Paul Graham on Twitter: "Occasionally people accuse me of inventing the conversations with my kids that I post on Twitter. What this tells me (besides that they're super nasty) is that these people don't have kids."

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1. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 15 Nov 2020
  Incidentally, I don't talk to my kids like peers just for their sakes. I'm not trying to turn them into little prodigies. I talk to them this way because it's much more interesting than talking down to them.
  
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1. Tobias Reber‏ @tobiasreber 15 Nov 2020
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  Or they have kids but don't pay attention. Here's one of mine this week:https://twitter.com/tobiasreber/status/1326974720814747649 …
  
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  Another #sounddad report (need a better hashtag tho): Deathprod’s „Dead People’s Things“ is one of my favourite ambient pieces and certainly most-played background / cocoon music by far. This morning, while I’m writing and Ronja (4.5yrs) is doing another puzzle, she says:
  
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1. Daniel Markham‏ @danielbmarkham 15 Nov 2020
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  Some studies show that infants just after birth are already beginning language processing. Learning happens much, much earlier than most people think.
  
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1. Elite‏ @AthletesAsian 15 Nov 2020
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  Our 3 year old: if lions eat deer, why doesn’t Santa turn the deer into reindeer so they can fly away?
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1. R. Ann Domized43278‏ @randomized43278 15 Nov 2020
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  Conversations with kids in real life get stranger and more charming than almost anyone without kids can imagine. Keep posting.
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1. Jim Delaney‏ @JimDelaneyMPLS 15 Nov 2020
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  People who talk to their kids like the kids are idiots are doing everyone a huge disservice.
  
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1. Justin Gern‏ @justingern 15 Nov 2020
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  Spot on. I've been super impressed with how quickly our 15 month old picks up new vocabulary. Especially when he is in model training mode and pointing at things in books and having me classify them.
  
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1. Ambassador‏ @DogWelsh 15 Nov 2020
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  I have 5 kids, and your kid tweets get a little tiresome, but that may be more a reflection on me than you.
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