September 25, 2025 • 9 mins
Paulina is convinced her baby is a genius and is asking the 13 for validation!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You've become this person, Paulina, and my sister is the
same way you've become that parent. You've crushed into that threshold.
But I've been hearing it more and more lately, and
then you wrote it on our sheet, and then yesterday
I was hearing about it. But apparently is a genius, guys,
Apparently your daughter is is brilliant.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
She's so smart. I don't know much about eighteen months
olds and just toddlers.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
In eighteen months old? What's the list me or you
did about your tongue?
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Are you? Are you now disabled? Unable to work today?
Speaker 4 (00:31):
Like having difficulties today.
Speaker 5 (00:32):
I feel like I have never seen a baby so
smart at eighteen months And I know she's my kid,
so of course I'm like, oh, she's the best thing's
ever happened into the world. But I swear you, guys,
like I was saying my ABC sir yesterday, just singing
them chew her and she.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
A thing you do every day at the house, you
sing your sing it to yourself.
Speaker 5 (00:50):
Sing to her because I'm like, I want to see,
like if she'll like get you know, kind of you.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Were singing your ABC's. I was like, that is that
something that like you do in front of the Mirriach
Day that's a.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (01:02):
So I'm singing it and she's just staring at me
and I'm like, oh, she doesn't know, like ABC's yet
we're not there.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
I finished, I wrap up the song and she hits
me from the top and goes, hey BC. And I
was like, my job was.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
On the floor and she's a neurosurgeon. It's over. It's over.
Speaker 5 (01:18):
We're going to Yale. Like I was just so shocked.
And then I know, happy practices with her. But she'll
tell you how old she is when her birthday is.
She knows how to count in English, Polish and Spanish
to ten. We don't go past ten apparently maybe in
English we don't really need more than that in life,
I mean to its last time you said fourteen?
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Really right, you know? I mean?
Speaker 4 (01:37):
And who needs that? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (01:39):
She's smart, and I feel like I want to put
her in like a program or like test her to
see if I'm just crazy and I this is just
average or she's there maybe she's brilliant. No, I think
she's absolutely brilliant, Like she's so smart.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
My sister's doing the same thing now though, because she
poty tested in some to this school and they sent
my sister and brother in law the test results, and
of course.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
It's the same thing.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
We've had this conversation before my parents, who like don't
say to their kids are dumb, and then they call
it here and they do publicly in front of them
while they're in the car. We love it, but you know,
a man is like bubba. She called it bubba. You know,
we got the test results back from Polly and I.
It's possible that she's brilliant. It's really it's she could
be a genius. It's we're thinking maybe a genius level.
(02:23):
I'm like, really, because she's picking her nose right now
and eating it, so really like well, the teacher says
she is exceptional, Like really, okay, wow, that's incredible, Like
Mansa I would say, I were thinking maybe, yeah, it's
like really wow, okay, all right, well she's I mean, look,
she's a very bright girl, Gigi.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
I believe it's very bright. It's just here we go.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
You know, this is what I hear from all my
all my friends who have kids, like you wouldn't believe
how smart this kid is, and every one of them there,
everyone so if that's the case and we are the
future is bright.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
The future is bright.
Speaker 5 (02:58):
And I feel like it's a fine line though, because
now I'm I'm in that space where my kid is
really smart. I'm always going to acknowledge her she's really smart,
but you know, I also want to acknowledge reality if
she isn't.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
So like, am I am I crazy? Am I?
Speaker 5 (03:10):
Just the parent that you know is upsets with her
kid and my kid, you know, not saying she can't
do wrong, because she she can. But my thing is
like she is just really really on it. She's so smart,
you guys.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
No, I think it's good that you think she's smart.
And someone just texted that she is smart. So there boom,
a random text he heard that explanation of what she's
capable of and says, she's my boom, she's been tested,
she is she's.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
Mensa, she's mensa, she's brilliant.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
No, this is good, But like, you think she's really smart,
so then you're going to keep pouring information into her
and then we'll see what happens.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
I think it's great.
