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9 months ago

I didn’t understand that as a kid and I still don’t understand it. Why would you take so little interest in what your kids like? I don’t even have kids and I still know who Mr Beast is. I can’t imagine having people I love, living in my house, who are into this stuff and not knowing all about it. The only way this kind of parental apathy can possibly make sense to me is if those parents just don’t love their kids. It doesn’t make sense to me.

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ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works

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9 months ago

Video games are pretty new. Most parents of those kids perfectly related tp their kids watching TV and movies. They could bond over Star Wars and have no concept of ‘gaming’ and remain completely ignorant beyond them Mario Twins and the Pokemans.

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9 months ago

If experiencing the world through fresh eyes isn’t one of the main points of having a kid, what are we even doing as a species? How can you not be infected by a little one’s curiosity about a changing world and learn along with them? I’m childfree and I still understand that much. How can someone choose to have kids and not want to share their kid’s eagerness to learn?

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ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works

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9 months ago

To be honest it is extremely wonderful and infectious.

It is also exhausting.

And relentless.

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9 months ago

There is no amount of exhaustion that could persuade me not to learn the name of my loved one’s favourite toy for years on end.

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WarmSoda@lemm.ee

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9 months ago

You don’t have kids. The stuff they get into can be ridiculous very easily. My experience has been paw patrol. There are a bunch of shows that have the same style, and you will see these shows a lot. Over and over and over. So much that any show that has even the slightest style as paw patrol becomes A paw patrol. The kid spiderman cartoon is a paw patrol for example.

You do learn the name of thier favorites. But you also see how much some things are the same. 8 bit Mario and Mega Man are different games, but they do look very similar to anyone working a full time job, coming home and cooking cleaning making sure everything related to your schoolwork is done, etc etc etc. Parents don’t just hang around and be best friends with thier kids.

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9 months ago

For me it would also be a matter of pride. If I dismissed all these things with the thought they’re identical, but I cannot even name them, how can I in good faith claim to know them well enough to make such judgements? I would think myself arrogant and shallow. I’m far too prideful to think myself arrogant, and so I’m too prideful to dismiss something from a place of ignorance. Surely if the kid actually knows the names of the things and I don’t, the kid’s opinion must hold more weight than mine. I would only attack my loved one’s interests from a place of certain understanding. I also can’t understand having so little pride as to think as you describe.

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