it is the hope of every parent of 3+ that the second child might be humbled by the experience of being a big sibling and come to empathize with both their older and younger siblings. this is of course a very stupid delusion

love seeing people talking shit about tobi. remember my #1 piece of career advice for working in tech: never work for someone who Posts. you do not want a Poster for a CEO. you want the ceo to just be some business person and your job will make you 90% less insane.

they should be allowed to have a little bit of offside. just a bit! not too much! but none is too little

i love it when 12yo guesses the screen time code and his iphone snitches. i make it something easy to guess on purpose. i usually wait a few hours until he thinks he’s gotten away with it then i change it again

i tried and failed 3 times to tell my iPhone to send a text while i was driving today, and the disconnect between that and reading an article about the self improving artificial super intelligence at our doorstep is really jarring

consumer AI tech has still not solved this for me. I’m in a whatsapp group with 20 other moms and we’re all debating when the spring concert is because the knowledge is buried on the last page of a pdf that is a bit annoying to access from a phone

tessa thornton@tessathornton.com · 10mo ago

can i make AI solve the problem of my kids schools both sending me an email once a week that contains a link to a website that will allow me to download a pdf which contains one item of important information on page 19 of a 27 page pdf which is mostly children’s art? if not then i’m not interested

i let my 2 year old watch too much thomas and friends and he keeps telling me “tender engines don’t shunt” and idk maybe they don’t

6 baseball games went to extras yesterday??

surely there is no sports emotion WORSE than watching your team lose the world series in game 7 in extra innings, I may be ready to be hurt again. but there can't be two max muncys. thats ridiculous.

many times when i’ve read the book it makes me want to see the movie, absolutely not the case with Hamnet. I’ve read the book, no need to see the movie.

no one is talking about the “i wanna do it MYSELF mommy”-to-“oops! i spilled” pipeline but it’s a pervasive phenomenon

something i never really thought about before having a toddler is that i bet it’s really fun to drive a skidsteer

it’s fucked up to hear kids quoting a key and peele skit. that’s like peak obama era elder millennial humour.

worst overtime losses i’ve experienced in the last 6 months: 1. world series g7 2. men’s gold medal hockey game 3. womens gold medal hockey game 4. bills divisional round 5. world series game 3

legitimately been waiting for someone to do macarthur park for years so pretty thrilled that it was as good as I imagined. But now my answer is “dim all the lights” by donna summer

Claire Willett@clairewillett.bsky.social · 6mo ago

okay if you could magically become the greatest figure skater in the world for a day and deliver one banger performance that would live on forever, and if you could truly let your freak flag fly to choose ANY music you wanted, what are you skating to I might do “Black Jack Davy” by Steeleye Span

my son does in fact love curling or “crashing rocks” as he calls it

tessa thornton@tessathornton.com · 6mo ago

if my toddler is going to continue to wake me up at such ungodly hours he’s going to learn to enjoy watching winter sports with me for two weeks. hope you like curling, son

if my toddler is going to continue to wake me up at such ungodly hours he’s going to learn to enjoy watching winter sports with me for two weeks. hope you like curling, son

"Heading 1" in google docs is Too Big

i currently have 12yo’s two friends trapped at my house until they plow the side streets so lesson learned to not permit sleepovers the day before a snowstorm

I appreciate that I can fully understand mark carney's rudimentary french

i’m not a seahawks fan in general but i am an enjoyer of the Sam Darnold Project

that’s enough season-ending overtime losses for me tbh

spent my winter break in an extremely me-in-my-early-20s way in that i watched a lot of star trek and did a lot of knitting. but there were a lot more kids and a lot less day drinking

there's a lot of horrific shit on tiktok but the worst shit I see is commenters being FURIOUS at parents who have disabled children. like for the fact that their children were born and raised and allowed to exist in society.

i am actually very ok with the bills not making a deep playoff run. last year’s AFC championship was stressful and i haven’t recovered from the world series yet

watching star trek with a toddler is fun as he tries to make sense of sci fi scenes with his limited vocabulary. the inside of a borg cube is “green subway station”

toddler has been watching the original thomas and friends and the ethics of running a railroad with sentient trains are deeply troubling

a dump truck fell on its side at a nearby construction site and was left on its side all day. huge day for my two year old

the tiktok pianoman trend has reignited an old debate in my relationship about the “tonic and gin” line. i maintain it’s fine

having kids with a big age gap is wild because i keep forgetting that the toddler probably doesn’t think i’m cringe