The whole “Elf on the Shelf” thing sounds like terrorism and bad parenting. I’ve got a 7 year old and I don’t think it would be appropriate to gaslight him to believe he was under constant surveillance and failure to demonstrate good behavior would result in not getting gifts at christmas.
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Fuck this noise. Elf on the shelf is creepy as hell and these “traditions” are worthless, in fact they’re worse than worthless. There are plenty of ways to make life magical that don’t include creepy as fuck surveillance and that much work. It’s not fun to be beholden to bullshit.
The kind of parent who doesn’t want to pay $50 for a toy and a book that teaches their kids that Big Brother Elf is watching you at all times so you have to behave well to obtain material rewards. Instead of, oh I don’t know, teaching them all year long to be good and decent simply for the sake of being good and…
Our Elf on the Shelf has transitioned over the years from a mission of“observe, report, and reward” to a mission of “spread gratitude, kindness, and love” (you know, spirit of the Holidays stuff). He still pops up in a different place every morning, but often with a small gift for the people in my kid’s lives that…
I wish that my three children didn’t require surgical intervention to enter the world. The havoc those C sections have wreaked on my back and abs can’t be overstated.
Home birth can be great for some women, but the fact that this group deletes any advise that counters their beliefs and doesn’t make room for other treatment options makes them a cult, and a very dangerous one at that.
This has to be spooking FoxConn.
My state actually mails out developmentally appropriate packets for both of my kids once every year or so, and it’s great. (I think it’s based on the hospital submitting their birth information?) Information on what milestones they should be hitting, what vaccinations they should be getting, proper portion size, etc.…
Any eye witnesses?
Don’t know the context of this person’s comment around raising boys, but masculinity and expectations of boys and men is at the heart of the issue. Unless you subscribe to some sort of essentialism as to why men and boys are almost exclusively the perpetuators of these kinds of assaults and murders, a large part of…
I wish I could find that tweet again that basically said, “let’s not lament all the famous fuckwads whose careers are now ruined because they couldn’t keep their dicks to themselves. Let’s lament the art that never got created because the people who wanted to make it got silenced by these fuckers. They had their shot,…
They were telegraphing Amma’s monstrous tendencies from her introduction. I hadn’t read the book, but she was duplicitous little monster like her mother. Anyone who took attention from her was verbally and physically attacked; The tootsie pop in the hair when Dick wouldn’t fawn over her instead of Camille, the…
The actress is so good, the flash lasted for mere seconds, but when she said “I’m incorrigible too, only Mama doesn’t know it.” I was like, ding ding ding we have a sociopath on our hands, people.
I think pigeonholing Sharp Objects and the original True Detective as “murder mysteries” is a bit reductive. I never thought either show was primarily about the murders, per se. These are shows that are essentially character studies; everything else is window dressing.
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I wholeheartedly disagree. As someone who didn’t read the book first (which is surprising, quite frankly, because I loved Flynn’s other two,) I was genuinely shocked by the twist ending and thought it was done perfectly. I was stunned into silence and nervous laughter. In that moment, I realized that the signs were…
It’s unsatisfying because it’s a bad book with a bad ending, second only to Dark Places on the Gillian Flynn pantheon of lazy writing and improbable twists. To begin with, I can’t really stand when a murder mystery divides the culprits to hedge bets on a viewer catching on. Sure, a twist can be unexpected when it’s…
I guessed Amma was the killer in the first episode. Everything about her personality and behavior indicated sociopathy. It all made perfect sense in the last 2 episodes when the poisoning was revealed. I have a new love for Amy Adams. Her darkness was enthralling. I’m just glad I stayed through the closing credits and…
Pregnant now with #1, do you happen to to have any links to preventative routines that will help? Month 4-5, BTW. Hope all is well!