This Looks Fun: Lord Dimwit: Your wife shouldn't work with children.

I know, telling them the truth is just a horrible thing, right?

Have her tell them there's no Santa, God, or American Dream. See how that goes over with their parents. I'm surprised she still has a job.

It is not your wife's decision on when other people's children (especially as young as "kindergarteners/first-graders") learn significant truths like that, no matter how cute you think the anecdote is that such a decision produces.

I don't want my kid's teachers acting like there is a (personal) God or Santa. Do I have a right to be all pissed off?

How about we assume that, in the face of ambiguity, telling the actual truth is the path of least harm, rather than compounding lies upon lies?

The 10 or so seconds of actual time lapse belly boomboom was pretty nifty. I will give them props for the how they handled the move. But most of the rest of it was annoying and stupid.

One of my friends had an emergency C-section early this morning to deliver her first child. She said she was in full labor for 2 hours before the doctor declared the baby was "stuck" and performed the operation.

/baby was 9 lbs, 10 oz
//no wonder he got stuck
///mom and baby are fine

Bendal: One of my friends had an emergency C-section early this morning to deliver her first child. She said she was in full labor for 2 hours before the doctor declared the baby was "stuck" and performed the operation.

/baby was 9 lbs, 10 oz
//no wonder he got stuck
///mom and baby are fine

Mine was born 1.5 months early, but my wife went into labor because he (and all the associated baby goo) had starting sliding down into the birth canal and gotten stuck.

He appears to be doing absolutely fine, thankfully.

Lord Dimwit: CSB:

While my wife was pregnant, she took a job working at after-school care for kindergarteners/first-graders, just to get out of the house.

As she got more and more pregnant, the kids would ask her when the baby was coming, and could they see the baby, etc, etc.

One day a group of kids asked her how the baby got out of her belly. She thought she would just be honest, matter-of-fact, and scientific about it. She said "it comes out of my vagina."

One of the little girls covers her ears and screams "why would you even say that?!?!?!", another one starts crying, and all the little boys run around the playground telling everyone that babies come out of vaginas.

In the end it wasn't even accurate, since she had an emergency c-section.

To bod "emergency c-section" just means standard procedure and profiteering. Either that or American women are not fit to have babies since they need so many more emergency procedures compared to women of other locales to complete a natural thing like giving birth.

Kazrath: Lord Dimwit: CSB:

While my wife was pregnant, she took a job working at after-school care for kindergarteners/first-graders, just to get out of the house.

As she got more and more pregnant, the kids would ask her when the baby was coming, and could they see the baby, etc, etc.

One day a group of kids asked her how the baby got out of her belly. She thought she would just be honest, matter-of-fact, and scientific about it. She said "it comes out of my vagina."

One of the little girls covers her ears and screams "why would you even say that?!?!?!", another one starts crying, and all the little boys run around the playground telling everyone that babies come out of vaginas.

In the end it wasn't even accurate, since she had an emergency c-section.

To bod "emergency c-section" just means standard procedure and profiteering. Either that or American women are not fit to have babies since they need so many more emergency procedures compared to women of other locales to complete a natural thing like giving birth.

She went into labor a month and a half early due to other issues; if they hadn't done a c-section, both she and my son would probably be dead. It was definitely an emergency, not just a c-section. :)

Kazrath:
To bod "emergency c-section" just means standard procedure and profiteering. Either that or American women are not fit to have babies since they need so many more emergency procedures compared to women of other locales to complete a natural thing like giving birth.

You sound like an informed individual.

Sybarite: jaylectricity: Pocket Ninja: "went viral."

But this is the very definition! A baby is a virus! The human race is a virus! Exclamation points!!


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Agrees

I'm using this for this article.....



JESUS!!! That thing's REAL??!?!?!

This Looks Fun: Lord Dimwit: Your wife shouldn't work with children.

I know, telling them the truth is just a horrible thing, right?

Have her tell them there's no Santa, God, or American Dream. See how that goes over with their parents. I'm surprised she still has a job.

It is not your wife's decision on when other people's children (especially as young as "kindergarteners/first-graders") learn significant truths like that, no matter how cute you think the anecdote is that such a decision produces.

Right, it should be like the good old days, when kids worked on farms and hundreds of births later still had no idea where babies came from.

