That second paragraph has me in all sorts of doubt/envy. Cherish those fleeting days.

BTDT. I prefered to just lay down next to them so as not to risk scratching with my toe-nails, or worry overmuch about balace, but sometimes they are just convinced feet are funnier, and/or a parent’s face looming over them at a distance. What else are you gonna do?

Lost me at no time-outs, no limits. Most children won’t learn to calm themselves and/or move on if you don’t force them to take a break from whatever it is that has triggered a breakdown in self-control. Don’t even get me started on what happens when you leave kids to their own devices versus sleep, pee breaks, and proper nutrition/hydration.

The internet absolutely wasn’t safe for kids then, and to say I have doubts that a “kid-safe” internet would have had the same effect on you is to put it mildly. Sanitized and child-safe spaces aren’t what make for capable adults.

1st day: Maybe stay all day or until lunch?
2nd day: Come back for lunch e 1st week: Come back for lunch on Friday

Beyond maybe weekly or monthly lunches, ideally from retired grandparents or shift-workers such as myself, I got nothing.

Dragging it out is almost always harder on everyone, including stay-at-home parents, but good luck getting them to admit that, or the teachers to admit when a parent is disruptive. The helicoptering and overly-pushy PTA/drama non-sense starts here.

Wish this worked with regular Youtube and a child account. Youtube kids literally cuts-off access to 99% of the legit educational content on Youtube. Most of what remains accessible is near-Caillou-level garbage, which is honestly the stuff I wish I could keep my youngest away from the most.

I’m more concerned with getting my children to leave the US, and failing badly, however I try to convince them to move to places with lower waste/consumption per capita, in the hopes they will learn to live like the locals and not be such a burden to the planet, as I have been.

Mine were in their teens the first time they ate enough, often enough, for me to not stress over about their eating habits. The boys are both taller than me, and all my kids get better grades than I did…

Reality is what is still there when no one is talking about it or looking at it. You can make ideas real and/or change them, but you can’t stop reality by doing nothing.

When they were younger, my wife and I basically had to work different shifts, although there were also long stretches where I just worked less(because I had found ways to make good money like so). Once they turned 6 years old, Boys & Girls Club was a lifesaver. During the summer, the kids actually prefered to go there on days we didn’t have anything fun planned(nor $$$ for activities).

Lemmy parents seem to be a more put-together, less drama-seeking set than those from that other /Parenting space. At least on the instances yours or mine are federated with. 🤷

Dude doesn’t have access to the records of who downvoted what, and neither do you or I. That’s admins or mods only, if even they can look it up. Thanks for outing yourself and reinforcing my hunch that its mostly projecting word-spewers who aren’t worth interacting with. Bye.

I want to know who downvoted your comment as well. Don’t much care their reasons why.

Part of what I was getting at, or rather how I read your question, is that none of my children mentioned any separation of the girls and boys for these lessons. There was mention of “private areas”, but also, “or any other touching that made you or others uncomfortable” and the “why” seems to have been left for the health classes they had later on in Middle School and High School.

Gender doesn’t exactly play into telling kids to tell a parent and/or teacher or doctor when anyone touches their “private area”? Pretty sure nipples are mentioned as such for girls and boys, if they are mentioned at all.

“Stranger Danger” and “Bad Touch” aren’t discussed in Indiana Classrooms until the 2nd grade, and even then, its super-vague.

You’re misunderstanding. They aren’t interested in protecting pedophiles-in-general, or even most Republican-voter-pedophiles, just, literally, themselves, and maybe their pedophile donors, until those get caught that is.

Sadly, most of those same donors play both sides of the aisle, and Dems in office are all-too-happy to help them as well, so long as their pockets are deep enough. On that note, here’s your weekly reminder that the Clintons made promoting and implimenting vouchers for private schools a key issue, and yes, these issues are thoroughly inter-twined.