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silvermoon424 · 10 months

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I’m childfree myself and highly respect other childfree people for the most part, but Jesus Christ there’s a certain type of CF person who gets so offended when you criticize the gross parts of the movements. Like no, I’m not criticizing the concept of CF, I’m criticizing how some of you call kids “crotch-goblins” and women “breeders.” Stop acting like the victim.

#rant #childfree #child friendly

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feminist-fog · 8 months

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Unpopular opinion time!

I hate those childfree people. I myself don’t want kids but I am talking about the people who make being childfree their whole personality.

I am tired of duets on tiktok of babies crying (like babies do because they can’t talk yet) and some random person going “this is your daily birth control reminder!”

I’m tired of seeing people who hate kids for being kids. I’m tired of unironically hearing someone refer to children as “crotch goblins”. I’m tired of people who think hating kids is a personality trait.

You don’t have to have kids, having kids should be your own choice that nobody but you decides.

I don’t care if you are inconvenienced by a baby crying on a plane or a child blocking a grocery aisle because they’re having a meltdown.

You were a child once too, you know that children have thoughts and feelings. You know children are people.

(This post is not for anti-choicers, r4df3ms, conservatives, etc.)

#feminist #feminism #trans inclusive feminism #childfree #child friendly #child abuse mention

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standupcomedyhistorian · 6 months

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Oh man...I just came across one of the cutest Bo Burnham-related videos EVER 👀

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This theater group from Santa Clarita, CA did the most fun rendition of Bo's songs that I've seen in a LONG time. It includes everything kid-appropriate from Content to All Eyes On Me (switching out "shit" with "rip" actually works beautifully and I wish I'd thought of it for my lullaby version to my son haha)!

The group also does some of Social Brand Consultant (Who ARE you, Bagel Bites?) and even ATL—really a great mix. And their acting is fantastic!

If you're interested in more child-friendly Bo content or just want to enjoy his stuff without his trademark cussing, I have two articles that might be up your alley: my kid-appropriate playlist and Egghead poems that can be placed next to those by Jack Prelutsky or Shel Silverstein and not cause a fuss.

I hope you enjoy the video, and keep it here for more comedy fun! ✌🏼🐔

#bo burnham #inside bo burnham #bo burnham inside #youtube #vhs theatre #high school theatre #bo is SUCH a theater kid too #he would adore this I think #kid friendly #child friendly #kid-appropriate #egghead #standupcomedyhistorian

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thiscitylife · 2 years

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How to design public spaces for girls

When I watch my young daughter use the playground, I witness her confidence and sense of independence grow every time she climbs a ladder or goes down a slide by herself. These skills and emotions are crucial to her development.

While public spaces for children are theoretically designed to be genderless, Gerben Helleman, a Dutch urban geographer, discovered that in many play areas, different children - especially girls - are restricted in their opportunities for play.

Helleman’s research found that two-thirds of children playing outside are boys and only one-third are girls. And as girls get older, this ratio changes dramatically. Girls aged nine years or older are playing less in public space than their male peers, and girls are more 'supervised' than boys.

His article, Girls and outdoor play: looking for more equality and equity, looks at the reasons for this imbalance and how it can be prevented. Based on an extensive literature study, he comes up with some likely causes and possible solutions.

Figure 1. Who plays outside according to gender and age (Source: Playing outside: who, where and what?)

When it comes to why girls play outdoors less, Helleman found that public spaces are often designed to favour boy’s preferred activities. For example, his research found that boys and girls could be found equally playing in playgrounds and natural areas with bushes and shrubs, while the sports fields and lawns were dominated by boys.

The most important activity for girls was climbing, hanging or balancing. The second most important was 'doing nothing': relaxing, hanging out, sitting, watching or talking to other children. Boys were mainly engaged in ball sports.

“If you ask municipality officers what kind of places they provide for the older kids and youngsters, you’ll probably hear that they have several football pitches and skate parks. Due to a lack of user research, they won’t know these facilities are dominated by boys,” said Helleman.

“Research shows that girls only play at places where they feel welcome and in spaces not claimed by other groups, such as boys or older teenagers. Especially girls older than nine years, who don't feel comfortable at what they call ‘boys places’.”

