Learning Curve - Litterbox Comics

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Thank you so much for this medal, I will cherish it 😁

Just 3 beans come on man, spill them, least we can take is 5

I thought distilled water was bad for humans to consume as it leeches nutrients from you?

What. That can't be true. Maybe there's some advantage, like less fluoride etc. But it's not true they can't drink rap water...

Babies, babies can't have tap water.

~6 months you start with cooled boiled water.

~12 months you can move onto tap water.

todlers can only have distilled water

I’m pretty sure that’s unhealthy (lack of minerals)

Where would that be? Africa?

Let's be real, the whole "only mom and dad are supposed to FAFO on their own" is an extremely stupid societal expectation. Humans were never meant to live as isolated animals, always in groups

This is super tangential, but I knew someone who had a miscarriage which caused a mental health crisis. Or perhaps more accurately, the crisis was caused by severe isolation and implicit stigma around her grief. She told me that after the crisis, she was surrounded by people who had experienced miscarriages too. She was baffled because this sure would have been helpful before the mental breakdown.

People are expected to be so strong that ultimately it just weakens us at the community and the individual level

When you’re planning on having kids, or pregnant, your health care providers will recommend you take some parenting classes. There’s ways to learn, don’t let your parents not being there for you stop you. You will also likely get recommended to get a doula and midwife.

In the Netherlands, "kraamverzorgenden" come by the house of new parents every day for ~the first week to show you the ropes, and just in general to help with chores and/or entertaining brothers and/or sisters.

In my experience, it's not so much everyone needs to figure it out for themselves. It is filtering through invalid opinions and non-applicable information.

It's the same reason it is so hard being a doctor, "Oh, your baby is crying? Here's a few thousand things it could be, and tomorrow, it will probably be a different reason."

As much as I love my independence, I can't help but look at society and think that things have gone very wrong at some point.

Unless they've been using the same sippy cups for decades, I don't think grandma would've helped with this.

While I don't disagree, (personally, I'm not about it but people should be able to plug in to a local community for common advice of mundane things) parents also just...learned things themselves. And sometimes it wasn't correct. I've spoken to my sister-in-law who told me about all the unsolicited advice she's gotten about motherhood. And how much of it was basically superstition, not medical advice.

My wife's parents died 5 years ago in the same year when our first child was 3. I'm not sure how to describe my parents. I have nothing against them. We get along great. They do help, but they are not actively there much, either if that makes sense. Talk on the phone and see each other once a month for family dinner. They will help in an instant if I call them (definitely have a few times) and will watch our children when we need to do something. After that? That's about it. They were mostly hands off with me as well, and so it's just who they were. I enjoyed it and loved the freedom. I don't disagree with the logic either. They did their time and just retired. They spent there life mostly taking care of me, so they deserve some much needed freedom as well to do all the things they never could partially because of me. Some may say it's not enough, but I don't feel that way, and I also hope to enjoy my later years just like them. You give up a lot having kids, you also have a life to live as well at some point.

What if I don't consume ice?

Same thing applies to coffee maker / espresso machine tanks. I found a nasty surprise in mine recently...

But I listened to 90 seconds of a podcast from my favorite fitness influencer, so basically I have an MD now, right?

first-time parents leart all of this from their in-laws.

And so much of that was dangerous bullshit, it's unbelievable. So many children died because of that.

There's a rubber seal inside the lid that stops them leaking. The milk etc can get behind it, where normal washing won't get. It can get funky if you don't clean it out.

Parenting mostly isn't that hard. You just have to keep all the proverbial plates spinning. Unfortunately there are FAR more than you expect, and you never get a break. You will miss some, then beat yourself up for missing something so simple.

Have you ever used a water bottle? They have a rubber seal in the lid that needs to be removed for cleaning. Same concept with sippy cups.

You have no kids and probably a man because I bought many sippy cups for my boys and they don't come with instruction booklets. Most havs if you lucky a tag with no instructions on cleaning them. So shut the fuck up. Besides its a comic and funny and those of us with kids can relate.

Dude it's a silly little comic featuring animal cartoon characters, it does not justify this level of rage.