#CHildren are wild

[zster14]

Watching Peter pan with the four year Olds.

Peter and Tink come on screen.

It's not oh Peter pan and a Fairy, it's Tink and a boy.

The prevailing influence of Pixie Hollow.

[snoweylily]

So a bunch of seven year olds are playing with a football on my street and I just heard “David, look out!” followed by the unfortunately quite familiar TWACK of a football hitting someone’s face, and then that same kid asked “Are you okay David?!?” and a different child, presumable David, said “yeah I’m fine” which caused the first seven year old to exclaim “Fuck! I should’ve kicked it harder”

[thewineabout]

Twenty to One (These odds look sticky).

Rating: T

Fandom: Teen Wolf (TV)

Relationship: Peter Hale/Stiles Stilinski Summary:

After being wrongfully fired from his job in the city, Middle School teacher Peter Hale returns to his hometown.

He's got an ugly house, a meddling family, and the unique misfortune of being thrown in to teach a Kindergarten class only two months into the term - and organize a performance for the upcoming Winter Concert. He has no idea what to do with a room full of babies but while he figures out what will make the judgmental old crank across the hall the most annoyed - he at least can distract himself with wooing one of the locals.

Will he choose to stay and make Beacon Hills his home or will the pressures of family and his new job send him back to the city? Additional tags: Teacher Peter Hale, Single Parent Stiles Stilinski, Mistaken IdentitySort of? - Freeform, Implied Sexual Content, Peter being a competitive bastard with the teacher next door, Kid Fic, Kindergarten, Cora Hale is a Little Shit, Alternate Universe - Human, Peter doesn't like small children as a concept but individually maybe they're... fine, Thanksgiving Dinner, Winter School Concert, Hallmark style Christmas movie shenanigans, Some swear words, Alcohol

Written for @tarantula-teeth as part of the @stetersecretsanta2022

This was a fun year for secret santa. Thanks again Shey for hosting!!

[intermundia]

this is the single worst way i've ever read to describe an erection, frank herbert

[cactusjuiceisquenchy]

Omg my 5yo cousin just went,

“Who has the biggest wee wee in the world?…

“Probably my dad😃”

[bishy437]

oh, please don’t go!

i’ll eat you up i love you so!

[laurenillustrated]

I drew some characters from 6 popular children’s books in my style!

This was a really fun challenge! 😆 what was your favorite children’s book growing up?

[inkskinned]

it is totally okay to be hurt and tired and fed up with the american schooling system but i need you to understand that we need to be better about loudly and routinely defending public education.

yes, many teachers suck, many schools utterly suck. i also got bullied and was absolutely not given the right support for my needs. i am not defending public education because it was kind to me. i am defending it because it needs to exist.

right-wing republicans do not want an educated population. they want kids to be homeschooled or in private school. there is a huge religious undertone to this.

the most common argument is that despite high costs, the "result" is not "good" enough. they point to failing schools as proof that public education is just never going to work out. there will be arguments made here that you actually agree with: that teachers can be bullies, that we taught online for 2 years and still charged the same amount of tuition, that we have no recourse for students to actually have agency or a voice, and that schools are now unsafe for kids due to risk of illness and gun violence.

these are all placing the blame in a fraudulent way, one intended to get your parents to homeschool you. the less kids in a school, the less federally-awarded funding for that school, the less any school succeeds. they will not mention the fact it is their legislation that takes away important funding opportunities, that teachers are living at or below the poverty line, that buildings are not kept up to code, that administration is overpaid and forces specific curriculums, that corporations like (my personal enemy) Pearson Education control certain classroom goals because teachers can't afford other options. they pretend to be ignorant of the gun violence and say "oh just get a gun" - but these are the same people who will be sending their child to a private school with a bulletproof backpack. they don't care if your kid dies, though. they "don't believe" in covid, but they did get their kid vaccinated, because of course they did.

it is a closed loop. conservative parents hear the fearmongering and remove children from the system. frequently these parents are also deeply religious. the kids are raised without access to other media & learn to parrot their parents. you have now created a new generation of conservatives. additionally, one of the parents/caregivers must stay home and homeschool the children, usually for free. i will give you 1 guess which parent tends to stay home to homeschool the children. these parents are encouraged to have many, many children. those children are most likely not getting access to safe sex ed.