Get over yourself, really. I bet you don't even have a precious snowflake.

Lord Dimwit: jst3p: Lord Dimwit: CSB:

While my wife was pregnant, she took a job working at after-school care for kindergarteners/first-graders, just to get out of the house.

As she got more and more pregnant, the kids would ask her when the baby was coming, and could they see the baby, etc, etc.

One day a group of kids asked her how the baby got out of her belly. She thought she would just be honest, matter-of-fact, and scientific about it. She said "it comes out of my vagina."

One of the little girls covers her ears and screams "why would you even say that?!?!?!", another one starts crying, and all the little boys run around the playground telling everyone that babies come out of vaginas.

In the end it wasn't even accurate, since she had an emergency c-section.

Your wife shouldn't work with children.

I know, telling them the truth is just a horrible thing, right?

She could tell them there is no Santa too, it would be true but it would still be a dick move. It is best left to parents to decide how much "truth" their 5 year old is ready to handle.

Lord Dimwit: This Looks Fun: Lord Dimwit: Your wife shouldn't work with children.

I know, telling them the truth is just a horrible thing, right?

Have her tell them there's no Santa, God, or American Dream. See how that goes over with their parents. I'm surprised she still has a job.

It is not your wife's decision on when other people's children (especially as young as "kindergarteners/first-graders") learn significant truths like that, no matter how cute you think the anecdote is that such a decision produces.

I don't want my kid's teachers acting like there is a (personal) God or Santa. Do I have a right to be all pissed off?

How about we assume that, in the face of ambiguity, telling the actual truth is the path of least harm, rather than compounding lies upon lies?

How about I respect your right to decide how much truth a 5 year old is ready for and you respect mine? Your wife had a valid point, but she is just a douche with a valid point.

License, please?

;)

jst3p: How about I respect your right to decide how much truth a your 5 year old is ready for and you respect mine? Your wife had a valid point, but she is just a douche with a valid point.

ftfm

jst3p: Lord Dimwit: This Looks Fun: Lord Dimwit: Your wife shouldn't work with children.

I know, telling them the truth is just a horrible thing, right?

Have her tell them there's no Santa, God, or American Dream. See how that goes over with their parents. I'm surprised she still has a job.

It is not your wife's decision on when other people's children (especially as young as "kindergarteners/first-graders") learn significant truths like that, no matter how cute you think the anecdote is that such a decision produces.

I don't want my kid's teachers acting like there is a (personal) God or Santa. Do I have a right to be all pissed off?

How about we assume that, in the face of ambiguity, telling the actual truth is the path of least harm, rather than compounding lies upon lies?

How about I respect your right to decide how much truth a 5 year old is ready for and you respect mine? Your wife had a valid point, but she is just a douche with a valid point.

Now now, "douche" implies she was trying to be rude or make a point. She wasn't - she was thinking on her feet and her default policy when faced with a question where she didn't know how to answer it was to tell the truth. Certainly not a bad default strategy. If the kid had asked if there was a Santa she would've said yes or something, because that's a less ambiguous situation.

(Also, how about you avoid calling my wife a douche?)

Nice comments folks. Sometimes reading Fark makes me wish I were illiterate.

boobsrgood: Nice comments folks. Sometimes reading Fark makes me wish I were illiterate.

Lighten up, Francis.

;)

Lord Dimwit: jst3p: Lord Dimwit: This Looks Fun: Lord Dimwit: Your wife shouldn't work with children.

I know, telling them the truth is just a horrible thing, right?

Have her tell them there's no Santa, God, or American Dream. See how that goes over with their parents. I'm surprised she still has a job.

It is not your wife's decision on when other people's children (especially as young as "kindergarteners/first-graders") learn significant truths like that, no matter how cute you think the anecdote is that such a decision produces.

I don't want my kid's teachers acting like there is a (personal) God or Santa. Do I have a right to be all pissed off?

How about we assume that, in the face of ambiguity, telling the actual truth is the path of least harm, rather than compounding lies upon lies?

How about I respect your right to decide how much truth a 5 year old is ready for and you respect mine? Your wife had a valid point, but she is just a douche with a valid point.