Speaker 5 (03:39):
Yeah, but then they turn around, like you said, and
she's eaven like dog food out of the bowl.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
You know.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
So it's like, it's like, how where are we really?
You know, I don't know. I'm just so proud of her.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
I'm proud to be her mother.
Speaker 5 (03:51):
And she's books smart, she's books Okay, can we talk
with this for a second.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
That's my other thing we're talking about. We have all
this Well I struggle.
Speaker 5 (03:58):
With this a lot. She's very books smart and she
will be. Now, how do I get my daughter to
be street smart, to like, no like things when we're
outside the house, you know what I mean? Because I
feel like she is pretty exposed to the world. We're
good with that, but I also don't want her to like,
you know, get bamboozled by somebody in the future, or
call for an a icecam, right, or really any like
(04:18):
cal Yeah, if someone comes up to her, you know,
at a gas station and says, hey, can you like
take this briefcase or something like and look across the
street offer you I've.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Seen that episode of but to Catch a Smuggler and
it was it was really a compelling story. It was
a free vacation to Costa Rica.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
I mean, do you want her to get got?
Speaker 5 (04:34):
So I'm always like, well, how do we teach her
like street skills, you know, without really putting her in
the street, because like at the same time, she will
not be doing half the things that I was allowed
to do, or I guess not allowed to do, but
I did. My mom didn't know because we didn't have phones,
you know, we didn't have alarm systems, so I was
doing things I shouldn't have been doing.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Okay, but see this is my question. And you did
this a little bit growing up. And then I know
other people have two but eight five five five nine
one o three five. So you are teaching her Polish,
Spanish and English all at the same time because your
mom's influence and then hobbies influence and then the combination
in you.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Right.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
So, but my thing is that at one and a
half years old, how do you not get confused? Like
if you were raised with multiple languages and I wish
I were, I wish it. I don't know, I wish
that somebody had just spoken to me in another language,
you know whatever. Yeah, no one spoke it, but like
even Spanish or you know whatever, Right, I just I
(05:26):
wish it. You know, from the youngest age, it was
like she's not talking to you in English like your
nanny your babysitter whomever. It is, like, we're talking to
you in English and she's not. And if you figure
it out, you want to eat, then figure.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
It out and they will figure it out, right.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
But that's my thing is so you never got confused
growing up about like what you were supposed to say,
where it just was it was natural to you. No,
you just knew to talk to your grandma and your
mom and we're using certain words and you knew to
the rest of the world would not understand that.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
You just knew that.
Speaker 5 (05:51):
Yeah, So my mom only spoke English until probably I
don't know, I was like three, I mean spoke Polish.
I'm sorry, only Polish uti I was like three, So
like that was strong language, right, So she wasn't teaching
me English by any means. I think I learned probably
from my environment TV right, Sesame Street or Barnie whatever
I was watching. But I was never confused. However, when
I did get older. And this is just my story,
so not anybody. I don't want to wane to think
(06:13):
that this happens to all kids, but like I wasn't confused.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
I just had a very.
Speaker 5 (06:16):
Sick accent when I was like four or five and
it's on camera, like I'm my sister's baptism, I'm over here,
like when are we going to church?
Speaker 4 (06:23):
But I think I picked it up from my happens.
I met a univer for.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Twenty four hours, right, and I'm like, hey, I'm walking here,
so like.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Exactly.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
So I think it's a part of the environment.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
But I don't know.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
I feel like I'm no expert in language.
Speaker 5 (06:37):
But I have talked to, like to people who work
in that space, who'd like to.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
What are you talking about oday?
Speaker 5 (06:44):
I am, And I tried to, like, and you know,
I'm forced it in my house and stuff. And yes,
I find myself going back to English all the time
because it's just the most natural for me.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Right, I've spoken English for thirty three.
Speaker 5 (06:54):
Years, like I mean, for the majority of my life,
and it's my everyday language, and I try not to.
I guess you're not supposed to do that. So I
was told, like I'm supposed to be. This is how
we were told, I'm supposed to be Polish only, hobby
supposed to be Spanish only.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
If we want our daughter to live.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
Then your own for English, just go.
