> "My youngest told me what oobleck is the other day. It is something which can behave like a solid or a liquid. I couldn't believe my seven year old taught me that."
That sounds exactly like the kind of thing that you might learn from a seven-year-old.
> Laura often shares her views on TikTok and says she has people who don't agree with her own parenting habits, but the mum-of-two is undeterred about what strangers think of her choices. "They are my kids. I can parent them how I want," she adds.
I do appreciate that they're not embarrassed to say that they do what all parents, everywhere, already do. It's sort of silly that legions of doctors, psychologists, and researchers still find it necessary to turn up in articles like this to browbeat parents about this topic when their advice is clearly not being heeded by any segment of the public and hasn't been for decades. It's as if these experts have zero awareness of how their advice is received.
> > "My youngest told me what oobleck is the other day. It is something which can behave like a solid or a liquid. I couldn't believe my seven year old taught me that."
≥ That sounds exactly like the kind of thing that you might learn from a seven-year-old.
Is it just me, or is it also wrong? Oobleck is some YouTuber word that attracts child viewers, before that it was called a non-newtonian liquid.
The name is a reference to the Dr. Seuss book "Bartholomew and the Oobleck", published in 1949. I remember reading it as a child, probably around the same time I mixed up a batch of the non-newtonian cornstarch mixture, though I can't remember whether the name had become associated with the substance at that time or whether we called it something else. In any case, I think it is likely that the current use of "oobleck" predates the existence of YouTube.
That sounds exactly like the kind of thing that you might learn from a seven-year-old.
> Laura often shares her views on TikTok and says she has people who don't agree with her own parenting habits, but the mum-of-two is undeterred about what strangers think of her choices. "They are my kids. I can parent them how I want," she adds.
I do appreciate that they're not embarrassed to say that they do what all parents, everywhere, already do. It's sort of silly that legions of doctors, psychologists, and researchers still find it necessary to turn up in articles like this to browbeat parents about this topic when their advice is clearly not being heeded by any segment of the public and hasn't been for decades. It's as if these experts have zero awareness of how their advice is received.