Conversations with young children always have a touch of humor and laughter, because between their innocence and the curious questions they ask us, we can find really tender and funny moments. The one I share with you today, is one that falls more on the latter, and that will probably make you laugh a lot.
A teacher has shared the hilarious conversation between her and her deaf students, when they realized that the flatulence they so quietly let out, could be heard for his companions who do not suffer from deafness.
Anna Trupiano is a kindergarten teacher at a school where In all groups, there are some students who are deaf or have a hearing problem. Recently he posted on his Facebook page "HaHas for HooHas" a detailed and funny conversation about an anecdote he had with his students.
In Babies and more Life with laughter is better: how to favor children's sense of humor It all started, when one of his little students who suffers from total deafness and who is six years old, "released" a flatulence in the middle class, and then he realized that the companions around him and who do not suffer from deafness, turned immediately to see him, which caused him confusion.
So, the teacher proceeded to explain something that most of us probably assume that everyone knows: farts sound. And others can hear them. I transcribe the conversation below, because it is incredibly cute and funny at the same time.
Today in first grade, one of my deaf students expelled a rather loud flatulence in class and the other students turned to see him. The following is a fragment of the 15-minute conversation that my deaf students and I had in sign language.
Child 1: Why does everyone look at me?
Me: Because they heard you farted.
Child 1: What do you mean ?!
Me: People without deafness can hear farts.
Child 2: (Completely horrified) Wait, can they hear all the farts ?!
Me: Well, no. Not all farts, but some yes.
Child 3: How can you tell which farts listen and which do not?
Me: Mmm ... has it happened to you that sometimes you can feel your ass move when you fart? Many of those can be heard. But if your ass doesn't move, they probably didn't hear it.
Child 1: TELL THEM TO STOP LISTENING TO MY ORDERS! THAT IS NOT RIGHT!
Me: Children who listen cannot stop hearing farts, it just happens.
Child 2: Then I will stop farting.
Me: Everyone does it, it's healthy. You can't stop it.
Child 3: Wait, everyone? Even my mom?
I do.
Child 2: My dad?
I do.
Child 1: ... you?
I do.
(The children start laughing hysterically)
Child 1: So you can hear and smell all the farts?
Me: Some farts, yes. Not all.
Child 2: Can people who listen see farts?
Child 3: Yes. Green smoke comes out of its butts, I've seen it on TV.
Me: That doesn't happen in real life.
Child 1: What ?! Agh, I don't understand farts.
... I went to college for 8 years to have these conversations.
Anna's post quickly went viral, as well as being very funny to imagine the scene and the reactions of the children, is something that most people did not have in mind or knew that it could happen, because we naturally assume that it is common knowledge that farts sometimes sound.
But it's not only a funny story to make us laugh, because Anna He has taken advantage of his virality to give a message: Children with hearing problems do not have access or the opportunity to learn these kinds of things about basic life situations (or the functioning of the human body) because at home or with their peers, they do not have the same linguistic access.
In Babies and more, does my son hear well? Ten signs of a possible hearing loss "Some of my students do not have a family that knows enough sign language to explain to them about many things, which can be incredibly insulating for them.", says according to Red Tricycle information.
She hopes that story, In addition to making us laugh for a while with that small group of children with deafness who discover that farts sound, help people get interested and get more involved with deaf people in your community and even learn sign language.
