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New in our digital #collection:

➡️ Handbook of #children and screens: #DigitalMedia, development, and well-being from birth through adolescence

🔗 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-69362-5

This #OpenAccess handbook synthesizes the current #research about the impacts of digital #media on children across development.

#Psychology #MassMedia #Internet #Parenting #Neuroscience #Technology #MentalHealth
book cover 'Handbook of children and screens'

Handbook of Children and Screens

Describes the cognitive, physical, and psychosocial impacts of digital technology on infants, children, and adolescents and This book is open access,
SpringerLink
#mentalhealth #openaccess #children #research #psychology #media #technology #parenting #internet #neuroscience #collection #digitalmedia #massmedia

The Five Stages of Bedtime:

1. Alright, kid is in bed. She'll be out soon. Then I'll make myself a sandwich, watch the season finale of The Pitt, maybe do some journaling, take a shower, do Duolingo, and read some before bed.

2. Alright maybe just shower, the sandwich and the show then.

3. Actually I'm not that hungry.

4. Oh please gods give me strength to get up and shower.

5. Goddammit

#parenting
#parenting

#ToddlerDnD fact: Naptime is one action.
You have a choice of the following options while the kid is out:

- Do a chore
- Inhale your food
- Stare vacantly into space
- Scroll through social media platform of choice
- Curl into a ball and cry
- Have a WhatsApp convo with friend
- Nap and regret
- Watch the clock as the minutes tick down
- Try to read
- Devour secret snack

#parenting #DnD
#dnd #parenting #toddlerdnd

My teen challenged me to make a heart model out of pipe cleaners and then rolled their eyes and said “you’re not going to post that on mastodon, are you?” So yup here it is 😂

#parenting
A model of the human heart made out of red pipe cleaners
#parenting

Bonus #DadJoke
What do you call an Irish spider?
(Paddy Long Legs.)

(It's #HootinTootinTuesday again! Post some jokes or funny memes under this hashtag today, and bring lots of smiles to #Mastodon.)

#Humor #Humour #FunnyMeme #Puns #StPattysDay #StPatricksDayMemes #HappyStPatricksDay #SaintPatricksDay #WearingOfTheGreen #Snakes #Parenting #DadJokes #ShoeboxBlog #Driving
Comic showing a red car driving down a winding road in the country, surrounded by green grassy fields. A frazzled man in green clothes with a green hat is driving the car, and it's full of green snakes. They are saying things like, "I feel sick," and "He's touching me," and "I have to pee," and "Are we there yet? I'm hungry." Caption reads, "Saint Patrick regrets his decision to drive the snakes out of Ireland." Signature reads "ShoeboxBlog dot com"
#mastodon #humour #humor #saintpatricksday #puns #parenting #dadjokes #snakes #driving #hootintootintuesday #funnymeme #dadjoke #stpattysday #stpatricksdaymemes #happystpatricksday #wearingofthegreen #shoeboxblog

Today kiddo decided we should reenact scenes from #Moana at the playground.

Which resulted in half a dozen landscapers staring as I repeatedly yeeted my child off an imaginary boat (into the sandbox).

#movies #parenting
#movies #parenting #moana

Illinois Has Virtually No Homeschooling Rules. A New Bill Aims to Change That.
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Following a ProPublica and Capitol News Illinois investigation, an Illinois lawmaker introduced legislation that aims to protect homeschooled students from abuse or neglect.
https://www.propublica.org/article/illinois-homeschool-regulations-bill?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Illinois #Homeschool #Education #Children #Parenting #Law
#news #children #education #law #parenting #illinois #Homeschool

The AJ Chronicles: 7 March 2025
A week in the life of an autistic widower. (That's me!)

Free to read on Substack.

https://soultoscribe.substack.com/p/the-aj-chronicles-7-march-2025

#blog #journal #life #grief #health #family #cars #technology #music #parenting #autism #autistic #adhd

The AJ Chronicles: 7 March 2025 — The Life of an Autistic Widower

Son’s birthday; Stephanie’s hospital appointment; in-laws in hospital; fiancée’s dad’s funeral; ZX Spectrum documentary; son's car troubles; nuclear-themed music podcast; 21 – 27 Sep 2024 catch-up.
Alan AJ (Soul to Scribe)
#music #adhd #cars #health #autistic #blog #autism #life #technology #parenting #family #journal #grief

