[ SECRET POST #6300 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6300 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Toddlers are adorable IRL, but difficult to make entertaining as characters in fiction.

This is not helped by the fact that many people writing about young kids haven't had much experience with them. This means they either write them as much more mature or immature than a kid of that age usually is.

Also, a lot of writers don't even consider writing a toddler as a character, and instead use them like a plot device.

Like, they don't need a 3 page monologue or a Journey of a 1000 Faces style character arc. But if you are aware of how toddlers act it can be incorporated into the story. The toddler chucking a tantrum could lead to a meet cute. The toddler being obsessed with [insert typical toddler interest] might lead to a connection with their parent's love interest. If one of the toddler's parents was in the picture and now isn't, dealing with the toddler's separation anxiety could be a plot point that is incorporated into the rest of the plot organically. Just dealing with a realistic schedule of a toddler could be incorporated into the plot organically.

Basically, toddlers are sweet mini humans who are trying their best to understand the world. They deserve better than being one dimensional butts of jokes or unrealistic charicatures.

[tabaqui]

Toddlers are sticky, noisy little proto-monsters and we DO NOT LIKE.

[(Anonymous)]

+100000

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AYRT

Valid. I still think there are better ways to write them than what usually happens!

[tabaqui]

Very definitely.

[(Anonymous)]

"This is not helped by the fact that many people writing about young kids haven't had much experience with them. This means they either write them as much more mature or immature than a kid of that age usually is."

True. But even people who do have kids don't always hit the mark. There's a gap between knowing how toddlers act and being able to portray that in writing. The gap's just bigger if you don't actually know how toddlers act.

(Which is why I avoid kidfic in general.)

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AYRT

True, you don't have to have had experience with something to write it. With toddlers though I do think there's such inaccurate portrayals in media in general (not just fic) that direct contact is going to be necessary to correct some misconceptions.