#is the primary and much-cherished way i still have

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kalofi:
i tried the “ask your mom what she would do if you were a bug” trend
asked my dad too

#fun fact #i am texting with my adult son as we speak #and i text with my adult daughter on the regular #as someone who was a parent of young children #in the era when texting was a battle of the generations #bc somehow #i had it in my head #that my responsibility as parent #was to enforce some kind of boundary #it’s ironic that texting with my children #is the primary and much-cherished way i still have #to keep in touch with them #in fairness to mean dad me of the past #texting carried per message costs #and my kids were very much boundary testers #in the manner of velociraptors probing for weakness #so i kind of had no choice #or at least #that’s how it looked to me at the time

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