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> be done in max 6mins

this has a very "tell me you haven't had kids yet without telling me" energy to it, in opinion at least.

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Or, "tell me your family is bearable to be around without telling me."

evidently everyone assumes that kids mean you do the reading on the toilet whereas I meant 6 minutes is an eternity you will not be allowed to reach.

I assumed you meant parents and I was saying, "but also sometimes the kids!"

You want to train kids from a young age not to spend a long time on the toilet, which reading encourages. It consistently leads to hemorrhoids. That's just a fact.

i think they meant they are purposely sandbagging while on the toilet to get some alone time

then it is even worse than I feared! they are both worsening or increasing their own chances of hemorrhoids AND role modeling for their kids that spending a long time on the toilet is OK.

> You want to train kids from a young age not to spend a long time on the toilet, which reading encourages. It consistently leads to hemorrhoids. That's just a fact.

Whoa, you can preach whatever you'd like, but let's not start inventing 'facts' to put down others.

I don't see 'time sitting on the stool' in our list of hemorrhoid risk factors. If, instead, you mean time straining at the stool, then yes: but the straining begets the reading activities, not the other way around.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8416428/

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