Includes the history of the first American Christmas Card by immigrant printer Louis Prang; the Hall Brothers; and Christmas Cards illustrated by Jacqueline Onassis, Normal Rockwell, as well as Salvador Dalí.
in skyrim i married a homeless man and even though we are married and he lives in my huge fuckin house he still wears rags and asks me to give him 1 gold whenever i see him
that’s just what men are like
In one of the video games I played In College I married a butcher. And every time I’d go back to my house all he’d do is complain about the house being too small. Go on adventure, come back, “bla bla the house is too small.” Go in another adventure, come back to my lovely husband to hear about how the house was too small. Every single time. It got really annoying, really fast. I killed him with my sword. This is one of the reasons why I probably shouldn’t get married in real life.
that reminds me of that post that was like “um, you have to let babies cry it out overnight so they learn self sufficiency. don’t let them manipulate you”
babies. don’t have. the mental complexity. to manipulate people
this is a barely-conscious creature that relies on you for every single aspect of survival and you’re applying complex psychology to it like it’s out to get you!!!
I’ve always said this, but the vast, vast majority of people are completely unfit to be parents
a baby: *plays peek-a-boo with me*
me, in horror: this infant is attempting to bamboozle me, in my very own home
Also I may remember this wrong, but psych studies indicate that ignoring/leaving kids on their own when they start crying, or try in other ways to call out for their parents attention is actually harmful to kids, because by having their requests for attention in a stressful situation ignored, they perceive their parents as uninterested in them and their pain and it puts them in a favourable position to develop attachment-related anxieties and similar.
tl;dr children entirely depend on parents and they literally don’t have the cognitive abilities to manipulate them. If you think of kids as tiny manipulators who wanna ruin your life, don’t have kids. It’s THAT simple
In fact psychologists have literally done studies on this exact topic and found that if you respond reliably to your baby crying it will learn that it can count on you to respond to its needs, develop a secure attachment, and will actually cry LESS as time goes on. Whereas babies that were not reliably and quickly responded to when they cried are more likely to develop unhealthy attachment styles and will cry MORE because they don’t know when they will be responded to.
Letting a baby “cry it out” accomplishes literally the opposite of what people think it does.
I mean, it also reminds me too much of the people who are quick to assume that everyone else around them must be lying and/or being lazy at the slightest opportunity. If your go-to explanation for a distressed baby crying is that the baby must be trying to manipulate you, what does that say about your own favored approaches to dealing with other people?
That’s always gotten me, beyond its just being neglectful and counterproductive.
I was cursed early in life by a small but powerful wizard named Gmerlindin
Anxiety: THIS IS TOO MUCH!!!!
Me: What is too much?
Anxiety: THIS
Me: I am literally sitting at home doing nothing. My only obligation this evening is to take out the trash. Work went well today. What exactly is the problem????
Urocyon's Jaunts 2.0 
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