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Retro-Tech Parenting
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Re: Retro-Tech Parenting
#252Earlier quoted context omitted.
Works great until your kid's the one that can't join their friends on, say, grabbing dinner after band practice, because they have no way of telling you "hey, change of plans". If your kid can only participate in things that are planned well in advance, your kid is going to be missing out on ~80% of gatherings. Because everyone else is in the habit of making spontaneous plans, made possible by interconnectivity.
Are we talking about 8 year olds, or 15 year olds? I think it's fine to give your 8th grader a flip phone. A third grader isn't "grabbing dinner after band practice". For sports practice, I'd just take the sports bus home; the 30-60 minutes between the end of practice and the time the bus left was perfect for a little quiet reading or homework. For band practice, I'd call my parents from the office phone, or plan to…
Where I live, marching band is exclusively a highschool thing, and that's the example that the comment I was replying to gave. So 14-18
Re: Retro-Tech Parenting
#253My kids are still too young but I constantly worry about how the world will look like in 8-10 years. On a recent trip to Europe we had to rush inside a bar during a storm. The place was packed and the only table available was next to a large party of loud teenagers on some sort of celebration, maybe a birthday. We had no choice but to sit next to them. After a while, probably over an hour, my wife asks me if I have n…
i had a similar sort of experience on a european trip recently but it was the observation that the kids werent wearing yoga pants
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#254Glad I'm not alone. I do it mostly for me, but there is also the ulterior motive/hope that my young kids will enjoy media that isn't constantly trying to get them addicted; or at least know that _alternatives_ exist. So far I've: - gotten into film photography. It's so much more enjoyable and I cherish the few crappy photos I take. I have thousands of "perfect" photos on my phone but there's only few dozen that reall…
Serious question, why are you paying for netflix? What would happen if you just stopped doing that?
My partner and I are not perfect and don't have all the energy in the world all the time. So we do put an ipad in front of our kids quite frequently, and Netflix is still the lesser of the evils here. And my partner still watches Netflix shows.
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#255I remember my dad trying to make me fall in love with The Beatles. He loved The Beatles. I sat there quietly on the sofa while he got to relive his adolescence. The experience felt less like discovering something together and more like being a prop in someone else’s nostalgia. I can’t help getting the same feeling from this blog post. “Look at this amazing CD player!” Cool, Dad. I’m genuinely happy for you. Meanwhile…
I got a lot of my taste in music from my father. Over time, I started discovering things on my own and branching out, but he definitely laid the groundwork. Led Zeppelin is still my favourite band. We didn't have the best relationship, to put it mildly, but I still think of him when I hear these songs, and I remember him fondly.
Re: Retro-Tech Parenting
#256Earlier quoted context omitted.
This sounds very interesting and very much in-line with what I’ve been musing as a soon-to-be father. One question that comes to my mind is do your kids compare their experiences to their friends? If their friends have access to a laptop with internet, or a music subscription service with all the music constantly available (a la Spotify), do they not compare and ask you why their experiences must be so limited? Why d…
It can be important to tell kids early that comparisons don't matter, that everyone's diffferent, and that's ok, and every family's different and that's ok.
We say “comparisons are the thief of joy”.
Re: Retro-Tech Parenting
#257Earlier quoted context omitted.
This sounds very interesting and very much in-line with what I’ve been musing as a soon-to-be father. One question that comes to my mind is do your kids compare their experiences to their friends? If their friends have access to a laptop with internet, or a music subscription service with all the music constantly available (a la Spotify), do they not compare and ask you why their experiences must be so limited? Why d…
Re: the subscription music service We got my daughter an FM radio when she was around 9. Turns out it's a novelty among her friends and she really enjoys using it. I find local commercial radio insipid but apparently the music they play is acceptable to her. The music on broadcast FM is tame enough that I wasn't worried about subject matter.
Hmm, hasn’t been tame enough here for decades ..