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really love this ancient letter from a kid named theon to his dad (p. ox. 1 119) because it's so ridiculously salty and rude ("WOW dad it was SO COOL of you NOT to take me to alexandria with you"), incredibly demanding ("bring me with you or i'm going to stop eating and drinking and i'll never speak to you again") and then ends with the appropriately polite typical close to a letter ("i pray that you are in good health"). truly exactly what i would expect from a moody child.
This sounds exactly like my 4 (almost 5!) year old! He threatens to take away things that he thinks are objectively good, but to him that's his own favorite things: "if you don't give me [thing] I won't watch screentime ever again! 🥺😤"
This ancient child is doing the same
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as a kid I hated Dr Seuss illustrations because no one ever acknowledged that they were creepy. I think if anyone had ever indicated that I was supposed to find them a little unsettling I would have been really into them. but instead I felt gaslit and that really upset me.
also teachers and librarians and stuff would invoke the cat in the hat like he was a friendly face I should be happy to see and not an extremely sinister entity I would not want to come to my house. hello. hello can anyone hear me.
THE CAT IN THE HAT IS SUCH A SINISTER ENTITY
Hi Kaity!
I'm having my first child in about two months, and I've started thinking about what games I could introduce them to when they're old enough. I was thinking basic hidden object games like Travellin Cats in Paris and the Find All games. But I think I remember something about you playing Kirby with Penny? Do you have any recommendations for kid-friendly games?
I offer a wild dog as payment:
Deal?
My husband is the big gamer in our family and he will tell you the genera of game that children love the most is "Little Guy Runnin Around" games
Any game that's just a lil guy running around
Mario
Kirby
A short hike
If it's got a guy running around a toddler will be in love with them!
Sounds like Breath of the Wild and Echoes of Wisdom would be solid choices too 😄 Thanks, tumblr mum!
Okay funny story we played so much breath of the wild when it came out (not when it came out but when we had it I guess lol) Penny started climbing and jumping off stuff and making what she called "yink sounds" 😂😂
Newborn velvet worm crawling on its mother By: Raymond A. Mendez From: Natural History Magazine 1985
Most velvet worms are social by the way and form multi generational packs where the largest females are in charge and share food with all the babies 🙂
She should be at the club
Baby mouse had earplugs in the sketch and I straight up forgot to ink them pretend they're deep in there
Meanwhile not at the club:
I was so enamored by the party shrew this morning I had to doodle her in my lab notebook at work
shrew girls after just ONE mezcal worm:
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Transcript:
Dad: Why are you recording us eating cake?
Mom: Because I have a question for you.
Mom: Why...did I overhear Riley telling Mason that I was foaming at the mouth when I was having Bailey?
Dad: What?
Mom: Tonight before bed (laughs) I had to stop Riley (laughs) because she was telling our four-year-old that "mom was foaming at the mouth when she-"
Dad: (laughing very hard)
Mom: She was-
Dad: (continues laughing very hard)
Mom (trying not to laugh): Riley...okay. our six-year-old was telling our four- (starts laughing)
Mom: That moms foam at the mouth when having babies. And I need to understand why they think I was foaming at the mouth
Dad: (laughing)
Dad: Rabies
Mom: You told them I had rabies?
Dad (while laughing): I thought she asked about rabies! She- (resumes laughing)
Mom: (unintelligible) sit down!
Mom: Get on with it. Dude.
Dad: She said "does it hurt when you have rabies?"
(Both laughing)
Dad: Did she say "babies?" (Laughs) I thought she asked about rabies!
(Both laughing)
Dad (while laughing): I told her, basically, that it really really hurts when you have rabies. And you start foaming at the mouth
(Both laughing)
Dad: She said "Babies?"
Mom: She said "when moms have babies...they foam at the mouth"
(Both laughing)
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I was 12 when the first of my siblings was born, so I have very vivid memories of the way my mother was excluded from a lot of spaces because people find children annoying.
If you think "children should not be allowed in this space," you HAVE TO reckon with the fact that you are now excluding parents (and very often women specifically) who don't have access to childcare. You are isolating people who are poor, or rural, or single parents, or any number of other factors that might prevent someone from having on-demand childcare. You are cutting them off from being able to exist in public. You are denying parents and children the ability to fully participate in society.
My mom spent several years only leaving the house to buy groceries or take me to school, and even then, people would still come up to her to complain TO HER FACE about how she shouldn't bring a crying toddler to Walmart. Entitled strangers would literally try and demand that my mom leave and come back without the kids.
"Why can't your husband watch them?" Because he was at work, usually working extreme amounts of overtime so we didn't get evicted, because landlords don't like it when you stop paying rent.
"Why can't you send them to daycare?" Because that costs money.
"Why can't your teenager stay home with them and babysit?" Because I also deserved to be able to leave the house for something other than school, and taking me to the grocery store was how my mom taught me to manage a household budget, shop sales, and meal plan.
