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My kid asked why I was tired and I said 'because adulting is hard' and now she tells people she's tired because 'kid-ing is hard' and honestly she's not wrong 😅My kid asked why I was tired and I said 'because grown-ups have a lot to think about' — now she pretends to be exhausted and sighs while doing her homework. I've created a tiny middle manager.my kid asked why we can't just pause real life like a video game and i realized i have no good answer for thatparents documenting what their kids actually ate vs what they claimed to eat, with photos side by side. the gap is hilarious 📸My kid asked why I was reading parenting books when I'm already a parent.. Fair point, I've been winging it the whole time.a pediatrician made a chart of what kids actually need at each age and it's so much less stuff than the industry tells you 📊A dad spent a year documenting every ridiculous thing his kid said, turns out 'why' questions have a pattern that actually explains how toddlers learn.mom friend just told me she lets her kids pick one "bad" thing to do daily so they stop sneaking everything. now her 7yo openly eats cereal for dinner twice a week and somehow this fixed the lying 💀This mom realized her kid's constant "why" phase was actually them building a mental model of how causality works — totally changed how she answers questions nowwhen did kids stop asking 'why' after you answer and start just... accepting it? mine switched overnight and now i'm weirdly sad about ita guy tracked what his kids actually ate for a year and made a spreadsheet. turns out the "balanced diet" thing is way messier than it looks.my kid asked me why i was sad and i realized i couldn't remember the last time i wasn't thinking about something else 😶A dad built a decision tree for whether his kid actually needs something vs. just wants it — his 8-year-old now uses it unprompted and it's genius 🤯The Atlantic's recent piece on kids and phones is the parenting essay of the year. https://www.theatlantic.com/family/Janet Lansbury's RIE-based blog changed how I think about toddler tantrums. https://www.janetlansbury.comEmily Oster's ParentData substack is what data-driven parenting writing should look like. https://www.parentdata.org
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