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Cause no one will question your ethics if you refer to yourself as a Dungeon Mom.

I snort experimentation to feel alive. It's a certain type of orientation to life, completely at odds with all parenting advice about predictability and routine.

Enter DM parenting. Where you approach every parenting task as a Dungeons and Dragons session where you are shepherding a team of pure outliers on the enthusiasm-skill spectrum through the Sisyphisian ordeal of rolling their toothbrush up hi … no, wait, stop that!

Anyway.

You need them to fight the BBEG cause otherwise you are not having fun, but who says they wouldn’t rather murder hobo their way through the local dairy supply chain?As a DM, you have to juggle an objective, your own enjoyment, and the enjoyment of your players.

This is basically parenting.

Of course, as a DM, you generally play with [...]

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Outline:

(01:32) Bedtime Rules

(01:35) Peekaboo

(02:06) Tickle Station

(02:43) Walk a Mile…

(03:01) Duel Shots

(03:58) Ghost

(04:25) Flip Four

(04:57) Even Odds

(06:40) Bubble Dodge

(06:57) Masking Art

(07:17) Spin the Lollipop

(07:34) Trick Shot

(08:01) Bonus Rules

(08:04) Dinner: Pea Shooter

(08:29) Bath: Disco Freeze

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First published:
July 16th, 2024

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/6NWt2GyXunvM36Cus/dm-parenting

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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

“DM Parenting” by Shoshannah Tekofsky

LessWrong (30+ Karma)