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u/AlternativeSector400 18d ago
I can confirm as a child when I got scared I would sleep in the middle of my parents and I felt like I was perfectly safe and could finally go to sleep after having a bad nightmare. Honestly really cool and brings back so memories seeing this.
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u/Agon1024 18d ago
It will eat one parent first in almost all cases.
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u/dd22qq 17d ago
"almost all".
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u/Capitan__Insano 17d ago
Mimics really need to stop posing as treasure chests because it’s just so predictable. They should instead pose as a California king sized bed with your mom and dad on each side and a space perfect for you in the middle. And then once you scootch into your spot and your mom tucks you in and your dads deep voice starts telling you your favorite bed time story, it swallows you whole
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u/Due-Dot6450 17d ago
No, monsters wouldn't even think about attack in such case! That's the whole point of this tactic.
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u/bucketofmonkeys 17d ago
Warmest, too!
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u/Worldliness_Academic 17d ago
So sweet, except my daughter by morning had her feet in our faces..lol
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u/LobsterNumerous3332 18d ago
My Dad would have said, “why did you draw yourself with two severed heads in boxes?” and then let out a laugh as he put it up on the fridge
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u/Noveralex14 18d ago
I can't explain it but the mom's to his right and the dad's to his left.
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u/LetTheJamesBegin 18d ago
Obviously. You can see the mother's love in her eyes, and dad puts on a happy face but he's a bit concerned about getting enough sleep before work.
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u/Bystronicman08 17d ago
Holy projection. You can't tell any of that from this simple picture.
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u/ambisinister_gecko 17d ago
Yeah you can, if you look closely you can even see a little bit of disappointment in the dad's eyes
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u/CherryBerries3218 17d ago
The head on the left (the child’s right) is rounder which is a more feminine attribute, while the head on the right (the child’s left) is slightly more jagged which is generally seen as more masculine.
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u/Good-Ad3843 18d ago
How do I get there when I need a "safe" spot to land? Even at the end of my 80s, I sometimes feel the need.
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u/duralyon 17d ago
I love to see older folks active on reddit. :) Trying to word this with the utmost respect lol.
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u/Good-Ad3843 17d ago
I worked hard to get this far. I consider white hair well-earned. I love being "elder", "old", "senior", or whatever designation you want to give it. I plan to have fun with it.
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u/Hoserific 18d ago
This is the best! You are raising an emotionally healthy child with secure attachments! I especially like that he isn’t clinging to either of you. That’s a good sign.
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u/WaveLaVague 18d ago
Only one question:
Are those noses or smiles ?
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u/TrailMomKat 18d ago
Heh, and beneath those covers, the kid's managed to lodge every knee and elbow into his mom's back and hips. Still sweet, and I would still never deny my boys if they needed to sleep with me and their daddy. But dear God, those knees and elbows, and their ability to somehow maneuver themselves to sleep sideways by two in the morning, their feet all in your face and their head on their daddy's chest.
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u/JeSuisBasti 18d ago
I would probably have drawed this too, as a kid, but with the title „not safe“. No nightmare was scary enough to go to my parents :/ there (especially my father) were my nightmare
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u/innerbootes 17d ago
Same, except it was more that they were indifferent. It was discouraged strongly that I would ever seek this out, and so I never did. I can’t relate to this idea of safety at all and it’s only now in my 50s that I’m realizing I don’t even know what safety is, really. It has shown up for me somatically as chronic tension and pain in my body and a dysregulated nervous system my entire life. Yes, I am in trauma treatment.
People: don’t have kids unless you really want them.
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u/TennaTelwan 17d ago
Also same. I commented above elsewhere, but I definitely chose sitting with arachnophobia in a dark closet with hidden spiders under blankets and clothes than having to face my mother. She still scares me to this day. When I approach her, I never know if she's going to be kind, or just randomly start screaming at me. Lately again it's been the latter.
While it's a good exercise for helping kids to know if they feel safe at home or not, I'm sure the kids that don't feel safe and are too embarrassed to draw it or bring it up, or even too scared, will have a very hard time with the exercise.
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u/Haloperimenopause 17d ago
Same. We weren't allowed to go into our parents bedroom, under any circumstances, no matter how dire. My mother tells a story about three-year old me vomiting in my bed in the night, and stripping the bed and my nightie, putting the dirty stuff in the washing machine, putting on a clean nightie and getting back into bed. She tells it as an example of the funny little things children do; I hear it as I knew, even at that little age, that the repercussions of asking my parents for help would be worse than tending to everything myself. And here I am at nearly 50, still struggling with chronic independence.