Now now, "douche" implies she was trying to be rude or make a point. She wasn't - she was thinking on her feet and her default policy when faced with a question where she didn't know how to answer it was to tell the truth. Certainly not a bad default strategy. If the kid had asked if there was a Santa she would've said yes or something, because that's a less ambiguous situation.

(Also, how about you avoid calling my wife a douche?)

You will have to forgive me, I am spend too much time on fark and assume that people are always trying to fark with other people. But regarding your wife's "default policy", it isn't a good one for someone who works with other peoples young children.

boobsrgood: Nice comments folks. Sometimes reading Fark makes me wish I were illiterate.

I am, my parents weren't married until I was seven. It isn't a big deal anymore.

Lord Dimwit: I don't want my kid's teachers acting like there is a (personal) God or Santa. Do I have a right to be all pissed off?

How about we assume that, in the face of ambiguity, telling the actual truth is the path of least harm, rather than compounding lies upon lies?

Actually, we were told to neither confirm nor deny any such controversial topics, for the very reason you give.

In the face of ambiguity, the correct answer (given to me when I got my daycare director's license) is: "What a great question. You should definitely ask your parents when you get home."

sseye: Right, it should be like the good old days, when kids worked on farms and hundreds of births later still had no idea where babies came from.

Get over yourself, really. I bet you don't even have a precious snowflake.

No, I do not. I fail to see how that affects my ability to reason. I do, however have a daycare director's license. As I wrote in response to someone else, the correct answer to that curious child is: "What a great question. You should definitely ask your parents when you get home."

People still have babies? I thought we were past that craze.

As for the child's name and the cleanliness of the house, it might be of note that they seem to be living in Japan. The moving boxes have the name of a famous moving/delivery company there, and the shoes around the door would lend credence to such an assumption

Which means that the parents likely choose a name that can be easily spelled (and pronounced) in Japanese... and they may even have chosen Kanji for it. I kid growing up in Japan with a name like Richard or Cindy is gonna have a rough time of it. Most foreigners in Japan who have children and plan to stay long enough to enroll the kids in school will choose either: A) a Japanese first name and English middle name (since they don't have middle names in Japan), or B) will chose a name that works in either language, such as Amelie, or Ray, or Hayden.

It also means that the 'clutter' is pretty normal. Japanese houses/apartments don't usually have tons of closet space like western homes, and much of your life is by necessity stacked, hung, or piled in various areas of the home. Not to mention how boring the video would have been without anything happening in the background to indicate the changes in their life and passage of time.

kyuzokai: As for the child's name and the cleanliness of the house, it might be of note that they seem to be living in Japan. The moving boxes have the name of a famous moving/delivery company there, and the shoes around the door would lend credence to such an assumption

Which means that the parents likely choose a name that can be easily spelled (and pronounced) in Japanese... and they may even have chosen Kanji for it. I kid growing up in Japan with a name like Richard or Cindy is gonna have a rough time of it. Most foreigners in Japan who have children and plan to stay long enough to enroll the kids in school will choose either: A) a Japanese first name and English middle name (since they don't have middle names in Japan), or B) will chose a name that works in either language, such as Amelie, or Ray, or Hayden.

It also means that the 'clutter' is pretty normal. Japanese houses/apartments don't usually have tons of closet space like western homes, and much of your life is by necessity stacked, hung, or piled in various areas of the home. Not to mention how boring the video would have been without anything happening in the background to indicate the changes in their life and passage of time.

You are quite correct. The reddit thread confirms that the filming took place in Japan, and that the baby's middle name means "night rain" in Japanese. They also do not have a separate room where the shoes could be kept.

JamesWhitsun: Dow Jones and the Temple of Doom: CitizenTed: Amelie Amaya?

Really?

There must be some kind of contest. The "Who can give their kid the most twee and cloying name?" game.

/"Sinutab" isn't looking so funny anymore.

It's not a bad name for a non-white girl.

It's an anagram of "Bantusi"

Bentusi would be better.

/We will not be BOUND!
//obscure?

just passing through: People still have babies? I thought we were past that craze.

The hipsters are bringing it back. It's way retro.

Kazrath: Lord Dimwit: CSB:

While my wife was pregnant, she took a job working at after-school care for kindergarteners/first-graders, just to get out of the house.

As she got more and more pregnant, the kids would ask her when the baby was coming, and could they see the baby, etc, etc.

