moakley
@moakley@lemmy.world
- Comment on Culture Wars 2 days ago:
Rereading the title sent me.
- Comment on YSK about Darkpatterns.games, a website that rates mobile games on their "Dark patterns" 2 weeks ago:
Obviously I don’t know what your finances are like, but is it possible she’s just enjoying herself and considers it a hobby? Comparing it to other games, $100/month can seem ridiculous, but comparing it to other hobbies, it might not be that bad.
I used to be unwilling to spend any amount on a mobile game until I thought about how much I used to spend playing Magic: the Gathering. Sometimes hobbies cost money.
- Comment on Can I not be an adorable junkie 2 weeks ago:
Another nugget of wisdom from her: one time she asks me, cryptically, “What happens when the wind blows?”
It just sounds like such a profound question. So I’m wracking my brain to figure out where she’s going with this, and eventually I say, “I don’t know.”
“The cradle will rock.”
Of course.
- Comment on Can I not be an adorable junkie 2 weeks ago:
Fuck. I’ve gotten so used to it on reddit that I didn’t even notice it this time.
- Comment on Can I not be an adorable junkie 2 weeks ago:
My daughter once asked me, “Do rainbows stop the rain?”
She was three and, in my opinion, very insightful. These rainbows keep showing up right about the time the rain stops. A little too convenient to be a coincidence, right?
- Comment on Get good. 2 weeks ago:
My wife and I do the same, and the results have been great. An old friend of mine visited me and met my daughter for the first time when she was two and a half, and she just walks right up to him and says, “Hello. My name is _____. It’s very nice to meet you.”
When my current two-year-old is in a bad mood, we’ll ask him if he’s being a curmudgeon, and he’ll say “No, I’m not being a curmudgeon.” They speak in full sentences because my wife and I speak in full sentences. They use big words because we use big words.
On the other hand my daughter is five now and still thinks it’s pronounced “breafixt” instead of “breakfast”, and we don’t correct her because it’s adorable. So we still have fun with it.
I don’t think any of this means they’re geniuses or are guaranteed success later in life or anything. They’re probably both gifted, but that just means they’re a couple years ahead. A four-year-old who talks like a six-year-old is a great parlor trick, but a twenty-year-old talking like a twenty-two-year-old isn’t going to give them a big leg up. That’s why I like to get all my bragging in now.