Category: Let's talk
Was just debating where to put this one...parenting? Rave board? Seriously it's LOL funny, at least to me.
Anyway I take Mimi once a week to a little tumbling class. Some of the moms chat, and one I believe teaches, perhaps the class is on her lunch break.
Anyway they were discussing friendships their other children were forming, and the teacher seriously asked, "Are they bonding?"
?! I understand making friends, or even connecting, but bonding?! Is this new psychological speak?! I'm sorry but it sounds humorous. What are we talking about here, kid friendships in the single digit years? Ions? Dentures to an adhesive? I couldn't help but have a private laugh about that one.
It seems like a normal question to me. You've never heard of the bonds of friendship, of two people or a group of people bonding over a certain experience etc? Strange.
I, too, am a bit surprised someone your age has never heard of people bonding.
yeah, this one is confuzzling me. not so sure what's different about someone saying kids are bonding?
Never heard of it before in human relationships, wasn't used in my household growing up or my household now. Friendships? Connecting? Sure, but bonding sounds as if they're joined at the hip or glued, like the old denture adhesive commercial.
well, to each their own...
It's just another word for all the other stuff. To say "bonding" makes a little more sense than "friendship," because a child under the age of 5 or 6 might not understand the foundation of what being friends really is. After all, what makes that other child your friend? Do you both like the same color? Do you share snacks? Do you play in the sandbox? Do you like to pick on each other?
A bond is more concrete - those two children clearly prefer each other's company and may rely on each other for help. Does that child help you open boxes you can't open? Do you help that child learn to recognize the names for shapes? It's a different system.
they all have iPhones, exchange passcodes and connect via Bluetooth. They're bonding, rather bonded, paired.
Just be glad they're not bonded out.
Gods, you turn everything into a computer/technical analogy. Quite amusing.
Words have weight a librarian told me once. Bonding implies a different more subtle but deeply felt connection.Because children don't have complex relationship requirements for each other they can bond in a more lasting way. It all depends on what you attach to a name. Tiffany
Eleni it was a play on words, and 'bonded out' is another way of saying bailed out of jail ... so ...
I learn something new every day. I was seriously perplexed as to what "bonded out" meant. Guess I know now in case I go to jail or bond someone out.
lol I didn't know that one either, though I have heard of a bondsman. It's not a word I use frequently so didn't even think to put the two together. *smile* Very clever.