Not hypothetical. Ours is cursed already.

Imma bend the rules:

Thunderbirds.

I’m terrified of rewatching it and it not living up to my nostalgia.

The new she-ra is rad.

It remained as the sole evidence of the existence of the cup cakes.

Dog ate 24 cup cakes that were cooling on the counter, and 23 cup cake wrappers.

Best of luck, hope it all works out of the best!

If you can, ignore it or dismiss it as “old man yells at clouds”.

Either way, unfortunately, you have to find a way, somehow, to deal the issue so that it stops causing you problems. It’s hard and it sucks.

IMHO as a parent, my kids owe me nothing and I owe them everything. I created them after all.

This is kind of rubbish advice, sorry.

You could ask him what he expects you to do about it. Force him to follow through on his line of reasoning to the conclusion. Does he want it paid back? Does he want to estrange his children?

That can work because, rather than contacting contradicting him you’re facilitating him reasoning through his position. Hopefully for the best.

Awesome!

Finding a safe outlet is great. If you’ve not got a kid’s gym locally you can often buy the same equipment and use your own yard/house of you have room.

Falling awkwardly when that little is remarkably risk free (within reason) bones and joints are bendy and mild injuries heal quickly and lessons will be learned practically.

Toddlers are exploring all boundaries and this behaviour is exploring their boundaries of physical resilience.

Let them explore, let them go until they find their limit… then explain, immediately.

Of course, this requires you make sure a serious accident can’t happen, so get rid of that glass coffee table etc.

Example, my son fell off his top bunk, while clambering around like a loon, hurts arm, needs a cast for a few months. Learns to use the ladder.

the victim being trapped between two small boats, one inverted on top of the other, with limbs and head sticking out, feeding them and smearing them with milk and honey, and allowing them to fester and be devoured by insects and other vermin over time.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scaphism

“Actually it’s ‘facism’.'”

“Lovely!”

You’ve made an enemy for life!

Oh yeah, now that you mention it, there were dire humidity warnings all over the flooring I got.

I imagine there might be similar disclaimers on carpets too

Always has been meme

Ditto on bamboo, it’s nigh indestructible

In the southern hemisphere? Summer.

It’s the best time of year, amazing weather, long days, warm nights.

The thread is a bit of a dumpster fire…

I’ve been mulling over your actual question a bit. I could argue that some of the stigmatisation could just be that it’s really easy to dislike someone who’s self centred or selfish, that NPD can present similarly (gross assumptions on my part there, sorry) makes it easy to dislike someone with NPD.

Disliking someone makes it very easy to stigmatise any and all of their traits. It becomes a feedback loop.

Anyway, I hope you manage it well and hope you can surround yourself with supportive people.

Ethernet.