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Don't let happy days just pass you by

#poepoe

rocktheholygrail

dogpuppy

zedogica

damndorothea

i saw this somewhere else but reply / tag what you did today so everyone can see that we all did something different today

#I had a psychiatrist appointment and now I'm gonna watch FMA Brotherhood ✌️

cutecipher

basketball players fight over the basketball because they are hypnotized before each game to believe it is their egg

sentient-tent

This is Tie, she is going to eat all of the notes

sentient-tent

reblog to feed her notes

elodieunderglass

How is she doing this

roadhogsbigbelly

jade-do-stuff-deactivated202410

How dare you to hide this in the tags.

rhysintherain

Remember "don't let your kids eat any junk food, EVER" in the '90s?

My mother was one of the no-junk-food moms. But parenting has an expiry date, and do you know what I did as soon as I was no longer supervised?

I ate potato chips for lunch at work every day for all of my first job. And all of my first year of trade school. Not potato chips with lunch; potato chips and nothing else for lunch.

Banning kids from something that's not always good for them:

Has a time limit. Your kid will grow up. You won't be able to enforce the ban on an adult.

Gives them no practical experience on how to manage their relationship with that thing when they get unrestricted access to it.

Makes that thing incredibly attractive to them. Even if it kinda sucks.

Makes them sneaky about it, meaning they won't come to you for help if it becomes a problem for them.

My mother wanted healthy kids who didn't eat junk food. What she ended up with in the short term was little goblins who stole baking chocolate from the top cupboard and kept bags of chips they bought off friends hidden under their beds. What she got in the long term was adults with no idea how to regulate their own diets and a mountain of shame about eating anything that tastes good.

Is that the relationship you want your kids to have with the greatest source of information and connection our species has ever seen?

nudistcat

When I went away to college, it was incredibly easy to pick out the kids who'd been raised by absolutist parents because they had so much trouble self-regulating around whatever it was they'd been completely cut off from - food, staying up late, dating, pocket money...whatever.

I'd been given a lot more freedom AND the responsibility that came with it as a teen. Not that I was always great at knowing my own limits but I never catastrophically blew past them like a lot of my peers. Natural consequences in a managed setting are much better childhood preparation for independence than covert access via unreliable sources.

#mmmm........

tomorrowillbeyou

You see, when a man and woman love each other very much, and nobody has any concept of "mixed gender friendships", and it's evil to ship them because it isn't yaoi, sometimes they might do something very special called "Becoming Siblings". then they can live happily ever after and talk to each other like they're in a smart speaker commercial.