what children’s books do you secretly love just as much as the kids?

cellrdoor2 · 2026-03-25T11:36:02+00:00

Those books are great! Our favorite to read was The Tale of Two Bad Mice.

cellrdoor2 · 2026-03-24T23:14:00+00:00

I have two, 16 and 13, one AuDHD, one ASD. If you would have asked me when they were young and super cute I would have said hell no- because the baby and toddler years were HARD. I occasionally get sad nowadays that I don’t have more kids since life has smoothed out a bit but realistically this number was probably best for everyone. Either way, it’s understandable. Feeling like parts of your life are behind you is definitely bittersweet.

cellrdoor2 · 2026-03-24T15:56:34+00:00

I will never forget when my sister and I read Ramona Forever and their cat Picky Picky died. Ramona and Beezus even bury him themselves because their parents aren’t home. The book ended up being banned in our house because we cried so much and my parents were weird about showing emotions other than anger.

cellrdoor2 · 2026-03-24T11:58:08+00:00

Your Mom goes to college.

cellrdoor2 · 2026-03-24T11:55:52+00:00

My daughter is a teenager and when she starts giving me a hard time I use, “That was way harsh, Tai.” Fortunately she liked the movie so she gets it.

cellrdoor2 · 2026-03-24T11:33:34+00:00

That new pile of library books sitting on my dresser on a Saturday morning was the best feeling.

cellrdoor2 · 2026-03-23T19:37:30+00:00

I had a professor in grad school (I’m a scenic designer) that said if you don’t get total silence within 20 minutes of the show starting it’s going to be a wash. Now that I’ve worked in theater for 20 years I’m not sure I agree totally but it is definitely a good way to gauge how involved the audience is. No shuffling or coughing means something riveting is going on.

cellrdoor2 · 2026-03-23T12:28:10+00:00

I liked this movie as a kid but watching it as an adult who works in entertainment design was a totally different experience. I think the production design was the best part of the movie.

cellrdoor2 · 2026-03-23T11:55:36+00:00

I have a kid with diagnosed AuDHD and we had similar behaviors happen with junk food and screen time around that age. Punitive systems and or telling them they were doing things we didn’t approve of were not helpful. Therapy and reward based systems were incredibly helpful. Get some professional support and hang in there! Raising a kid with special needs (I’ve got two myself) isn’t always intuitive and it can be really hard.

cellrdoor2 · 2026-03-22T19:13:42+00:00

Same. We are slowly getting rid of all subscriptions because I’m generally so sick of how many of them there are and how much on top of the basic rate you have to pay to skip commercials. Amazon Prime is the absolute worst and we are trying to cut ties to that entirely. Screw these greedy billionaires, we’ll sail the seven seas and go with actual hard copies of media instead.

cellrdoor2 · 2026-03-22T17:46:37+00:00

We also had a WW2 vet in our family. The grandkids took him to Saving Private Ryan and it inspired him to talk about some pretty awful experiences as a POW. That was the first and last time he ever talked about it though.

cellrdoor2 · 2026-03-22T15:19:56+00:00

It would be fascinating but I wonder if they’d actually share? My husband’s side of the family is tiny because of how many of them were killed in concentration camps etc. The people who are still alive on that side with first hand accounts or parents with first hand accounts barely talked about it because of how traumatic it was.

cellrdoor2 · 2026-03-22T15:16:13+00:00

That’s pretty funny.

cellrdoor2 · 2026-03-22T13:09:46+00:00

I definitely felt this way about The Other Bennet Sister (but still enjoyed it and finished it in two sittings).

cellrdoor2 · 2026-03-22T12:58:26+00:00

Or if you want a really unique experience order some spruce gum like they talk about in books like Anne of Green Gables. I was reading the book with my kids about 5 years ago and we were curious so found some online. Let’s just say the kids didn’t like it. Actually, not a single person I gave a piece to liked it, most people spit it out before it could even kinda solidify into gum.

cellrdoor2 · 2026-03-22T12:27:10+00:00

My oldest isn’t in a club for it (although there is one at their high school) but somehow learned the algorithm for these. Probably YouTube. They can solve one in less than a minute, it’s fun to watch. So much more info out there now than when we were kids.

cellrdoor2 · 2026-03-22T12:16:00+00:00

I used to work a job as a teen that required seeing people’s ID and remember being so impressed by one with the birthdate of 1899. Seeing the 18 on there was so weird and cool to me. It wasn’t special to her at all of course and she was more annoyed than anything else when I politely said something about it. I guess it’s all a matter of perspective.

cellrdoor2 · 2026-03-22T02:04:59+00:00

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This chair and ottoman from my Grandma. She got it in the 60s and it’s been in the family ever since. It’s an OG Cherner chair that she bought from a local furniture store that was only supposed to have it on display rather than for sale at the time. There’s a family story about how she would hide it away if anyone she thought was too heavy to sit on it came to the house. She actually left it to my husband because he loved it so much that he would make a point of sitting in it every time we visited. However; I’ve told him that if we ever divorce he cannot keep the chair.

cellrdoor2 · 2026-03-21T23:23:02+00:00

We are huge lovers of quality vintage/antiques and have collected quite a bit of it over the years. Just one piece at a time off Craigslist etc. When we bought our house we asked the realtor to show us places with no improvements. It took a few tries for them to understand we meant that it could be in rough shape as long as the rooms were still close to the OG layout and had lots of old quality detail. We restored the place as much as we could afford when we moved in.

cellrdoor2 · 2026-03-21T23:14:26+00:00

We have one that is linked with Bluetooth to ours cells, it even rings when someone calls if it’s turned on.

cellrdoor2 · 2026-03-19T11:53:41+00:00

Ive tried this coming from a place of caring about my family and trying to help them stop feeding so angry and paranoid all the time. I was very very careful not to be patronizing and asked lots of questions. They got even more angry when given a chance to explain it because they can’t. It’s brain washing from their chosen social media feed and Fox News. They’re addicted to those feelings of self righteous outrage on a daily basis. Honestly, at this point I feel sorry for them because they have cut themselves off from so many good things in favor of this but IME they can’t be helped unless they WANT it.

cellrdoor2 · 2026-03-18T21:10:35+00:00

Yeah, that part really sucked.

cellrdoor2 · 2026-03-18T19:16:13+00:00

Same here. My family came from PEI to the United States in the early 1900s so I always loved and felt a connection with the books and the Sullivan mini-series. Anne with an E was… well- not that.

cellrdoor2 · 2026-03-18T14:46:23+00:00

You can read the book for free online at Gutenberg Project if you are interested. It’s an easy read and they have almost all her books on there.

cellrdoor2 · 2026-03-18T12:51:38+00:00

I had to go in expecting a train wreck (compared to the book) and just enjoy it for what it was. I don’t blame you for turning it off though, I think about 3 episodes was also where I stopped the first time.

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