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Bird in a Blender posted:I need to get one of those timer lights that turn on when he can leave his room. We had great success with one, a single datapoint on which to pin hopes and dreams
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We recently shipped the 2.5 year old into the 6 year olds room, bit of an adjustment at first but they seem to both be sleeping better. It’s so nice having our own room again but I really miss his white noise machine. Its way to quiet now even with the tv on.
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In a better world we could have some form of community child rearing so the brunt of the work isn't levied on parents of newborns and everyone gets to collectively share the benefits together without getting burned out. And while I'm wishing I'd like a pony too.
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Salvor_Hardin posted:In a better world we could have some form of community child rearing so the brunt of the work isn't levied on parents of newborns and everyone gets to collectively share the benefits together without getting burned out. That world exists with affordable (or even FREE) state sponsored child care services, but we are too addicted to rugged individualism and wealth extraction to ever allow that to happen.
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a neat cape posted:Aztec Been hearin' some things
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Just wait until your kids are all 12 and all of you parents are endless tiktok prankees.
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Kalli posted:Just wait until your kids are all 12 and all of you parents are endless tiktok prankees. TikTok turned every teen into Bam Margera
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Salvor_Hardin posted:In a better world we could have some form of community child rearing so the brunt of the work isn't levied on parents of newborns and everyone gets to collectively share the benefits together without getting burned out. I've been getting back into watching Bob's Burgers after missing the last 2 seasons by watching the movie and this came up in my YT feed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpGntxu0dq0 TL;DW: community child rearing def has some great advantages. My relatives in San Francisco are all kids of my dad's 2nd eldest sister and that community was able to help raise each other up when they started families of their own. While my parents were raising my dumb rear end up in bumfuck Northern Maine, there were small groups that also helped raise me & my sister. One of the friends I had lunch with yesterday who just had a new kid has the luck that his parents retired recently had his parents move from Maryland to retire out here in Oregon & be closer to him & his family. Not going to lie, all this parent talk got me feeling  that I may have missed my window in having a family of my own.
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Kalli posted:Just wait until your kids are all 12 and all of you parents are endless tiktok prankees. Who lets their kids have TikTok?
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Kalli posted:Just wait until your kids are all 12 and all of you parents are endless tiktok prankees. They haven't done that, they just like talking in some alien teenage language with new memes that confuse and frighten me, which delights them.
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Silly Burrito posted:They haven't done that, they just like talking in some alien teenage language with new memes that confuse and frighten me, which delights them. You should counter by using SA memes from 2003 “l33t meme! 5 manbabies, goon sir!”
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LeeMajors posted:TikTok turned every teen into Bam Margera
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Ehud posted:You should counter by using SA memes from 2003 Badger badger badger badger Mushroom Mushroom.
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Kalli posted:Badger badger badger badger They know this one. Also...cat, I'm a kitty cat, and I dance dance dance and I dance dance dance.
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Fifty Three posted:Just pretend I posted the ancient quote from some philosopher about how children are suddenly loud and restless and don't respect their elders and this has never happened before Oh yeah nothing is new under the sun. I regularly hear 25yo people at work complaining about kids being entitled and I have to giggle.
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Fifty Three posted:Just pretend I posted the ancient quote from some philosopher about how children are suddenly loud and restless and don't respect their elders and this has never happened before This line is usually attributed to Socrates of all people lol
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C-Euro posted:This line is usually attributed to Socrates of all people lol Socrates Johnson?
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Watching In Bruges and pretty much all of the actors in this movie are also in the Harry Potter films
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Silly Burrito posted:Also...cat, I'm a kitty cat, and I dance dance dance and I dance dance dance. Our siamese was patient enough he would just stare off into the distance while my wife held him up and did the I'm a kitty cat and I dance dance dance with him.
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Joey Freshwater posted:Watching In Bruges and pretty much all of the actors in this movie are also in the Harry Potter films Chloe 
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Silly Burrito posted:Socrates Johnson? Nah, I think it was Bob "Genghis" Khan.
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Kalli posted:Badger badger badger badger Speaking of mushrooms…  Everyone is cashing in on The Last Of Us…
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LeeMajors posted:Oh yeah nothing is new under the sun. I regularly hear 25yo people at work complaining about kids being entitled and I have to giggle. People complaining about the youths always makes me giggle. My dad shared some dumb video on Facebook of kids in the 60s/70s building homemade bike ramps and it was all “kids can’t do this anymore!” But like, dude, you watched me do that in the late 90s which was peak ‘think of the children’ era. Also you can just go on Amazon and buy one from a sketchy aliexpress reseller for 50 bucks instead of using splintery wood that’s going to crack as soon as a wheel touches it.
