#Parentals

[o-kye]

my parents wont buy my cereal anymore

i used to eat one cereal every morning and its been discontinued

i found a mew one and they wont buy it

now i have to eat something else in the mornings that i dont like as much and why why why why

#where has this sudden fear of change come from #kye talks #Parentals

[dailydccomics]

Superman and Lois by Michael Walsh

#clois #dc comics #superman #lois lane #dc #clark kent #kal el #superfam #comics #michael walsh #cover art #variant cover #parentals

[arc0n]

My mother: you’re going to bed early tonight

Me @ 3.30am: yes

#it’s 3am #parentals #live laugh depression #I’m writing mother #writing #insomia #no sleep

[myriad--starlings]

this is incredibly petty but I've had literally one of the worst days of my life so idc. Mom just came to put some food in my fridge and checked on me and when I said I was "exhausted" she said "I resemble that" and like. no you fucking do not. my bones are heavy and my brain can barely process the input of my own thoughts. I can't eat or drink normally. you, 65 year old woman who can do days on end of yardwork, have no FUCKING clue what I feel like.

#local birb opens beak #jar of bees #usually I try not to be like this bc it's not a competition #but I am so tired of her #parentals

[dream-mancer]

When your mom checks in on you but you’re on the phone with dad… #parentals #summerhouse https://www.instagram.com/p/CoIwVuiuU96V1_NyR8lHjA_V8Fp6LbW-n1Xhyk0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#parentals #summerhouse

[anexperimentallife]

I love this.

#parenting

[taffywabbit]

they should invent a new type of "staying in bed for 2-3 hours after you wake up repeatedly opening and closing apps on your phone" where it makes you feel awesome and energized and emotionally fulfilled

#buny text #I'm fine i've just been staying up too late playing bg3 the past few nights #and then wanting to wake up before noon so my parents don't say anything rude to me so i end up getting less sleep to facilitate that #and it's catching up to me #i feel like this explanation maybe undermines my previous statement of 'I'm fine' a bit but I'm fine i promise #look at my lop posts boy

[mostly-funnytwittertweets]

#parenting #childhood #twitter #meme #memes #tweets #tweet #funny #lol #humor

[tchaikovsgay]

my step mom was asking me more questions about the nonbinary thing and after talking to me for a bit, she said "oh, so youre a rosé! not a chardonnay transitioning to a merlot, just your own unique type" which was such a middle aged white woman way to frame it, but i cannot lie gang. it did make me want to cry

#i love having supportive parents 😭

[thehmn]

A lot of people around me are having kids and every day it becomes more apparent that hitting your children to punish them is insane because literally everything can be a horrible punishment in their eyes if you frame it as such.

Like, one family makes their toddler sit on the stairs for three minutes when he hits his brother or whatever. The stairs are well lit and he can see his family the whole time, he’s just not allowed to get up and leave the stairs or the timer starts over. He fucking hates it just because it’s framed as a punishment.

Another family use a baseball cap. It’s just a plain blue cap with nothing on it. When their toddler needs discipline he gets a timeout on a chair and has to put the cap on. When they’re out and about he just has to wear the cap but it gets the same reaction. Nobody around them can tell he’s being punished because it’s in no way an embarrassing cap, but HE knows and just the threat of having to wear it is enough.

And there isn’t the same contempt afterwards I’ve seen with kids whose parents hit them. One time the kid swung a stick at my dog, his mother immediately made him sit on the stairs, he screamed but stayed put, then he came over to my dog and gently said “Sorry Ellie” and went back to playing like nothing happened, but this time without swinging sticks at the nearby animals.

#children #parenting

[beaft]

a small child came into the café today and asked to buy a chocolate truffle. he tapped a credit card on the reader and it did not go through, mainly because it was not a credit card but in fact a junior cinema pass. i gently explained he couldn't use that to buy things in shops and he looked so gutted that i was like "...but just this once you can have it for free, don't tell my boss though" he said thank you and walked out with his truffle and as he went i heard him chuckling to himself and saying "yes..... yes!!!!!" like the sickos comic

#slightly dotty child or world's most precocious scam artist? you decide. #i asked where his parents were and apparently they were queuing for a table at the restaurant across the street #he even pointed them out to me #so don't worry this was not an unsupervised bébé #be shh now #containment breach

[o-kye]

bro my therapist and i were talking about doing a family session with my mom next week and she was like “text me if you change your mind. wait, you have my number, right?” and i didnt so she gave me her card and i was like sjsbjdbfj

can i just like text her and say “get me out of here i cant handle it”

#if i had a lifeline like that i would be using it #like an older sibling i could call #or an aunt #i dunno #i could crash at a friends place but i think itd make things worse #family would be better #anyway #parentals

[cpericardium]

seems reasonable

#twitter #parenting

[literallyaflame]

how do conservatives think talking to children works? if a four year old came up to me and said “i’m a cat!!” i would say “really? what makes you a cat?” and they’d say some shit like “i have claws >:)” and i’d be like “oh wow, you do have claws. but wait, i thought cats had pointed ears!” and they’d say “they DO!!!” and then i’d pull up a picture of an elf and ask “is THIS a cat?” and they’d yell “NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO”

u wouldn’t say “fucking hell, Emily, get it together. this is the real world”

#yes this applies to gender too #if a kid says ‘i’m a girl!!’ it might be because they’re a girl or #it might be because they’ve got an incomplete picture of what a ‘girl’ is in their brains #and as a parent ur job is to help them complete those pictures #by asking them questions and giving them new information and playing w them

[myriad--starlings]

unstoppable force (the growing urge to ask my mother "are you STUPID or what?!") vs immovable object (I have to live with her and I don't want to start pointless fights)

#STOP SPENDING MONEY ON WATER I CAN'T DRINK UR MAKING ME INSANE WOMAN #spoonie #local birb opens beak #parentals

[atissi]

i don't really like when people say dungeon meshi is accidentally good autistic representation, because while i understand not wanting to make conclusions without explicit confirmation from the author, there's always the weird assumption that non-western authors somehow don't know about things like neurodivergency/queerness/etc. (on top of the assumptions that east asian authors are somehow more naive or oblivious to "western" social issues).

given that dungeon meshi started being published in 2014, it's not really a "work belonging to its times"—it's as contemporary as any other media we discuss on this site, which means it should be fair to assume it engages with contemporary topics (and at the very least, you shouldn't say that the representation is accidental with so much confidence)

but anyways, the chapter "perfect communication" in ryoko kui's "terrarium in a drawer" is some of the most straightforward autistic representation I've seen, and from now on I'm going to assume that laios's character writing is absolutely intentional in that regard:

#beepbeep.txt #dungeon meshi #ryoko kui #this is me trying to explain h/ollow knight lore #also yayyyy reading new things. chapter 18 'spring' is basically UFUT if you squint (sorry for the jumpscare if you know UFUT) #but the last two pages were such a surprising gut punch....it's hard not to see it as a metaphor for both the experience of raising childre #and of taking care of your parents in old age....aughh....