I've just learned the guy asking for a hug was named "Sir Hugs-a-lot"

overheard walking past Ben and James's tabletop game:

Ben: he asks for a hug
James: [my character] loves hugs!
Ben: roll to hug
James: natural 20!!!
Ben: it's the best hug you've ever had!

this is what happens when you give middle schoolers a week off

If James tells me "don't fall for the hype," one more time, I'm banning youtube in our house

It's 35 degrees and cloudy out, but it's "spring" so nobody's still selling long sleeve shirts

I legitimately don't know where it goes. I don't understand how that volume of food fits in his tiny body

When I'd tell him it was time to stop eating (and like, sleep or whatever) he'd be like "I'm in a growth spurt, dude!"

James has been eating insatiably for the past week, and now all of his shirts are suddenly too short 🙃

As of 2 weeks ago, yes!

Wait, I didn’t hear about that. Was that your new car?!?

My 7yo set up his spring-loaded pokeball to look like a space ship, then called me in and read a passage about the 1986 Challenger explosion before throwing it at a chair.

How’s everyone else’s morning going?

apparently he started out reading like normal, but then the discussion questions at the end of his video game graphic novel asked him to design his own game world, and he had to draw "code world" where all the code blocks are doing what it says on them

I’m not feeling great and forgot to cut off James’s reading time and make him go to sleep. By the time I got there, he was writing out Scratch code by hand…

he's right

omg that's exactly what it looks like! although in this case it was based off this weird office decoration

I almost missed it under all the tissue paper…

I asked James why his cherry blossom art project looked like a binary tree while all his classmates’ work looked more organic, and he told me he was copying a puzzle he saw in one of my room escape games. I’ve go to stop asking these questions when I’m not ready to get owned

KCLS Rewind I (still) read for pizza Whether you had fun reading for pizza in the '90s or want to experience it for the first time, we're giving…

LRT my local library just started this reading program for adults only. Millenials are gatekeeping literacy so hard the kids aren't even allowed to read for pizza anymore kcls.org/kcls-rewind/

My childhood unironically

James keeps asking me why the Scratch logo looks like it’s in the Animal Crossing font, and now I can’t unsee it

other kids’ work vs my kid’s work 🙃

“low cultural impact”
This person has never been in an online crochet or knitting space

This is the first thing I've been able to get him to play lately that's not Mario 64, which also came out when I was his age. clearly games peaked in the 90s

"If I give this guy a piece of paper, he'll write down the combination to the trophy case, and then I can trade the trophy for the [overly complicated gadget name] I need to trap the ghost!"

James is playing an old Freddie Fish game that came out when I was his age, and he's really getting the hang of that 90s adventure game logic

Tiling Forest - Tiling Town Demo on Steam Open-world logic puzzle game about building a forest by laying tiles.

if there are any thinky game sickos reading this, tiling forest (a self-contained demo for tiling town, scheduled to release later this year) on steam is kind of incredible store.steampowered.com/app/4213590/...

After HALF AN HOUR he suddenly paused it and asked for his notebook and colored pencils. I'm fascinated/terrified to see what he's about to draw

we have youtube without ads or I would be insane already

Bowser Upgrades His Troops (Music Video) YouTube video by pannenkoek2012

now he's settled down and has just been listening to this loop for like 10 minutes www.youtube.com/shorts/F36mH...

I made the mistake of teaching James how to navigate youtube on the tv yesterday, and he's already discovered features I didn't even know about