One day a group of kids asked her how the baby got out of her belly. She thought she would just be honest, matter-of-fact, and scientific about it. She said "it comes out of my vagina."

One of the little girls covers her ears and screams "why would you even say that?!?!?!", another one starts crying, and all the little boys run around the playground telling everyone that babies come out of vaginas.

In the end it wasn't even accurate, since she had an emergency c-section.

To bod "emergency c-section" just means standard procedure and profiteering. Either that or American women are not fit to have babies since they need so many more emergency procedures compared to women of other locales to complete a natural thing like giving birth.

Good grief, really? You do know that incidents of death of mother or baby at birth or shortly thereafter were fairly common before c section, right? C section is the safe answer to impromperly positioned baby, disproportionatly large baby, fetal distress, and sometimes pregnancy conditions like preeclampsia. It's terrific that moms can still deliver babies naturally, but in many cases it poses too much risk. Know what happened hundreds of years ago when the mother's pelvis was too small for the head to progress? Eventually the baby's head had to be crushed by an instrument and the child pulled out in bloody pieces, or the mother died trying to birth the child and then they'd cut it out.

This was a well done video. The belly growing was a little jumpy, but she lined up pretty much perfectly for every shot, and it was put together nicely. Not sure why all the hate, is it just 'cuz people want to biatch about others, no matter what?

On top of it all, I'd hit that, She was cute and has a pretty nice body. Hope the husband doesn't mind... ;-)

Wait until you find out how much they can bleed without dying.

wildstarr:

/was I the only one to watch the boobies become engorged?

Oh, hell no. Pregnancy boobies FTW!

This Looks Fun: sseye: Right, it should be like the good old days, when kids worked on farms and hundreds of births later still had no idea where babies came from.

Get over yourself, really. I bet you don't even have a precious snowflake.

No, I do not. I fail to see how that affects my ability to reason. I do, however have a daycare director's license. As I wrote in response to someone else, the correct answer to that curious child is: "What a great question. You should definitely ask your parents when you get home."

I understand that this is the politically correct answer and that you have to give it in order to operate, but it still makes me sad. Encouraging ignorance, deliberate falsehoods or avoidance should not be something that we encourage (IMO). When children ask for information we should tell them the truth (if we know the truth, which we do for something like childbirth). I think that the only real criteria should be their ability to comprehend it.

/just my opinion
//not looking to start any flaming

Rabid Turnip: I understand that this is the politically correct answer and that you have to give it in order to operate, but it still makes me sad. Encouraging ignorance, deliberate falsehoods or avoidance should not be something that we encourage (IMO). When children ask for information we should tell them the truth (if we know the truth, which we do for something like childbirth). I think that the only real criteria should be their ability to comprehend it.

Well, sure. Back when it took a village and the village participated, that was a real policy. Now that every set of new parents wants to rewrite the book on childrearing because they can do better, it must become a situation where even simple truths are debatable. Fluoride in water, global warming, why does Tommy have 2 dads, why are his 2 dads kissing, helping the poor, sharing, talking to policemen, etc. The different possible "truthful" answers to all of these things are something I could easily see some of my former children's parents (I no longer run a daycare) taking exception to. And then the daycare is under lawsuit... it's a stupid, slippery slope. Always best to err on the side of "ask your mom, kid."

joeflood: ciberido: joeflood: Nobody wants to see that shiat.

Considering how popular the video is, it would seem that this is just one more thing you're wrong about.

You know who else liked popular things?

Julie Andrews in The Sound of Music, that's who!

Lord Dimwit: Now now, "douche" implies she was trying to be rude or make a point. She wasn't - she was thinking on her feet and her default policy when faced with a question where she didn't know how to answer it was to tell the truth. Certainly not a bad default strategy. If the kid had asked if there was a Santa she would've said yes or something, because that's a less ambiguous situation.

(Also, how about you avoid calling my wife a douche?)

For what it's worth, I think your wife sounds awesome.

mcreadyblue: [farm8.staticflickr.com image 500x500]

lol, what's that from?

brunnjon: Damn. Women are so beautiful before they have kids hangin' all over 'em.

I'll second that.

Beluga Heights: I've wanted to find the right thread to biatch about this and I can't so I'm just going to say it right now and I don't care that it's apropos of nothing.

