#apps for children

[hamppapy]

I'll start uploading some old art here, hope you like it!

[yesloulou]

All Access | Miami '24

[ghostboy-art]

I did this in my notes app

[etirabys]

my sister lets her toddler have about an hour of screen time a week. two feelings I have about this are

1) there sure does seem to be something going on with kids and screens (although my bet is that TV is fine and games are mostly fine and social media is bad), so her approach seems possibly optimal

2) the long screaming rages my niece goes into when the mickey mouse video is taken away (which my sister takes as evidence of the frightening addictiveness of screens) during a boring meal with adults and no toys looks pretty much like how I'd feel if someone took my book away during a boring meal with adults

[morganbritton132]

Eddie post a video telling Steve that he’s being cancelled on Tiktok and Steve is just like, “You- a subscription???”

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[pluto-hweat-halcyon-skytober]

Day 6: Creatures of Light

skytober prompt from @coatl-cuddles !

[cairafea]

the primordial desire to fight a krill is at the top of maslow’s hierarchy of needs

[dear-ao3]

this will sound odd but I didn't know 19 years old knew about vines. idk why I thought it was older than that (im 23, idk why I think 19 is baby 😭) but very glad you are bringing the vines back to Tumblr <3

P.s. like many others, I didn't think you were only 19. I thought you were 30+ (that's a compliment?)

maybe you didnt think we were 19 because were in fact not 19

[troythecatfish]

Source: Professorgutsv2 on Threads

Will never understand people who think it's okay to jerk off to cartoon characters that are teens or kids. They will just say "it's just a drawing" and I always think "why are you jerking off to a cartoon depiction of a kid?" Pedophiles always pull the "it's just a cartoon" card

[dee-daa]

as shitty as what in hell is bad is as a game (especially due to pb's greed), the community on this site is absolutely wonderful so far and seeing all the posts on my home page makes me so happy ^^

[owly-lumi]

Hellu, So since Instagram has decided nuh-uh at artist, I decided to be more present here 🌟

Cara: lumi-observatory

Instagram: lumi_observatory

⬆️(mostly inactive but some of my old art is still there)

🔹I will repost some of my stuff from my old profiles maybe reworked idk, so yeah.

🔹If you have any questions ask me!

🔹 commission open 🍵

(did this with old art from my insta, with some notes about me, and mostly random characters lol)

[eliounora]

how does one meet people to date when you have 3 friends and you've already met their 3 friends. there should be a dating app that doesn't make you want to dive into a thornbush

[phantomsies]

literacy, empathy and nuance are dead fucking arts and there really is no coming back from it.

[etirabys]

What were the major factors for you in deciding whether to have kids?

Unwillingness to forego one of the most intense and unique human relationships possible: "The key to the sociobiology of mammals is milk. Because young animals depend on their mothers during a substantial part of their early development, the mother-offspring group is the universal nuclear unit of mammalian societies."

When I was younger, my major objection to having kids was that it would interfere with my career. I cared a lot about my career and looked forward to transitioning from a student who worked really hard and excelled in classes to a professional who worked really hard and excelled in the workplace and also earned a boatload of money. But then it turned out that I wasn't a hard worker, I just loved studying and taking exams. I don't have a career or the relationship to a career I envisioned, so that's the major obstacle removed.

Seven years ago, I went to a meetup hosted by an economist who liked historical reenactments. His three adult children were in SCA garb, served the guests food from a medieval Persian cookbook, and sat around arguing with him (and the rest of us) about economics. It was my first encounter with a family where the children shared interests with their parents and talked like peers. It fundamentally changed my mind on what families could look like.

Similar story: I visited my friend's family two years ago, and stayed in his teen daughter's room because there had been an in-house auction to determine whose room would go to the guest. She won and was monetarily compensated for it. In addition to having another example of a Relatable Family Where The Members Actually Like Each Other, I found my friend and his spouse's financial philosophy appealing and will be compensated for pregnancy and childcare by my spouse. 20% of my objection to having kids was objection to the financial arrangements of traditional marriage (which imo fucked over both of my parents when their relationship broke down... but more so my mom), so it shifted me on the kids issue to see & adopt a financial arrangement that to me feels more autonomy-preserving, egalitarian, and respectful of my labor and opportunity costs.

I knew I didn't want to be pregnant, didn't particularly like infants, didn't want to interact with toddlers for more than an hour (I like them but get very fatigued and have to go lie face down to recharge), which seemed like a good argument to not have kids. But I also simulated being 70 and childless and it felt distinctly bad. Among other reasons I noticed for the first time that I want a connection to the coming generations, which was startling.

It was hard not to notice that the giant would make an excellent dad, and also that we have complementary skill sets and preferences qua parents.

I read "Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids" after I'd already decided to have kids, but when I was discussing the decision with friends, multiple of them brought the book up. Its basic argument is that we (I suppose I mean Americans and East Asians here) invest in our children well past the point where it matters, which increases the quality of life difference between parents and nonparents, which sucks because lots of people would enjoy raising kids if the unnecessary expectations were dropped. Once I actually read the book I found it suspect (I stopped reading when Caplan described a study and then drew an inference that didn't logically follow), but the conclusion seems true based on observation and common sense. My own parents and I had a lot of conflict over piano lessons because proficiency in an instrument was expected in their milieu. My mom regularly fought me to make me eat breakfast (to this day I don't eat in the morning, my body just isn't made for that) even though it would have been fine to send me off to school with a banana to tide me over until lunch. People trade away health and career points to breastfeed even though the evidence is shaky that it matters. My sister is pursuing a zero screen policy with her child and said this choice significantly increases work and emotional toll. Once I noticed I was the type to be an overworked neurotic parent and that I'd priced my own terrible personality in when simulating how hard childrearing would be, I also noticed I could (with effort) not be that person and have an easier time. So my expectations of parenting changed.

[kohltrast]

red suits him

[nedeii]