Toddler Gets a Lollipop and His Attitude Goes From Sweet to Sassy

Raising a toddler is a wild ride, to be sure. One minute your sweet baby is babbling innocently, the next your 3-year-old is talking back to you with all the snark of a 13-year-old (hence the term "threenager"). How do little kids get such big attitudes so quickly?

In one hilarious video, a toddler boy is eating a lollipop and talking to his mom about it, and it's clear that he considers himself a bit of an expert on the subject. First of all, he's very adamant about lollipops being for licking, not crunching...and he's not at all interested in his mom's input.

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"This attitude with this kid," wrote @fionaconnolly55 . Um, yeah, he already said the lollipop was sweet, mom. Sheesh! That sassy little head waggle was absolutely priceless. It always comes as a surprise when your kid suddenly goes from thinking you know everything to deciding you're not actually all that bright, but this kind of "attitude" in little ones can also be a sign of their developing sense of humor, experts say.

Related: Little Girl's Attitude While Telling Dad There's a Bug in the House Is a Whole Mood

When Do Kids Start Understanding Sarcasm?

As Fatherly reported, scientists have found that sarcasm can be pretty beneficial for the brain.

"We now know that exposure to sarcasm enhances our abilities to solve problems — courtesy of a fascinating study involving a complaints department that discovered that volunteers were better at solving merchandising issues when patrons complained sarcastically. Subsequent studies have confirmed that being on the receiving end of a sarcastic jab sharpens our creative powers. Perhaps it prepares us for mental exercise. After we’ve used our problem-solving skills to suss out whether that 'thanks so much' was sincere, our brains are primed to solve other puzzles."

While misunderstanding or being unable to produce sarcasm can be signs of a neurological disability or traumatic brain injury, sarcasm has been found to develop in healthy brains between the ages of 4 and 6.

"Five-year-olds have been shown to identify sarcasm in sardonic puppet shows, but it’s unclear whether they find snark funny or witty at such a tender age. 'Sarcasm is something that we don’t get until a certain point in our childhood stage of development,' Melanie Glenwright of the University of Manitoba, coauthor on one puppet study, said in a press statement. 'Kids detect sarcasm at about age six, but don’t begin to see the intended humor until around age 10.'"

Some kids definitely figure out how to be snarky at a much earlier age, however, as this video proves!

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