:baby_symbol: Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit
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@Polygeekery There might be an even more appropriate response to give to the school:
"I assume you have since shown the class some videos about nazi atrocities. ...No? ..A kid draws a swastika out of ignorance, and you don't fast-forward to nazism in history class? What kind of educators are you?"Because honestly, it's their damn job to tell the kids about the hippies, nazis and Stalins of the world so they don't end up repeating any of that. Isn't that what a school is for?
This will probably come up at some point for me, too. We have some air force vets in the family.
Yeah... Orientation matters.
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Last night's status: Toothbrushing teething toddler turns to brushing bloodied bathtub before bedtime.
In completely unrelated news: electric toothbrushes are a good way to spray liquids everywhere
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@homoBalkanus Don't children's electric toothbrushes all have an age limit on the package? I think it was like 5yo+ or something?
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@acrow the dentist specifically mentioned is fine to start already at 1.5 years. He doesn't seem to mind and it's easier for me not to hurt his gums by pressing too hard.
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I think baby shark variations is the closer I ever got for something to be "triggering" for me. Also musics that say the names of fingers
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@sockpuppet7 said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
I think baby shark variations is the closer I ever got for something to be "triggering" for me. Also musics that say the names of fingers
Congratulations on having put the mental age of 2 so far, far behind.
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@boomzilla said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
I have a running joke with my youngest and her older sister who still lives with us. The third has her own place.
<<to my youngest>> You are my favorite daughter <<pause for dramatic effect>> but don't tell your sisters.
<<to the my older daughter in front of my youngest>> You are my favorite daughter...<<pause then loud fake whispering>> but don't tell your sisters.
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@Karla said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@boomzilla said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
I have a running joke with my youngest and her older sister who still lives with us. The third has her own place.
<<to my youngest>> You are my favorite daughter <<pause for dramatic effect>> but don't tell your sisters.
<<to the my older daughter in front of my youngest>> You are my favorite daughter...<<pause then loud fake whispering>> but don't tell your sisters.
Both me and my brother like telling our only niece that she's our favourite niece.
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@PleegWat said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@Karla said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@boomzilla said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
I have a running joke with my youngest and her older sister who still lives with us. The third has her own place.
<<to my youngest>> You are my favorite daughter <<pause for dramatic effect>> but don't tell your sisters.
<<to the my older daughter in front of my youngest>> You are my favorite daughter...<<pause then loud fake whispering>> but don't tell your sisters.
Both me and my brother like telling our only niece that she's our favourite niece.
I also use:
You are my favorite youngest daughter.
And same when she asks about her siblings:
J is my favorite oldest son.
C is my favorite youngest son.
M is my favorite oldest daughter.
L is my favorite middle daughter. << By 8 minutes, M and L are twins >>
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I'd say carrying a screaming child off a public place is being a good parent.
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@Zerosquare said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
I'd say carrying a screaming child off a public place is being a good parent.
Only if it's your child
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Our oldest was playing Minecraft and watching videos. So he wasn't really paying much attention to his Minecraft world. I join his world, it is in creative mode and he's in the middle of assembling some redstone contraption. Since he's not paying attention I dig under it and place TNT under everything and go back to my evening.
An hour or so later:
"DAD!!!!"
Totally worth it. 10/10, would do it again.
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@Polygeekery said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
Our oldest was playing Minecraft and watching videos. So he wasn't really paying much attention to his Minecraft world. I join his world, it is in creative mode and he's in the middle of assembling some redstone contraption. Since he's not paying attention I dig under it and place TNT under everything and go back to my evening.
An hour or so later:
"DAD!!!!"
Totally worth it. 10/10, would do it again.
Is it a timer or did he hit it when he dug down?
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@ObjectMike said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
Is it a timer or did he hit it when he dug down?
Redstone signals will ignite TNT if the blocks are adjacent or whatever. Since I hid it under his redstone contraption when he finally got around to testing it to see if it did whatever he wanted to do the redstone signal lit the TNT and blew all his stuff up.
