Which can also be done with a coloring book.
Well, in my day it used to be the case, but now mommy and daddy are probably smartphone-addicted neglectarinos, so maybe you're right.
Any moment possible you have you can bond with your kids you take. Because there be a day when you wish you did more with them.
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· 8 years ago
@matthewg just because something doesn't flow with your preferences of enjoying your time with your children doesn't mean other ways are ineffective. If "mommy and daddy are probably smartphone addicted neglectarinos" now, then they were something equally neglectful in your parenting generation. Every age has a new addiction, and no matter the time there are always bad parents. There are also good parents. So instead of focusing on the tattoos being weird to you because you like coloring in books with your kids, maybe think about how it's nice parents still encourage activities with kids, instead of showing them a TV screen and being done with it. You get to proudly wear your child's artistic spin on your body, new each day, and that's just as special as hanging a different colored picture from a book on a fridge daily.
Wow.
Judging from the downthumbs, the neglectarino hate is real up in here.
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· 8 years ago
I think you got down votes because you lumped this generation of parenting into neglectful phone slaves. Not everyone who does this is that, but idk that it deserved a downvote
It wasn't my intention to lump a generation into anything (although there's surely a good argument for that), but rather, I was working from my experiences as both a child AND a parent. My now ex-wife had a bad habit of, among other things, ignoring our children for her phone. I tried to keep it as funny and as lighthearted as possible, but that came from a very painful place for me.
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· 8 years ago
Well in my experience, (granted I can only look to my friends because I have no kids) phones are put up when the family is spending quality time with one another and there are specific times set aside for that. Which has resulted in a family based not on social media, but on being together. Doesn't matter what you do, or how you do it, so long as you're doing it as a family. And even then smart phones aren't that huge of a hinderence, as you can communicate when apart and explore individual interests.
Well, in my day it used to be the case, but now mommy and daddy are probably smartphone-addicted neglectarinos, so maybe you're right.
Judging from the downthumbs, the neglectarino hate is real up in here.