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She/her, sconn.bsky

[SCDC @SCDC87]

I would not want an adult in an otherwise all-kids group with my kid, that’s weird…IME a smartwatch w parental controls is the compromise. My son, 10, can text and call (approved numbers only) but it’s much less distracting than a smartphone otherwise. We also have a land line.

[Andrew Jeffery @credealjunkie]

My oldest is 11 and at the age where all her friends have phones.

Unfortunately for her, her parents won’t let her get one.

So my wife came up with a compromise, and we’re one day into the experiment.

To solve the legitimate issue of no-phone kids being left out of social planning, my wife joined a WhatsApp group with our daughter’s friends.

She promised not to read the messages, and will tell our daughter when there’s a new one.

Daughter can respond under supervision, because unfortunately for her she inherited basically zero self discipline from her father and we don’t trust her not to abuse the privilege.

So we’ll see how it goes.

I expect a failure of titanic proportion for a dozen reasons, but hope to be proven wrong.

[SCDC @SCDC87]

@emily_distasio @WooSox Ugh, my heart, he looks so much like my late orange boy, Tommy. He would have loved a baseball game, he loved people and just wanted to be involved in everything lol. Was this a special event?

[SCDC @SCDC87]

My family (two adults, two kids) crossed the street while a jeep was at a stop sign. As soon as we reached the curb, he aggressively floored it. Yeah, you show that 20 mph road who’s boss! Race to the speed bump 20 yds away, followed by another stop sign, you’re so fast! 🙄

[SCDC @SCDC87]

@potatoslav @ScarletAstrorum Same, I got it with my second bc it was covered by insurance. It was not for my first and was quite expensive, so instead I did a less $$ elective ultrasound at 15 weeks. No chill lol.

[SCDC @SCDC87]

@meowingabyss I feel you, we needed a new hvac unit not even six months after we moved in. ALWAYS something.

[SCDC @SCDC87]

@deestiv @selentelechia Rushing to finish up on my toilet first so I get dibs on the bidet.

[SCDC @SCDC87]

@turntineforwhat Genuinely, beyond the incredible meanness, they look like the boring ones to me. Ppl are obviously having a good time chatting behind them in the “reality” clip and they’re just standing there looking judgy? Go interact with humans, everyone else is having a good time!

[SCDC @SCDC87]

@potatoslav A genuinely unhinged thing to say…like I really hope it’s some kind of bait and they aren’t genuinely confused about why the “pursuit” of having children is treated different than…puppetry (or other hobbies). Let’s use our heads, people!

[SCDC @SCDC87]

@LadyNimby Also my 9yo can play just fine with younger kids. The idea that he’s “dumbing himself down” is silly, it is actually an important skill to figure out how to socialize with people of all ages. I don’t think my son is dumbing himself down when he plays with his sister’s friends lol

[SCDC @SCDC87]

@AyySiegs @CaucasianOprah @agraybee Yeah, it’s great to have dozens of phones that might buzz or makes noise while you’re trying to hide from a gunman.

[SCDC @SCDC87]

@kaitybella Very confused by people’s takes on this…I live walking distance to a ton of stuff and it also looks like this out my window.

[SCDC @SCDC87]

@kaitybella I also really feel like once you get Niamh, you can get Caoimhe

[SCDC @SCDC87]

@meowingabyss “Unmotivated to advocate for women” as a woman is crazy work

[SCDC @SCDC87]

@thenewjeans @teachunks Frankly this isn’t even about the OP, you said, “that’s now how it works,” and you’re wrong. OP aside, people can absolutely find out and reveal an intersex condition later in life, or maybe even never find out about it.

[SCDC @SCDC87]

@thenewjeans @teachunks I don’t think the OP owes you a detailed description of medical history and status, and maybe she doesn’t care if you take her seriously. I’m saying that this is generally possible, but the OP’s personal info is none of my business.

[SCDC @SCDC87]

@meowingabyss @_parasocial I wonder if people are reading some of the replies and mentally attributing them to OP. Bc she 100% is talking about herself! But then there are people like, “I don’t like women bc I don’t like to talk about makeup and celebrities” 😬

[SCDC @SCDC87]

@thenewjeans @teachunks You can be chromosomally intersex and not phenotypically, meaning you may never even know. Perfectly possible to become aware of being intersex later in life, maybe you noticed something was different but didn’t have the terminology or official diagnosis.

[SCDC @SCDC87]

This is actually something AI is pretty good at. Obv you have to look further into activities it suggests, but I’m not sure why me randomly googling things to do in a place I’ve never been would be considered significantly better. AI is a tool to get ideas/narrow the field faster

[meghan @banhmigoddess]

Parents used chatgpt to plan the entire itinerary of the annual family vacation in Maine this summer (i am not joining... u could probably understand why) and my sister informed me today that upon closer inspection several of the restaurants it "chose" don't even exist

[SCDC @SCDC87]

@meowingabyss Ngl, I go to the store almost every day bc I hate meal planning, but I do still understand how one could manage to…not do that lol.

[SCDC @SCDC87]

This doesn’t make the picky phase any less maddening, just providing some light at the end of the tunnel, now that we’re two for two if gradually becoming more adventurous.

[SCDC @SCDC87]

Re kids & food discourse: you often don’t have much control over pickiness, you didn’t do anything wrong. But if you don’t make it into too much of A Thing, they eventually begin to grow out of it. Brought to you by my extreme joy that my 7 yo liked this: https://t.co/s7tdl5cEkM