-eyed waiting for that next word out of her mouth.

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DarkDarkHouse 10 points 2 years ago

Just hope he’s prepared for when she finds out the quote’s origin

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knightly 43 points 2 years ago

Lockpicking

Using Linux

Media piracy

Feeding the homeless

Wheatpasting / graffiti

Political theory

Shoplifting from corporate chains

First Aid

Legal observation

Black bloc tactics

Guerilla gardening

Spotting plainclothes cops / informants

Dialectical Materialism

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OsaErisXero 19 points 2 years ago

Idk about some of these given the age bracket, but Spot the Fed is fun for the whole family.

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Clydesdalecrusher 10 points 2 years ago

She could configure linux from scratch

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Contramuffin 9 points 2 years ago

Seconding lockpocking. Easy to learn, tactile feedback (very kid friendly!), can absolutely annoy parents. But be careful to teach children not to do anything that'll seriously get them into trouble

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Alexstarfire 6 points 2 years ago

You have a weird sense of humor.

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knightly 6 points 2 years ago

I'm a weird sort of person. 😺

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WatDabney 40 points 2 years ago path: 0 11141427, hotness: undefined, score: 40, children: 2
ininewcrow 8 points 2 years ago

Then once they got it just right, let them sing it all week.

Once the week goes by .... teach them 99 bottles of pop on the wall

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SzethFriendOfNimi 8 points 2 years ago

That is utterly evil

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EtherWhack 38 points 2 years ago

Teach her how she can insert "apparently" into every statement.

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BananaPeal 10 points 2 years ago

My 8 year old starts almost every sentence with "By the way."

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the_crotch 4 points 2 years ago

In 80 years your kid could be president

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neidu2 9 points 2 years ago

And "allegedly"

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sundray 36 points 2 years ago

"Guess what?"

"What?"

"CHICKEN BUTT!"

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hitmyspot 2 points 2 years ago

Guess what.

What?

Youre a snot and I'm not.

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UpperBroccoli 32 points 2 years ago

I taught my niece to say "I can't work like this!". That was fun!

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Subnet64 32 points 2 years ago

Arm pit farts

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DessertStorms 20 points 2 years ago

Alternatively - hand farts for the times it's too hot to want to stick a hand in your armpit lol

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MelodiousFunk 11 points 2 years ago

Seconding hand farts. I've never seen anyone wash their hands after doing armpit farts.

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ColeSloth 2 points 2 years ago

Being too hot just makes a better bravado.

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InputZero 31 points 2 years ago

If she's the right age, Teach her The Game. It's a brain virus game.

Rule number 1 of The Game, you can not think about The Game. When you think about The Game you lose.

Rule number 2, when you think of The Game you have to say that you've lost The Game. Ideally loudly and publicly.

Rule number 3, after losing the game you get 30 minutes grace period to stop thinking about it before The Game starts again.

Rule number 4, once you have learned about the game you may either play the game or cheat.

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grue 32 points 2 years ago

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Captainvaqina 9 points 2 years ago

Dangit. It's been years. You flipping flipper.

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NotMyOldRedditName 7 points 2 years ago

You beat me to it.

Start em young.

Also I lost the game.

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WorstCase 4 points 2 years ago

It's been a while. But now I lost the game again...

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riskable 28 points 2 years ago

How to tie her shoes the instant/quick way. She'll be the coolest kid to all her peers and even amaze other parents who witness it...

https://youtu.be/Q5qZpQe_4EA?si=6fPhLyHs5BwJoaoA

(I have no affiliation with that channel it was just the first thing that came up when I searched)

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Nomad 28 points 2 years ago

I taught my kid to say "mom drinks beer for breakfast" as soon as she could talk. Wasn't that popular with the family xD

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A_Very_Big_Fan 3 points 2 years ago path: 0 11146827 11156551, hotness: undefined, score: 3, children: 0
Hello_there 19 points 2 years ago

End every other sentence with ~ nya ~

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ace_garp 19 points 2 years ago

The drums.

Or a less chaotic-evil suggestion, that water-drop sound made by flicking your cheek.

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Brickhead92 6 points 2 years ago

I think the water drop sound with your mouth is more chaotic evil than drums.

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rand_alpha19 18 points 2 years ago
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gac11 16 points 2 years ago

I have had pretty good luck with doing

High five Up high Down low Too slow

My nephew would just let me do it forever, always trying to beat me on the too slow bit.

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CanadaPlus 14 points 2 years ago

Give her some unconventional future career ideas. Non-edgy ones, of course. I think it would be pretty funny if after a visit from an uncle your kid was talking about sailing knots or embalming procedures or something.

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sharkfucker420 12 points 2 years ago

Assembly

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wuphysics87 12 points 2 years ago

I taught my 18 month year old niece the sound a dinosaur makes. ROOOOOOOAAAR

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Tarball 11 points 2 years ago

Teach her to take a drink and then smack her lips and say, “ahhh”.

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pelletbucket 6 points 2 years ago

I'm not trying to grow an Instagram microcelebrity lol

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m__a__b 11 points 2 years ago

Pull my finger.

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CentrifugalChicken 11 points 2 years ago

We got my niece to speak a little Klingon.

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fubarx 10 points 2 years ago

Poker. And proper bluffing.

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PlantDadManGuy 5 points 2 years ago

Low-key one of the worst things I think you can possibly teach a child. I've actually considered this with my nieces because it would be fun, but teaching kids how to lie convincingly is just a terrible idea on every possible front.

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pelletbucket 10 points 2 years ago

i decided to let her watch Smackdown with me. we'll see what she picks up as a surprise for mom & dad

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Hugh_Jeggs 1 point 2 years ago

Oh great, show the niece thinly-veiled gay porn, aye

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falk1856 9 points 2 years ago

That it's pronounced heliclopter and not helicopter.

