Parenting

Pregnancy, babies and raising children, including schooling choices for one's kids

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  4. __drewface — trusted by 128 posters here
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  6. Prigoose — trusted by 100 posters here
  7. michelleakin — trusted by 96 posters here
  8. vividvoid — trusted by 113 posters here
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  1. "If you manage to control yourself there will be ice cream" said the parent. "I sure hope this doesn't have unforeseen lifelong consequences" thought the child, doing their best to physically tense… (RomeoStevens76) — 118 likes
  2. we made a lil guy https://t.co/BPp4KOvAjc https://t.co/RPnmuHLt3f (visakanv) — 99 likes
  3. welcome to the world, little one. https://t.co/fNNAjeaU5E (__drewface) — 59 likes
  4. was walking around a shopping mall when my wife casually dropped a “I’m so excited to have your baby” and every other compliment I‘ve ever received in my life just got demoted to a lower category (visakanv) — 48 likes
  5. 25 min of following 1yo, sped up 10x to 2.5 min Nearly zero interference or even interaction as he severally pursued his little side quests I love this age https://t.co/fBraGzrcmy (mbateman) — 47 likes
  6. witnessing my wife go through pregnancy and birth and then nursing our son with her body makes me love and admire her even more than I already did. she is a warrior and a saint. It also makes me… (visakanv) — 43 likes
  7. another: this lil guy is one of the most incompetent people I know and I love him more than I can put into words. this simple fact slices through an incredibly overwrought Gordian knot in my… (visakanv) — 41 likes
  8. just had the happiest moment of my life: giving my son a bath while my wife plays peekaboo with him from behind my back. he giggles with the purest joy I have ever witnessed. nothing else comes close (visakanv) — 40 likes
  9. I stuck out my tongue at my baby and he stuck his tongue out back at me, repeated several times, this is the best day of my life (visakanv) — 38 likes
  10. I love this photo of Priya like (15?) hours after her birth. She is so beautiful and strong https://t.co/s6j0EwBeQn (__drewface) — 38 likes
  11. another: Hungry newborn obviously wants to feed. But no motor skills yet. Own hand gets in the way of between mouth and boob. Tries earnestly sucking on own hand. I swear, simply witnessing this… (visakanv) — 36 likes
  12. The atomic family often forces modern parents to choose between pursuing their great ambitions vs raising a kid. Maybe that tradeoff isn’t necessary. Maybe we can create social technology that lets… (TylerAlterman) — 36 likes
  13. here’s a quick one. I used to have a talking point about how kids know what they want better than adults. I think that’s correct in a sense. But it’s also fascinating to witness a literal newborn… (visakanv) — 35 likes
  14. i'll be honest, i once saw a @powerbottomdad1 tweet announcing his baby and then i turned to andrew and i pouted and i said "pbd is having a baby, i want a baby"and then andrew said"priya, what if… (Prigoose) — 35 likes
  15. a newborn can go from 0-100 screaming his lungs out and then 100-0 back to beatific bliss in a matter of seconds. Something about witnessing this has been kinda profound to me. like, oh you can just… (visakanv) — 34 likes
  16. i’ve never encountered anything more interesting than my son. “you’re biased because its your kid” is of course true and it is the *point*. imagine looking in a mirror but its both you and your… (visakanv) — 34 likes
  17. there’s a tiny new awareness expanding (he’s due in March!) (m_ashcroft) — 34 likes
  18. I haven’t even met my child yet but I can feel the ancient ancestral dad fire archetype stirring deep inside my heart. I already know I will jump in front of a train for this tiny mf (visakanv) — 33 likes
  19. when I was a kid so many adults used to tell me “when you have a child of your own then you will understand (why adults bully and manipulate and condescend to children)” and like yeah now I… (visakanv) — 33 likes
  20. My son painted this picture of me Said I was a "Mage of the Void" 🥲 https://t.co/2AOaPRkc0x (vividvoid) — 32 likes
  21. sometimes i spend all morning just lying in bed with my wife and son and im brimmimg with so much happiness its almost unbearable (visakanv) — 32 likes
  22. same the worst parts of being a parent have been about 10% as bad as i was led to believe and psychologically/emotionally prepare for the best parts of being a parent have been like 5000% better… (visakanv) — 32 likes
  23. What happens when you set up a 4yo, whose writing norms are informed by rudimentary phonics and an obsession with stickers... ...with the ability to text her friend, also a 4yo, whose writing norms… (mbateman) — 32 likes
  24. caring for a newborn is sort of like that stage in a video game where you lose all your powers and weapons and stats and you have to get by with your most basic wits and ingenuity. literal escort… (visakanv) — 31 likes