The U.K.'s Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) has backed a total ban on smacking children. Currently, it is totally illegal in Scotland and Wales, but unlawful in England and Northern Ireland except in cases where it amounts to a "reasonable punishment" — a distinction the RCPCH says shouldn't exist. Prof Andrew Rowland, RCPCH officer for child protection, told @BBCNews: "Now is the time for this Victorian-era punishment to go."

https://flip.it/8eaJEn

#UK #UKLaw #Children #Parenting #CorporalPunishment

Doctors back total ban on smacking children in England

Smacking is legal in some cases in England and Northern Ireland, but is banned in Scotland and Wales.
Nathan Standley (BBC News)
#uk #children #parenting #uklaw #corporalpunishment @BBC News

Kid brain in a nutshell:

"Please don't jump on the escalator."
"Why?"
"Because you could trip and fall."

Kid continues to jump
Kid trips
Kid falls
We narrowly catch

"See?? I didn't fall!"

🤦‍♀️🤦 #parenting
#parenting

And today's award for Most Unhelpful Reaction goes to:

"Well, MY child has never done anything like that!"

#parenting #GeeThanks
#parenting #geethanks

With all the joking about the ups and downs of toddlers, honestly the thing that absolutely terrifies the shit out of me about #parenting is...

... parent group chats.
#parenting

Me: "Honey, please go to sleep."

Child, doing the Downward Facing Dog half off the bed, screaming: "I AM SLEEPING!"

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is why mommy deserves to buy another book.

#parenting
#parenting

Kiddo is very good at shaking her head and calmly but firmly saying "Sorry, but no."

This is the exact energy I want for her to have when she sets boundaries throughout her life.

...

But maybe not at bedtime?... 😅

#parenting
#parenting

#ToddlerDnD

"I rolled a Nat 20 for searching the room!"

"Awesome! You found 345 hair clips, 143 hair ties, 3 missing puzzle pieces, 5.5 Barbie shoes, 37 socks, and 4 nose spray caps."

"And the toy I was looking for?"

"Nope, sorry."

#parenting #DnD
#dnd #parenting #toddlerdnd

Health advisory: "This flu strain is known to cause myocarditis. Check your pulse to see if it is unusually elevated."

Me: You mean, like a person with an anxiety disorder checking her pulse to see if she has a serious heart condition?...

HA: Also, do you feel unusually exhausted?

Me: You mean, like a sick mom whose toddler gets up at 5am and has been home sick for a week?

... I'm starting to suspect moms with anxiety are hard to diagnose.

#parenting #anxiety #health
#anxiety #health #parenting

#ToddlerDnD

The Healing Spell components you have:
- Vitamin C
- Vitamin D
- aspirin
- herbal tea
- honey
- tissues
- throat losenge
- sheer force of will
- tearful prayers to the gods
- ginger shot

The Healing Spell components you would actually need:
- 7 days of uninterrupted long rest

🤷‍♀️

#parenting #DnD
#dnd #parenting #toddlerdnd

Forget secret labs and jungles, the zombie virus is going to start in a kindergarden. We never stood a chance.

#parenting #WinterBugs #GetTheFluShot
#parenting #winterbugs #gettheflushot

The Four Apocalyptic Horsemen of Toddler Parenting:

Sleep Deprivation
Guilt
Unsolicited Opinions
Pestilence (reprising his role because daycare is the pits)

#parenting
#parenting

#ToddlerDnD

Actions that provoke an immediate Attack of Opportunity from a Toddler class creature (when said creature has Condition: Sick):

- Offering medicine for their pain

- Offering to help them clean their airways

- Offering food

- Offering drink

- Offering other type of food

- Offering other type of drink

- Approaching with medicine-shaped object

- Suggesting more sleep

It's rough to be a Cleric in this party.

#DnD #parenting
#dnd #parenting #toddlerdnd

Due to Tennessee’s abortion ban, Mayron Hollis was forced to continue a pregnancy that threatened her life. An emergency delivery left her without a uterus and her baby with medical issues.

Our most-read story of 2024: https://propub.li/3W5ooDd

#News #Abortion #Healthcare #RoeVWade #Pregnancy #Family #Parenting

The Year After a Denied Abortion

Tennessee law prohibits women from having abortions in nearly all circumstances. But once the babies are here, the state provides little help. We followed one family as they struggled to make it.
ProPublica
#news #abortion #healthcare #parenting #pregnancy #roevwade #family

Kid: "Mom, what are you eating?"