I remember this acutely as a young girl. It’s the reason why I switched from co-ed to girls physical education class in Grade 9. In co-ed class, we had to play team sports where the boys dominated and wouldn’t pass the ball to girls. It was boring and demoralizing. When I joined girls PE, I got to learn self-defense and choreograph dance routines. I never forgot how to properly punch a guy in the face if he tried to attack me, which is much more confidence-building than being ignored during a soccer match.

So, where does this leave public spaces and how do we design them better for girls? According to Helleman there are several ways, including prioritizing safe walking and cycling access to parks, and public safety considerations like better lighting, good sightlines, paths with no dead-ends and locating facilities for teenage girls in well-frequented areas.

Helleman also makes some specific design recommendations on how to create public spaces for girls:

Allocate equal space for play equipment and sports fields - Make play areas big enough to facilitate play by both boys and girls. Terrain for play equipment (such as slides, bars, swings, climbing structures, sand boxes, water places) should take up as much territory as the area for ball games.

Think less in large, mono-functional play areas. Smaller places at one play space prevent girls from being marginalized, which can happen in big open spaces. Create more defined places in a play space with different play types and play activities for all generations and for people with different skills.

Create chill out areas. Besides playing, girls like to chill out. Create places and attributes where you can sit together face to face, hang out, socialize and chat are loved by many girls. That’s why a basket swing or hammock is chosen most often by girls as a place to play, sit, meet and chill.

Offer a bigger variety of play opportunities. Girls stay longer in play areas when there is a bigger variety of play opportunities. Therefore, provide a varied play area that is diverse in color, height, surface, materials, features, activities, and attributes. This offers possibilities for play as well as viewing, seating, and chatting options.

Include materials and places for creative play. Loose parts, including natural materials (sticks, branches, leaves, stones), moldable materials (sand, clay, chalk, water), and man-made objects without obvious play purpose (tyres, crates, ropes) provide opportunities to explore and engage in imaginative and constructive play, which girls like. Another way to stimulate imagination and creativity, is by making places for dancing, moving and (making) music.

Add natural elements (such as trees, bushes and water) that are accessible and playable. Nature often makes gender differences smaller. And perhaps even more than boys, girls are looking for adventure and places to experience, explore, investigate and use spaces for their own purposes (adaptability).

Connect to more gender-neutral forms of play, such as climbing and building. But also in terms of sports: so design a skate park with skate ramps and hills of different heights suitable for roller skates, stunt scooters, bicycles and skateboards, rather than a few very high half pipes that mainly attract male skateboarders.

And finally, make girls part of the planning and design process. “To incorporate the wishes and needs of children - and girls in particular - it is necessary that they have a serious role in the planning and design process,” said Helleman.

You can read Helleman’s full article here and check out his excellent blog, Urban Springtime, for more content on designing child-friendly cities. You can also watch the event that inspired it, ‘How do we make a city for an by girls,’ organized by Stadsform and Kind & Samenleving.

#Child Friendly #family friendly cities #cities #urbanism #Public Space Projects #girls #playground #Landscape Architecture #public spaces #design #women

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searedwithscars · 4 months

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McDonald's is a place of fun, shit food that tastes like a dream, and filled with family memories.

McDonald's is never a place of danger. Except that it once was.

She had found us a table to sit at and made sure we were safe. It was so crowded that I could just barely see her through it while she was at the counter ordering. I always made sure I could her. That was the rule. We had to be able to see each other if she had to leave us alone briefly.

It took such a long time for our food to be made. Why was it taking it so long? I didn't understand. But what child ever does?

I didn't feel good about her being gone so long. The dread of being left alone was worsening. I kept eyeing the crowd, making sure no one was looking at us. She'd told us stories of children being taken before and that seemed to be strongly in my mind.

It was my third or fourth scan of the room where he had made eye contact with me. He looked old, too old to be there alone. Yet, he was undoubtedly alone. There was all this food on his table, and only himself sitting there. He scared me. Something about him didn't sit right. So, I looked away from him, looking at them instead and making sure they were okay and not looking at him too.

I noticed that he was looking at this man, and I looked back at the man in time to see he had lifted up his hand, his index finger curled and uncurled. The grotesque gesture of 'come here'. I grabbed his arm because he wanted to do what the man had gestured.

"We have to stay here, wait for her to come back with our food."

"But he's asking us to come to him."

