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jeebus bob posted:Seconded Your mistake is to feel shame at this instead of embracing it as a power. While getting shoes for my kids, I saw Shrek Crocs that had a nose and ear stems and such and I threatened to wear those when I picked them up if they misbehaved. Their reaction was basically "haha, what a funny joke, you wouldn't do that. Would you? .... would you?  " while I gave my best Vincent Price Thriller laugh.
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evil_bunnY posted:
my 5 year old is like this pretty much and I find it super duper adorable  she gets to use my old af ex work iPad that has 2 apps on it: notes and plex. she likes to write gibberish in notes and watch  of iso's I get off usenet. no other apps and the browser and app store are locked down. she's 5 yes but they're very clever.
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if you love your child do not, i repeat do _not_, expose them to linux
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I was watching a movie with my 15-yo daughter and it was great, chatting and discussing it, until the semi-explicit sex scene and then we just didn’t say anything for like 15 minutes of awkward silence. (Atomic Blonde, btw, is still recommended.)
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Subjunctive posted:I was watching a movie with my 15-yo daughter and it was great, chatting and discussing it, until the semi-explicit sex scene and then we just didn’t say anything for like 15 minutes of awkward silence. (Atomic Blonde, btw, is still recommended.) 
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when a kissing scene would come on tv/movie when watching with the kids, I’d ask “are they having sex?” lol they did NOT love it
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the only things like that I remember are when I was idk 14 and Last action Hero was on TV watching it with my mum and it suddenly getting awkward towards the end due to Jamie Lee Curtis  echinopsis posted:when a kissing scene would come on tv/movie when watching with the kids, I’d ask “are they having sex?” lol they did NOT love it lmao I remember you saying this and it's still good
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Volmarias posted:Your mistake is to feel shame at this instead of embracing it as a power. I don't feel shame at all. Think I became immune during the era of public diaper changes (theirs not mine)
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jeebus bob posted:era of public diaper changes (theirs not mine) wait for it…
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:the only things like that I remember are when I was idk 14 and Last action Hero was on TV watching it with my mum and it suddenly getting awkward towards the end due to Jamie Lee Curtis  that’s true lies
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True Lies is awkward in like the first act.
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Sep 20, 2023 23:15
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when I was a teenager we, as a family during Christmas, went to go see the Mel Gibson What Women Want. they are/were fundie evangelicals, hooo boy that was incredibly awkward.
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i remember watching the devil's advocate with my parents in the theatre and remember the weird incest sex scene pretty well as a result i was a teen already at least lol
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Truman Peyote posted:
gently caress I knew there was something wrong! good job I specified Jamie Lee Curtis or that would have been super weird
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last action hero holds up imo
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Curriculum night at my eldest’s school today and she’s terrified that I’m going to say something embarrassing, which, sure, good situational awareness.
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Sep 21, 2023 22:06
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the other day my kid called me a RAT NUT with such a fury that it was undoubtedly the worst thing she could think of. i don't even know what is supposed to mean but it was powerful she definitely doesn't collocate "nut" with balls yet so it's not the obvious thing 
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Corla Plankun posted:the other day my kid called me a RAT NUT with such a fury that it was undoubtedly the worst thing she could think of. i don't even know what is supposed to mean but it was powerful drat, why you gotta be such a rat nut all the time tho?
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MrQueasy posted:drat, why you gotta be such a rat nut all the time tho?
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MrQueasy posted:drat, why you gotta be such a rat nut all the time tho?
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MrQueasy posted:drat, why you gotta be such a rat nut all the time tho?
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I would frame that poo poo and solemnly hang it in my office lmao
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MrQueasy posted:drat, why you gotta be such a rat nut all the time tho?
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evil_bunnY posted:I would frame that poo poo and solemnly hang it in my office lmao
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lmaooo I deserve this
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Corla Plankun posted:lmaooo I deserve this And you have the paperwork to prove it!
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kid home sick with COVID and brutal period cramps, poor thing
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Corla Plankun posted:lmaooo I deserve this you gave the ole spicy rat nut
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Rat nut tryin' to be a dad easy
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Sep 23, 2023 10:52
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When I make wind our baby girl makes a fart sound with her mouth and points at me, top 10 dad achievement for sure. she knows all the animal sounds, cars, and trains. And she knows the sounds dad makes 
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zokie posted:When I make wind our baby girl makes a fart sound with her mouth and points at me, top 10 dad achievement for sure.  These are top 10 parenting moments, enjoy them.
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just wait till she makes the same dadnoise grunts you make when you get out of a chair
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oh my god my 11yo absolutely melts down in the face of any activity that he’s bad at. he had to take their turn as goalie this soccer game, and went 2/5 against oncoming shots. I and his mom and his coach tried to explain that for the first time in front of a full sized goal, that was pretty good (especially when the team was down 5-2 at the half, the other team was stronger and faster and my kids team seems to be made up of the younger end of BU12) ugh, the fallout of these spiraling episodes (not just the soccer ones) are getting worse, and typically make doing anything at all for the rest of the day extremely difficult. I need to find a way to slowly build up his tolerance for imperfection… (which admittedly I’m bad at, but I’m a “try again until I win or walk away quietly” perfectionist, not a meltdowner)
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hopefully it’s just a phase huh I mean adults are barely like that so they’ll grow past it surely. god speed
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got a book out of the library called "cooler than cool" and I've taught that cooler than cool is in fact *puts on sunglasses* ice cold
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just need a pack of camels and you’ll be right
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MrQueasy posted:oh my god my 11yo absolutely melts down in the face of any activity that he’s bad at. he had to take their turn as goalie this soccer game, and went 2/5 against oncoming shots. I and his mom and his coach tried to explain that for the first time in front of a full sized goal, that was pretty good (especially when the team was down 5-2 at the half, the other team was stronger and faster and my kids team seems to be made up of the younger end of BU12) i can't wait until i have to deal with this i bet it's going to be fun. anyway, do you think it could just be like a first-time trying effect? like he has no way to set a reasonable goal for himself, so he's disappointed it's not perfect (which of course we know is ridiculous). like maybe if he goalies again against a more evenly matched team and he blocks say 3/5 then he'd feel better. of course that can backfire and he can have an even worse game the next time around lol. i was also thinking, does he watch sports? idk, like keeping in mind that half the teams lose. and even the pros gently caress up, have bad games, and just aren't good. like it's ok to not win. i mean i still have problems with that as an adult so 
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:got a book out of the library called "cooler than cool" and I've taught that cooler than cool is in fact *puts on sunglasses* ice cold All right all right all right all right all right
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Eeyo posted:i can't wait until i have to deal with this i bet it's going to be fun. It may be more of an autism-like thing related to how his ADHD manifests (though there's been some cool thought lately from the Neurodiverse community that maybe ADHD is more on the spectrum than sharing symptoms with the spectrum). He's really bad at dealing with the delta between his (often delusional) idea of how things should work and how things are. On top of that, he's also really bad at listening to others' experience and advice. I was hoping this would get better as he got older, but it feels like it's getting worse. Perhaps this is related to the bipolar 2 that runs in his mom's family? (I really hope not, because that probably means it's going to get a LOT worse as he continues through puberty)
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ouch that sounds like a pain to deal with. sounds like you're doing good though, i'm sure getting him out there is building a lot of resiliency, even if the meltdowns are a pain in the rear end. and hopefully he doesn't develop bipolar either! doesn't that usually pop up later in life though, like teenagers or something?
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