Dillards 79: Sex Education on the Fly

[sixcatatty]

3 hours ago, PennySycamore said:

@sixcatatty, your Lilly is beautiful!  Our Lab lived to be 13 which is pretty old for a Lab, but 17 is just unheard of.  She does deserve to live the rest of her life to the fullest.   

Thank you. My husband and I realized tonight that she's lost more ground and our time with her may be shorter than we thought.

[Reo]

On 8/26/2019 at 9:29 PM, HarryPotterFan said:

I feel like I might be starting a new topic of doom by asking this, but is it okay to give a four year old gum? I probably wouldn’t trust a kid that age with it.

 

I didn’t want to deal with gum, so told my son (now 34) that it was against the law to chew gum until he was old enough to go to school. It worked.

[Peaches-n-Beans]

15 hours ago, Reo said:

I didn’t want to deal with gum, so told my son (now 34) that it was against the law to chew gum until he was old enough to go to school. It worked.

That is genius. I'm saving that for when i have kids. 

[adidas]

My parents told me I could have gum when I was a big girl (to me, this meant after I got my ears pierced).

My Uncle didn’t receive the memo though, and gave me my first piece of gum the week before I started kindergarten.

I started kindie looking like a boy because of my new short haircut - forced on me when I got the gum tangled throughout the entirety of my waist length hair. 

I was devastated   And I have absolutely no idea how I got the gum SO caught up in all of my hair. 

[Lurker]

My daughter had a lot of ear infections and her ENT specialist suggested letting her chew gum to change the pressure in her ears for immediate pain relief.  This was of course in addition to the usual antibiotics and  Tylenol.    This gum chewing was heavily supervised and we only had a hair incident once.

My son has some speech and learning disabilities in addition to ADHD  and when he was in his special elementary school the kids were allowed to chew gum because it was felt it aided concentration and could be calming to twitchy kids.

 

[bal maiden]

8 hours ago, Peaches-n-Beans said:

That is genius. I'm saving that for when i have kids. 

Just tell your kid 'no'. No need to gaslight kids. 

[heysmilinstrange]

That's not what gaslighting is. Telling your child that chewing gum is illegal until they're in school is a harmless white lie.

 

EDIT: Gaslighting is when you manipulate someone into questioning their own sanity. If the kid in this scenario knew for a fact that chewing gum at any age was legal but the parent did everything in their power to make him think it wasn't, then that would be gaslighting. 

Edited September 2, 2019 by heysmilinstrange
Added more detail for the benefit of the WTF-reactors.

[FluffySnowball]

23 hours ago, Reo said:

I didn’t want to deal with gum, so told my son (now 34) that it was against the law to chew gum until he was old enough to go to school. It worked.

Lying to your children for your own convenience is wrong and lazy. 

[nickelodeon]

Jill’s insta post today is like the low budget remake of an Alyssa Bates post from a few months ago. (This has nothing to do with fundamentalism, unless it addresses some learned need for conformity, but still. It’s funny.)

Exhibit A:

Spoiler

 

Exhibit B:

Spoiler

 

[singsingsing]

Lying to your 5-year-old about chewing gum being illegal seems harmless and funny to me. I'm definitely not going to judge a parent for telling their irrational 5-year-old a little white lie to keep the peace. Parenting is hard as fuck and sometimes sitting your kindergartner down and having a rational discussion about why they can't have a piece of gum just isn't worth it.

My parents lied to me about mythical creatures observing my behaviour and coming into our house to leave me various presents or take my teeth for years, and I was definitely not scarred by the experience, nor do I resent my parents for telling me Santa wouldn't come until I was asleep.

[Bad Wolf]

Izzie doesn't look very strapped in to me.

[bella8050]

Sam is the king of side eye. I want him to be in a fundie remake of Look Who's Talking 

 

[onekidanddone]

7 hours ago, bal maiden said:

Just tell your kid 'no'. No need to gaslight kids. 

My kid can see right through me and the no gum until school never would have worked. Besides I am a horrible liar and I couldn’t keep a straight face. 

7 hours ago, nickelodeon said:

Jill’s insta post today is like the low budget remake of an Alyssa Bates post from a few months ago. (This has nothing to do with fundamentalism, unless it addresses some learned need for conformity, but still. It’s funny.)

Exhibit A:

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Exhibit B:

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Iz isn’t strapped in at all

[apandaaries]

4 hours ago, bella8050 said:

Sam is the king of side eye. I want him to be in a fundie remake of Look Who's Talking 

 

He has some of the very best faces. 