He managed to pull out of my grib and started making his way to this man.

And so I grabbed her hand and made us follow him. I had to make sure he'd stay safe. That he wouldn't leave with him.

I managed to catch up to him just as he got to the table. Now, all three of us were there with this strange man. I was so scared I wanted to find her, but from here I couldn't see her anymore. She was still waiting for our food.

This man gestured to his own food and offered it to us. I was about to answer when he said, "Yes, please." He went to grab some food, but I stopped him. I told him that she'd be coming back to our table with our own food. The man was watching us, and his eyes were terrifying. I didn't know him. Had he poisoned the food? Why wasn't he eating the food himself? Why was he asking us to come and eat it? I was terrified.

He looked sad to be told he couldn't eat this food, but he didn't touch it. I was so glad he didn't touch the food. This man kept trying to tell us to eat it, however, too persistent.

"We don't know you, and she's on her way now. I see her looking for us." It was a lie. I had to lie. He was terrifying me. Why wasn't he terrifying him, too? Maybe he was too young to understand.

I was still holding her hand, and I reached for his, too. We had to get away from him now. It was so crowded here that we weren't being noticed by anyone, and she was still at the counter, waiting for our food. It was taking too long to make. I had to tell him we needed to leave now, go back to our table. He didn't look happy, but let us go. My lies seemed to have worked.

I dragged them back with me, back to our table. When we sat back down, I sat with my back to him. I didn't want to see him and his eyes.

She must not have seen us leave the table, because when she came back she didn't say anything. I turned around to see if he was still there, but he had gone. Should I tell her what happened? Would she be angry? I didn't want to get us in trouble. Would she even believe me? And so I didn't say anything. Not for a long time.

Nowhere seemed safe anymore, not even the child friendly places.

#McDonald's #food #terror #scary #strange man #children alone #stranger danger #crowded #fun #child friendly #unsafe #family friendly #danger #all about him

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shlimon · 7 months

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#kids #melscience #child care #children #childhood #kid fun #kid fury #child development #child friendly #kid friendly

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lm7819416 · 8 months

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infomative · 8 months

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Best Child Friendly After School In Kazhakuttam

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#afterschool #child friendly #education #leadership #motivation

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latiaranthrod · 11 months

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Mudroom Mudroom Ideas for a medium-sized, rustic mudroom renovation with white walls and a brown floor

#medium wood mudroom shelving #black red plaid ottoman #beige carpeting floors #family friendly #child friendly #lots of storage

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mk-wizard · 1 year

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I am all for kids not picking up mean words, but... it is still important to teach them about them and what they specifically are so they are aware. I mean, how can you expect kids to stay away from fire if they don't know what it looks like?

This is not a good idea.

#child friendly #children's media #anti-censoring #gone too far

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icyfiretraveler · 1 year

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Title: "The Spirit and the Mouse"

Released: Sep 26, 2022

Genre: 3D Collection platformer

After lots of games about conflict this one was very soothing. Play as a mouse 🐀 who is very determined to bring happiness to others. Help lightning spirits named kibblins help all the humans in their town of Sante Claire. Help everyone, find all the light bulbs!!! Its lots of fun, definitely probably the best feeling 🐁 gameplay out there. The levels have lots of small areas to poke around, and finding hidden things is very satisfying.

Humans do floppy relatable human things, kibblins fix their stuff at night and get in a box all day to power their other stuff. This mouse really wants to help humans so help her!

#game recommendations #mouse games #relaxing games #furry fandom #child friendly #kindness #lgbt gaming

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fr-ogii · 4 months

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daisy chains

luke castellan

x child of demeter!reader; poc friendly

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you often find yourself sitting on a random hill at camp, letting the warm morning sun soak into your skin and the slightly damp grass leave soft green stains on your jean shorts. you fiddle with the grass, often pulling out one or two strands and braiding them.

over, under, over, under. the patterned motion relaxes you as it continues. over, under, over, under.

you toss the strands of grass aside and opt for the daisies that lay around you. it was probably bad karma to rip flowers out of the ground and your mother would probably be at least a bit peeved if she saw you do this. it didn’t matter much to you, you never met demeter and didn’t feel indebted to her in any way. you could make as many daisy chains as you wanted, no one could stop you.

it was similar to how eliza, your friend from athena, would make paper stars whenever she got anxious. your daisy chains and her paper stars were just motions.

either way, luke didn’t mind your habit. he thought it was cute how your twitching hands could make such a beautiful little thing. the intricate braids laced around white daisies and took shape of whatever you wished. sometimes it became a crown. others, it was a necklace. you tried to make a bracelet once, but it fell apart and you hadn’t tried since, instead sticking to what you were more confident in.

speaking of luke, the son of hermes was making his way over to you. “what’re you doing up?”

