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Posted:  |  Updated: 07/10/12 02:29 PM ET

Girl Gives Father Funny Note About Aging After He Asks Her To Pop Old Birthday Balloons

When it comes to communicating with parents, some kids have no qualms about putting their grievances in writing. The resulting notes -- often slightly menacing, and nearly always littered with cryptic misspellings -- toe the line between inappropriateness and pure hilarity.

"If you put a pas w word on that I will make your life a nitmare," a computer-happy 7-year-old girl recently admonished her mom and dad, for example.

The latest piece of eccentric children's correspondence to make the rounds online is no less frank or error-ridden than past viral hits -- but it's getting noticed because the author delivers a surprisingly sophisticated messaged.

When one dad, who goes by simonhac on Twitter, asked his children to pop a batch of old balloons that were lying around their house, his 8-year-old wrote him the following deadpan response: "Would you like it if just because you were old you got poped."

Wise words from a child who has yet to face the reality of getting old -- but seems to know a little something about empathy, gratitude and aging, nonetheless.

Image from simonhac via yfrog. Via Jezebel and Boing Boing

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pmacfarlane92
I like sparkly things
09:25 AM on 05/24/2012
That slide show is so adorable! Gotta love kids!! :)
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sacmom3
ENOUGH! Remember the children of Sandy Hook
12:03 AM on 05/24/2012
My favorite; how many peppers did Peter Piper pick= eight. That really made me laugh.
05:11 PM on 05/23/2012
I have my funny art posted in my office. It makes me laugh everyday.
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jgamble28
ya never know.
11:31 AM on 05/23/2012
I'm a bus driver and I can't believe the things that little kids say. Just the other day a very young boy was talking to his freind and was talking about bra sizes. I stopped that converstion right away.
rickcraft55
nobody is right if everybody is wrong
11:15 AM on 05/23/2012
My daughter at 8 wrote me a note to not be mad at her. 24 years later I still have it and read it every so often.
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brokenleoheart
10:25 AM on 05/23/2012
im slightly scared at children aged 8 and still unable to spell alot of the simple words... also. kids are basically sociopaths.
02:34 PM on 05/23/2012
No caps, incorrect punctuation, and "alot" is not a word. I'm slightly scared for you.
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brokenleoheart
03:22 PM on 05/23/2012
sure. ur so hilarious. heres my 2 cent of pity laugh for u
03:39 PM on 05/23/2012
Life is not perfect,, get over it !!
06:19 PM on 05/23/2012
Incorrect puncuation, and capitalization. "Alot" is not a word. It is properly written as "a lot."

The proper way to write your comment:
I'm slightly scared *for* children aged *eight* and still unable to spell a lot of the simple words. Kids are basically sociopaths.
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brokenleoheart
09:25 AM on 05/24/2012
it's also the internet. no buddy cares. kids on the other hand, most likely made alot of those cards in school, which means the teachers did a pretty bad job educating them. 
09:44 AM on 05/23/2012
my favorite one is the child who wrote that there was to be a history test on video games and the teacher needed him to play games all day to be ready for it. LOL so cute.
09:20 AM on 05/23/2012
The parents must have said "i feel like i am living in Hell." This may have been her response.
LTTR136
Better to err on the side of caution.
08:27 AM on 05/23/2012
The 7 year old who threatened to make her parent's life hell is neither funny nor cute. If her parents don't come down hard on her now she will be out of control by the time she is in junior high.
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gonro2
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09:39 AM on 05/23/2012
Tan that booty now
10:00 AM on 05/23/2012
Hopefully the parents took away all of her electronic toys and then whooped her butt.
06:31 AM on 05/23/2012
Making a threat to a parent is a punishable event. Let that go and it will get worse. Nip it in the bud now.
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Kathleen August
01:00 AM on 05/23/2012
"If you put a pas w word on that I will make your life a nitmare." She may only be 7, but I wouldn't mess with her - she can do it!

And then you will suffer the humiliation of having to ask her to fix it.
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dancerctry
I love Gardening and Decorating
09:58 AM on 05/22/2012
Parents find these funny and cute but there are two problems.

1. By minumizing the child's feelings and not taking them seriously what lesson are they learning? You'll find out when they're teenagers not taking what you say seriously.

2. The embaressment factor. It's online meaning friends/peers either current or future can see it and that could lead to bullying which leads to blaming the parent for the bullying which has a whole list of self distructive behavior attached.

Parents are supposed to nurture their kids, not cause a problem. Kids might not like certain punishments but as long as they aren't abusive, they are for their own good (grounded for staying out past cerfew is a reasonable one). Parents are supposed to teach kids how to deal with their problems and work through them but by mimimizing their feelings and publically embaressing them (even if the thing was done when they were much younger) you are alientating them and that makes them not want to tell you things and not trust you. That distance causes a lot of issues in the teen years (assuming they don't commit suicide due to their struggles and lack of support during the teen years). Parents: think before you do these things because it might seem harmless now but that doesn't mean it won't harm later.
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MexiChick67
Que? Que? Queee?
02:40 PM on 05/22/2012
Kids feelings can be quite extreme. You have to sift through quite a bit to get to the real problem. A friend of mine recently posted a note her 5 year old daughter wrote about how much she hates her mom and she signed it 'Love you mommy, Jenny'. The note came as a result for a consequence for not doing her chores. Parenting is not a popularity contest.
amd52
Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder.
08:07 AM on 05/23/2012
Boy am i glad i am not rasing kids anymore, at least i had control over my children and they were well behaved, they were taught the basic rules from day 1. And, if any child even tried to threaten me consequences would be set forth and not ignored. I was a divorced mom of 3 girls. All grown today and lovely young woman.
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Diana Bitritto
Never be too damn good for your own damn good
07:50 AM on 05/22/2012
When my son was in the 6th grade he made me a valentine which said "Roses are red, violets are blue, when I need money I can count on you."
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blkgoddess06
09:03 AM on 05/22/2012
LMAOOOOO ...LOVE IT!!!!
amd52
Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder.
08:08 AM on 05/23/2012
HOW CUTE AND FUNNY LOL FANNED AND FAVED
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10:26 AM on 05/22/2012
LOLOL!!!!
05:33 AM on 05/22/2012
From the mouths of babes.... As adults we tend to let our responsibilities rule our lives. This is a very adult and natural thing to do, there's nothing wrong with it. When this happens though, all too often we forget what it's like to be a kid, and that's tragic. When was the last time you climbed a tree just because it's fun climbing trees? HIde and Go Seek is just as fun at thirty as it was at nine, with the added bonus of being able to play after drinking. If people would let out their inner nine year old now and then, perhaps they'd need less psych meds.
03:21 AM on 05/22/2012
Nice rocket.
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rickiraccoon
08:14 AM on 05/22/2012
I was still laughing about the "rocket" when I came across the "mermaid". I really lost it then. These are the cutest things I've seen in a while.