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  • Bob Robertson IX @discuss.tchncs.detoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•...
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    7 days ago

    In every new parent class I took leaving up to the birth of my daughter, no one EVER mentioned the importance of pulling the little frills out on the legs after changing a diaper.

    I heroically volunteered to change her diaper during a hockey game, and when I got back to our seats I handed her off to my wife. About 5 minutes later my wife was covered in pee and asked why I hadn’t pulled out the frills.

    That’s a mistake you don’t make more than once… and I try to warn all new parents so they can learn from my mistake.

















  • Bob Robertson IX @discuss.tchncs.detomemes@lemmy.world•lol
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    1 month ago

    I grew up in Kentucky in the 80s and I grew up calling it a racial slur… and there was no shame around my neighborhood in calling it that because that’s just what it was called. I had no idea what the word meant until years later and now looking back on it I’m disgusted at all of the adults in my neighborhood who let us call it that.

    Last week I watched O Brother Where Art Thou with my almost 10 year old daughter and at one point in the movie after it had been said a few times my daughter turned an looked at me and asked “What does ‘negro’ mean?”… and with that I feel like I’ve done a good job at stopping institutional racism in my family line.