Open AI serving us geek dads

Not to disparage the work here, but my advice to "geek dads" (or any parent) is to put effort into A) researching and B) buying (paper) books that contain stories that _you_ want your children to hear.

Humans are creatures of story, and bedtime is one of the few precious moments in your child's day where you can have their entire attention in a quiet and comfortable setting. Read them something you want them to hear, ask them questions about it, and listen to their thoughts. I guarantee that you won't regret it.

For anyone interested in where to start, I highly recommend anything by Arnold Lobel, Else Holmelund Minarik, Peggy Parish, Judi Barrett, and similar authors. You'll be able to find these authors at any secondary book store for cheap or buying used on Amazon.

I'm a geek. I'm not creative. I struggle making up new stories every night. And my kid doesn't like that.

But, again, I'm a geek.

I went another route and decided to experiment with a GPT-3 to build an app for coming up with infinite stories and playing it in a nice and human-like way.

Works like Magic.

I remember telling crappy stories to my kids when they were little but they enjoyed it. I used to decide a topic like flying toy cycle or a magical ball and made some random story with the same ending where the kids have their meal and it's night and the go to bed. They knew it was the end when I came to the meal part of the story and there would be silence and they fell asleep. I used to struggle sometimes but for over 100s of nights, I managed to tell them a story each night. Glad there is an app now for that :)

Absolutely no offense intended here, but I keep hearing about "bedtime stories" lately and I have a few questions since I am not a parent and my parents did not do this.

Is this a useful parenting technique or just a cute tradition? What problem(s) does it solve? If it's just trying to get the kids to fall asleep is it as effective as tiring them out some other way (games, exercise, big dinner, etc.)?

Is the goal to just steer their dreams somewhere peaceful? Wouldn't a story be less effective than just tucking them in and telling them words of affirmation? I would think there's too many things for them to worry about in a story.

As for literacy and imagination, I was given books and toys and stuff so idk... kind of drawing a blank on the value of this.

Why the emotionally charged title?

And yes I'm personally a tiny bit upset because I believe homogeneity in culture is bad. Geek dads and geek kids and geek wives are important.

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