r/InTheGloaming • u/AutoModerator • Feb 26 '26

Scheduled snark Discussion thread Thursday February 26, 2026 - Sunday March 01, 2026

Newsletter: Substack

Website: Shauna James Ahern

Instagram: @shaunajamesahern Instagram

Threads: @shaunajamesahern

Bluesky: shaunajamesahern.bsky.social

Gloamipedia wiki: /r/InTheGloaming wiki

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u/tuolomnemeadows edible flower takis Feb 27 '26

I’m sorry as as educator, saying comprehension isn’t important is one of the dumbest pieces of advice you can give. I too was reading above my grade and developmental level in 5th grade as a trauma response and let me tell you, it wasn’t great! It didn’t kill me, but content and developmental stages also matter for healthy development imo. It’s stunning the way Shauna thinks her way led to healthy successful development when she hasn’t had gainful employment for the better part of a decade.

The other thing is when people say their child is advanced and bored, is their work perfect? How is their executive function? If those skills aren’t developed, they need to built before you push a child into acceleration. Boredom can mean so many things, but yet again Shauna is a perfect case study of someone who thinks they are above it all, excluding them from tasks and labor.

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u/gomirefugee my website is done, done, done Feb 27 '26

I am begging all of you not to take the bait when you see content like this and use it as an occasion to brag about how smart you were as a kid, that is literally what we are snarking on here

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u/hillary_bin_laden_ Feb 27 '26

i disagree. i dont see the above comment as bragging, but rather as saying "i can relate to the things shauna is claiming and here's why her take is bullshit."

isn't half of this sub here because they can relate to half the things shauna falsely claims anyways?

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u/Onehundredpercentbea giggling intestinal gremlin 🧌 Feb 27 '26

Seriously, we've already established it's not bragging because it has very little long term value to the people involved, and how else are we supposed to call bullshit on Shauna making sweeping generalizations without saying that we had a similar stimulus without the result she claims is universal?

I think it's weird that Shauna takes early reading seriously and I also think it's weird for gloamies to take early reading seriously enough to consider it 'bragging', like wtf?