Two-year-olds are the coolest people I know. I have spoken about my class before, but as the semester comes to a close, I am realizing just how cool my tiny humans are and feel they warrant one more discussion.
First of all, have you ever watched a two-year-old walk into a room? When they enter a room, they are more excited than a college kid in a room with free food. Every. Single. Time. Regardless of where they are. They want to touch everything, talk to everyone and experience everything in whatever room they are in. I think this is the coolest thing because at some point, we all become jaded and lose that intense interest in the world, which I believe we could all stand to regain to some extent.
Two-year-olds are the most brutally honest people ever. If you look weird, they will tell you. If you say something silly, accidently or intentionally, they will laugh whether you want them to or not. And if you do something they do not like, they will tell you and everyone around you what they don’t like and how you can improve. In the same way that we become jaded regarding our excitement about life, we become self-conscious about what we say. I wish that I could fully embrace honesty in the way that my tiny humans do, because I suspect life would be a lot easier and more interesting.
Two-year-olds embrace pantlessness in a way I wish the rest of society would. When they go potty, they fully disrobe from the waist down, because as one of my kids said, “It’s more better than going potty with pants on,” which frankly, I can’t argue with. They also take their pants off periodically throughout they day because they no longer feel like wearing them, something we can all agree would be nice. When they are not wearing pants, they go about their normal activities as they would when wearing pants, and that non-conformity is something I wish we could all adopt.
I could go on for days about how cool the kids in my class are, but in the interest of time, I will say this; two-year-olds seem to have it figured out, and I suspect the world would be a better place is we all took a page from their crayon-colored book and regained some of that childlike freedom.