Speaker 5 (07:13):
I have a feeling in America, she will have no
problems speaking English, Like that's I'm not even remotely worried
about English. And she speaks and understands English. But my
thing is like I want her to feel like I'm
only Polish, so like come to me for that. And
she's supposed she's supposed to mentally know like okay, mom, Polish,
Like that's supposed to click Dad Spanish, Like that's how
I guess how you're supposed to enforce the Polish is Polish.
(07:34):
But see, I go back to English a lot with her,
so like I'm not doing her much of a service,
to be honest.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
I'm confused right now. See I don't know how she's speaking.
But but the good news is she's brilliant. She's a genius,
so this should be no issue for her.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
It should be no issue.
Speaker 5 (07:48):
Listen, I kids will learn languages if you speak to them, right,
Like you have to speak to them, let them speak
back like they have to. That's the thing too, Like
she has to actually speak back to me, otherwise she
won't know how to speak, like it'll just be me
talking to her and her apply in English, which is
a very big thing here too. A lot of kids
don't speak Spanish right, because they aren't forced to repeat
things or speak back to the parents.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
They reply in English.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
My buddy's sending his kids in one of those Monostori
school where they dont speak English to speak Spanish at
the school.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Yeah, we're doing that next year, which I.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Mean, it's like, oh, and how does it is he
gonna get confused? And I don't. I don't think so.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
If anything, I think you're using two parts of your brain.
Speaker 5 (08:23):
I was like reading or something, so like for me
to be by language, I am I linguist, speak Polish
and I speak English for me like like two parts
of your brains. I guess light up when somebody speaks
a certain language or something. It's very interesting. There's a
lot of research behind it.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
I have a hard time with English, so it's fine.
Jimmy Kimmel Alive in headlines. One of the people who
won the one point eight billion dollars into power Ball
has come forward, and I'd like to I'd like to
find this person Facebook, be their friend and just you know,
see how they're doing today. Just check in with them.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
TikTok.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
You know, we finally maybe finally it's over. Okay, maybe
You've become this person, Paulina, and my sister is the
same way you've become that parent. You've crushed into that threshold.
But I've been hearing it more and more lately, and
then you wrote it on our sheet, and then yesterday
I was hearing about it. But apparently is a genius, guys,
Apparently your daughter is is brilliant.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
She's so smart. I don't know much about eighteen months
olds and just toddlers.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
In eighteen months old? What's the list me or you
did about your tongue?
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Are you? Are you now disabled? Unable to work today?
Speaker 4 (00:31):
Like having difficulties today.
Speaker 5 (00:32):
I feel like I have never seen a baby so
smart at eighteen months And I know she's my kid,
so of course I'm like, oh, she's the best thing's
ever happened into the world. But I swear you, guys,
like I was saying my ABC sir yesterday, just singing
them chew her and she.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
A thing you do every day at the house, you
sing your sing it to yourself.
Speaker 5 (00:50):
Sing to her because I'm like, I want to see,
like if she'll like get you know, kind of you.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Were singing your ABC's. I was like, that is that
something that like you do in front of the Mirriach
Day that's a.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (01:02):
So I'm singing it and she's just staring at me
and I'm like, oh, she doesn't know, like ABC's yet
we're not there.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
I finished, I wrap up the song and she hits
me from the top and goes, hey BC. And I
was like, my job was.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
On the floor and she's a neurosurgeon. It's over. It's over.
Speaker 5 (01:18):
We're going to Yale. Like I was just so shocked.
And then I know, happy practices with her. But she'll
tell you how old she is when her birthday is.
She knows how to count in English, Polish and Spanish
to ten. We don't go past ten apparently maybe in
English we don't really need more than that in life,
I mean to its last time you said fourteen?
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Really right, you know? I mean?
