Little kid answers honestly when asked why we need families

This kid has their priorities straight.
 By 
Brian Koerber
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Family is an incredibly important way to start your day.

In today's episode of Kids being funny or adults lying for fake Internet points, a child explains just why human beings need families. 



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Now of course all kids are going to have different reasons for why they think their family is important, but this kid clearly enjoys breakfast more than people. 

"All human beings need familiees because who will make brefist for me," the kid writes.

The picture, which was originally submitted to Reddit, had some users praising the complexity of the innocent sentence.

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Brian was the Culture Editor and has been working at Mashable on the web culture desk since 2014.

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