“i could say the same to you.” you said with a smile so soft it rivaled your voice, unnecessarily quiet as to not wake any campers.

perhaps unknowingly following your example, luke lowered his voice as well, despite being far away from any cabins and not being loud to begin with. “you got me there. i was gonna go to the range to practice the bow, you know i’ve been trying to improve?” he added a lilt to the end of his sentence as if he was asking a question.

it took you a second to process what he was saying. “no… i didn’t know that. why? you’ve seemed fine with the bow last i saw you, no?”

“see!” he put emphasis on that word, as if he had proved you wrong. “i seemed fine, not good. big difference, love.” he looked down at your hands, noticing for the first time what you were fiddling with. “you wanna come join? i’m sure there’re plenty of flowers over by the range.”

your smile continued to widen at the goofy expression luke held, clearly proud of himself for finding a way to get you to join him. most times, luke preferred to practice his weaknesses by himself — that was why he was up so early, after all — but he always appreciated when you joined him. he called you his “good luck charm.”

“of course i’ll come, luke.” you popped up off the ground, now no longer as damp as it once was. green stains from the grass painted your shorts, but you ignored them. your hands scurried to snatch up the daisy chain that laid on the ground right below you. the chain was quickly stitched into a crown before you placed it on luke’s head. it was slightly too big and almost fell in front of his eyes.

he linked arms with you and the both of you continued down the hill, sitting course for the range.

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my tags are also rlly glitchy so pls excuse if any of them are wrong

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thiscitylife · 2 years

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Adding families to cities means adding density, in all its forms

As housing prices in cities sky rocket, the consensus across all levels of government and most Canadians is to speed up the process to build more homes. That consensus ends once we talk about what types of homes should be built to accommodate more families, especially in single-family neighbourhoods.

The truth is, many families that are priced out of the current housing market will never be able to afford a single family home unless prices drop off a cliff. These families don’t necessarily want a large home. But, they want housing stability or ownership of some form of housing so they can raise children without the constant threat of eviction and rising rents.

Families shut out of Vancouver’s Single “Family” Neighbourhoods

Meanwhile, many aging homeowners comfortable ensconced in single family neighbourhoods seem just fine with shutting young families out. This is on display at every city council meeting for a new housing development. Right now in Vancouver, we have evidence from Canada’s most recent census that the city lost almost 1800 children, who moved to other communities.

According to an article in the Tyee, an analysis by MountainMath found that the loss of children happened mainly in pockets of detached houses across the city. In contrast, densifying centres like UBC, downtown, Olympic Village and River District are gaining them.

“We’ve legislated [those neighbourhoods] into decline,” said MountainMath founder, Jens von Bergmann in the Tyee interview. “We have laneways and we do duplexes, but it’s a slow trickle to stem the tide.”

To summarize, he put it simply:

“If you don’t add housing, you lose kids.”

136,000 homes needed in the next 10 years

The City of Vancouver’s first-ever Housing Needs report found that over the next 10 years, it is estimated that 136,000 households will need housing suitable for their family size and income. This includes the unmet needs of existing residents in about 86,000 households, including:

- 77,000 households living in unaffordable, unsuitable, or inadequate housing,

- 2,000 people who are homeless, and

- 7,000 people living in SRO situations.

Meanwhile, the City of Vancouver is proposing a large increase in density - up to 5,000 homes around the new Broadway Skytrain line stations - and current residents are out in front of city hall with picket signs complaining the towers are too high.

There is no doubt that many of Vancouver’s single family neighbourhoods are lovely, peaceful communities full of tree lined streets and beautiful gardens. But, they are literally dying because no young family can afford to live in them anymore.

