Loved this!! Happy belated bday:) and also! I too re-watched Muppets Christmas Carol this year and was soooo delighted by how well its magic holds up! Hope your holidays were fabulous <3
Thank you Kevin for writing something that refuses both pile-on culture and moral escape hatches. This felt honest without being indulgent, and reflective without being preachy. What resonated deeply is your framing of phones as time machines that only go backward. That metaphor captures something profound about memory, regret, and attention.
One thought your essay sparked is that play isn’t the opposite of productivity. It’s a different metric of contribution. Children don’t need us to produce outcomes; they need us to co-create moments. That may be one of the few spaces left where worth isn’t measured, but felt.
My kids got two new kitchens - an IKEA one inside and a mud kitchen outside. It’s amazing and a lot, which is just about perfectly a sum up of parenting
Loved this!! Happy belated bday:) and also! I too re-watched Muppets Christmas Carol this year and was soooo delighted by how well its magic holds up! Hope your holidays were fabulous <3
Thanks for reminding me that baked beans on toast is delicious and easy to make for the whole family.
Thank you Kevin for writing something that refuses both pile-on culture and moral escape hatches. This felt honest without being indulgent, and reflective without being preachy. What resonated deeply is your framing of phones as time machines that only go backward. That metaphor captures something profound about memory, regret, and attention.
One thought your essay sparked is that play isn’t the opposite of productivity. It’s a different metric of contribution. Children don’t need us to produce outcomes; they need us to co-create moments. That may be one of the few spaces left where worth isn’t measured, but felt.
My kids got two new kitchens - an IKEA one inside and a mud kitchen outside. It’s amazing and a lot, which is just about perfectly a sum up of parenting
“A reminder yet again to never tweet” hahaha
You now have three kitchens. I'm sorry for your loss.
Actually 4. A friend gave us their old one. It’s a mini kitchen
The movie is 80 years old and feels like it could have been written yesterday.