Speaker 4 (01:37):
And who needs that? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (01:39):
She's smart, and I feel like I want to put
her in like a program or like test her to
see if I'm just crazy and I this is just
average or she's there maybe she's brilliant. No, I think
she's absolutely brilliant, Like she's so smart.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
My sister's doing the same thing now though, because she
poty tested in some to this school and they sent
my sister and brother in law the test results, and
of course.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
It's the same thing.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
We've had this conversation before my parents, who like don't
say to their kids are dumb, and then they call
it here and they do publicly in front of them
while they're in the car. We love it, but you know,
a man is like bubba. She called it bubba. You know,
we got the test results back from Polly and I.
It's possible that she's brilliant. It's really it's she could
be a genius. It's we're thinking maybe a genius level.
(02:23):
I'm like, really, because she's picking her nose right now
and eating it, so really like well, the teacher says
she is exceptional, Like really, okay, wow, that's incredible, Like
Mansa I would say, I were thinking maybe, yeah, it's
like really wow, okay, all right, well she's I mean, look,
she's a very bright girl, Gigi.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
I believe it's very bright. It's just here we go.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
You know, this is what I hear from all my
all my friends who have kids, like you wouldn't believe
how smart this kid is, and every one of them there,
everyone so if that's the case and we are the
future is bright.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
The future is bright.
Speaker 5 (02:58):
And I feel like it's a fine line though, because
now I'm I'm in that space where my kid is
really smart. I'm always going to acknowledge her she's really smart,
but you know, I also want to acknowledge reality if
she isn't.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
So like, am I am I crazy? Am I?
Speaker 5 (03:10):
Just the parent that you know is upsets with her
kid and my kid, you know, not saying she can't
do wrong, because she she can. But my thing is
like she is just really really on it. She's so smart,
you guys.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
No, I think it's good that you think she's smart.
And someone just texted that she is smart. So there boom,
a random text he heard that explanation of what she's
capable of and says, she's my boom, she's been tested,
she is she's.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
Mensa, she's mensa, she's brilliant.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
No, this is good, But like, you think she's really smart,
so then you're going to keep pouring information into her
and then we'll see what happens.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
I think it's great.
Speaker 5 (03:39):
Yeah, but then they turn around, like you said, and
she's eaven like dog food out of the bowl.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
You know.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
So it's like, it's like, how where are we really?
You know, I don't know. I'm just so proud of her.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
I'm proud to be her mother.
Speaker 5 (03:51):
And she's books smart, she's books Okay, can we talk
with this for a second.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
That's my other thing we're talking about. We have all
this Well I struggle.
Speaker 5 (03:58):
With this a lot. She's very books smart and she
will be. Now, how do I get my daughter to
be street smart, to like, no like things when we're
outside the house, you know what I mean? Because I
feel like she is pretty exposed to the world. We're
good with that, but I also don't want her to like,
you know, get bamboozled by somebody in the future, or
call for an a icecam, right, or really any like
(04:18):
cal Yeah, if someone comes up to her, you know,
at a gas station and says, hey, can you like
take this briefcase or something like and look across the
street offer you I've.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Seen that episode of but to Catch a Smuggler and
it was it was really a compelling story. It was
a free vacation to Costa Rica.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
I mean, do you want her to get got?
Speaker 5 (04:34):
So I'm always like, well, how do we teach her
like street skills, you know, without really putting her in
the street, because like at the same time, she will
not be doing half the things that I was allowed
to do, or I guess not allowed to do, but
I did. My mom didn't know because we didn't have phones,
you know, we didn't have alarm systems, so I was
doing things I shouldn't have been doing.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Okay, but see this is my question. And you did
this a little bit growing up. And then I know
other people have two but eight five five five nine
one o three five. So you are teaching her Polish,
Spanish and English all at the same time because your
mom's influence and then hobbies influence and then the combination
in you.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Right.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
So, but my thing is that at one and a
half years old, how do you not get confused? Like
if you were raised with multiple languages and I wish
I were, I wish it. I don't know, I wish
that somebody had just spoken to me in another language,
you know whatever. Yeah, no one spoke it, but like
even Spanish or you know whatever, Right, I just I
(05:26):
wish it. You know, from the youngest age, it was
like she's not talking to you in English like your
nanny your babysitter whomever. It is, like, we're talking to
you in English and she's not. And if you figure
it out, you want to eat, then figure.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
It out and they will figure it out, right.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
But that's my thing is so you never got confused
growing up about like what you were supposed to say,
where it just was it was natural to you. No,
you just knew to talk to your grandma and your
mom and we're using certain words and you knew to
the rest of the world would not understand that.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
You just knew that.
