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@ifixcoinops@retro.social

Post #3346085

2026-06-14 17:18 UTC

Genuinely why not. Just, fuck it, why not give it a go, got anything better to do? YES ACTUALLY! Six loads of laundry and a baby gate that needs installed! BUT, can't do laundry because baby is baby and needs ATTENTION aaaallll the tiiiiime So, might as well teach to read!

Replies (8)

  • @reb@retro.social 2026-06-14 17:31

    @ifixcoinops@retro.social well if you teach them to read then you don't need to install the gate, a sign that says "no unaccompanied babies on stairs, £5 fine" will suffice

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  • @springdiesel@spore.social 2026-06-14 17:37

    @ifixcoinops@retro.social I feel this in my bones. Thank you for the more creative and beneficial outlet for my frustration.

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  • @ifixcoinops@retro.social I was quite young when I learned to read. Mom realized I was ready and just fucking went for it. Then she was able to "get 40 winks" while I read my little books :D

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  • @lunarloony@dosgame.club 2026-06-14 20:05

    @ifixcoinops@retro.social I don't have a heat pump, I can't afford solar panels, I have few enough devices that Home Assistant is only a minor ballache... but THIS, this speaks to me. (My eight-month-old just started turning board book pages by herself, you see)

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  • @jpm@aus.social 2026-06-14 21:10

    @ifixcoinops@retro.social ooooooof yes I feel this in my bones. It wasn’t until my eldest daughter was about 4-1/2 that we discovered she couldn’t read because she needed very strong glasses.

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  • @celesteh@hachyderm.io 2026-06-14 21:38

    @ifixcoinops@retro.social The sold a story thing elides some very specific political context about the Bush administration and its war on public education. I'm sure its broadly right on reading, but there's a lot of the story missing in terms of why and how things happened as they did.

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  • @edd@freeradical.zone 2026-06-15 00:17

    @ifixcoinops@retro.social And it's a great way to avoid installing that baby gate you don't want to cobble together! Now if only she'd go the fuck to bed so I can go help the older one read another bedtime story...

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  • @ladypoetess@disabled.social 2026-06-15 01:16

    @ifixcoinops@retro.social This being the first post in this thread that I saw upon opening Masto today, I had terrifying couple of moments where I thought you might have had a 2nd baby and I completely managed to miss that fact.

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