Have/Do you play Minecraft? What I did is like a big version of the pressure plate in a desert temple. Step on it and shit blows up. The pressure plate is just sending a redstone signal to surrounding solid blocks. That redstone signal is what lights the TNT.
Fun fact: In Minecraft Iron Golems will attack anyone that kills a villager. Even if you inadvertently do so by detonating TNT or dumping out lava, etc. But you can put TNT on a block with a button or lever and use that to ignite the TNT and the Iron Golem will ignore you and your reputation will not decrease among the villagers because as far as the game is concerned you did not light the TNT, redstone did. You can do the same with lava and a dispenser plus a lever or button or whatever.
Our oldest reluctantly got me to play Minecraft with him and I wasn't into it too much at first until I started discovering all of the ways that you can exploit and skirt game rules. Like tonight when my youngest (7 years old) wanted me to play Minecraft with him and we were maybe 20 minutes into a new world, we had found a village and looted it of everything that was worth taking and were heading back to where he wanted to make his base and we were running along and both jumped right into a ravine that looked like normal terrain until we started falling. It was only maybe 4-5 blocks wide at the top, and opened up a lot towards the bottom which was probably 60 blocks down. Shit, we only have 5 minutes before all the stuff we had despawns and is gone forever. We now have nothing and there is no way to mine our way down there in time.
"Well, that sucks. Gather wood. I need a boat."
"A boat?"
"If I can place the boat right before I land and get into it then the fall won't kill me and I can salvage our stuff before it despawns."
"Oh, like MLG gaming?"
"That's redundant. You're essentially saying 'Major League Gaming gaming', but yes. Also, I suck at this so we are going to need several boats because I'm probably going to die on the first several attempts."Totally nailed it. On like my fourth attempt. Maybe fifth. In that moment, in his eyes, I may as well have been Dream or IlluminaHD.
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@Polygeekery said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@ObjectMike said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
Is it a timer or did he hit it when he dug down?
Redstone signals will ignite TNT if the blocks are adjacent or whatever. Since I hid it under his redstone contraption when he finally got around to testing it to see if it did whatever he wanted to do the redstone signal lit the TNT and blew all his stuff up.
Have/Do you play Minecraft? What I did is like a big version of the pressure plate in a desert temple. Step on it and shit blows up. The pressure plate is just sending a redstone signal to surrounding solid blocks. That redstone signal is what lights the TNT.
Fun fact: In Minecraft Iron Golems will attack anyone that kills a villager. Even if you inadvertently do so by detonating TNT or dumping out lava, etc. But you can put TNT on a block with a button or lever and use that to ignite the TNT and the Iron Golem will ignore you and your reputation will not decrease among the villagers because as far as the game is concerned you did not light the TNT, redstone did. You can do the same with lava and a dispenser plus a lever or button or whatever.
Our oldest reluctantly got me to play Minecraft with him and I wasn't into it too much at first until I started discovering all of the ways that you can exploit and skirt game rules. Like tonight when my youngest (7 years old) wanted me to play Minecraft with him and we were maybe 20 minutes into a new world, we had found a village and looted it of everything that was worth taking and were heading back to where he wanted to make his base and we were running along and both jumped right into a ravine that looked like normal terrain until we started falling. It was only maybe 4-5 blocks wide at the top, and opened up a lot towards the bottom which was probably 60 blocks down. Shit, we only have 5 minutes before all the stuff we had despawns and is gone forever. We now have nothing and there is no way to mine our way down there in time.
"Well, that sucks. Gather wood. I need a boat."
"A boat?"
"If I can place the boat right before I land and get into it then the fall won't kill me and I can salvage our stuff before it despawns."
"Oh, like MLG gaming?"
"That's redundant. You're essentially saying 'Major League Gaming gaming', but yes. Also, I suck at this so we are going to need several boats because I'm probably going to die on the first several attempts."Totally nailed it. On like my fourth attempt. Maybe fifth. In that moment, in his eyes, I may as well have been Dream or IlluminaHD.
This is why you always do your risky loot running more than 15 chunks from spawn, so your spoils will be off grid when you kill yourself and the despawn timer won’t run while you get new armor or stuff to get back to your loot.
Or you know, a bucket of water.
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@Polygeekery said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
Have/Do you play Minecraft?
Nope. I usually don't like wide open games like that. I don't mind wide open elements as long as that's not all there is. For instance, while it's never great, there's a storyline available in Elder Scrolls games. There's a bunch of other stuff to do that isn't you making it up. An exception has been the factory builder Satisfactory. As odd as it sounds I think it being first person makes it more engrossing for me. Though it kind of hit the problem of "I tried this new thing I wanted to play with, and I know how it works, now what?"
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@ObjectMike said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@Polygeekery said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
Have/Do you play Minecraft?
Nope. I usually don't like wide open games like that. I don't mind wide open elements as long as that's not all there is. For instance, while it's never great, there's a storyline available in Elder Scrolls games. There's a bunch of other stuff to do that isn't you making it up. An exception has been the factory builder Satisfactory. As odd as it sounds I think it being first person makes it more engrossing for me. Though it kind of hit the problem of "I tried this new thing I wanted to play with, and I know how it works, now what?"
Now you look at all those glitzy builds on the subreddit, realize you can never accomplish that, and
quit the game forever unfinished in phase 3start over again because look new shiny update.
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@izzion said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
This is why you always do your risky loot running more than 15 chunks from spawn, so your spoils will be off grid when you kill yourself and the despawn timer won’t run while you get new armor or stuff to get back to your loot.
The village was only maybe 150 blocks from spawn.
@izzion said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
Or you know, a bucket of water.
As soon as I died, or I guess more correctly as soon as I got back to the ravine and realized how potentially fucked we were, my first thought was the 3 iron ingots that I got from killing the iron golem and how I wished that I had not killed him so that I could then kill him and get those ingots, craft them into a bucket and everything would be fine. But instead I got to look down and see them floating around as entities with a 5 minute timer running.
That freaking ravine looked like it was procedurally generated to be annoying. There was water at the bottom but none of it was close enough laterally to be able to land in. It was all under the overhangs too far.
To clarify better for those that have not played Minecraft and to elucidate on:
@Polygeekery said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
all of the ways that you can exploit and skirt game rules
and how it ties into:
@Polygeekery said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
If I can place the boat right before I land and get into it then the fall won't kill me
It is my understanding that entering a boat resets your velocity (in this case your vertical velocity) to zero, so from the game logic's perspective you never impact the ground. Or maybe you impact it at 0 units of speed? Regardless, you can jump from any height and spam place the boat and with a little luck (or in the case of professional Minecraft players, a lot of skill, you can place the boat and enter it and not take any fall damage.
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@ObjectMike said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
Nope. I usually don't like wide open games like that. I don't mind wide open elements as long as that's not all there is.
To each their own. I find Minecraft interesting in how it does not prescribe to you how it should be played. There are speedrunners who endeavor to beat the game in the least possible amount of time. There are people that play the game with no interest at all in beating the Ender Dragon or any of that, they just like to build things. There are people that play it entirely in creative mode and just build stuff. The end goal is whatever you want it to be.
It is also interesting in that they have no prescribed canonical lore with the exception that the dragon is female and her name is Jean.
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@Polygeekery said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
"That's redundant. You're essentially saying 'Major League Gaming gaming',
Just when you thought the story couldn't get better.
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@Zecc said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@Polygeekery said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
"That's redundant. You're essentially saying 'Major League Gaming gaming',
Just when you thought the story couldn't get better.
You didn't think that I would give a 7 year old a break from pedantry did you?
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@Polygeekery said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
You didn't think that I would give a 7 year old a break from pedantry did you?
Teach them The Way when they are young.