Speaker 5 (05:51):
Yeah, So my mom only spoke English until probably I
don't know, I was like three, I mean spoke Polish.
I'm sorry, only Polish uti I was like three, So
like that was strong language, right, So she wasn't teaching
me English by any means. I think I learned probably
from my environment TV right, Sesame Street or Barnie whatever
I was watching. But I was never confused. However, when
I did get older. And this is just my story,
so not anybody. I don't want to wane to think
(06:13):
that this happens to all kids, but like I wasn't confused.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
I just had a very.
Speaker 5 (06:16):
Sick accent when I was like four or five and
it's on camera, like I'm my sister's baptism, I'm over here,
like when are we going to church?
Speaker 4 (06:23):
But I think I picked it up from my happens.
I met a univer for.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Twenty four hours, right, and I'm like, hey, I'm walking here,
so like.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Exactly.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
So I think it's a part of the environment.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
But I don't know.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
I feel like I'm no expert in language.
Speaker 5 (06:37):
But I have talked to, like to people who work
in that space, who'd like to.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
What are you talking about oday?
Speaker 5 (06:44):
I am, And I tried to, like, and you know,
I'm forced it in my house and stuff. And yes,
I find myself going back to English all the time
because it's just the most natural for me.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Right, I've spoken English for thirty three.
Speaker 5 (06:54):
Years, like I mean, for the majority of my life,
and it's my everyday language, and I try not to.
I guess you're not supposed to do that. So I
was told, like I'm supposed to be. This is how
we were told, I'm supposed to be Polish only, hobby
supposed to be Spanish only.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
If we want our daughter to live.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
Then your own for English, just go.
Speaker 5 (07:13):
I have a feeling in America, she will have no
problems speaking English, Like that's I'm not even remotely worried
about English. And she speaks and understands English. But my
thing is like I want her to feel like I'm
only Polish, so like come to me for that. And
she's supposed she's supposed to mentally know like okay, mom, Polish,
Like that's supposed to click Dad Spanish, Like that's how
I guess how you're supposed to enforce the Polish is Polish.
(07:34):
But see, I go back to English a lot with her,
so like I'm not doing her much of a service,
to be honest.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
I'm confused right now. See I don't know how she's speaking.
But but the good news is she's brilliant. She's a genius,
so this should be no issue for her.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
It should be no issue.
Speaker 5 (07:48):
Listen, I kids will learn languages if you speak to them, right,
Like you have to speak to them, let them speak
back like they have to. That's the thing too, Like
she has to actually speak back to me, otherwise she
won't know how to speak, like it'll just be me
talking to her and her apply in English, which is
a very big thing here too. A lot of kids
don't speak Spanish right, because they aren't forced to repeat
things or speak back to the parents.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
They reply in English.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
My buddy's sending his kids in one of those Monostori
school where they dont speak English to speak Spanish at
the school.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Yeah, we're doing that next year, which I.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Mean, it's like, oh, and how does it is he
gonna get confused? And I don't. I don't think so.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
If anything, I think you're using two parts of your brain.
Speaker 5 (08:23):
I was like reading or something, so like for me
to be by language, I am I linguist, speak Polish
and I speak English for me like like two parts
of your brains. I guess light up when somebody speaks
a certain language or something. It's very interesting. There's a
lot of research behind it.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
I have a hard time with English, so it's fine.
Jimmy Kimmel Alive in headlines. One of the people who
won the one point eight billion dollars into power Ball
has come forward, and I'd like to I'd like to
find this person Facebook, be their friend and just you know,
see how they're doing today. Just check in with them.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
TikTok.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
You know, we finally maybe finally it's over. Okay, maybe
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