A mother was left in laughter after her young son gave a literal response – and brilliantly warned – to a sentence that parents everywhere pronounced countless times: “a minute”.
The moment, captured in an Instagram video now viral published by Zohra M. Khorashi (@thatlawyermomlife), took over the internet with more than 54.6 million views and cash.
The clip presents Khorashi preparing food in his kitchen when his young son is called behind the camera, asking juice. Without missing a beat, Khorashi answers: “A minute”. But, instead of waiting patiently or repeating his request, the boy calmly turns to Alexa and says: “Alexa, please put the timer for a minute.” Khorashi, completely caught up in, laughs.
The video, which has won more than 2.4 million likes and thousands of comments, touched the sensitive string with familiar parents with the common habit of launching short -term deadlines – “just a second”, “two minutes”, “a minute” – which often turns into much longer expectations. Viewers praised the child’s mind and timing, with a lot of remarks on the precision he called a parental trend.
From left to right: Khorashi looks at the bowl in the kitchen; and laugh.
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“The fact that the child did not waste time. So intelligent!” said one user, and another wrote: “I said to my daughter last night” we leave for the movies in 30 minutes “. She:” Ok mom, Hey Siri put my timer for 30 minutes. “”
Insight Expert: What should parents say?
To explore what is really happening in such moments, Nowsweek Contacted Parental Expert Ana Aznar, a children’s psychologist born in Madrid and founder of Rec Parenting, an online platform supporting parents and caregivers.
“When the children are small, it doesn’t matter what we say in these situations because they don’t have a time concept,” said Aznar. “However, as soon as they understand the time, if we tell children to give us two minutes, they will give us two minutes because they do not yet understand that we use this sentence very freely.”
Aznar added that unsettled expectations can easily frustrate children. “If we tell them to give us two minutes, they expect what we have finished in two minutes. And if we are not finished, they will be frustrated and bored with us.”
To avoid misunderstandings, Aznar recommended more concrete or transparent communication.
“It is better to give them a precise period of time, for example,” give me 30 minutes “;” I will be finished when the hand of this clock reaches 3 “,” said Aznar. “Or if we do not want to give them a delay, we can tell them to go and play and, as soon as we have finished, we will look for them. In this case, the mother could also have told the child to help him cook and that she will give him the juice once finished.”
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