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> i have a dude friend, he's 28ish and dating a girl > she goes to pilates every morning at 6am > i've been yelling at him to marry her since date one > he keeps wanting further assessment from me > she does pilates every day at 6am are you retarded

i just got this odd little book, it's roughly the size of a passport this photographer went around calling the biggest european companies, asking to show up at their office and shoot their boardroom this is unilever in 1993

one time as a kid, my dad told me about some old research he'd read he said, maybe asian kids are better at math because they just try 50% longer

> swede marries american, moves to small town midwest, after kids she's shocked at how little time american children spend outside there's a scandinavian saying, there's no such thing as bad weather, only bad clothing — she moves her family to sweden to get back to that notes:

we bought all these singapore math books before our kid was born for some reason we thought the series started at 6 years old, he's 4 and it's clear we should've started at 3 he blew through the first two workbooks in two days and i've done a 180 on the power of worksheets

i've long noticed that elite private schools all have the same specific failure mode –– one that's particularly insidious for gifted kids alpha school is most notable for, as far as i can tell, its rare immunity let's call it the 'good for your age' trap

it’s time to whitepill x on parenting books, and i say let’s start with bringing up bebe — > american marries englishman, moves to france for reasons, slowly realizes she's raising french children, while she (for better or for worse) remains Very American notes:

we didn't want a smart tv, but there's no more dumb ones out of the box, it was so slow we joked it had north korean spyware joke's on us, it did a man in the middle attack compromised every device except, strangely, mine all because i'd bullied google into deleting youtube

> be 4yo boy at camp > hate mandatory morning handshake > hate montessori social normalization cues et al > wear good outfit today > get compliments, twice > hold head high > see girl at dropoff > execute handshake performance of your life > oneshot social normalization

this book is not about running it’s about deciding today is no different from yesterday notes:

next up is holt, the father of unschooling > yale-educated engineer turns WWII submariner, later leaves state department to pursue career in teaching this is the first of his many books — all broadly dismissed by legacy educators as 'too radical' notes:

needless to say, there will be no more smart tvs this leaves scarce choices: –– old tv –– projector (surprisingly hard to find dumb) –– commercial signage display screen (dumb but notably low quality) i picked d/ none of the above i decided to lobotomize a smart tv instead

i'm slogging through all the original montessori books again so that you don't have to this one's about agency and how parents lose the plot by doing too much:

> i have a dude friend, he's 28ish and dating a girl > she goes to pilates every morning at 6am > i've been yelling at him to marry her since date one > he keeps wanting further assessment from me > she does pilates every day at 6am are you retarded

one time as a kid, my dad told me about some old research he'd read he said, maybe asian kids are better at math because they just try 50% longer

i just got this odd little book, it's roughly the size of a passport this photographer went around calling the biggest european companies, asking to show up at their office and shoot their boardroom this is unilever in 1993

we didn't want a smart tv, but there's no more dumb ones out of the box, it was so slow we joked it had north korean spyware joke's on us, it did a man in the middle attack compromised every device except, strangely, mine all because i'd bullied google into deleting youtube

needless to say, there will be no more smart tvs this leaves scarce choices: –– old tv –– projector (surprisingly hard to find dumb) –– commercial signage display screen (dumb but notably low quality) i picked d/ none of the above i decided to lobotomize a smart tv instead

we bought all these singapore math books before our kid was born for some reason we thought the series started at 6 years old, he's 4 and it's clear we should've started at 3 he blew through the first two workbooks in two days and i've done a 180 on the power of worksheets

> swede marries american, moves to small town midwest, after kids she's shocked at how little time american children spend outside there's a scandinavian saying, there's no such thing as bad weather, only bad clothing — she moves her family to sweden to get back to that notes:

it’s time to whitepill x on parenting books, and i say let’s start with bringing up bebe — > american marries englishman, moves to france for reasons, slowly realizes she's raising french children, while she (for better or for worse) remains Very American notes:

another i’m not sure would be published today — > first-generation american poster child (harvard-educated yale law professor) turns to ‘tiger mom’ traditional chinese discipline (hours of math and music practice, no sleepovers) in hopes of avoiding Very American kids notes:

i've long noticed that elite private schools all have the same specific failure mode –– one that's particularly insidious for gifted kids alpha school is most notable for, as far as i can tell, its rare immunity let's call it the 'good for your age' trap

that’s it, time for a ‘have kids’ mega thread let’s collect all the brilliant one-act play posts here on x, the everything app — now including *perpetuating humanity* send me the best you’ve got, i want to whitepill our species into survival starting with mermaid store

if the book escapes containment (read: outside of x), it’ll be crucified for its anecdotes, perhaps justifiably that said, it’s more or less exactly the way i was parented — no limits on screens, on school, on sleep, not even on sugar (unlimited ice cream) full agency notes:

ok time to whitepill x on montessori all the decent primers are ineffective in getting you to *care* — and all the source materials are too dense if you don’t care yet i want to get you to care — and i think i can do it without talking much about montessori at all notes: