when my 12yo is out with friends i love to deny his screen time requests and imagine him and his buddies trying to do something fun with the maps app or idk the calculator

i said goodnight to my newly-2yo and he replied “go boo jays” i swear this really happened

holy shit no way

oh my god

my husband is fast asleep right now how does he do it should i wake him up

biggest game in their lives and it’s going to end way past my kids bedtime… anyways that’s a problem for tomorrow

Not sure the folks at NBC/Peacock thought this one through

going to try to trick myself into not watching the game until hopefully the 4th? 5th?

can i make AI solve the problem of my kids schools both sending me an email once a week that contains a link to a website that will allow me to download a pdf which contains one item of important information on page 19 of a 27 page pdf which is mostly children’s art? if not then i’m not interested

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ok but the bills can’t lose too i think i have to go outside maybe turn off the tv

heard a neighbourhood kid yelling “daaaaa yankees lose” while playing street hockey yesterday

i know a lot of people are rooting for the mariners. i get it, they are a likeable team with a lot of likeable guys. but think about it like this: I don't want to have to stay up late to watch the ALCS

a good chunk of the kids in this city are currently engaged in debate with their parents and coaches about how late they can stay up to watch the game when there’s a big cross country meet tomorrow. my children will of course be reasonable about this

important to report that after the final out, when the horn was blaring and the crowd was screaming, my toddler pointed at the tv and said “boo jay boo jay” for the first time

conflicted because "c'mon n' ride it" is such a jam but the nfl float commercial is so deeply upsetting

missed ANOTHER exciting comeback win. by minutes this time

the thing I've noticed is that normie parents don't try prevent their from kids becoming online, because they themselves are not online enough to know how pervasive online culture is. The only parents I know who try as hard as we do to keep their kids offline are themselves pretty online

ugh I've missed two crazy come-back games by my favourite teams this week because I was sleepy and I figured they'd probably lose

do you think i’m missing something important in most of the novels i read when i skim the part where they put the poem that inspired the title

holy shit when i fell asleep it was 40-25 i was fully expecting to see a final score of like 53-28

jays are 0-3 on days i hear the blue jays in my back yard make that weird creaky gate sound

We are so close to NFL football. Time to have one beer and fall asleep by halftime.

my toddler does not say "brother" or his brother's name or "grandma" or "grandpa" or even "cat" but he learned "pikachu" from one episode of pokemon

as a parent i really lament the rarity of the $10 bill. i maintain such silly quantities of $5 bills to give these kids

this is what i've been working on since I came back from mat leave, it's very cool and a lot of people did a lot of very good work. Come Post! www.bluebirdbanter.com/feed (this is the Jays site but there's one for every MLB and NFL team)

it's my birthday and we're trying to deploy the biggest update i've ever been part of

doing a “feral” summer “90’s” summer “unscheduled” summer for 12yo because we’re too broke for camp this year and let me just say it fucking sucks for everyone

running is my favourite baby milestone. he has so much fun running around but he also started sleeping like an extra hour every day

last year's NBA finals were so boring I was actually mad about it, but they've really turned it around this year, A+ television, no notes

is it worth trying to find shorts for my toddler that don’t make him look like fred durst or should i just lean in and get him a fitted cap to wear backwards

parents absolutely trust their kids less than in the past BUT i think the concern about it is a bit overblown by people who don’t have kids or who have very young kids. my big kids are out there roaming all the time with their friends. there are roving gangs of kids everywhere you can’t miss them

my dog is trying to tell me that picking up shoes is so “going outside”-coded

every hour or so i have to rewatch the video my husband sent me of our toddler sobbing into his kazoo. comedy gold. very "but doctor, I am pagliacci"-coded

got chatgpt to help me with a bunch of boring linux admin tasks and now i get to be mad at two computers instead of just one

one thing about having a cute baby is you meet childless couples and the woman fawns over the baby and her boyfriend looks on in abject terror. so idk i don’t think it’s as simple as women don’t want kids

i really hope the new pope picks a good name. i'm talking 3+ syllables and very latin

love to vote on election day. there's never a line and i have an excuse to go for a little walk to the catholic school and feel sorry for the kids who go to school there because it smells bad and they have no sports field.

saw the movie conclave so i can annoy my family when the real vatican does all the things from the movie conclave

I don’t have super strong feelings about how we should be managing our older kids’ screen time but i strongly believe that the whole situation sucks shit. like we’ve made life worse for our kids and now we all have to navigate these stupid situations where every option sucks.

this is still happening and it's frankly embarrassing like show mister dick some respect on your broadcast. they actually talk about how they're just going to call him gradey. disappointing

I have a similar problem where I hate every aaron sorkin-written character since 2010 because they all sound like mark zuckerberg

i’ve learned what the 11yo does after school everyday: he goes to the library with his buddies and plays @neal.fun games on the library computer. more wholesome than i was imagining but idk i think of that as part of MY internet??

it's wild reading about how teens and young adults are not doing drugs or having sex and then turning on the radio and hearing all the songs they love about doing drugs and having sex

there was no need for any of this, 5 years ago I didn’t know what the AFC championship was and now I’m spending a perfectly good sunday being stressed out

go bills

this is a wonderful piece on art

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do you think arsenio hall has the same cultural relevance if his name is like joe hall