[Glasgowghirl]

6 hours ago, singsingsing said:

Lying to your 5-year-old about chewing gum being illegal seems harmless and funny to me. I'm definitely not going to judge a parent for telling their irrational 5-year-old a little white lie to keep the peace. Parenting is hard as fuck and sometimes sitting your kindergartner down and having a rational discussion about why they can't have a piece of gum just isn't worth it.

My parents lied to me about mythical creatures observing my behaviour and coming into our house to leave me various presents or take my teeth for years, and I was definitely not scarred by the experience, nor do I resent my parents for telling me Santa wouldn't come until I was asleep.

My dad used to tell us stupid things all the time, it meant as an adult we didn't fall for pranks so easy. A parent telling their child that if they eat broccoli they will get super powers or that the ice cream van only plays the tune when they have ran out of ice cream is not going to do lasting damage. 

[Peaches-n-Beans]

I don’t think it’s lazy at all. I mean I don’t have kids yet, but it see,s to me that if it’s simple and it works it’s okay. As for the gaslighting well then Santa is gaslighting too Rights? And actually Santa is way creepier because that’s a stranger coming in your house while you sleep soooooooo I think the gum is okay

[xenobia]

"If you cut off a few cm of hair every 6 months it will grow faster". / Mom to me, a kid with long hair. 

 

I didn't really see through that one until I was a teenager and took biology classes. 

[fluffernutter]

15 minutes ago, xenobia said:

"If you cut off a few cm of hair every 6 months it will grow faster". / Mom to me, a kid with long hair. 

 

I didn't really see through that one until I was a teenager and took biology classes. 

Wait that's not right? ?? I've been telling my girls that for 25 years! ?

[LacyMay]

4 hours ago, fluffernutter said:

Wait that's not right? ?? I've been telling my girls that for 25 years! ?

It won't make it grow faster but it does make it look longer/healthier because it keeps the ends healthier. That's what my stylist(s) told me when I was trying to grow my hair out for my wedding. 

[keen23]

We had a go to scapegoat for when all of the exhausting questions started "why can't I have ice cream for breakfast?" "why can't I run in the store?" "How come I can't have a pigeon live in my room and sleep in my bed?" "why does the toilet make noises?" "Why do the ants bite my feet?" "Why can't I feed the ants candy?" "Why can't I have candy?" Whenever we got to the point of exhaustion our answer was "That Man said." Hint- there was no That Man. That Man was pretend. "Why do I need to wear my jacket?" "That Man said you need to wear a jacket."

[fluffernutter]

Our oldest told us when she was a grown up that she was sort of scared of santa when she was little because we said "Santa's watching" so much. We would say it whenever she was acting up and it was close to the holidays. A heathen's version of Catholic guilt. ?‍♀️ 

[acheronbeach]

Aaand, in other lazy and not particularly appealing Jill content, she posted a video of her and Derick driving over a bridge.  Derick rolls down his car window so she can take a mostly-obscured shot of a mill wheel in action.  A lot of the video is Derick's face  Apparently they visited "The Old Mill" for lunch, compliments of Cathy Dillard, and Jill tells us that it was gorgeous.  

She's so weird with social media.  I googled this place and it's stunning.  It would've made for some really appealing content if she'd invested one to two more minutes in her photos or videos.  

[QuiverFullofBooks]

3 minutes ago, acheronbeach said:

Aaand, in other lazy and not particularly appealing Jill content, she posted a video of her and Derick driving over a bridge.  Derick rolls down his car window so she can take a mostly-obscured shot of a mill wheel in action.  A lot of the video is Derick's face  Apparently they visited "The Old Mill" for lunch, compliments of Cathy Dillard, and Jill tells us that it was gorgeous.  

She's so weird with social media.  I googled this place and it's stunning.  It would've made for some really appealing content if she'd invested one to two more minutes in her photos or videos.  

My cousin did her engagement photos there. Maybe “half-assed” is Jill’s social media brand.

[OyToTheVey]

I really hate Jill. Couldn't stand her, even before social media. But at this point I'd rather have Jill IG than "influencers" asking their followers what content they want. If you're an influencer, you should have your own content. That's why people are following you. So many are in bed with marketing companies and image consultants. It's not organic or real. At least Jill posts what she wants and makes a half ass attempt at it.

[PennySycamore]

@OyToTheVey,  I don't hate Jill, but I agree wholeheartedly with the rest of your post.