Tundras live: Dumb Dad Jokes, Incorrect Opinions, and Relationship Advice.

I don’t. Thankfully I was online and double muted.

 

That may be true but I kind of like that people at my current company take the time to recognize others when they've helped out or gone above and beyond. Very different culture from my previous company where the goal was to climb the ladder as fast as possible, regardless of how many people you had to stab in the back to do it.

 

The smartphone’s influence on our lives cannot be overstated, for sure. We have game-ified aspects of our daily lives that provide no real progress toward anything at all. It feels like progress and gives us a dopamine reward, but it’s nothing. It’s vapor; chasing after the wind. Exhibit A:

But even the dopamine-chasing gameification of meaningless amusement was born out of a longer-standing trend.

Ever since what—the Industrial Revolution?—progress has brought with it convenience and comfort. So much so, that we view the them as synonymous. But we are literally becoming weaker, dumber, less fertile, with less musculature, under-developed jaws, and messed up teeth.

We chase comfort as the ultimate good—to our demise. Look at any footage of society pre-2000. People are mellow, content, and happy to sit and be. Look at footage from pre-1970. Everyone is thin as a rail. Look at footage from the 40s and 50s. A man with a high school education could buy a house and feed a family of 5 with one job.

Kinda seems like as a species, we’re in a race to the bottom in several metrics.

 

My kids are a bit younger than most of yours so still trying to figure some of this stuff out. But my wife has finally stopped giving the 3 year old whatever she asks for whenever she asks for it, so that helps.

For now, we're just working on stuff like sitting at the dinner table together as a family and talking to each other or "you took those toys out so it's your responsibility to clean them up before bed".

 

My thought process is, irreparably stunting your child’s physical development is abuse. We all recognize that. Well…is it really any different if you’re intentionally stunting your child’s social or emotional development as opposed to physical? You’re turning kids loose in the world who have a withered, atrophied ability to process delayed gratification, different opinions, traditional norms of social behavior, etc. This will set them up for a lifetime supply of pharmaceuticals just to get by in reality.

I don’t think it’s a stretch to say that participants in the gentle parenting movement are patting themselves on the back for borderline abusing their kids.

PS: gentle parenting is a thing. I did not make this up. Think Montessori-style child-directed education, but applied to every aspect of a child’s life. The child makes the decisions for how to behave, what to eat and when, etc.

 

This might explain why every kid my kid goes up to and starts talking to just stares at her like she has 2 heads. And their parents don't encourage them to say hi or anything, they just stand there (even when they're not staring at their phones).

 

I'm not fully disagreeing with you and I do see your point. I just don't fully accept it as abuse. It's more of a lack of parenting than it is abuse. It's a bit of a slippery slope to label no accountability parenting as abusive because it may set their kids up for unprepared failures later. That's all I'm saying.

To take it a step further when compared to the emotional abuse that a parent can render unpon a child's development through their choice of abusive and demeaning language towards the child, it's not abusive at all. Your gentle parenting model is just lacking substance. They aren't parents at all and that doesn't necessarily equate to them being abusive. I just call them shitty humans.

 

My brother in law works as an IT director at Apple, so I asked him how do I make a motherboard?

He said, I just tell her about my job.

 

Agreed that it is a slippery slope, and I am the last person to advocate for more regulation or bureaucratic involvement in people’s lives.

But there is not a clear-cut line between abuse and neglect. In fact, child neglect is abuse, and it happens to be the most common form of abuse (76% of all child maltreatment cases vs 16% for physical abuse).

Child neglect has its own categories (physical, educational, psychological, emotional, medical, etc). I think if you’re abdicating your parenting responsibilities to a child who is by definition not equipped to handle parenting himself or herself in any way, maybe we should at the very least heap scorn upon those parents heads, especially those who use it to signal their virtue to others in a bid for positive attention.

And maybe we need to have the conversation: does this not fit the definition actual psychological and emotional child neglect?

 

It's definitely neglect, which as you say is abuse. Either way IMHO parent's with this mind set aren't parents at all. They are failing miserably at their commitment to help foster growth in our ever evolving world. And they themselves should be blamed for the lack of accountability as well as the entitlement issues we are seeing in the younger generations. In the end, I think we feel the same way in that gentle parenting is only gentle on their own egos and provides very little benefit to their children.

 

Cashews are disgusting!

 

agreed that it's time to move on to new topics.

Say this to a vegan and it'll blow their mind. Cashews are their form of cheese.

 

I came here to find a good dad joke. Took three pages to find ANY joke. I can use this I guess.
Perhaps most dads are the joke these days. Skinny jeans and man buns.

 

Larry, be honest with me…are you a gal posing here undercover to ask about the hugging question?
Some of us just aren’t huggers….even with family members. I receive about 10 hugs a year, and give out about 2 hugs. I’d like to bring that number down closer to 8. Last sunday, i helped out a bro friend replace a torn engine mount and replace an aluminum transmission hard line in his 2019 Ram Cummins. We started in the afternoon and finally finished to close to midnight. He needed his truck operational for monday morning’s deliveries. When we finished, he walked up to me and said thanks. I thought he was going to give me a light, “punch in the shoulder” thanks, or even a fist bump. But nooooo, he went in deep for the hug. I didn’t see it coming otherwise i would have tried to dodge it. That’s the last time i wrench on his truck!

 

Old nail holes in a board?…psh…it’s either called distressed or patina lumber. It has a VERY high resale value and is quite desirable.

 

Swords will never become obsolete.

They're cutting edge technology

 

You used to be able to get air for free at gas stations. Now a days they charge you $1.

That's inflation for you.

 

Drool is such a cool word.

It just rolls right off the tongue…

 

My grief counselor died the other day. He was so good at his job, I don't even care.

 

Hummus is worse. A lot worse. Is it even food?

 

That’s the last straw Larry. I’m heading back to the 1st gen area where there’s less intimacy!

 

Why was the leper’s hockey game cancelled?

Spoiler

There was a face off in the corner

 

The aesthetics and design.

Driving through on an interstate highway is a lot different than going into neighborhoods with a pocket full of cash.

Also, it wasn't about safety. It was about the quality that the conversion could be. If it's meth-ville USA, there's a high likelihood of shit workmanship on the trailer.

 

Appleton isn't known to be or even close to being a meth heaven. And a few pews will help protect your pocket of cash. I've always carried cash on me and have yet to get ripped off or exploited, even in shit neighborhoods of Denver.