@hitmyspot@dadsplain I think that is kind of what we've been doing. I didn't know it was a named method. We don't force her to finish her meals completely. She just needs some encouragement to improve the vegetable variety in her diet.
@threeduck@dadsplain That is still kind of my instinct, but my daughter's pickiness got to the point that it affected her health. Fortunately, we've made enough progress over the past few years that that problem is behind us. Now we're just working on variety. We're not forcing her to clean her plate. She just needs some encouragement and light pressure to figure out how to enjoy more than one type of vegetable.
@ptz@nostupidquestions Oh no. I don't think I default to the Tucker Carlson confused face, but I'm a little worried that I might. I just signed on to a Teams meeting and my CEO immediately asked me why I looked confused.
@Kory@asklemmy I'm 38. To me people older than that are objectively older people. I can't think of anyone younger than 45 with whom I've had this problem.
@enbyecho@asklemmy Well, geriatric pregnancies start at age 35, so it's really a flexible adjective. If you took it incorrectly, that's on you.
Based on the mixed responses I'm getting, it is not an established stereotype that older people write emails and text messages poorly. If I knew it was then I wouldn't have asked if others had similar experiences to mine in the first place.
@RBWells@asklemmy I had a party at my house and both my mom and my friend, John, came over. They had a conversation in which he told her about a good website for shopping for airline tickets and he emailed her the link. Subsequently, she couldn't find the email, prompting her to ask me via the message I quoted. I didn't know they had that conversation and it seemed like my mom was saying she had actually gone to urgent care.
@MissJinx@asklemmy I wasn't sure of the right word to use. Geriatric seemed correct enough. To be clear, I don't think there's anything especially wrong or bad about my elders. I just think there might be some kind of technological and cultural collision happening that makes me feel like I'm crazy sometimes.
@hitmyspot @dadsplain I think that is kind of what we've been doing. I didn't know it was a named method. We don't force her to finish her meals completely. She just needs some encouragement to improve the vegetable variety in her diet.
@threeduck @dadsplain That is still kind of my instinct, but my daughter's pickiness got to the point that it affected her health. Fortunately, we've made enough progress over the past few years that that problem is behind us. Now we're just working on variety. We're not forcing her to clean her plate. She just needs some encouragement and light pressure to figure out how to enjoy more than one type of vegetable.
@rxin @dadsplain it's VLC for Android.
@streetfestival @dadsplain I deserve to have a little bit of warm and quiet.
@Tolookah @dadsplain after dinner it turns into a kitchen dance off.
@Kolanaki @dadsplain oh no
@CrimeDad @dadsplain And apparently the images in Lemmy replies don't show up in Mastodon either lol. #Mastodon #Lemmy
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@ptz @nostupidquestions Oh no. I don't think I default to the Tucker Carlson confused face, but I'm a little worried that I might. I just signed on to a Teams meeting and my CEO immediately asked me why I looked confused.
@CrimeDad #hydrogen #HydrogenEconomy
@Kory @asklemmy I'm 38. To me people older than that are objectively older people. I can't think of anyone younger than 45 with whom I've had this problem.
@enbyecho @asklemmy Well, geriatric pregnancies start at age 35, so it's really a flexible adjective. If you took it incorrectly, that's on you.
Based on the mixed responses I'm getting, it is not an established stereotype that older people write emails and text messages poorly. If I knew it was then I wouldn't have asked if others had similar experiences to mine in the first place.
@enbyecho @asklemmy I'm well aware that I'm somebody else's elder. I meant it matter-of-factly, like "geriatric pregnancy".
@RBWells @asklemmy I had a party at my house and both my mom and my friend, John, came over. They had a conversation in which he told her about a good website for shopping for airline tickets and he emailed her the link. Subsequently, she couldn't find the email, prompting her to ask me via the message I quoted. I didn't know they had that conversation and it seemed like my mom was saying she had actually gone to urgent care.
@RBWells @asklemmy Maybe I am missing the joke, but you understand that no one was sick, right? There weren't even any travel plans.
@RBWells @asklemmy It seems like it's a you-and-me problem since we both misinterpreted the message similarly lol.
@bitchkat @asklemmy Here you go: https://lemmy.crimedad.work/comment/794446
Cc'ing @Taleya and @AlternateRoute because they also asked.
@MissJinx @asklemmy I wasn't sure of the right word to use. Geriatric seemed correct enough. To be clear, I don't think there's anything especially wrong or bad about my elders. I just think there might be some kind of technological and cultural collision happening that makes me feel like I'm crazy sometimes.
@NABDad @asklemmy okay maybe I'm being a little hyperbolic.
@saywhatisabigw @tools Thanks for the tip!