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Nostalgia is one hell of a drug. I am nostalgic for my youth but it’s ok to admit it wasn’t the best time. People smoked loving everywhere when I was a kid and it sucked. Also it was the end of the Cold War. But Nintendo was cool. I dunno, I’m trying hard to make sure I never lose sight of the fact that kids now have the same cross-section of assholes as any other generation, and are facing equally unique circumstances. Our judgement isn’t helpful, or relevant.
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in my day kids were allowed to roam free and didn't need cellphones to check in with their parents. We knew to come home when the street lights came on, those were the good old days! Yeah thanks, fellow Gen Xers those were the good old days where kids were abducted and put on milk cartons how is that something to brag about
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LeeMajors posted:I dunno, I’m trying hard to make sure I never lose sight of the fact that kids now have the same cross-section of assholes as any other generation, and are facing equally unique circumstances. Our judgement isn’t helpful, or relevant. Somewhere or other out there someone has written a book about all of the various panics about 'the children aren't alright' throughout history I'm sure. That'd be a fun read if I knew where to look to find it.
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Grittybeard posted:Somewhere or other out there someone has written a book about all of the various panics about 'the children aren't alright' throughout history I'm sure. That'd be a fun read if I knew where to look to find it. Probably just alternating free-love and satanic panic, moral-hazard eras.
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https://twitter.com/melissatempel/status/1638324580371537927 Song was banned for being “too controversial” They also banned Rainbow Connection
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LeeMajors posted:Probably just alternating free-love and satanic panic, moral-hazard eras. I mean, you might get some 6 year old chimney sweeps threatening to unionize in order to get a little more food in there too. But how dumb each of the variations are would be fun to read I think. I'm sure ancient Egyptians had complaints about their kids of some sort, it's just a universal thing.
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I am currently cutting a bunch of "safe" TV spots for the Middle East for Super Mario Bros which don't feature Rainbow Road. It sickens me.
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https://twitter.com/noliewithbtc/status/1640028507672653826?s=46&t=eGtKhFFooZWFwCmcVJDt3Q I should just stay off Twitter for my blood pressure’s sake
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Joey Freshwater posted:https://twitter.com/melissatempel/status/1638324580371537927 It’s wild how effectively the GOP has wedged themselves into school boards via bored, retired cultists. Grittybeard posted:I mean, you might get some 6 year old chimney sweeps threatening to unionize in order to get a little more food in there too. But how dumb each of the variations are would be fun to read I think. I agree for sure. I would read that book.
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Joey Freshwater posted:https://twitter.com/noliewithbtc/status/1640028507672653826?s=46&t=eGtKhFFooZWFwCmcVJDt3Q don’t worry it’s quickly becoming (more) worthless https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1640049750966665218?s=46
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kiimo posted:I am currently cutting a bunch of "safe" TV spots for the Middle East for Super Mario Bros which don't feature Rainbow Road. It sickens me. Collecting paychecks from the evil empire are ya
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LeeMajors posted:
When I got my NES my dad and I set it up close to before we had to go upstairs for Christmas dinner or whatever. We did duck hunt and track meet and and finally put on Mario and I remember us finishing 1-1 right as my mom screamed down the stairs at us to come up. The screen got dark, the music changed, and I panicked and ran right into the double koopa that greets you in 1-2. I remember thinking “whoa what was that” like nothing had ever been more powerful that that. It’s still my most vivid video game memory, partly because my dad was there with me and we were both just like “whoa”
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Amy Pole Her posted:Collecting paychecks from the evil empire are ya I work at Universal Pictures which is Comcast so probably
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Joey Freshwater posted:https://twitter.com/melissatempel/status/1638324580371537927 Lol, of course it's loving Waukesha
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FizFashizzle posted:It’s still my most vivid video game memory, partly because my dad was there with me and we were both just like “whoa” I have a very similar memory from the initial Mario gameplay and recaptured the magic somehow when I got Zelda for Christmas. The power of those early classics was palpable.
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Bird in a Blender posted:What if your kid wakes up at 5:30 am every day? My older son used to get up at 5 on school days so he could play video games for an hour, but he would end up tired at school. So I had to start waking up at 5 myself specifically to make him go back to bed
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