(it will come to me at some point)
Will you remember why it came to you or when it does come to you will you be trying to remember why you needed to remember that or why you were remembering this at that time? XD
We lied. But why should we have to?
This was my hugest argument against COPPA and pretty much every single "child protection" thing (especially this under 16 ban. Like get the hell out of my way you're actively preventing me from doing my job and also actively making everything a hundred billion times worse no matter how desperately anyone tries to pretend otherwise.
On the flipside of that I have had so many people I know lie about their kids' age to get them into the zoo for free (there is or at least was a day in the week when 4 and under could get in for free, it's been a while since I've been to the zoo now never mind with small kids) and if the kids overhear they protest about how they're now 5 or 6.
Their parents are just glad they aren't getting bothered by kids saying "I'm bored!"
My kids would get mad at me coz I'd give them chores to do, and then they learned really fast to find something else to do when bored and not complain at me XD
I'm such a bad parent
I think the only movie I was probably too young to see I didn't even get to see all of, pretty sure it was a porno that my parents somehow didn't realise was a porno. This scene came on (I can remember the scene, when I was that little I just thought it was a bit weird but as an adult I was like WAIT) and my parents looked at each other and then Mum quickly got up and turned it off and said we'd go back to the video shop to borrow another one because "this one's 'not nice'."
The child protection things never work - especially in the digital space. There will always be gaps. The latest is the social media ban - which should push more people into decentralised social media hopefully.
Have you been to a zoo lately? I quite like zoos, but there is only one in Finland and while it is okay, it isn't quite what is found in Aus.
I tell Smallsteps the same. She can help me, or she can find something to do. Sometimes I play for a bit of course - but that is because I enjoy it too ;)
Was it mixed race? ;D ;D
I don't remember awkward moments like that in movies. We didn't get a video player until into the 90s, and by then my parents had split and not many were at home still.
The last time I went to the zoo was with one of the kids who wanted to go there for an excursion so some years back now. I'd like to do an art day or something there (similar with a lot of other places) but time is a thing I'm not managing very well right now (or ever).
Yeh I did play with the kids sometimes if they asked, usually it was whatever imaginative play they had going on at the time, sometimes it was Lego and sometimes it was Playstation (our favourites were the Lego games, they were so ridiculous XD and as they got older we got a few new ones like this insane cooking game that can do up to 4 players but we only have 3 controllers and because I'm not great at gaming anymore there was one level where all I can remember was trying to pass one of the kids some dish and I kept falling off the truck XD).
The characters were both Chinese (though they were speaking English as I even remember one line of dialogue leading up to that point and it wasn't dodgy at all, and I didn't have to read it and I've been able to read forever), I suspect my parents may have thought it was a kung fu movie as those were a staple in our movie nights.
btw, I hope you realise the humour in the "mixed race" comment, as it reminded me of some awkward moments in my own life, being mixed race and out with my mum :D
I'm afraid I'm entirely too dumb to "get" it in the context of the movie XD Can't quite relate in the same way to your awkward moments, my kids apparently had very contextual skin (they look "dark" compared to J and "light" compared to me, but similar enough that nothing was ever questioned, and when middle spent more time making content on social media than she does now she used to get people telling her to "stop pretending to be Asian"). One of my dear departed friends would definitely have been able to relate though, she was the very white mother with very obviously darker skinned biological kids XD