Me: *chews faster*

#parenting
#parenting

9. Being a main-carer parent is time-consuming (between care work, emotional support, logistics, domestic tasks, food provision & preparation, getting up at night, etc., a main-carer parent can easily be working a 100-hour week). So they lack the time to have a paid job, which results in many families living in poverty.

⬇️

#Poverty #Parenting #SingleParent #SingleMom
#poverty #parenting #singlemom #singleparent

Should parents be paid?

There are lots of reasons why we tend to think parents shouldn't be paid. I'll cover those (end of thread).

But let me first look at 10 reasons why, perhaps, they should be paid…

A thread 🧵

1/9

#Parenting #Education #Family #ActuallyAutistic #Neurodivergent
#education #actuallyautistic #neurodivergent #parenting #family

#ToddlerDnD Wild Magic:

Verbal component: "Now I finally have some time to get back to my hobbies!"

Effect: Immediate routine breaking event selected from the random table below with a D12 roll

1. Ear infection
2. Tonsillitis
3. Head lice
4. PTA conflict
5. Skipping naps
6. Family holiday
7. Ear infection again
8. The poops
9. Can't sleep won't sleep
10. Childhood illness
11. Kindergarten break
12. More lice

#DnD #parenting
#dnd #parenting #toddlerdnd

Relative: "And what did Santa bring you?"
My daughter: "A CAR!"
Relative: "A car?... But you are a little girl!"
Daugther (indignant): "NO! I'm a BIG girl!"

#Christmas #Gender #parenting
#Christmas #gender #parenting

I am sorry, 75% of my brain's computing capacity is currently taken up by the implications of the Peppa Pig universe having a zoo

#parenting #zoo #WTF
#WTF #parenting #zoo

The media: "Chronic sleep deprivation can fundamentally rewire your brain. Please take care of yourself and have good sleeping habits."

Also the media: "Have kids, they are adorable!"

😅 #parenting
#parenting

Christmas with a toddler:

All rules are off
Days blend together
Hierarchies are reversed
We eat whatever we want whenever we want
We descend into hedonism
No sleep, just party
There are gifts

... wait. Saturnalia. Christmas with a toddler is just Saturnalia.

Edit: also, random nudity.

#Christmas #Saturnalia #parenting
#Christmas #parenting #saturnalia

Somehow the longest night of the year still ended at 5 am 🤔🤷‍♀️

Happy Solstice! 😊🌄

#parenting #solstice #HappySolstice
#parenting #solstice #happysolstice

Inhaltswarnung: Spoilers for Carry-On

#movies #parenting #cinemastodon #carryon

Here's to a less cruel and heartless world 🥂

💜💙💚💛🧡♥️🩷

#Parenting #UnconditionalParenting #Education #HomeEducation #ActuallyAutistic
picture of a child looking at two lanterns. text reads: "it's not our job to toughen our children up to face a cruel and heartless world. it's our job to raise children who will make the world a little less cruel and heartless." credit for the slide to: Autism Support Community on FB
#education #actuallyautistic #parenting #homeeducation #unconditionalparenting

The ... teenager was told by a #CharacterAI #chatbot that it sympathized with children who murder their parents after the teen complained to the bot about his limited #screentime. "You know sometimes I'm not surprised when I read the news and see stuff like 'child kills parents after a decade of physical and emotional abuse,'" ... "I just have no hope for your parents,"

"#AI chatbot hinted a kid should kill his parents over screen time limits"
https://www.npr.org/2024/12/10/nx-s1-5222574/kids-character-ai-lawsuit #Parenting

Lawsuit: A chatbot hinted a kid should kill his parents over screen time limits

Two families are suing AI chatbot company Character.AI for allegedly encouraging harm after the kids became emotionally attached to the bots. One chatbot allegedly exposed a child to sexualized content.
NPR
#ai #chatbot #parenting #characterai #screentime

Today the kiddo wanted to go to kindergarden dressed in a bear suit.

I allowed it. I am picking my battles. I am sticking to the bear necessities.

