Erin Braid

prioritization researcher, master of logic, baby parent

[Erin Braid @erinbraid]

I wrote a little history of washing dishes, from scouring pewter with horsetail to the Chicago World's Fair to modern environmental concerns. You can read it at Works in Progress! I'm also happy to report that the topic was thoroughly baby-approved. https://t.co/wrkORhphOF

[Erin Braid @erinbraid]

@seventhmeal @maiab Oh that sounds like a good idea!

[Erin Braid @erinbraid]

Famously an unsolved problem

[ThymeToBeBorn @ThymeToBeBorn]

So, what is the minimum acceptable standard of living that it is morally necessary to provide for your children? Like if you hit this standard, you don't have to work harder. Or, you can have another child, if you hit this standard. What's the line. Who is right. What is the morally correct answer. Is anyone going to come down and tell us?

[Erin Braid @erinbraid]

@KelseyTuoc @leecrawfurd @greg_ashman Oooh The Mouse That Roared is a great one! I don't think I would have enjoyed it that young, because I don't think I really enjoyed satire as a concept/genre when I was a kid? But I read it as a teenager and loved it!

[Erin Braid @erinbraid]

@millysayseh Apparently so lol. I know people like the hat subplot, and I agree the hat subplot is great, but for me it's not worth the slog through 72 pages of this

[Erin Braid @erinbraid]

Go Dog Go is the only abridged board book on our shelves, because it's the only one that actually represents an improvement. The original is insufferable

[Erin Braid @erinbraid]

@NinaPanickssery Well here are some of our favorites: https://t.co/rEEbxqOYpS but feel free to tell me what you like and dislike, and I'll let you know if anything comes to mind

[Erin Braid @erinbraid]

There are very few baby books that 1. are available in board book format, 2. have rhyme and rhythm, and 3. aren't absolutely awful at rhyme and rhythm. This is, like, basically all of them:

[Erin Braid @erinbraid]

SF City Hall is weirdly a great place to hang out with a toddler. It's beautiful, it's calm but it's not so quiet that toddler noises are disruptive, there are two big empty skylit carpeted rooms to run around in, some exhibits to look at, and excellent stairs to climb

[Erin Braid @erinbraid]

@polisisti E.g. https://t.co/YK05efZdLY

[Erin Braid @erinbraid]

@polisisti For your collection: in the context of pregnancy and birth there's "expectant management"

[Erin Braid @erinbraid]

@NinaPanickssery Nope no babies here

[Erin Braid @erinbraid]

@teachermother1 Love this! Big fan of Nesbit, Alcott, and All-of-a-Kind Family. I also really enjoy having lists of (nearly) all the books I've read since middle school, so I love that yours will have them from even younger!

[Erin Braid @erinbraid]

@S_OhEigeartaigh More power to you, I gave up the relatively simple "McCloskey". The most notable issue was when I lived in the Netherlands and it constantly got separated into "Mc Closkey" to match the tussenvoegsel system there. Technically that alphabetized me under C!

[Erin Braid @erinbraid]

@notanastronomer "Write my emails for me. Make some mistakes"

[Erin Braid @erinbraid]

@Romy_Holland I assume it's not possible because we don't have a non-destructive way of reading a cell's dna, and sperm are just the one cell?

[Erin Braid @erinbraid]

@maiab Same

[Erin Braid @erinbraid]

My baby's favorite movie is the animated instructions at the self-checkout. Cathedrals everywhere I suppose

[ash @ashleyeleanor]

5yo just told me the promotional reel playing in the cheese department at the grocery store is the best movie she’s ever seen. May have overdone it on the no screens thing

[Erin Braid @erinbraid]

@FiredUpCoug And the other half of the fun was fitting 11 pages into 10 with 0.9in margins

[Erin Braid @erinbraid]

@drethelin Not just human anymore, I was in a waymo that sped up to make it through a yellow light!

[Erin Braid @erinbraid]

@maiab You probably already know this, but like, you don't have to correct her if you hate doing it, she'll figure it out by herself. Worst case scenario, "zip it down" becomes part of the family lexicon for a few years (adorable)

[Erin Braid @erinbraid]

@Romy_Holland Imo this is fine, in that I wouldn't worry if I heard that someone was doing this, but I wouldn't personally do this (whereas I would go over to a neighbor's place with a monitor). I'd prefer to be able to get to my baby within a few minutes if they start to cry