As an example, my Dad’s former colleague sold his home in Dunbar for over $3 million and moved to North Vancouver (still a destination of choice for families but also becoming unaffordable). He said he was the last person actually living in his neighbourhood and most nearby homes sat empty after being purchased by foreign investors.

Is “gentle density” enough at this point?

The Broadway Plan is a radical departure from current Vancouver planning policies because it proposes high rises near the city’s beloved single family neighbourhoods on the west side. These are areas where housing is out of reach unless you have two robust six figure incomes, a healthy savings, or wealthy benefactors.

For years, Vancouverites have touted the idea of building more “missing middle” or “gentle density” housing forms to increase housing supply in Vancouver’s single-family neighbourhoods. This includes laneway housing, duplexes, townhomes, and mid-low rise apartment buildings.

The problem is, these housing types (with the exception of duplexes and laneway homes) aren’t being built fast enough or are only being built on busy arterials. The privileged, single-family home owners of Vancouver won’t allow them anywhere else.

In a CBC interview from 2017, Vancouver architect, Michael Gellar, said that if Vancouver wants to introduce more density into the city, it can be done without transforming the city into an endless row of high-rise towers. According to Michael, even though low to mid-rise buildings won't achieve the very high densities of high towers in a concentrated area, overall across the city they could achieve much higher densities.

This idea of gentle density across Vancouver is now being promoted by those against the Broadway Plan. The problem is, that because of Vancouver’s long history of bowing to opposition to density in single-family neighbourhoods, it may be too little too late for this proposal.

It took the city four years to create the Vancouver Plan, which is basically a position statement on allowing gentle density in single family neighbourhoods. But, it has no concrete plan on how to deliver this housing. Also, I would argue that we are so far behind on building gentle density, that given our track record of slow permitting processes and NIMBYism, we may never build enough homes fast enough to address Vancouver’s affordability crisis.

Creative solutions to density face challenges

Last month, Bryn Davidson, founder of Lanefab Homes, shared on Twitter his designs for the “Fab Plex,” a 6 unit development that could be built on a typical Vancouver single-family lot (pictured above).

“The ‘Fab Plex’ are six stacked flats with big balconies, a shared roof deck, and a large green space at the back,” said Bryn. “The units are all accessible, and there is very little excavation/concrete required. Also, the basic footprint can work for 3 to 8 storeys, so it's a built form that can evolve as the city densifies.”

Whether or not local residents would support this type of density in their neighbourhood remains to be seen, and city planners told Bryn that providing sewage capacity for this type of development is complex.

“Big projects can pay to upgrade the sewers for the whole block, but a six plex can't afford that, so the sewer constraints start to limit what is possible with incremental density,” said Bryn. “My hope is that we can get around the sewer constraints by maintaining a very water permeable site with no underground parkade.“

When I asked him about next steps, he said that they would have to see if the “positive tradeoffs” (accessibility, green space, unit size, energy efficiency) are enough to offset “the inevitable anxieties about something that looks like a little apartment building, and has blank party walls on the property line where it would be adjacent to existing single family houses.”

"You can't help but be inspired," he says. "You are going to see more of these buildings being built because they're going to be built in locations where you can't get approval to build high-rises given current community attitudes."

Vancouver at a crossroads

I have profiled many families who chose to live in cities and written article after article on how to build a family friendly city and how Vancouver falls behind in this arena. The city continues to attract young and retired people, while families leave in droves.

I’ve watched many friends move here in their 20s and leave as soon as they got married and had children. I don’t blame them. Finding stable housing, affordable licensed childcare, and schools can be near impossible.

There are many creative design solutions to add homes to single family neighbourhoods. But, none of these solutions are possible until we change our attitudes about preserving single-family neighbourhoods (where families no longer actually live) and build more homes, whatever the form.

Photo credits: TrafficTrish (title image); Jen Van Bergman (graph); Francis Georgian/PNG (protestors at Vancouver City Hall), Lanefab Homes (Fab Plex design)

#family friendly cities #Child Friendly #Vancouver #urbanism #broadway plan #city issues and ideas #density #affordable housing

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megan-alicedesigns · 2 years

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Times ticking till the kids are back to school !

Who doesn't love a funky dinosaur clock to help tell the time ?

Find at:

https://www.redbubble.com/i/clock/Green-Dinosaur-Orange-Edition-by-Megan-Alice/84161619.GDIZR