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I'm lucky with my kids. They're both solid humans, and by and large ridiculously easy to parent. This includes when we have to parent parent, like today.

We had gotten a call from their school yesterday wherein they and their girlfriend had been caught with a fake TikTok account 'impersonating' another person. Naughty, but not bad -- well within the realm of teenager whupses. We know kid well enough to know it was meant for laughs and not malice (and that they wouldn't be impersonating an actual person), and the extent of their 'punishment' from us was having to sit down and talk it over. They really are not comfortable with that, to which I pointed out -- we are treating you like an adult, and helping you develop a skill that you will need in later life. Better to get that in a loving, understanding environment than anywhere else. They would not have rated the experience as fun, but we could tell they were satisfied with the experience on the whole.

Really though, teens are dumbasses, and are supposed to be. It's hard learning how to person. Add in ridiculous body hormones, and yeah. A little empathy and love go a much further distance in helping a child understand. And to be fair, the school staffer who called us was clearly impressed with eldest for how willing they were to be honest about the incident, and to work with them towards a solution. Genuinely, proud of my kids for the people they are, and the people they are growing up to be as they go.

Past that, fren came over and fixed my PC yesterday! Which is to say, repaired whatever power connection we borked poking at things ourselves, and confirmed that the HDMI cable had died. Thankfully, we have spares aplenty, so that's working and much happier with life.

Right! Enough words. <3

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I'm lucky with my kids. They're both solid humans, and by and large ridiculously easy to parent. This includes when we have to parent parent, like today.

We had gotten a call from their school yesterday wherein they and their girlfriend had been caught with a fake TikTok account 'impersonating' another person. Naughty, but not bad -- well within the realm of teenager whupses. We know kid well enough to know it was meant for laughs and not malice (and that they wouldn't be impersonating an actual person), and the extent of their 'punishment' from us was having to sit down and talk it over. They really are not comfortable with that, to which I pointed out -- we are treating you like an adult, and helping you develop a skill that you will need in later life. Better to get that in a loving, understanding environment than anywhere else. They would not have rated the experience as fun, but we could tell they were satisfied with the experience on the whole.

Really though, teens are dumbasses, and are supposed to be. It's hard learning how to person. Add in ridiculous body hormones, and yeah. A little empathy and love go a much further distance in helping a child understand. And to be fair, the school staffer who called us was clearly impressed with eldest for how willing they were to be honest about the incident, and to work with them towards a solution. Genuinely, proud of my kids for the people they are, and the people they are growing up to be as they go.

Past that, fren came over and fixed my PC yesterday! Which is to say, repaired whatever power connection we borked poking at things ourselves, and confirmed that the HDMI cable had died. Thankfully, we have spares aplenty, so that's working and much happier with life.

Right! Enough words. <3

#deardiary #dailylog #cats #catsofmastodon #caturday #vivithecat #dubiousselfie

I'm lucky with my kids. They're both solid humans, and by and large ridiculously easy to parent. This includes when we have to parent parent, like today.

We had gotten a call from their school yesterday wherein they and their girlfriend had been caught with a fake TikTok account 'impersonating' another person. Naughty, but not bad -- well within the realm of teenager whupses. We know kid well enough to know it was meant for laughs and not malice (and that they wouldn't be impersonating an actual person), and the extent of their 'punishment' from us was having to sit down and talk it over. They really are not comfortable with that, to which I pointed out -- we are treating you like an adult, and helping you develop a skill that you will need in later life. Better to get that in a loving, understanding environment than anywhere else. They would not have rated the experience as fun, but we could tell they were satisfied with the experience on the whole.

Really though, teens are dumbasses, and are supposed to be. It's hard learning how to person. Add in ridiculous body hormones, and yeah. A little empathy and love go a much further distance in helping a child understand. And to be fair, the school staffer who called us was clearly impressed with eldest for how willing they were to be honest about the incident, and to work with them towards a solution. Genuinely, proud of my kids for the people they are, and the people they are growing up to be as they go.

Past that, fren came over and fixed my PC yesterday! Which is to say, repaired whatever power connection we borked poking at things ourselves, and confirmed that the HDMI cable had died. Thankfully, we have spares aplenty, so that's working and much happier with life.

Right! Enough words. <3

#deardiary #dailylog #cats #catsofmastodon #caturday #vivithecat #dubiousselfie

I'm lucky with my kids. They're both solid humans, and by and large ridiculously easy to parent. This includes when we have to parent parent, like today.

We had gotten a call from their school yesterday wherein they and their girlfriend had been caught with a fake TikTok account 'impersonating' another person. Naughty, but not bad -- well within the realm of teenager whupses. We know kid well enough to know it was meant for laughs and not malice (and that they wouldn't be impersonating an actual person), and the extent of their 'punishment' from us was having to sit down and talk it over. They really are not comfortable with that, to which I pointed out -- we are treating you like an adult, and helping you develop a skill that you will need in later life. Better to get that in a loving, understanding environment than anywhere else. They would not have rated the experience as fun, but we could tell they were satisfied with the experience on the whole.

Really though, teens are dumbasses, and are supposed to be. It's hard learning how to person. Add in ridiculous body hormones, and yeah. A little empathy and love go a much further distance in helping a child understand. And to be fair, the school staffer who called us was clearly impressed with eldest for how willing they were to be honest about the incident, and to work with them towards a solution. Genuinely, proud of my kids for the people they are, and the people they are growing up to be as they go.

Past that, fren came over and fixed my PC yesterday! Which is to say, repaired whatever power connection we borked poking at things ourselves, and confirmed that the HDMI cable had died. Thankfully, we have spares aplenty, so that's working and much happier with life.

Right! Enough words. <3

#deardiary #dailylog #cats #catsofmastodon #caturday #vivithecat #dubiousselfie

I'm lucky with my kids. They're both solid humans, and by and large ridiculously easy to parent. This includes when we have to parent parent, like today.

We had gotten a call from their school yesterday wherein they and their girlfriend had been caught with a fake TikTok account 'impersonating' another person. Naughty, but not bad -- well within the realm of teenager whupses. We know kid well enough to know it was meant for laughs and not malice (and that they wouldn't be impersonating an actual person), and the extent of their 'punishment' from us was having to sit down and talk it over. They really are not comfortable with that, to which I pointed out -- we are treating you like an adult, and helping you develop a skill that you will need in later life. Better to get that in a loving, understanding environment than anywhere else. They would not have rated the experience as fun, but we could tell they were satisfied with the experience on the whole.

Really though, teens are dumbasses, and are supposed to be. It's hard learning how to person. Add in ridiculous body hormones, and yeah. A little empathy and love go a much further distance in helping a child understand. And to be fair, the school staffer who called us was clearly impressed with eldest for how willing they were to be honest about the incident, and to work with them towards a solution. Genuinely, proud of my kids for the people they are, and the people they are growing up to be as they go.

Past that, fren came over and fixed my PC yesterday! Which is to say, repaired whatever power connection we borked poking at things ourselves, and confirmed that the HDMI cable had died. Thankfully, we have spares aplenty, so that's working and much happier with life.

Right! Enough words. <3

#deardiary #dailylog #cats #catsofmastodon #caturday #vivithecat #dubiousselfie