I’m pretty sure I’m not the only one who has trouble remembering developmental milestones. I put these together, but can’t take credit for any of the photography. Hope someone finds them helpful!
This is very useful to me i have absolutely no gauge for how old children are and what they can typically do at what ages
I’ve been on Tumblr too long I was definitely expecting this to turn into some existentialist meme
Every writer needs to see this because I’m really tired of otherwise competent novels in which a two year old is like “mother dearest I do believe I am quite frightened” or conversely they’re supposed to be five and going “me hungie!!!”
I was reading at 4, which totally freaked out my mom when she realized I wasn’t just mimicking what had been read to me. (Didn’t help that she was driving at the time, I almost caused an accident.)
My nieces were conversing in sign language at 2-3, it turns out that hand dexterity develops before tongue dexterity, so kids can usually communicate before their mouths let them do so properly. (My sister teaches mainstreaming, so she knows ASL.)
Not to appropriate boomer culture but I literally am filled with rage every time I see an under-ten child in public on an iPad
there’s nuance to it i think
like as a kid, i’d be able to bust out my gameboy on long drives or in waiting rooms or whatever. and i think that was perfectly okay for my parents to let me do
but also, when i was a toddler, my parents would just plunk me down in front of a tv so that they wouldn’t have to interact (or, god forbid, PLAY) with me. and that was messed up and not good for me.
ipads are fine if they’re being used the first way. kids need to play and be stimulated and sometimes they’re in an environment that can’t provide that, so bringing a bit of portable entertainment is a good idea.
but sometimes it’s used in the second way, but now the tv is PORTABLE. it’s parents finding more efficient ways to automate neglect.
And then there’s this new product I’m seeing ads for on TV (not gonna name it and risk getting ads for it online too). It’s a box, onto which you place various static figures, like Peppa Pig or whoever, and it reads stuff to them. There’s supposedly also interactive stuff, but the ad didn’t really go into details on it.
But here’s the kicker: one of the big selling points was that it was “without screentime.” Yes, because kids playing with an audio-only electronic story toy is so preferable to one with audio and video. It literally has all the downsides of giving the kid a properly locked iPad, but without video and locked to “buy more figures to get more content”. It’s the same lazy parenting as “give ‘em a screen to stare at,” but even lazier since you don’t need to do anything to keep them from spending a thousand bucks on your credit card or find adult content. Yeah, it’s pretty goof-proof on the “kid spends college fund on skinner box games” side, but as such hands even that much of parenting over to the machine.
Shark dragons. Please consider this idea, I created a tumblr just to ask you this
new favourite thing to listen to: literally exactly what i’ve been looking for my entire life
Music Producer Alex Moukala did a whole video on just why this is so impressive
Trust me, you cannot abuse a classical orchestra worse than the classics already have. No combination of notes you compose cannot be turned into an arrangement for strings and brass…or worse, vocals.
it’s so fucking nuts to me that the pyramids had a smooth limestone casing for most of their history and that they were all like a full 10m taller as a result. what i wouldn’t give to see the iPyramids. fuck
imagine being an egyptian peasant and seeing this on the horizon every day. fuck
Further, imagine being the first one to decide, “Yeah, I’m gonna steal some of that limestone for my building.”