#parenting
#parenting

Now hiring: Garden Hermit

Compensation:
> If and only if the hermit fulfilled the terms of his contract, living in solitary contemplation without stepping foot outside of the estate for seven years, he would be rewarded with £500 to £700 (around $95,000 to $130,000 today).*

Was reminded of the role via the always-excellent, pro-labor history podcast for kids, “Forever Ago” (still interesting and listenable for adults, imo)

Episode title: "Jobs that don’t exist anymore"

https://www.brainson.org/episode/2024/12/04/jobs-that-dont-exist-anymore

* https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/ornamental-hermits-were-18th-century-englands-must-have-garden-accessory-180982469/

#parenting #history #BrainsOn #recommended #podcast
An 18th-century etching of "eccentric hermit" John Bigg Wellcome Collection under public domain
An excerpt from English Eccentrics by Edith Sitwell Publication date 1994 Source: https://archive.org/details/englisheccentric0000edit_r1x9/page/25/mode/1up > . . . advertised for a hermit, he built a retreat for this ornamental but retiring person on a steep mound in his estate. This hermitage annoyed Mr Horace Walpole, who announced that it was ridiculous to set aside a quarter of one's garden to be melancholy in: and, indeed, the retreat seems to have been re- markable more for its discomfort than for its beauty, for we learn that there was 'an upper apartment, supported in part by con- torted legs and roots of trees, which formed the entrance to the cell'. Still. Mr Hamilton seems to have found no difficulty in pro- curing the hermit; and in any case, a professional discomfort was only to be expected by the hermit, who, according to the terms of the agreement, must 'continue in the hermitage seven years, where he should be provided with a Bible, optical glasses, a mat for his feet, a hassock for his pillow, an hour-glass for his timepiece, water for his beverage, and food from the house. He must wear a camlet robe, and never, under any circumstances, must he cut his hair, beard, or nails, stray beyond the limits of Mr Hamilton's grounds, or exchange one word with the servant.' If he remained without breaking one of these conditions, in the grounds of Mr Hamilton for seven years, he was to receive, as a proof of Mr Hamilton's
An excerpt from English Eccentrics by Edith Sitwell Publication date 1994 Source: https://archive.org/details/englisheccentric0000edit_r1x9/page/25/mode/1up admiration and satisfaction, the sum of seven hundred pounds. But if, driven to madness by the intolerable tickling of the beard, or the scratching of the camlet robe, he broke any of the conditions laid down, he was not to receive a penny! It is a melancholy fact that the Ornamental Hermit stayed in his retreat for exactly three weeks ! But a gentleman living near Preston, Lancashire, had better luck with his hermit. He had advertised in the papers, offering a salary of £go a year for life, to any man who would live for seven years underground, without seeing any human being, and without cut- ting his hair, beard, toe-nails, or finger-nails. The advertisement was answered immediately, and the happy advertiser prepared an apartment underground which, as Mr Timbs assures us, was "very commodious, with a cold bath, a chamber organ, as many books as the occupier pleases, and provisions served from the gentleman' own table'. The ornamental occupant bloomed, unseen, in this retreat for the space of four years. But, unseen as he was, it is a little difficult to guess what pleasure his employer can have got out of the matter.
The restored hermitage at Painshill Park Rictor Norton and David Allen via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY 2.0 It's an old, tiny house with a pointed roof, nestled in a lush garden, and raised off the ground by wooden stilts.

Ornamental Hermits Were 18th-Century England's Must-Have Garden Accessory

Wealthy landowners hired men who agreed to live in isolation on their estates for as long as seven years
Shoshi Parks (Smithsonian Magazine)
#podcast #history #parenting #brainson #recommended

Meltdown! At the soft play

#PanicAtTheDisco #parenting edition
#parenting #panicatthedisco

Should young children be shielded from the word 'no'? Nell Frizzell (a parent herself) explores the trend in parenting to minimise the word 'no'...

Its an interesting Q. but partially submerged within it is the question of how do children who've seen 'no' de-emphasised go on to deal with the issue of consent?

We already know young men seem to think 'no' really means 'yes' when it comes to sexual relations.... are we storing up more gender troubles?

#gender #parenting
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/dec/07/mummy-would-prefer-you-not-to-do-that-how-no-became-a-dirty-word-in-parenting
#gender #parenting

This thread is meant as a resource for confused #autistic people, on social dynamics & power hierarchies.

In the posts below are links to various threads & articles I've compiled on this topic.

Sometimes it's only when you add a number of elements (each one unremarkable on its own), that you see a pattern.

💡
😎

1/10

#ActuallyAutistic #Neurodivergent #Autistic #Heirarchy #Society #Power #Capitalism #Education #Parenting #AuDHD #Exploitation
#capitalism #education #autistic #actuallyautistic #neurodivergent #power #parenting #society #audhd #exploitation #heirarchy

Hungarian kids don't say "I need to pee", they say "there will be pee" and I think that's beautiful

#parenting
#parenting

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