@George-K said in Hay Aqua! Toy Camera Photography!:

https://www.bigrick.com/post/toy-camera-blackandwhite-photography

Pretty cool, but I'll be impressed once they try a Holga or Ilford Sprite. Or hell, a pinhole camera.

@LW said in Preserving options to have children later in life:

@Aqua-Letifer five and a half-ish months

Awesome, congrats!!

@LW said in Preserving options to have children later in life:

@Aqua-Letifer awwww how fun! I'm loving being a parent, and am looking forward to that age and running around playgrounds. However, he is currently sleeping in my arms after a bottle and I love this too.

How old?

@Klaus said in Preserving options to have children later in life:

I’m talking statistically, not about particular examples.

Fair enough, but I think your objections are often correlated to age, but not caused by it.

Financial security etc. are overrated.

I agree.

Overprotection, too much safety, too much planning and too much money are harmful, not helpful.

In my opinion, this is a function of parents living an imbalanced life. When you have little going on outside your family unit—no social clubs, no sports or hobbies, no volunteering—that tends to create overprotection and over-planning.

Grandparents in their 40s or 50s are an asset. Kids profit from some level of chaos and uncertainty.

Agree. Some chaos, some planning. That's our approach, anyway.

@LW said in Preserving options to have children later in life:

Also, side bar, @Aqua-Letifer I haven't been around in years. How old is your daughter? Belated congratulations!

Thanks! Her 4th birthday is in about a week.

@Klaus said in Preserving options to have children later in life:

I also think it's not a good idea to defer children even more than what's already happening today.

At some point the age difference between parent and kid, let alone grandparents and kid, gets too big. Old parents worry way too much, tend to be overprotective and are easily stressed out. They can't relate to the world of the child very well.

I relate to my daughter a shitload better than I do my co-workers, friends and neighbors combined. You are just plain wrong about this.

@LuFins-Dad said in Preserving options to have children later in life:

@Jolly said in Preserving options to have children later in life:

Oh, horseshit.

Talk to somebody who has had children in their 40's and get back to me...

@jon-nyc said in James May's car crash:

May has reportedly suffered a broken rib but has since been given the all-clear following a brain scan and X-rays.

Broken ribs can hurt like a mother.

I guess Hammond can get on his case a little now.

https://www.times-series.co.uk/news/national/uk-today/20629758.top-gears-james-may-rushed-hospital-grand-tour-crash/