Parental

[ateolf]

At night Mary Beth and I went down the street to see a movie: Father Mother Sister Brother, the new Jim Jarmusch. It was okay. The slowness didn't feel well-paced and gripping, but more just on the tedious side. It wasn't bad or anything, felt just kind of there. Not a whole lot else. My back started hurting really badly yesterday. It's getting better today; I still feel it, but it's not overpowering.

Oh, there's a tiny anecdote from dinner with my dad on Friday that I meant to record here. So we're at the restaurant and there's a family at a table right nearby us. At one point the mother says to the small child or children that the dinner's here so now they need to get off youtube and put on a movie or a show. Like this is some sort of discipline and wise parental guidance. Watch youtube anytime you want, except during meals at which point you must use the fortitude to watch a movie or a show instead. And while it wasn't loud, you could hear the phones playing whatever they were watching. Anyway,.

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[braininthecupboard]

As weird as it sounds, that is viable in modern parenting, i don’t think it is a form of punishment as much as it is base-level enrichment. A movie will have a plot, most other kids stuff won’t.

We have had to do similar stuff with W in the past: enough exposition, let’s get some plot!

[ateolf]

Yeah, I get the difference between youtube and movies etc. on multiple levels. But for me the weirdness was the dichotomy around eating. Watch youtube before you eat, but while eating now watch a movie.