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TLDR:

Making your kids go without smartphones could be difficult because their friends will most likely have phones and will most likely leave your kid out of events and conversations.

  • Thordros [he/him, comrade/them]
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    3 years ago

    I'd sure love it if we could put that genie back in the bottle, but we can't. My kids are teenagers and there is no way in hell I'm going to open up another vector for them to get Othered. They're already neurodivergent and queer and bullied on occasion. So yeah, I got them phones. Fuck the consequences—if I can get my kids bullied less, I give less than zero shits.

    • Thordros [he/him, comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      (I also taught them where all the soft spots on a man's body are, and we're learning how to shoot. But you can't really do either of those in school.)

        • Thordros [he/him, comrade/them]
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          3 years ago

          Ah fuck I sincere posted by accident.

          I actually trained my childerinos to do a heckin revolution at their school and gank all the teachers, and they did it. They are teaching the classes now, and it's all classes on how to TNT a Senator in Minecraft.

          • MerryChristmas [any]
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            3 years ago

            Sometimes I like to watch the newest redstone traps on YouTube. If I'm ever purged as a reactionary when I'm old, I hope that's how they catch me. Those Minecraft kids are creative as hell.