  25. The perfect Christmas present from my son. This kid is such an artist. https://t.co/OIDWGlKbKA (vividvoid) — 31 likes
  26. brought my 3mo son to my 75yo dad’s bday and it’s so amazing to witness 1sthand how the presence of a new baby reinvigorates the entire family. older children excited to become uncles and aunts,… (visakanv) — 31 likes
  27. my son is 7 months old and i still cant believe he’s real sometimes. this whole-ass lil guy just hanging out in my house giggling and being silly. we made him! he looks just like us! its so crazy man (visakanv) — 31 likes
  28. baby that doesn’t yet know how to ask for things with words: fuck it we bawl https://t.co/Q5686497fk (visakanv) — 30 likes
  29. "it's getting crowded here with all the relatives", says area man who keeps producing more relatives https://t.co/dF6RJWm8FP (myhandle) — 30 likes
  30. 10mo: im going to sleep in my parents bed, in between my parents the parents: haha cute, parallel with us right 10mo: https://t.co/z1NXl54fLW (visakanv) — 30 likes
  31. We gave 4yo an iPad and set it up to offer her three affordances: 1. Take pictures 2. Type in notes 3. Text with a handful of people (family, a couple of family friends) The last one is the big hit.… (mbateman) — 29 likes
  32. was talking with a fellow dad who was struggling with making certain decisions, like when to be tough, when to indulge, how do you know if you’re going too far, etc. I found myself saying: just… (visakanv) — 29 likes
  33. @engrishmuffins boy due in july ☺️ (eigenrobot) — 28 likes
  34. yknow, I don’t recall a single man telling me, when I was growing up, how great it is to be a dad https://t.co/jKcVu2xSX1 (visakanv) — 28 likes
  35. im a dad now (__drewface) — 28 likes
  36. My daughter: what time is it? @_inju: time isn't realDaughter: uh, wrong. what if you go to the dining hall for dinner and it isn't open yet? time matters a lot (Lithros) — 28 likes
  37. kids feel the blues too big source around this age is that people no longer find you cute. now they scold you for making mistakes. mama’s too busy with the new baby. nobody claps and whoops and… (visakanv) — 28 likes
  38. my parents spent my entire childhood lying to me about how happy they were as a couple and how happy we were as a family, before divorcing. in retrospect i considered it my duty to be visibly… (QiaochuYuan) — 27 likes
  39. oh no, I just realised that I have an unconscious strongly-held belief that I can have kids or pursue my intellectual interests, but not both (m_ashcroft) — 27 likes
  40. a gift of constraint my son has given me: i no longer pretend like i'm going to write beautiful, elaborate, ornate masterpiece-tier essays anytime in the next 2 years. realistically it was always… (visakanv) — 27 likes
  41. even if we dont remember the specifics about the first 0-2 years of our lives— caring for a newborn makes it feel deeply intuitively obvious to me that interactions during this time surely create… (visakanv) — 27 likes
  42. My son drew me as Gandalf for my birthday https://t.co/H0az2NzBuT (vividvoid) — 27 likes
  43. I’m sure nobody who’s flinched from my irl presence ever meant anything by it personally but being out and about with a child and being received warmly by strangers really breaks my heart for my… (visakanv) — 27 likes
  44. My first and biggest lesson in framing was when I saw my uncle asking 3 children who wanted to take a bath and they all squirmed and loudly yelled NOOOO and then he asked "Who wants to be the FIRST!… (nosilverv) — 27 likes
  45. My parenting campaign to use the terms “wise” and “foolish” with the children has finally paid off: 4yo asked “Is that wise?” when I was trying to lift a very heavy box. (It was not wise.) (mbateman) — 27 likes
  46. hey remember how we went to school where we spent 8 hours a day for over a decade having what our bodies could do completely under the control of authority figures boy i wonder if that had any… (QiaochuYuan) — 26 likes
  47. shifting from “when did my parents emotionally abuse me? never” to “when did my parents have strong stress reactions to what i did? oh all the time” and now i understand where a lot of this trauma… (_brentbaum) — 26 likes
  48. a redditor did spaced repetition with his kids. he taught: - his 4yo daughter to read at a 5th grade reading level - his 3yo son to do times tables up to 12x12 (Prigoose) — 26 likes
  49. many people keep telling me things like “the first 2 months of having a child will be the worst months of your life” I don’t expect it to be easy, but for me personally I don’t expect it to be even… (visakanv) — 25 likes
  50. maybe a little early to say this and I’ll get my ass kicked for it, or I’m delusional, etc, but one week in, I’d say caring for a newborn is not even in the top 10 most difficult things I’ve had to… (visakanv) — 25 likes

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