Why the fark is there a fark banner ad telling me about "Established Men" dating? I know it's based on my searches. But seriously.

I'm not a rich, desirable man, or an attractive woman.

Make things relevant to my interest damn fark banner ads. Simi heavy handfuls DVD download no wait time? Cool. Thanks. California Cabs delivered right to your door? Awesome.

I don't need to know about men who are better than me dating women so far out of my league we're playing a different game.

/end rant

Heh, mine are for backcountry gear but I am a gear head.

This Looks Fun: Lord Dimwit: I don't want my kid's teachers acting like there is a (personal) God or Santa. Do I have a right to be all pissed off?

How about we assume that, in the face of ambiguity, telling the actual truth is the path of least harm, rather than compounding lies upon lies?

Actually, we were told to neither confirm nor deny any such controversial topics, for the very reason you give.

In the face of ambiguity, the correct answer (given to me when I got my daycare director's license) is: "What a great question. You should definitely ask your parents when you get home."

What about for things like evolution, or whatever? Things that really shouldn't be controversial, but are because there are absolute idiots in this country? If a kid - anyone's kid - asked me about how the diversity of life came about, I would say that all the evidence we have points to biological evolution (and there is absolutely no evidence to the contrary). I don't care if that kid's parents are idiots - the truth is the truth.

What if the kid asks if the black kids in the class are stupider than the white kids? What if their parents are KKK members? I don't care. I'm telling them the truth. If your kid can't handle the truth about something, don't send 'em to daycare, take care of them yourself.

She wore the same clothes for 9 months, no surprise the place is a mess.

Lord Dimwit: In the face of ambiguity, the correct answer (given to me when I got my daycare director's license) is: "What a great question. You should definitely ask your parents when you get home."

What about for things like evolution, or whatever? Things that really shouldn't be controversial, but are because there are absolute idiots in this country? If a kid - anyone's kid - asked me about how the diversity of life came about, I would say that all the evidence we have points to biological evolution (and there is absolutely no evidence to the contrary). I don't care if that kid's parents are idiots - the truth is the truth.

What if the kid asks if the black kids in the class are stupider than the white kids? What if their parents are KKK members? I don't care. I'm telling them the truth. If your kid can't handle the truth about something, don't send 'em to daycare, take care of them yourself.

What are the actual chances that a kindergartner contemplating the origins of man or the relative intelligence of its immediate peer group is actually saddled by such backward thinking parents and has still developed a natural thirst for such deep knowledge?

For all realistic applications, please means defer to this child prodigy's Neanderthal ancestors for their philosophical questions. For all 5 year olds contemplating the nuances of Schrodinger's cat while being raised by wolves, feel free to bestow upon them the knowledge of the universe as you see the truth to be.

Pocket Ninja: Dear God, I don't ask you for much. I've been saving up favors, actually, and would like to cash one in now. It's not a very big one and I hope you can see fit to grant it. What I'd like is for you to give me a device that enables me to send a small electric charge -- nothing fatal, just, you know, like a Taser strike or something -- into the brain of any journalist or blogger who uses the term "went viral." I would also like to have this ability for use of the words "hardscrabble," "surge," and the suffix "-gate" added to anything. I would like to retain this ability from now until the end of my life. Thank you, God, you're awesome. Amen.

You forgot 'crisis'? Really?

Aloy: Pocket Ninja: Dear God, I don't ask you for much. I've been saving up favors, actually, and would like to cash one in now. It's not a very big one and I hope you can see fit to grant it. What I'd like is for you to give me a device that enables me to send a small electric charge -- nothing fatal, just, you know, like a Taser strike or something -- into the brain of any journalist or blogger who uses the term "went viral." I would also like to have this ability for use of the words "hardscrabble," "surge," and the suffix "-gate" added to anything. I would like to retain this ability from now until the end of my life. Thank you, God, you're awesome. Amen.

You forgot 'crisis'? Really?

Granted, though not-God here...

;)

P.S. Let it be known acrosst the lands,
Whom-so-shall-ever speak and/or writ these offendities unto Pocket Ninja shall be smited with a karmic package toot sweet.
Let it be written; let it be done.
Words and minds.
Forever and ever, a-frickin'-e.

;)