4-Year-Old’s Optimism Just Making Things Worse For Area Family

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MARION, AR—Though intended to cheer up family members, the unflagging optimism of 4-year-old Shelby Cooper has served only to exacerbate the financial stress her parents have experienced since her father lost his job two years ago, sources reported Monday. “It used to make me smile when she’d say, ‘Don’t worry! You’ll get a million dollars!’” said Ken Cooper, admitting he has since grown to dread his daughter’s good-luck nose kisses. “But now when she crawls onto my lap and tells me I shouldn’t be sad because I’m the strongest Daddy in the whole world, it just makes me feel like an even bigger failure.” At press time, Shelby was coloring a picture of her mother, who when reached for comment said drawings of her leaving the hospital on a rainbow only made her worry more about how the family would pay for her cancer treatments.

 

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This got dark really fast

thought she was a boy lol

click through to the article

Just wait 5 minutes and he’ll tell you he hates everything and wishes you were dead.

They’re optimist because children are ignorant and ignorance is bliss. They have no idea of the massive shit show that’s happening. It’s called innocence and being naive. 😬

White privileged optimism

There is much to learn from children.

Yeah, but we'll die to save the little annoyance, just because of that optimism.

Child is ever so optimistic

Popehat My 4YO told me yesterday that we can drive to someplace with snow for Christmas and my soul fled my body.

Popehat Dark. That's the way we like it.

How dare he?!

why he look like this

BRUH 😆

Alan Greenspan had it: irrational exuberance 🤦‍♀️

Chill...

Area kid needs to knock that shit off.

Yeah, well, we'll just see how cocky she is when we cut off her sesame street.

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Ouch...this is DARK.

the falacy of hope is a buzz kill

I really hate living in this country. This satirical article is exactly like the letters to Santa asking to help families financially because bills are stressing mommy. That kicker hurt too much. You guys are too good

Ouch

Keep those thoughts in Disney movies where they belong !

S(super man) MALL

Give it 10 years, his pessimism will do the same.

Irrational positivity not appreciated during period of Nazis and a deadly virus pandemic. 😷

I hated that little shit

Beach Sand and Tight fitting Underwear have been dispatched to the Location and Local National Guard Units have been put on Alert.

That little sh!t.

Hah its me :)

why has the onion been reporting news so often now?

Just_Jazyy

If he was a gingerbread, I'd eat him up!

Aweeee!

Bless his heart. I would much rather live with an optimist, smiling child than a spoiled, scowling child - particularly during hard times. He isn't screaming, 'I want...' I pray you realize what blessing his optimism truly brings.

“everything with him is a positive answer with a chipper can-do attitude and he’s just a fucking drain on our emotions”

Don't worry. The first few times life kicks him in the nuts, his optimism will fade away to harsh reality.

Don't worry. I'm sure he'll grow out of it.

Preschool will knock that optimism crap out of him.

Thoughts and Prayers...

‘I will have a college fund’

'He keeps saying he wants to work on a boat like his grandpa in Miami, and we don't have the heart to tell him neither will exist in twenty years...'

Bankrupt Parents Tell Kid Santa Might Be Dying

I can't begin to know how bad a family feels in this situation. My heart goes out to them. Sadly however, it is not the child's optimism that makes things worse...it's the hopelessness that we as adults feel, justified or not, that deepens our sadness

Optimism has its place but too much of it , is just......gross!

Optimism gives false hope and attempts to camouflage the sad reality of life, when this bubble burst bad things happen. This also leads to bad thing.

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