Offer choices: "Do you want to play with this or that?"
Focus on collaboration: "Let's work on this together"
Validate feelings: "It looks like you might be feeling overwhelmed"

Key points to remember:
Avoid "demand words": "must," "need," "now," "should"
Use open-ended questions: "What do you think about...?" "How would you like to...?"

Examples of PDA-friendly wording:
Instead of: "It's time to clean your room."
Try: "Let's see if we can ti

Examples of PDA-friendly wording:
Instead of: "It's time to clean your room."
Try: "Let's see if we can tidy up a bit in your room."

use indirect wording, avoiding phrases that sound like demands, and instead opt for suggestions, questions, or "let's see if" approaches; for example, "I wonder if we could..." "How do you feel about..." or "Maybe we can try..." rather than "You need to..." or "Do this now.".

Having talented friends who teach me new things stay at my house. So lucky.

I think as Bluesky evolves, it will get easier. It feels weird to post a meme or rando tidbit about the day when 90 percent of my feed is super serious stuff about politics and destroying the patriarchy. I love that content too, but sometimes I just like to laugh.

That show is hilarious.

I really was grateful you were there with me to process all this nonsense.

It was hilarious.