NYT World tweets about Dutch people leaving their kids in the forest to "teach them to solve their own problems"; actual Dutch folks respond gloriously

"You miss the part where our children have to fight an angry cow at the age of four. Those that fail are sacrificed to the ocean so we may survive another year without being flooded."

"That's in summer. Winter is different. On New Year's Day, my dad would take me, aged seven, out to sea in a boat. He would row five miles out, then put me overboard to swim back by myself. Which, I must say, was relatively easy once I'd made my way out of that cloth bag."

"It's true. My parents dropped me in a forest when I was 7, I lived of berries and marihuana for 3 years. Eventually I found my way back to civilisation, but I ended up with a family I didn't know. But we've made it work and I think that is beautiful."

Yes, droppings!

I thought it was quite common

"My dropping went relatively well. I fought a badger and caried his steaming corpse, it was the middle of winter and about -14, in to camp where we celebrated and the captain gave me a badge and my first pubic hairs. Others were not lucky. Michiel spend two weeks in the woods."

This is amazing. I'm showing this to my Mom and all my Dutch family

it appears no one read the actual article because it's talking about a kind of camping

sorry to be that person but I still think the responses are funny!

loool