Yea she’s a wealth of knowledge and insightful advice. One of the more beautiful human beings I’ve had the pleasure to get to know over the years …
We read to our little guy every night - he’s a little over 14 months and loves books. Loves leafing through them and bringing them to either me or my wife to read to him even if it’s for him to just look at the pictures. I’m looking forward to being surprised by my little guy as you are by yours
That is like magic for a growing mind. No joke. And great bonding time. Not bragging (but kinda) his vocabulary and comprehension are years ahead. He just started first, but when they do the standardized testing some eyebrows are gonna get raised.
nah man, brag about that shit. You’re molding a young mind man. That ain’t a small feat man. You should be proud of that.
I have a nephew who’s in first that is already the most intelligent kid I’ve ever talked with. Did some test and reading at a 7th grade level. Obsessed with science and other school related things. I’m thinking future meal ticket.
What’s crazy is my sister in law and her baby daddy were c type students and ages 0-4 he was essentially raised with tablet and tv. Both parents were addicts and eventually got him taken away. Sister in law got rid of baby daddy and has been clean for 3 full years and is currently killing life.
I guess sometimes kids turn out brilliant even if everything says they shouldn’t.
This book is PERFECT for that age. It’s really just the best little kids’ book ever. Spring for the hard cover; it’s worth it.
My kid no joke checked that out from the library this week. Loves it.
Edit: I feel like admitting that I used to read a Chapter a night of “Thus Spoke Zarathustra” to them when they were little. And all of “Powerlifting Basics Texas Style” by Paul Kelso.
It’s a total crapshoot. My cousin had every advantage possible. Both parents were doctors, good stable home and tremendous academic success. 1590 SATs. Earned an electrical engineering degree and a masters in statistics and probability.
He’s now almost 40. He has never supported himself and hasn’t had a job since graduating. He lives off of his wealthy parents. Has had ZERO success with women, despite being a handsome 6’4” near-genius.
He’s never seemed to want a girlfriend, so I’m not sure he’s an incel, but you really can’t predict how people will turn out. Looked great on paper and everyone assumed he’d have great success, but he could never hack the basics of independent adult life.
My theory: He never played sports and never got challenged. School was a breeze for him but the real world made him fold immediately and stay folded all the way to middle age.
Of course having rich parents unwilling to let you struggle might be a factor here…
The library? Those still exist outside of college campuses?
Yes.
I may have read cashflow quadrant to my son the first time my wife let me watch him at 3 months old. But you’ll never prove it.
Haha, I brought “Lad: A Dog” in to read to my son’s 2nd grade class Read-a-thon, HIS choice, because he loved it, and it was one of the most miserable experiences of my life. I told the kids it was a little old-timey, so let me know if they had any questions…
Hahaha, it was like my darkest hour. I’d just gotten braces on, too, so I was really struggling with excess saliva issues on top of the fact that only my son and one other kid (bless her heart) were able to listen to it.
I fucking loved that book, though. My grandmother gave it to me - it was probably her own childhood book. It was one of the few I owned and I read it over and over again.
(That son? National Merit Scholarship recipient, more importantly has a girlfriend. I credit Lad.)
Was that a serious question? And if not, what?
Community libraries are a thing of the past, unless you’re from an old town or super dependent on things like community libraries.
Its totally deserted in most places around here, or transformed into something like a daycare.
I went pythagorean on him and showed him how to extrapolate using building blocks instead of pebbles.
I’ll save the celebrations for a few weeks though. I got him a tablet of graph paper and we’re going to start into ordinal pairs and linear algebra next week.
(just simple shit though like y=x+2 type stuff. We’ll save finding slope and intercepts for summer) 
The thread title has his name and people were asked what they about HIS opinion. Other than that, Molyneaux was never part of the discussion.
You either don’t leave your house or you live in a shithole.
My kid can get 10 books at a time and keep them for 3 weeks.
Have a kid, teach him to read, then buy him 10 books every 3 weeks, then get back to me.
Then these:
These are tremendous assets.
Plenty of libraries around me. Probably accurate to say dying in an eventual sense but certainly not a thing of the past
yeah, not everyone turns the corner and has a Carnegie library to go to
this place is a riot lol
Perhaps where you are, but in New York - Long Island AND the city (where I’m from) and in Richmond where I’m at, libraries are alive and well. I take my kids to the story tine there and we leave with an armful of books every time. That’s a very sad thing that libraries “are a thing of the past”, as far as I know around 99% of cities in the US that’s not the case.