when-it-rains-it-snows: fandomsandfeminism: I really think hospitals and doctors that work with pregnancy and pediatricians need to make more literature available for how to, ya know, work with kids?  Because the more conversations we have about spanking (and how it’s ineffective and harmful and does more bad than good), the more I realize that a lot…

pluckyredhead:

creepycollector:

I just saw this on Reddit today and I wanted to share it here.

When you’re a parent, you have to realize that the child you brought into this world is going to be their own person and you’ll have to start getting into things you may not understand and have ZERO interest in.

However, you damn well better act like you are.

I can still remember the feeling as a kid getting Pokemon Red and it being something I loved so much, so I wanted to share that with my mom. I wanted to show her my team, tell her about the gym leaders I took down, and she just took a glance at the Game Boy color and went “mmhhhmm”.

She gave zero shits when I beat Banjo-Kazooie, a game which was INCREDIBLY hard for grade school me and you can make me have war flashbacks if you so much as say “Rusty Bucket Bay”.

My town in Animal Crossing? Catching rare fish? Who cares?

I liked a cartoon series so much that I wrote little stories about it? “No, I don’t want to read it.”

This type of stuff matters to kids so damn much and she’ll never realize how much it hurt our relationship. It might not seem like a big deal she never sat down and watched me play something like Luigi’s Mansion, but that’s how kids try and bond with their parents.

After constantly being shot down they’ll eventually stop talking to you entirely. 

That particular move of shutting down the kid after another adult has asked them to talk about their interest is so painful, too.

I’ve always been really into Greek mythology, and my uncle, who has a casual interest in it, would occasionally ask me questions. Without fail, when I started to answer the specific questions I’d been asked, my mother and my aunt (my mom’s sister/my uncle’s wife) would sigh in a put-upon fashion and say “Do you have to talk about this right now?”

It’s a double whammy of “I’m not interested in the things you care about/you” and “Anyone who acts like they are is only doing so out of politeness.”

lanibgoode:

cunningcelt:

hilarious-nefarious:

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This is bloody genius

@ashioxander-hamilton THE KIDS ARE GETTING OLD ENOUGH FOR THIS! I don’t think their santa belief will last another year. Middle will know because Oldest can’t keep secrets from him, so doing something like this will help A LOT

nazegoreng: dotdollplushies: 405blazeitt: i hate the trope of kids giving their favorite stuffed animal to a younger child as a sign of compassion and coming of age, as if this is something that should be expected of kids as they grow up im 22 and i dont care who you are you’ll have to pry…

theplushfrog: squidsqueen: sw-or-gtfo: prostitvte: pacificnorthwestdoodles: therushingriver: pacificnorthwestdoodles: enog: cardozzza: layshotchips: heavens-to-murgatroid: So I was out to eat and this child(maybe 3 years old) in the booth next to us started crying loudly. The mom tried to calm him down but he started to go into tantrum mode and fussed even more. So she picked him…