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usualsuspect191 17 points 2 years ago

Helico-pter

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DirigibleProtein 4 points 2 years ago

My son came up with “epilopter” and that’s what we call them now.

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lemonSqueezy 9 points 2 years ago

Tell her a fun fact, in your best science teacher tone. It takes one billion microseconds to get to one second. Hopefully she can run with this and ask more questions.

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aramus 4 points 2 years ago

I'm pretty sure that this is wrong? It should be one million. Am I too tired?

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lemonSqueezy 3 points 2 years ago

My mistake, yes one million.

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Hadriscus 9 points 2 years ago

Juggling ? beginning with two balls is fairly easy and is a slippery gateway to more balls

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FartsWithAnAccent 8 points 2 years ago

Dad jokes or anti jokes maybe? Math formulas? A foreign language?

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NigelFrobisher 8 points 2 years ago

Gang signs.

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dessalines 8 points 2 years ago

Do something that will confuse her parents a ton. Like tell her that every time she wants something, she has to touch her nose three times then say the thing. Demonstrate it a lot to drill it in.

taps nose three times... COOKIES

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oessessnex 8 points 2 years ago

Play chess.

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XTL 8 points 2 years ago

Using capitals

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RBWells 7 points 2 years ago

What I like to do with kids that age is cartwheels. One hand, two hands, one foot, two feet.

Good time to introduce them to interesting foods too.

Spitting watermelon seeds really far is also fun.

The macarena.

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Subnet64 6 points 2 years ago

Do the burp trick by swallowing air, and then giggle uncontrollably.

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southsamurai 6 points 2 years ago

Greasy, grimy gopher guts
Mutilated monkey meat
Dirty little birdy feet
Floatin in snake eyeballs

Too

Bad

I

Forgot

My

Spoon

But I got my straaaaaawwwwww. sluuuuurp

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ettyblatant 6 points 2 years ago

Wow!!! This is fascinating-- I was raised with

Great big gobs of Greasy, Grimy, Gopher Guts Propagated Porcus Puts Sterilized Monkey Eyes, And me without a spoon! scoop Too Bad!

I think my mom was crazy on second thought

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southsamurai 7 points 2 years ago

A good mom is always a little crazy lol.

I've heard that version, and there was a version of the one I wrote out that started "great green gobs" too.

You wanna know what's surprising though? We were taught the song in school, by the elementary music teacher. She'd come through the district one school at a time, once a week and we'd have music class. Basic rhythm instruments (like those ridged sticks you rub together that we canned rhythm sticks, maracas, cabasas, etc) and folk songs and such.

It was awesome. Mrs Gore was her name. Really tall blonde lady with an incredible voice that had infinite patience with kids that couldn't sing worth a damn lol.

I've never been good at rote memorization, but I remember every damn song she taught us.

Michael row your boat ashore, Puff the magic dragon, she'll be comin round the mountain, Mary Mack, John Jacob Jingleheimer Smith (usually pronounced Yon Yacob Yingleheimer), and a bunch more.

Oh man, and my entire class when I was in second grade took part in a school show, where each class did a song. We did Amazing Grace, and there were tears among the parents, and not just of boredom or because we sounded like a random group of kids trying to sing lol. We wore these blue vests and pants (I think the girls could choose to wear skirts, I remember that not all did, but not any discussion about it). It was so damn fun.

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shinigamiookamiryuu 6 points 2 years ago

How to disco.

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ICastFist 6 points 2 years ago

If you know how, teach her how to whistle real high using the fingers on top of the tongue. One way is by making an O with the thumb and the index finger, bending/rolling your tongue backwards a bit and pressing your fingers against it.

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NotMyOldRedditName 10 points 2 years ago

Oh look at Mr You can just do it this way or that way.

I STILL CANT WHISTLE ALL YOU WHISLTING ELITISTS!!!

😭

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CanadaPlus 4 points 2 years ago

Me neither. I can buzz my lips to a melody without a needing an actual horn, though.

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NotMyOldRedditName 3 points 2 years ago

Do you play a brass instrument?

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CanadaPlus 5 points 2 years ago

I did for like a decade. I'd still play, but I was never as good as my peers, and that shit's expensive.

It still took a long time to nail the exact movements down, after I made the sound accidentally a couple times. There's no resonance to rely on the way you can for low brass, at least.

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Churbleyimyam 6 points 2 years ago

That white cows make milk for white coffee and black cows make milk for black coffee.

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MIDItheKID 4 points 2 years ago

No no no. White cows make milk. Brown cows make chocolate milk.

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0x2d 4 points 2 years ago

gentoo

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ininewcrow 4 points 2 years ago

Teach her to say "I was born on a pirate ship"

Once she's able to say it properly, tell her to open her mouth with a finger at each corner and say the phrase again. Get her to shout it out

Then tell her to show her new trick to mom and dad.

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Tehhund 3 points 2 years ago path: 0 11141511, hotness: undefined, score: 3, children: 0
Hikermick 3 points 2 years ago

Impressions. Cartoon characters are best

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BodePlotHole 3 points 2 years ago path: 0 11146980, hotness: undefined, score: 3, children: 0
Xanxia 3 points 2 years ago

Teach her about Poseidon's Kiss.

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Jakdracula 2 points 2 years ago

Say “on skib a dee” to any young kid. They love it.

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Xtallll -2 points 2 years ago

Make a fist stick up your pinky, put your mouth next to your thumb puff out your cheeks, and repeat the word "girl".

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ssm -4 points 2 years ago

skibidi toilet

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