shellcollector
I quite often get phrases stuck in my head, like songs, looping around themselves. At the moment it’s “Better drowned than duffers, if not duffers won’t drown”, which if you don’t know it is a truly stellar bit of Awful Parenting Presented As Fine in classic British literature.
worldoptimization
#i forget how fucked up swallows and amazons is
wait what’s wrong with Swallows and Amazons
as a general proponent of laissez-faire parenting (which I think I have in common with this area of tumblr?) I always thought Swallows and Amazons was an example of awesome parenting
like if your kids want to go live on an island by themselves for the summer, why not tbh