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   Summertime for Zeon (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 12-Aug-2023 08:30:15 JST Summertime for Zeon

   this always chafes IRL when people will talk a big parenting game, but then expect you not to hold them to their own standards by waving away lazy parenting w/ “yeah but we’re the exception, my kids misbehave unless I feed them goyslop and ritalin!!! Other parents are awful for doing it, but it’s different when I do!!!”

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     BowserNoodle ☦️ (bowsacnoodle@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 12-Aug-2023 08:30:13 JST BowserNoodle ☦️

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     @Senator_Armstrong @WashedOutGundamPilot My children don't have iPods or smartphones. I'm the exception in reverse.
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     Senator_Armstrong (senator_armstrong@seal.cafe)'s status on Saturday, 12-Aug-2023 08:30:14 JST Senator_Armstrong

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     @WashedOutGundamPilot The only people having kids at this point don't see any problem with raising them in apartments or otherwise have regime connections.
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     Ash Chapel (ashchapelsghost@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 12-Aug-2023 08:31:28 JST Ash Chapel

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     @WashedOutGundamPilot I kept my daughter company when she woke up screaming from a nightmare. I sat there and held her, and assured her she wouldn't be left alone and unable to eat. I did my fucken job as a dad. The school psychiatrist said she had ADD and wanted my kid doped, and I knew it was just that she was bored. So I promised her if she'd behave in class, I'd get her books. Kid cost me a fortune (you have no idea how voracious a reader a bored 11 year old can be), but I got a bright kid who makes me proud every day, and who goes fishing with me every weekend she can get off work.
     
     Parenting's not that hard. Humans have been doing it for either 8k years or 150k years (depending on if you believe in truth or science), and we got this far. Just do what you wish somebody would do for you when something scary, boring, or frustrating happens.
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     Bloodytailspike (monsterislandcolonizer@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 12-Aug-2023 08:32:29 JST Bloodytailspike

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     • blaaablaaaa
     @blaaablaaaa @WashedOutGundamPilot Childless people often have this vision of parenting as something that isn't extremely taxing and a full time job.
     >"I would never let my kid look at an ipad!"
     You spend 12 hours a day looking at either your phone or computer, we'll see about that.
     >"I would never let my kid eat goyslop!"
     Says the guy who only eats goyslop and can't cook.
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     blaaablaaaa (blaaablaaaa@hermit.cafe)'s status on Saturday, 12-Aug-2023 08:32:30 JST blaaablaaaa

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     4:45?! Kid is sleeping in. Every case is unique but there are general screentime rules which should be no brainers like not being glued to a screen at meals and with company. I haven't heard anything that egregious regarding being that hypocritical.
     
     I know people whose kids sleep wild and wacky hours and it would be impossible to get any sleep if he didn't get a little screen time, I'm not going to say anything negative about that.
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     Bloodytailspike (monsterislandcolonizer@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 12-Aug-2023 08:34:33 JST Bloodytailspike

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     @blaaablaaaa @WashedOutGundamPilot Yes I'm very self-conscious of my own behaviors now that I have little eyes watching me constantly
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     blaaablaaaa (blaaablaaaa@hermit.cafe)'s status on Saturday, 12-Aug-2023 08:34:34 JST blaaablaaaa

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     Yeah realizing your own inadequacies can be humbling. Kids will model their parents with everything.
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     BowserNoodle ☦️ (bowsacnoodle@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 12-Aug-2023 08:35:06 JST BowserNoodle ☦️

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     @monsterislandcolonizer @blaaablaaaa @WashedOutGundamPilot >You spend 12 hours a day looking at either your phone or computer
     Rookie numbers. 😞