bbbhltz
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Probably in the works, but there are some adaptable options here:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_honorifics
Like Excellency or Honourable… But as a professor I receive so many emails starting with odd honorifics (e.g. Dear Sire, My Sire, Sir bbbhltz, My Lord, etc.) due to translation software errors that I can’t be bothered to even care about it anymore haha
I am not the brightest bulb, so I do feel bad about saying this does come down to the intersection of intelligence and common sense. Back in my day it was vitamins for kids. My mother had us taking 6 or 7 a day because that fucking doctor on Oprah said vitamins and supplements were good. There was no thought process. She just went to the store the next day and loaded up on dozens of bottles of stuff.
I would wager that in the case of this infant, a similar situation occurred. The parent outsourced their thought processing to the groupthink of a Facebook mom-group and never gave it a second thought.
Similarly, when I was young, doctors and pharmacists/chemists would tell you to never give Aspirin to babies and very young children. Did the mothers listen? They did not. Later when I worked in a pharmacy we kept all Aspirin behind the counter and specifically told them in blunt language about the risks of giving this to babies.
Anyway, this is a horrible story. Right up there with parents giving their babies almond milk and seemingly competent adults drinking colloidal silver.
My nieces and nephew had iPads at 4
My nephew plays COD. He is 8. He sleeps with his iPad.
The nieces are are 6 and 11. They are obsessed with tiktok.
My son is 7 and goes to school with kids that have iPhones.
And my son only watches screens when we are supervising. He watches a lot of TV and plays Switch games though. Never phones and we don’t have a tablet or any of the streaming stuff.
It is very hard not to give in.