Non so se il regalo è per #Vanni o per me.

#Parenting

Non so se il regalo è per #Vanni o per me.

#Parenting

Testing...

"If you are old enough to use social media in Australia, then you are old enough to act like an adult"

Does this work? Is it stupid?

#Parenting

"Good morning children! Today we are visited by Mr. Worf, Alexander's dad.

Mr. Worf identifies as a Klingon and has kindly offered to share typical Klingon culture with us.

Now, let's do a great classic space welcome to Mr. Worf just as we learned during yesterday's culture-hour!"

[all enthusiastically shout Qapla'!]

#lego #startrek #parenting

"Good morning children! Today we are visited by Mr. Worf, Alexander's dad.

Mr. Worf identifies as a Klingon and has kindly offered to share typical Klingon culture with us.

Now, let's do a great classic space welcome to Mr. Worf just as we learned during yesterday's culture-hour!"

[all enthusiastically shout Qapla'!]

#lego #startrek #parenting

Running a role playing campaign for the Little One and mum.
Kiddo is really into it.

Thank you once again @draftexcluder, the game is well loved in its new home. 😁
#parenting #ttrpg

Josh Ritter song came on, had words about trying hard not to love someone. Locke asked why you wouldn’t want to love someone. So I talked to him about how some people aren’t safe to love, and how is our responsibility to be safe in our love. #parenting

WATCH: More than 80% of U.S. children attend public schools.

Some of the Education Department’s ultraconservative advisers, led by Secretary Linda McMahon, want to change that.

Here’s an inside look at their dismantling of public education: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NYq_N6fO-w

#Documentary #Film #Journalism #Video #Education #Family #Children #Parenting #School

Speaking of #JDLL, some of you may remember that I had the honor of speaking at the 2025 edition, invited by the awesome @yunohost team to share my experiences self-hosting with them.

I asked my husband to tag along and bring our daughter so she could see me speaking on stage... and see that mamma does cool stuff outside the house too.

Well, my daughter brought up Lyon and the conference on the way to school the other morning. I asked her: "did you have a good time?" and her immediate response was: "I didn't understand anything you said!"

Me: "Well, it's normal, I talked about grown up stuff."

Child (4 then, 5 soon): "But what did you say?"

And then I proceeded to try to explain the concept of #selfhosting and #digitalsovereignty and how empowering it is to use a tech stack independent of #BigTech platforms... in an accessible way that she would understand.

It was SO DIFFICULT.

I probably failed spectacularly and she still doesn't understand. But it made me think that it'd be worth trying to explain this to older kids... like pre-adolescents or in their early teens? Maybe a project for another time.

#MySoCalledSudoLife #resist #parenting

Her Parenting Time Was Restricted After a Positive Drug Test. By Federal Standards, It Would've Been Negative.
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Child welfare systems vary widely in what they count as a positive drug test. One state’s level is so low that Air Force pilots can fly with up to 400 times more opiates in their system.
https://www.propublica.org/article/drug-testing-thresholds-child-welfare?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Health #Hospital #Drugs #Testing #Parenting #Family #Children

"Mommy's made you pancakes today!" I jovially set them in front of my daughter and sat down for my own.

"Mommy, Mommy, pass me the syrup!"

"Say the magic word~!" I drew it out.

"Abracadabra!"

(ಠ_ಠ)

I have no idea if I failed as a parent or succeeded as a witch, but it happened.

#TootFic #SmallStories #MicroFiction #magic #witch #parenting

TIL: Parental Controls Aren't for Parents

https://beasthacker.com/til/parental-controls-arent-for-parents.html

#HackerNews #TIL #Parental #Controls #for #Parents #parenting #technology #digital #safety #online #privacy #parental #controls

The inflection is where the chores become more than even possible most days. If they simply will not, practically speaking, actually get done most days, then finishing them is clearly not an option anymore (redundance intended). So the problem becomes that the choice is now arbitrarily at my whim, rational or irr.
Will I lose sleep most nights, or will I prioritize rest half the time, and will I rest well when I do?
#parenting

Being called "da da" really made me think I mattered for a while. Jeez I guess I let it go to my head. My bad.
#parenting

Made it to Iowa, kid had a meltdown related to wind turbines, now the RV is covered in tiny bits of shredded paper he made while he was working out his rage. Dog continues to be unbothered even when he was getting coated in confetti.

#parenting #RoadTrip #dog #dogsofmastodon

I can say without guilt,
That I'm proud to the hilt,
Now that I've built
Little One's stilts.

They're not great on silt
They might slip on things that are spilt,
And you need to keep a bit of a tilt,
But hey we got stilts!

#parenting

3 eggs in an oiled silicone bowl seasoned to taste in the microwave at 60% power for 2 min 22 sec
#recipe #parenting

TIL that the kids use "shadery" as an adjective for "good graphics", as in "OMG your Minecraft is so much more shadery than mine!" 🤷

#parenting #Gaming

If childhood is half of subjective life, how should that change how we live?

https://moultano.wordpress.com/2025/12/30/children-and-helical-time/

#HackerNews #childhood #subjective-life #life-lessons #parenting #mindfulness