told my 4 year old he can’t have ice cream cake after dinner if he doesn’t EAT his dinner and he came up to me immediately and said “can you give me a hug so I don’t cry?” and when I bent down for a hug he whispered “don’t ever say that to me ever again”
you just gotta read old slop. Like 30s-70s pulp, romance, mysteries. They're all so written so much better. I basically can't read new genre books because of it.