LRT my local library just started this reading program for adults only. Millenials are gatekeeping literacy so hard the kids aren't even allowed to read for pizza anymore kcls.org/kcls-rewind/
My childhood unironically
James keeps asking me why the Scratch logo looks like it’s in the Animal Crossing font, and now I can’t unsee it
other kids’ work vs my kid’s work 🙃
“low cultural impact”
This person has never been in an online crochet or knitting space
This is the first thing I've been able to get him to play lately that's not Mario 64, which also came out when I was his age. clearly games peaked in the 90s
"If I give this guy a piece of paper, he'll write down the combination to the trophy case, and then I can trade the trophy for the [overly complicated gadget name] I need to trap the ghost!"
James is playing an old Freddie Fish game that came out when I was his age, and he's really getting the hang of that 90s adventure game logic
if there are any thinky game sickos reading this, tiling forest (a self-contained demo for tiling town, scheduled to release later this year) on steam is kind of incredible store.steampowered.com/app/4213590/...
After HALF AN HOUR he suddenly paused it and asked for his notebook and colored pencils. I'm fascinated/terrified to see what he's about to draw
we have youtube without ads or I would be insane already
now he's settled down and has just been listening to this loop for like 10 minutes www.youtube.com/shorts/F36mH...
I made the mistake of teaching James how to navigate youtube on the tv yesterday, and he's already discovered features I didn't even know about
And despite that, I’ve never felt the urge to look up actual power washing content
this is the correct answer
gourd crafts for the first time
I love thrift stores
A mom from James's class showed me a sweet card he'd made for her daughter, but when I asked him about it, he told me he originally made it for a different girl with a similar name. When she didn't want it, he just changed a letter and gave it to the other girl 🙃
I was wearing dark colors and a chunky scarf. I've never been roasted so hard in my life
I tried to dress up for James's class's field trip to the ballet, but when I asked him how I looked, he just said "you look like Gru from the Minions."
the first thing my 6yo said to me this morning was "I've been thinking about prime numbers..."
A Bluesky thread by Musicology Duck: I just woke up from a nap and somehow while I was asleep, everyone on the bus has figured out we are not going to the right place they switched drivers at a rest stop and the new driver is telling everyone that they're the ones on the wrong bus?? he's refusing to talk to anyone while he's driving and is now just driving really fast people are calling the police I think I might end up in Vienna Virginia but I'm ... not sure??? two big guys just went up and said we're going to Union station!! and he said no we're not
This is a WILD thread—that is still ongoing bsky.app/profile/musi...
Yeah, dad was trying to explain luchadors to him, while James just kept yelling “she has a heart tail!!”
it was this one
I left James alone with my dad for like 2 minutes and came back to a heated argument over a pikachu’s gender 🙃
you spelled it wrong
Hey @benfrosh.bsky.social, want to explain to me why James has been “drawing warhammer” all morning?
I think I've been playing too much powerwash simulator around James. I took him to the dentist, where they have a big train set in the waiting room, but instead of playing with the trains, he just kept moving this little toy man around the buildings while making whooshing noises...
I had to ask my 6yo the order of planets in the solar system to make sure I got it right in a game. the worst part is he finished his list with, "and if you're in the old days, Pluto"
I had to take literally a dozen photos before he calmed down enough to look excited instead of deranged
his new favorite game