"Don't bring your kid in public if you can't CONTROL them and make them stop crying!" Kids cry when they're upset, and being dragged around a store is upsetting! Don't be an asshole! Children are human beings who are still learning how the world works, and they don't have a lot of agency. You'd cry, too.
"Spank them until they learn to stop crying!" That's just straight-up child abuse, Jesus Christ.
What the fuck was our family supposed to do? Never go to the grocery store? Starve because strangers couldn't handle a toddler existing in public?
I am incredibly fucking disturbed at the way this post has brought people out of the woodwork who really want to tell me all about how hitting kids isn't actually abuse, how they think babies are the spawn of Satan, and how being confined to the home is an acceptable punishment for women who dare to have children. People have told me all about how they think children should be banned from airplanes, that I'm being inconsiderate to childfree people, that allowing crying babies in public is ableist against people with sensory issues (I have those, too, and so do many children, which is often WHY THEY ARE CRYING, jackass), and that people who have children are "irresponsible" and "selfish."
I have blocked multiple people who went on tirades about how I'm a "horrible breeder" who is "contributing to overpopulation" and how I and my "spawn" deserve to be trapped at home. (I am infertile and my foster kid is an adult now, so I don't know what breeding and spawn they think they're talking about.)
One person asked if I was posting ragebait for fun because "this isn't a real issue." Several have asked if this "really happens" and told me that my "experience isn't universal." (There are multiple parents in the comments who have agreed with me and talked about how hard it is to navigate the world with their kids.)
Children are an oppressed class who are treated like absolute vermin. Parents are given absolutely no support in caring for them. Good parents are set at a disadvantage even when they have all the best intentions, struggling parents aren't given resources to improve their situation or get community assistance, and blatantly abusive parents don't get caught because hitting and screaming and controlling are considered perfectly normal ways to treat a child. Communities would rather shut kids away where they can be ignored and forgotten and mistreated, all for the sin of "being annoying in public."
Youth liberation is vital, regardless of whether you, personally, like kids. You cannot ban children from public. You cannot shut children away in isolation and expect them to grow into happy, healthy, well-adjusted adults who can function in our society. You do not get to demand children be removed from every corner of public life all for your personal comfort.
Children are people.
One thing I’ve become a real extremist about is little girl’s clothing and hair styles because if your kid can’t get her hair wet, hang upside down, climb over a fence or run full out in the outfit/hair she is currently wearing then why not? And the answer better be both extremely fucking good and describe something temporary.
Hope you don't mind a story that also made me extremist about this issue.
Took my friends daughter (2.5yrs) to the park. Dressed her in practical clothing that's ok to get stained, brought an extra change of clothing. She sat in the mud at the water bank and played with rocks and mud. A little girl came over, couldn't be more than 3yrs. She was looking longingly at my friend's daughter. She has her hair in a perfect style and she's wearing a pretty dress with white socks and dressy shoes. The parents say "Sweetie don't go into the mud, you'll get your dress dirty" and pull her away, while giving me a judgmental look as they see the kid in my charge covered in mud and throwing rocks into the water. It felt really weird, like we saw eachother as aliens with completely different ideas on how to raise children. When my friends daughter was done playing, changed her into clean clothing and went back home. She had a lot of fun at the park and a day full of nature and play. The other little girl kept her dress clean.
There's a Tumblr post about someone finding out that "girls" toddler clothes are more restrictive than "boys" toddler clothes to the point that it made it harder for them to crawl, at a stage where they were learning to crawl.
I made one about how my toddler child couldn't climb in girl's TODDLER PANTS.
We are not a house who cares much about gendering a baby's clothes. It's a BABY. It doesn't care. So we'd take the kid to yard sales and let them pick out whatever baby clothes caught their fancy and would fit. Some were 'boy' and some were 'girl'. Kiddo loved floral prints because they're a baby (yeah my kid has always picked their own clothes).
Anyway, my kid LOVED TO CLIMB. Sometimes.
It was weird. Sometimes they were all over the sofa and the playground equipment and MY LEGS and sometimes they just. Weren't. Couldn't figure out what was going on.
Until I caught them trying to climb on rhe sofa in one of their pretty flowered pants.
They COULDN'T LIFT THEIR LEGS PROPERLY. And gave up, and did something else.
So I tested this out and... Yeah. The kid COULDN'T climb in ANY of their girl pants. Any. Put them in boy clothes and suddenly the kid is on everything again.
We stopped buying girl pants completely until they were old enough to test them and my kid is a TEENAGER now and i still make them lift their legs individually and jump if it's a girl fit.
YOU DON'T EVEN HAVE TO MEAN TO DO IT.
Whoever designed these clothes literally did not care if the baby could MOVE. But only if girl.
Not that I think all marriages are doomed but when deciding who to marry you should ask yourself “is this someone I’d want to divorce?” As in, is this someone I believe would be mature and fair, even when they’re upset and don’t particularly like me at the moment. Is this someone I could continue to trust while going through an adversarial process? And if the answer is no, don’t marry them.
Irises ~ The Children’s Book of Gardening, 1909
Illustrated by Winifred Cayley-Robinson