we might laugh at fox news suggesting teachers are forcing children to use kitty litter but: first of all, there is kitty litter in the classroom. it's part of an emergency kit in case children are locked in due to a shooter. so that's fucking dystopian, and the fact they've completely reimagined the scenario to somehow make the teachers look bad when it's instead a fucking huge symbol of our failure as a country to protect our children.... it feels a little intentional.

secondly: don't just dismiss the situation. because, yeah, obviously, no teacher is encouraging kids to be a catboy. but the actual undertone that fox news is trying to sew is an outright distrust of teachers and of public education. they rely on the dehumanization of trans people as a common touchstone to hide the fact they're pushing two agendas at once. (which is ironic. because the thing they accuse teachers of. is pushing. an agenda.)

whenever someone tells you they want you to read less, you should be suspicious of that. when someone tries to separate you and your education, you should be suspicious of that. i don't even like incel rhetoric nor would i want my kids exposed to it - but i would not take away my child's (age-appropriate) access to the internet. i would just provide more educational materials, not less. the difference here is that i believe we can resolve ignorance with knowledge; whereas conservatives believe that ignorance is bliss.

they misappropriate funding and demonize teachers. they pull the same trick each time - the same thing we are seeing with anti-trans rhetoric. they do not want you to have access to safe sex ed, so they act horrified, claim sex ed teaches you how to thrust deep, claim that we have no idea what "age-appropriate" means. since the mid-nineties, the united states has spent at least 2 billion dollars on abstinence-only education, even though to quote the above link: "a preponderance of studies has found no effect of abstinence education at reducing adolescent pregnancy". conservatives want you to think less of any person struggling with addiction so they can continue their racist "war on drugs", so they spend up to $750 million dollars a year on the DARE program which has absolutely no effect. acting like teachers "must" be "grooming" children is just the same thing - so they can demand that funding either goes to their causes or the funding doesn't "exist" ("i'm not paying for our kids to learn that thing!")

and they want you to feel uncaring about this. they are aware that you will hate some parts of your school experience. pretty much everyone does. they want to lean into the parts that you hate so that you don't put up a fight about it when they take it away for not being "good enough."

i know i maybe sound like a conspiracy theorist. but truly. truly. it is beneficial for conservatives to reduce your faith in the american public schooling system.

one of the explicitly stated campaign promises of the conservative party: to axe the Department of Education in 2024.

i know we are all tired and burnt out and there is so much else wrong with their entire platform. but maybe just - pay attention to this one.

[kyri45]

I just think they're neat and we need more of these

[cubbihue]

“Knowing what he knows now, Timmy would never recommend it either.” What does he know?

Lots and Lots and Lots!

Consequence #2: Information Overflow.

Fairies perceives everything differently, from literal perception to mental understanding! A person have to handle the information flow during their transformation. It can be very loud, very sudden, and very bright.

Fairies stopped kidnapping adults after discovering that they easily succumb to madness at this step. Children, meanwhile, can withstand it due to their wild imaginations! Although the risks of madness is still very high.

Timmy Turner had great mental fortitude beforehand, so this didn't bother him at all. If anything, he was absolutely fascinated with his new sight. Tooth Fairy helped him get through the more confusing parts, such as re-focusing his eyes to view in the fourth dimension instead of the seventh.

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[zster14]

Reason I enjoy interacting with humans under 6.

A kid asked me if i was a boy or a girl.

I told them no to both answers cause I'm non-binary. They look at me for a second before asking if I was a rat.

I said no, and we cycled back the boy girl question before they looked at me again and asked.

Are you a rascal?

...I said yeah sure, I'll take rascal.

[jinxitx]

Somebody in a star kid discord gave me this idea by saying my style reminds them of children’s storybooks— so I redrew one of my favorite childhood books with my current favorite monsters from the black and white <3

[rosy-crow]

I can’t get over the difference between these two Nomura drawings of Seph…..

[the-gom-jabbar]

Paul really said "call me lil desert mouse" and went out and commited holy genocide looking like a kitten caught in the rain

[taxinealkaloids]

horrible children who are. so so mean to each other

[kikker-oma]

THE CHAIN WITH A CHILD

I REPEAT- THE CHAIN WITH A CHILD