Well Maja Forstarters, let me tell you about something that might blow your mind. One time I was reading a kid a book, and she kept pointing at random background characters asking what their names were, but the book didn't have that information! So you know what I did? I just told her whatever random names came to my head! It's a little trick I like to call, "making shit up." If the book doesn't include something the kid wants to know, or that you want the kid to know, you can just... say it. You can say they're an alien. You can decide how they reproduce and if they have parents and where they are, through the power of 🌠 imagination! 🌠 I know what you're thinking, "But I don't want to lie to my kid!" Well here's the real kicker - everything in that book you're reading, it's made up too! Your kid is probably not going to be upset if you tell them things that don't adhere to the canonical Bookstart Bear universe. I know this is a lot to take in.
Tbh it's more that she's upset about seeing an NB character and wants to legitimize her whining by pretending it's about the children.
It must be wild being one of these people's kids. You're happily reading a book with your mom and there's a cute little alien and suddenly out of nowhere she goes full :frothingfash: and rushes over to fire off a bunch of tweets, and you're just sitting there like :what:
Well Maja Forstarters, let me tell you about something that might blow your mind. One time I was reading a kid a book, and she kept pointing at random background characters asking what their names were, but the book didn't have that information! So you know what I did? I just told her whatever random names came to my head! It's a little trick I like to call, "making shit up." If the book doesn't include something the kid wants to know, or that you want the kid to know, you can just... say it. You can say they're an alien. You can decide how they reproduce and if they have parents and where they are, through the power of 🌠 imagination! 🌠 I know what you're thinking, "But I don't want to lie to my kid!" Well here's the real kicker - everything in that book you're reading, it's made up too! Your kid is probably not going to be upset if you tell them things that don't adhere to the canonical Bookstart Bear universe. I know this is a lot to take in.
My niece had a "Baby Shark" storybook, and we nick named the great white shark "Fat Pauly".
ay tone, Ia wanta the fish capishe?:blahaj:
The idea that things they read in a book might not be literally true is alien to them
Tbh it's more that she's upset about seeing an NB character and wants to legitimize her whining by pretending it's about the children.
It must be wild being one of these people's kids. You're happily reading a book with your mom and there's a cute little alien and suddenly out of nowhere she goes full :frothingfash: and rushes over to fire off a bunch of tweets, and you're just sitting there like :what: