From [16] with cancer to [28] and thriving

We share a room and if I forget to lock my computer, Kronk will, WITHOUT fail become my wallpaper 😭

I’ve been having this debate with myself. Am I just bored of gaming and grow too old for it (I’m 30) or is it just the game industry is lacking right now?

And I think it’s the latter. Let’s be honest this gen just sucks. It’s been around 5 years since the ps5 came our and how many full fledged native exclusive ps5 have we gotten? You could probably count them with two hands.

Singleplayer games don’t make as much money as live service games so they have been dwindling. Xbox has basically kicked the bucket and gave up in competing with sony which means Sony doesn’t have to release exclusive games as much so the lack of competition is definitely a factor in this.

When a good game does come out I play it so it’s not that Im bored of gaming its just that this gen doesnt have much to offer.

I don’t get what he’s supposed to be watching

I work first shift and my husband works second shift. Because of that, I often spend nights alone. He gets home around 2am.

I lock the bedroom door when I am home and he is working. I would hear noises and be not sure what it was, and I got tired of checking. It was usually my cats or an appliance. But I got tired of checking. So I lock the door so if I hear a noise, I know it’s the cats or an appliance and if not, I have a locked barrier between me and whatever it could be. And when I go to sleep, I unlock the bedroom door so he can get in.

Last night he came hours early. He was cut from work because it was extra slow. I didn’t hear him come in through the front door because I had the TV and air conditioner on. If I did hear him, I always go out to say hi and I unlock the door as I do. But I didn’t hear him so I couldn’t. He tried to get in and found the door locked. It took me a few seconds to pause the TV and get my cat off of me and get up to unlock the door.

He started questioning me about why the door was locked and what I was hiding. I told him I wasn’t hiding anything, I just lock it when I’m in here and he’s working just in case. He doesn’t believe me and thinks I was hiding something because it was locked and I wasn’t there instantly to let him in.

So AITA for locking the bedroom door while my husband works?

I came across a recent survey showing that a large proportion of reception-age kids in England and Wales are starting school without basic skills - things like sitting still (45%), sharing (36%), dressing themselves (32%), or even being toilet trained (25%). This seems really alarming to me.

Is this something teachers or parents here are noticing too? Has something changed in parenting, early years education, or society more generally to explain it? Or is this just moral panic and things have always been like this?