For me it is voice and attitude.

Nobody in the whole world wants to interact with a kid on a plane. If you do they might start crying, and if you’re the parent everyone will judge you and if you’re not, you’ll hate the ear-drilling screeching pain.

I feel like you didn’t get the point of Kylo Ren...

I agree I did not like his appearance at all. That said, I THINK the idea was to reveal how normal and young he was. That he uses the mask not to survive as Darth Vader did, but to emulate Vader and have an appearance that matched his abilities so that people would take him seriously as a threat. He is insecure and…

I think JJ intended for Kylo Ren to be a more complex villain than Vader was. Vader was just straight up evil (until the end). Kylo Ren is more the angsty teenager who’s trying to find his identity. There’s clearly conflict in him. The real villain is Snoke.

That’s the whole point. You find out he’s just this regular, very unassuming person, not this dark, amoral being you meet initially.

Congrats. Most of us have jobs and other obligations though and when my 2 year old is screaming at the top of her lungs after throwing her breakfast ravioli at me and now I need to have another shirt and tie on and be out the door in 8 minutes or get fired, you better believe Daniel Tiger is sitting with her.

I have a degree in education. I can assure you that while I don’t recommend endless unmonitored hours of any activity for any child, understanding incorporated technology and applying it effectively across curriculum isn’t just a piece of cake for all children. Many children need to be taught how to effectively…

I believe that’s supposed to be part of the power of the reveal. Unless you kept up with the production shots that were released before the movie, you expect him to be some twisted, horrible monster but instead he’s revealed to be just some dorky kid, almost pathetic.

“I hate to be that person”

No, but before television was invented we had a completely different childcare economy, so now maybe that both parents are often working at least part time, we can give them a break for using the iPad to get shower time?

Some of that’s nature and some of that’s nurture, though. I can leave my two year old playing with his trains and tell him I’m going to take a shower and when I come back everything is fine. I have a friend whose two year old scaled the kitchen cabinets, climbed over the microwave, and onto the top of the fridge while…

I’ve got a 13 year old and a 4 year old. Parenting is easier with tablets.

Hot Take

No, no, I’m satisfied that an event happened, just not the way you are presenting it, and your own sources even fuck it up for you LOL. I was not aware of this (I’m in Tennessee), btw, even if it made national news, but after reading about it it’s one of the dumbest fucking things I’ve ever read.

I mean, you know this…

AGAIN WITH THE SKITTERING. There is way too much skittering in these threads!

Ugh, Pisgah. Lots of drugs in them woods. There was this one dude we would see from time to time with a huge dry bag on a his back and squeaky pink bicycle. We’d be sitting around the campfire or whatever and he’d just wheel it on through and never look at us or acknowledge we were there. D:

My daughter has never been afraid of the dark, so this shouldn’t have surprised us, but it used to happen a lot.

I will preface this with the fact that unnatural movements freak me out. A lot.