As a geek and a father, may I recommend that you spend less time building tech tools for your young kids and more time in the real world with them? Four and six seem young now, but they’ll be teenagers next week and not up for reading with you anymore.
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#42Most educated people I know actively want to reduce technology in their kids' childhood, especially while they are young. I can't help but think this is like intentionally showing your kids the low quality videos made for kids on YouTube. It's depressing
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#43This is an interesting, well-done project. I thought the concept was wholesome and encouraging for parents to spend time with and read to children.
The stories themselves really affirm the value of talented (human) children's authors. It takes deceptively significant amount of practice and deliberate crafting for children's authors and illustrators to make successful books.
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#44Why not just scroll tiktok with them, that will be more engaging
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#45As the father of a 2- and 4-year-old, this project is repulsive. > Like many parents, I found that standard bedtime stories didn't always capture their unique imagination. So, I built Lyra Kids ( https://lyra.kids ) to turn our nightly ritual into something more magical. We have the standard template product pitch here (“Unlike our competitors, our product does XYZ”) but turned against _the entirety of children’s lit…
> We have the standard template product pitch here (“Unlike our competitors, our product does XYZ”) but turned against _the entirety of children’s literature_.
Thank you! As a 44 year old non-parent this claim was really bothering me, but ya, it's just product-speak! I really hope so, at least. I'm still imagining that there are actually parents out there who think there aren't good enough children's books out there. Like, there is so much good stuff. SOOOOOOO much. When I was being read children's books many of them weren't even contemporary for the time. My grandmother read me Aladdin in the 80s! I was obsessed with the genie of the ring and wrote a story about it. Then the Disney movie came out a few years later and it was all about the genie of the lamp. D'oh. But I digress.
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#46I’m sure I’ll get flak for this but I’m sorry we can argue about AI all day and there’s a lot of stuff that’s being built and is genuinely depressing but this takes the cake. There’s few memories I cherish more of childhood than being read The Hobbit at the age of your children. The best part was my dad would slip in nonsense sentences when it seemed like I was drifting off. “And then Roxolotl hops out and grabs the…
I do the same. As soon as I slip in a remark about the hero being rewarded for doing her homework her ears perk up and she follows me on the page to make sure I don't do it again!!
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#47As the father of a 2- and 4-year-old, this project is repulsive. > Like many parents, I found that standard bedtime stories didn't always capture their unique imagination. So, I built Lyra Kids ( https://lyra.kids ) to turn our nightly ritual into something more magical. We have the standard template product pitch here (“Unlike our competitors, our product does XYZ”) but turned against _the entirety of children’s lit…
Hell, yeah. Children's Literature is no joke. It is a branch of literature as old as time, and has seen no shortage of depth or variety.
tossing you a head nod: i stumbled upon this book at a children's toy store during xmas shopping https://www.labyrinthbooks.com/the-bad-seed/
made me cry. i bought the hard cover and im saving it for when my niece is a little older to understand the depth, just a little more. it's been a few years. she still needs to learn how to read!
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#48Or you could just read your daughters bed time stories yourself, instead of burning the Planet Earth and Humanity in the process. You love making Scam Altman rich don't you? Keep worshiping those "AI AGENTS.MD".
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#49Spend time writing one story with your kids, you end up with something special. Spend that time writing a tool to generate infinite stories, you've got shovelware.
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