Today at the hawker centre, there was a little girl who drew my portrait! I’m so impressed! She captured my bun with hairclips in it, she captured my bangs and the locks of hair I have in the front, framing my face. She captured my striped T-shirt and the face mask I had on my wrist. She captured the peace sign I made in the picture we had just taken. She even drew a cat for me! How did she know I loved cats‽
Our 4-yr old dropping tonight that some of his friends at school have autism wasn’t near the top of my list of things he would randomly drop. It’s clear his teachers have approached this with a lot of care and empathy and he’s really intrigued and excited that he has friends whose brains, well may or may not work the same as his and that he’s lucky to have friends with autism… I was probably 25 the first time I heard the term at all #autism#ottawa#kids
Kinda fodder. But in my family suites are more typical. Our houses are massive. Ours really isn't because it's only a 3 bedroom. But everyone gets TWO rooms for themselves. A bedroom and a workspace. We place a HUGE value on free creativity. Right now I'm shitting in high cotton because I have my lab, bedroom AND private bathroom which is the ideal. And it's all separate. My nephew has a playroom and bedroom. Nobody comes into your suite. #family#news#kids https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2024/05/children-home-solo-bedroom/678354/
These folks are looking for volunteers to contribute to...
"... a collection of guides, tutorials, lessons, and references for helping children engage with technology and related topics while sticking to and learning about FLO (Free/Libre/Open) values."
The Far Right’s Campaign to Explode the Population >>
"The threat, we are told here this weekend, is existential, #biological, epoch-defining. Economies will fail, #civilizations will fall, and it will all happen because people aren’t having enough #babies.
“The entire global #financial system, the value of your money, and every #asset you might buy with money is defined by leverage, which means its value depends on growth...." >>
>> "...of its aims; for many in the room, the ultimate goal is a total #social overhaul, a #culture in which child-rearing is paramount.
At first glance, this conference might look like something new: A case for having #kids that is rooted in a critique of the #market-driven forces that shape our lives and the shifts that have made our culture less #family-oriented....declining birth rates are primarily the fault of “default middle-class ‘life path’ offered by our educational system and ...>
>> ...#natalist#ideology become dominant quickly in the United States — everyone in this room has to have more #kids, and fast.
Keenan, who has previously celebrated her sense that it is now acceptable to say “#white#genocide is real,” says better means #conservative. Pat Fagan, the director of the #Marriage and #Religion Institute at the #Catholic University of America, says good #children are the product of stable, two-parent #Christian households,...>>
🙏 Please help mastodoners.
👀 I'm looking for cool #educational#games for my 7 and 9 years old boys.
The games need to be online on installable on Ubuntu. Without publicity please. I'm willing to pay if good quality like #tocaboca games.
I already have #minecraft and #hourofcode and a bunch of old, not so fun, games.
If I'm a good father, my kids will need me less and less, but know I love them fully and will also be here for them. If I'm a good husband, my wife will love me more and more as the kids start to move on.
I also realize, I am influencing my kids choices less and less as they get older, and I'm cool with that. All I can do now, is know that I have loved and supported them from the start and always will, no matter what. Where they go from here, is becoming all them.
One thing I never imagined when I pictured having a kid was watching an hour of a woman playing with children’s toys on a beach. I can’t decide if it’s a genius idea or the most deranged thing imaginable. But it’s her favorite show.
Well today was a nice big success bringing my son to work with me today. He got to do his school remotely from here and also got to see a lot of what we do and got to watch our Boss laser cut out some name tags for him. He got to watch me do some design work, designing some brackets for retaining some USB and HDMI cables. #parenting#kids
Is it still considered bloomscrolling when the flowers I post are, in fact, fake flowers from an art project I posted up at work made by my youngest kid?
One of their lesser/mid tier transgressions, but I remember when my stupid bitch mother got me a fucking wallet for my birthday because mine had a damaged zipper. I told her beforehand I didn't care. She got me a tan one, not black, and I told her right there I did not like it, wouldn't use it, and not to get one.
The next year, I, of course. Got another. Tan. Wallet.
Never forgot. Surely never will. They're in a landfill somewhere.