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Today in The Medium Newsletter, featured stories include:

• The #marketing origins of the #PledgeOfAllegiance, by John Gorman

• #SimCity spin-offs from the 90s, by @penguinpete

• Learnings from the #TheAISummit London, by Elliot

• Toddler #parenting hacks, by Amarie Skrzyp

• Making #gazpacho to beat the heat, by Dim Nikov

https://medium.com/blog/how-the-pledge-of-allegiance-started-as-a-marketing-campaign-d66a0d38df7c

#Medium #writing #AI #gaming

Screenshot of a story by Dim Nikov with title “Gazpacho Because It’s Too Hot to Cook” and a photo of a bowl of gazpacho

Screenshot of a story by Amarie Skrzyp with title “Super Secret Parenting Hack: Throw Labels in the Trash” and a photo of a toddler peeking through a fence at a zebra grazing in the distance

Screenshot of a story by "Penguin" Pete Trbovich with title “SimCity Spin-Offs: the Good, the Bad, and the Smoggy” and a collage of screenshots from various Sims and SimCity spinoff games

Screenshot of a story by John Gorman with title “The Pledge of Allegiance Was A Marketing Ploy” and a close-up photo of an American flag

Knee Neart

@KneeNeart@sunny.garden · 3 days ago

Both kids awake after midnight; highly irregular scenes.

I'm lying here with kiddo snuggled into my left arm while bubs lies on my belly feeding, occasionally looking around and trying to propel himself elsewhere.

He sees his sister's hair.

He reaches

"Hey, Goo baby, no! Treat me like a museum! No touching!"

#parenting

Sara Joy :happy_pepper:

@sarajw@front-end.social · 4 days ago

Ugghhh. Just searched for kids' Police toy sets out of curiosity, because my youngest is very interested in the whole cops and robbers thing right now - but urrrggghh they're full of violent weaponry.

One set event looked like a SWAT style outfit. Grim.

Any parents successfully redirected such an interest away from the "bang bang let's shoot the thief" side of things?

#parenting

Travis F W

@travisfw@fosstodon.org · last week

@randomgeek @ozoned I think I need to look into flashing a custom ROM again. Never allocated the time before, because family. But now I realize I have to, because family. #parenting

Dr. Zalka Csenge Virág

@TarkabarkaHolgy@ohai.social · last week

Every time you vent about parenting someone bursts in like the Kool-Aid man with "Have you tried..."

No.

Just stop.

So if you are on the struggle bus, let me bust in:

NO amount of gentle parenting, advice, regulation, meditation mindfulness, psychology, or any kind of mojo will make you a "good enough" parent to prevent your toddler completely losing the entirety of their shit about getting the wrong color cup.

Not your fault. There. Not. Your. Fault.

#parenting

jaz :twt: :wales_flag: boosted

AnneTheWriter

@AnneTheWriter1@universeodon.com · 3 weeks ago

Bonus #Joke :
My daughter once yelled at me in German.
I yelled back in Klingon.
She was confused.
I was terrified.

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

#Humor #Humour #FunnyMeme #Cursive #Parenting #GenZ #GenX #Boomers #TeachingCursive #CursiveWriting #Writing #Klingon #KlingonLanguage

Comic with a woman sitting in a recliner. In front of her, two pre-teen children are staring at their cell phones.

Mom's speech balloon is in cursive. She is saying, "When I was your age, I had to write in a style called 'cursive'."

One child texts to the other, "W-T-H is Mom saying?"

The other child replies in texting abbreviation with "I-D-K."

[Credit: 18 Feb 2013 "Speed Bump" comic by Dave Coverly] — Comic with a woman sitting in a recliner. In front of her, two pre-teen children are staring at their cell phones. Mom's speech balloon is in cursive. She is saying, "When I was your age, I had to write in a style called 'cursive'." One child texts to the other, "W-T-H is Mom saying?" The other child replies in texting abbreviation with "I-D-K." [Credit: 18 Feb 2013 "Speed Bump" comic by Dave Coverly]