My kid started taking piano lessons. And watching her teacher be so nice to her is so good.
I grew up with a strict teacher that would hit me and threaten me when I made mistakes or didn’t practice. I’m really glad times have changed.
@TheEduardoRFS That's pretty much what I try harder to do now. I've been pretty good about it. I count the number of hours I sleep, I workout for an hour (or more) a day now, and I quit drinking last year. So on the right track.
I want to be alive for a long time. There’s people in my family that get sick in their 50s and 60s from their poor health and then completely refuse medical care and die.
If I get to that point (and still on X), please knock some sense into me.
@IndieGamesCafe Yeah I’ve been investing less time into coding so that I can get healthier. Working out an hour a day and eating well should be higher priority anyways. I still do code a fair bit though but just slightly less than what I used to.
@IndieGamesCafe Yeah, I know. I don’t expect anyone on the internet to save me. I’m more expressing my disappointment in the lack of hope in getting healthier some of my family members had.
@_ChrisCovington Yeah. I’ve been very health focused lately, realizing that I gotta work for it now so that I can be around then. Making steady progress so that’s good.
@ThePrimeagen Same can be said for trad coding. Someone can have a bad experience with a model/models and therefore, they think they can always do better.
I know I’ve been that way.
I was spanked/hit as a child. If I messed up playing piano, did something wrong at home, got a bad grade in school (anything lower than a B), I got hit with a wooden stick. If anything, I grew a fear of doing things wrong and knew the consequences.
But I do not hit my kids.
Hitting your kids is in the same category as circumcision, iPads, strict adherence to the CDC vaccine schedule---it is for Ns, goyim, and walmart pajama people. It lowers IQ (Straus, 1995), increases aggression (Gershoff, 2016), is less effective than a timeout, and requires escalation to keep working. The replies to articles like this are filled up with the Dumbest People Who Ever Existed saying "it worked for me" and then genuinely malicious and hateful morons dropping reaction gifs of like daffy duck swinging a belt
"EVERY STATE IN AMERICA ALLOWS YOU TO PHYSICALLY CORRECT YOUR CHILD. It's legal. It's fun. Bring it on." -- profile says: Cat Sanctuary Dad. Unyielding steel. Workouts, keto, cat chaos, anime rants. Godzilla, Gundam, Mazinger, Ultraman, classical art, manga.
If you hit your kids, you will create permanent emotional distance with the only person/people you could ever be that close to, not to mention sending them down the road of being as much of a lost fuckup loser as you are who will hit their own kids, or wont, but only after spending a decade figuring out why they reflexively apologize all the time.