Ahh you're so adorable it hurts, such sweet things you wrote for everyone!

_{now I'm going to crawl into my slugskin and hide from sheer embarrassment as glad as I am that you enjoy our crazy conversations I don't deserve such high praise XD but thank you}

Nice to get some of the explanations at the end. I probably should have figured there was some deep and intrinsic meaning to pretty much everything you left lying around as clues but quite often I just take things at face value unless I feel a need to investigate something. In the case of the mandala I just liked looking at it and never thought that it would end up being a major deal XD

In my mind, he forgets everything almost immediately.

This makes total sense to me. We've finally got a diagnosis for my youngest (adhd with "flavours" of autism) and the amount of times he "forgets" things drives me insane. I'm quite sure he can't help it most if not all of the time as the psych said he has a lot of problems with working memory, however he's "pretty bright" (psych's words) and otherwise quite "high functioning" so I have to remember this and try not to be too cranky at him XD

Be the shining examples that you want them to follow.

Oh goodness it's horribly amusing how many people seem to expect their kids to do as they say not as they do DX My favourite (and possibly slightly extreme) example is still one from a million years ago before I was a parent where there was a foul-mouthed little sod misbehaving on a train I think it was and the parent/responsible adult with them snapped "STOP F---ING SWEARING YOU LITTLE C---" at them and I was down the carriage thinking "...really?!"

Oh, and keep them away from the TV if they're below three years old.

Oops too late XP I only see "too much" screen time as a bad thing if they are quite literally refusing to get off them and go do something else or if they're experiencing withdrawal symptoms when booted off/have to get off to do other things. This is a real problem :O I don't personally know anyone who is this bad but I do know some parents who manage their kids screen time either because they refuse/haven't/won't learn how to manage themselves or the parents are more controlling than they want to admit and don't trust the kids will learn to manage themselves. Mine are generally pretty good so easy for me to say whatever I guess XD

And of course I remembered a xkcd comic that seems relevant:

I hope that makes up for the boring parts.

THERE WERE NO BORING PARTS.

I had thought about detailing every reference, but it would take days to break everything down

Nah. Just one more Silver Lining XD

It was a play on words for the Chachapoyas

I picked that up in the History channel chapter and remember being terribly amused at the time that Ledd was so outraged at the giants' complete mangulation of his tribe's name XD

Jeez sorry about this epic essay of a comment, did you make it to the end? [prod]. Looking forward to part 2!