“I’m moderately squicked out by the whole ‘raise your kids as nerds!’ thing — I’d rather my daughter find her own interests — but I suspect she’ll already want to like at least some of the stuff I like.”

I’m actually trying super hard not to raise a nerd son. You see me post photos of us playing board games, but it’s not me indoctrinating him. It’s because board games are currently my most successful way of getting him doing something social and interactive away from video games, which he’s addicted to across all platforms, and to YouTube videos of streamers playing video games. We had him in swim classes until he broke his leg sledding with me in February. We had him in piano lessons after that. We had him in t-ball. He liked all those things, but never yearned for them the way he does video games. I’m also constantly inventing crafts and projects to do together, and creating codes for him to solve and stuff, but right now he’s just hooked hard on video games.