Free! - First & Last Appearances.
NOT OKAY
STILL NOT READY FOR THE ENDING EVEN IF I’VE WATCH IT 5 TIMES!!!
babies are naturally able to swim hello they just spent nine moths in amiotic fluid this is instinctive so no, parent is not shitty, parent is re-enforcing baby’s natural instinctive behaviour.
parent is good for doing this because parent is basically saying “yes the behaviours you were born with are great!”
Yup, if babies are ‘taught’ (allowed) to swim before they are six weeks old, they never lose the instincts they were born with that lets them hold their head above water and hold their breath when they need to. SCIENCE, man.
What’s really cool is, humans are the only primates known to have this instinct at birth. Other ape babies would just freak out and drown. So I don’t think it comes from being in amniotic fluid for 9 months (since it’s not like they have room to actually swim in there). It’s been speculated that humans evolved in the ocean at some point, which is a really cool theory that I recommend checking out.
Also, SWIMMING BABY IS ADORABLE.
baby haruka nanase
this is truly amazing :)
This is why I’m able to swim, guys. My rents literally just dunked me in the water after I was born, and I turned out just fine.
This is really cool information. It’s so natural to the baby, look at!
If the kannao twins wouldn’t stop crying…
This just came to mind last night. I’m getting over being sick after Anime Detour, so I’ve been taking a bunch of medicine. My partner randomly got me kid’s medicine, but jeez that stuff knocked me right out after a cap full. I was amused to see that on the back it says, “Do not use to put your kids to sleep.”
Which got me thinking, how would Kanji and Naoto handle crying twins? Especially Naoto, because I mean, detective work AND parenthood?
Kanji: Oh! I have an idea!
Naoto: I do as well, but mine is not medically correct.
Kanji: What?
Naoto: … nothing, what is your idea?
Kanji: I could sing them a lullaby or somethin’… what were you gonna say?
Naoto: Nothing.
Kanji: Naoto…
Naoto: *sigh* I was not actually going to suggest we give them cold medicine, I was simply going to mention it as a method irresponsible parents use.
Kanji: Why was ya gonna mention it if you wasn’t gonna do it?
Naoto: It… is always good to have a last resort?
Kanji: *frowns*
Naoto: All right, all right, let us start singing then.
8 month old baby hearing his mother’s voice for the first time with cochlear implant
This is the most beautiful thing ever.
thank you science
THE BINKY JUST…….
DROPPED
HE WAS JUST MINDING HIS BUSINESS WITH THAT BINKY
AND THEN HE HEARD IT, AND HE STARTED SCRAMBLING TO RECOGNIZE IT
AND WHEN HE DID, OH GOD THE WAY THE BINKY JUST DROPPED
LOOK AT HIM HE’S SO HAPPY UGHThe fourth gif is the most beautiful… he’s looking at his mama, just shocked and then the smile forms on his face, and I’m crying.
I just love the realization that crosses his face, like, “… this is my mommy. I can hear her. I can hear her voice!” He’s just so happy, and the smile she gets on her face when she sees him smiling so much. This is just so touching, I can’t get over his little squirming, happy body in the last gif, like, “Guys! This is my mom!”
Family planning headcanon
I’m really glad people are liking these :)
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Naoto Shirogane is not planning on having a family. Not now. Not ever. She has a career. She’s a detective. There’s no room for family on her busy schedule.
She barely has time to fit husband into her impressive resume, but somehow Kanji Tatsumi wormed his way in there – sometime between “Midnight Channel,” and, “Am I really wearing a wedding dress,” she thinks.
Kanji Tatsumi, however, wants to be a dad. He’d be a kick ass dad, he thinks, able to make dresses for the girls – nevermind the look Naoto gives and the lecture of “What if she does not want to wear a dress? Do not assume blah blah blah he tunes her out after that, already picking out pink fabrics in his head. As for the boys, well, he’s sure he can make some adorable teddy bears that wear baseball jersey’s, or something, or maybe he can teach them how to sew like their good ol’ dad.
"So you are willing to modify the stereotype for sons, but not for daughters?” Naoto asks.
“Careful, that sounds like family planning.”
At this Naoto says nothing else, burying herself in the notes of a case. Kanji just gives her an annoying smile, says something about how “deep down she wants to be a mother, wants to settle down,” and she pretends like she’s too busy reading to hear his words. He couldn’t be more wrong, you know, she has no deep down feelings, or urges, or anything like that. In fact, she should lecture him on his assumptions about what she feels “deep down.”
So, of course, when she ends up pregnant about a month later, it’s strictly accidental. A malfunction in her birth control, or the condom, or the nine-hundred and sixty-nine other ways they use protection. She plans on writing several strongly written letters to these companies and their defective merchandise.
For now, she’s going to select a worthy name for her first born. She’s going to make sure she follows all of the proper diets, gets the very best crib, and prevent her husband from showering their home in pink and/or blue – not that blue is a bad color, and not that she had been planning a child in the first place!
“Stop smiling at me, Kanji.”
But Kanji never does.