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u/ambrosia12345 18d ago
I’m 44 and I still remember this feeling from when I was a child, had a nightmare and was granted access to sleep in the coziest place for the night.
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u/Hitman__Actual 17d ago
Right, THIS is normal. Thanks for the education. I'm 45 and have never thought this about my birth givers, and I've no idea what I would have drawn as a child.
Not really sure what I'd draw now tbh...
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u/TennaTelwan 17d ago
I turn 42 soon, and it was only within the last year that I realized my crushes on a few teachers weren't crushes, but in fact the sense that I felt safe near them and never realized it (especially as the daydreams were more about doing things that were safe and nothing really romantic or more).
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u/Hitman__Actual 17d ago
Thanks for the response. I'm starting to form an image of 'safe' being 'surrounded by those who would, or have protected me'.
I might write myself a list actually, could help my mental health...
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u/horrospy 17d ago
Your son is saying that he'll be using you as a meat shield and as a alarm if anyone attacks
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u/Witty-Wishbone4406 17d ago
I grew up with just one of them (mom), since dad never gave a shit to even appear. Now im 31 years old, she’s been dead for 2 years and i still sleep imagining her on my side from time to time. That’s the power that love has, to feel taken care of and safe. You’re probably not the op but if your kid feels like that about you, be happy, because he will feel like this forever even when you’re no longer with him.
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u/legoheadman- 17d ago
Of course it is! The safest place for any boy is perched atop his castle walls flanked by the heads of his enemies mounted onto planks.
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u/throwaway_1440_420 17d ago
I used to always sleep with the radio on as a little kid, whenever the NWS alerts would butt in, I’d immediately go running scared and end up in this exact spot. I don’t think I ever felt this safe in my life.
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u/MasterMaaku 17d ago
We are struggling with this situation so much. Our 5 year old doesn’t want to sleep anywhere else. Anyone who has input on when this goes away and their own bed becomes “safe”?
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u/duralyon 17d ago
Had this situation with my ex-gfs kid who was 2-7 when we were together and we lived together most of the time. It was rough, she would get put into bed and then cry and scream for up to an hour. Just had to stick with it and she got used to it. It was a battle of wills sometimes lol.
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Our four year old is between us right now.
My wife’s dad left when she was little, and she’s very close with her mom. She said she’d still sleep in her mom’s bed when she’d come home and visit from college. So I’m pretty sure I’m fucked.
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u/pegbiter 17d ago
Ackchyually, co-sleeping like that increases the risk of SIDS and is considered unsafe by the Lullaby Trust. If co-sleeping, you should keep all adult blankets, duvets and pillows away from the child, and ideally only with one adult.
The diagram also clearly indicates that the adults have consumed large quantities of alcohol or psychoactive substances which greatly increases the risk of smothering.
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u/mymentor79 17d ago
This picture takes on a different perspective depending on whether you interpret the curves as a mouth or as a nose. If the later, it looks kinda scary.
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u/Sir_Delarzal 17d ago
Imagine beeing between two see-through figures with creepy smiles and eyes, would you feel safe ? :o
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u/duralyon 17d ago
Man, I opened it and was like awwww cute and then I kept looking and thought about it a little more and wanted to cry 😭 this is so fucking sweet and wholesome...
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u/haroldharcourt 17d ago
I too, never feel safer than when all my enemies decapitated heads have been neatly packed away in boxes. Go get em kiddo.😁
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u/Dappershield 17d ago
Ok Billy, show that class what makes you feel safe.
"i feel safe when I've decorated my home with boxes carrying the heads of my enemies."
Jesus, Billy.
"He's not on my list."
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u/LemonadeParadeinDade 17d ago
I never had this till I got married to my husband and now I do understand it! It's pretty nice.
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u/Embarrassed_Mix_1176 17d ago
Me drawing a picture of "safe" as an adult: " positive bank balance..."
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u/UNwanted_Dokken_Tape 17d ago
In my house we called that the Hot Dog or ultimately, “you wanna doggies???”
This is gorgeous.
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u/hockeydudeswife 17d ago
Precious!! The thing I miss most about my kids being little is when they would come snuggle in bed with us.
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