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A female toddler named Calla has left the internet in stitches after getting caught on camera ready to fight her dad while they were playing ball together in the living room.
In a post shared on TikTok earlier in June, under the username @con.lodge, the little girl from Essex in the United Kingdom and her dad, Connor, are filmed playing with pit balls when, all of a sudden, Calla stands up and walks up to her dad, angry. "She was FUMIN" a caption reads.
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The 25-year-old dad told Newsweek that he and his 18-month-old daughter were throwing the ball pit balls to each other. Connor then noticed that she was doing a funny "yoga-style stance," but he continued to throw the ball, which landed perfectly on her head with a satisfying sound.
Connor said: "She then proceeded to walk up to me in the style of a drunk person in a bar, her belly was popping and she was giving me an evil stare, and her hand was twitching as if she wanted a fight."
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Connor went on to reassure anyone concerned about the girl that she was not hurt by the ball, which was a lightweight toy she could barely feel.
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"The ball is super light and exactly the same as every ball in the soft play areas that kids are always throwing about. She was definitely not hurt and, if anyone is concerned, they should be concerned for me because she looked angry!"
While the poster fits the figure of the fun, young dad, many young people in America are reluctant to become parents at all.
Statistics by Pew Research Center of 9,676 U.S. adults from 2021 revealed that some 44 percent of non-parents aged between 18 and 49 say it is not too or not at all likely that they will have children someday. The percentage increased by 7 percent from 37 percent who said the same in a 2018 survey.
The video quickly went viral on social media, getting viewers from across TikTok. It has so far received over 7.1 million views and almost 1 million likes on the platform.
One user, Haps, commented: "She squared up and was like 'nah, not yet... but soon mate, soon."
LiyathembaPiliso wrote: "Sis was about to stand on business & remembered your recording so the evidence would incriminate her."
Chunky Cat added: "She's like 'I haven't decided what to do with you yet..'"
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