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The lad had announced his official giving up on a boss for being too hard, a statement of approvable engenuity and laziness. However, sensing a lack of defeatedness, I relayed the story of the tea master and the swordsman. His response was along the lines of why don't you try it Mr dumb story. So I agreed to try it after he showed me why it was a pain in the ass. When he then promptly beat the boss, he accused me of voodoo. Whee!
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@izzion said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@BernieTheBernie said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
That's my guess, that's why I asked for a UAT result.
It sounded to me more like you were asking for testing in production
And now they have been tested. On Saturday, there was occasion to use one of those diapers. After 4 months of sifting in the trunk of my car in winter conditions, one of the vacuum-packs was opened, and a diaper taken to use. It was dry to touch, and seemingly unaffected by the time spent vacuum-packed. Though rather flat.
I don't remember having had to deal with any spills that evening either, so it must have worked all right.
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@Zerosquare 93, huh? No wonder they're allowing the tree houses to stay. Nowadays, they'd be coming after both parents and children with a SWAT team.
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@dcon said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@Zerosquare 93, huh? No wonder they're allowing the tree houses to stay. Nowadays, they'd be coming after both parents and children with a SWAT team.
Well, and also a military base.
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@dcon said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@Zerosquare 93, huh? No wonder they're allowing the tree houses to stay. Nowadays, they'd be coming after both parents and children with a SWAT team.
Yes. Nowadays, no more steel booby-trap pickets. They have to be made of plastic, with a uselessly-dull edge, and you have to be 18 to buy them.
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@HardwareGeek said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
They have to be made of plastic, with a uselessly-dull edge, and you have to be 18 to buy them.
This sounds like a "your state" problem, but I might even check on the scope of this.
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Earlier we were leaving for a family outing. The oldest wanted to feed alligators. The youngest did not want to go. I told him that he had to go or else I wouldn't have anything to feed the alligators. It took him a moment.
My wife wanted to go to a citrus store.
"Kids, while we are out we are going to stop at a citrus store. Because what is Florida known for?"
I couldn't let that slow pitch lazily go across the plate.
The boys immediately join in.
"Hurricanes!"
"Alligators!!"
"Florida man!"
"Sunburn!"
"Old people!"
"Bad drivers!!"
"Retirement places!"
"Mosquitoes!!"I was so proud. My wife was so annoyed.
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All week Lil'Dude has been eating like he's going through a growth spurt. Insane amounts of food. Last night for dinner he ate a regular adult menu item portion of fish tacos. It has been like this since we flew in last Saturday. But as far as my wife and I can tell, he hasn't .
"He has to at some point."
"Oh, I know, and I know when it's going to happen. I'd bet money that he has a emergency during the ~2.5 hour flight on the plane that has no toilet."
"Oh god, you're probably right. What if that happens?"
"I guess we apologize profusely and pay for whatever cleaning is necessary."
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@Polygeekery said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
All week Lil'Dude has been eating like he's going through a growth spurt. Insane amounts of food. Last night for dinner he ate a regular adult menu item portion of fish tacos. It has been like this since we flew in last Saturday. But as far as my wife and I can tell, he hasn't .
"He has to at some point."
"Oh, I know, and I know when it's going to happen. I'd bet money that he has a emergency during the ~2.5 hour flight on the plane that has no toilet."
"Oh god, you're probably right. What if that happens?"
"I guess we apologize profusely and pay for whatever cleaning is necessary."You missed a golden opportunity to just reply with "Depends"
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@Polygeekery In the end, did you feed him some prunes, buy a bucket, or just let whatever happens happen?
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@acrow he didn't shit in the ~1 year old plane worth several times the value of our home. Other than that I left it up to his mother. He didn't want to discuss it with me.
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@Polygeekery said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
on the plane that has no toilet
Fun fact time: The King Air series of aircraft is one of the few smaller turboprops that has a toilet. The King Air 350 also has seating for up to 9 people.
9? That doesn't make any sense. Most planes that size have seating in even numbers because of the narrow fuselage. What gives?
Good observation. The 9th person has to sit on the toilet. There's a seatbelt and emergency oxygen mask and everything.
I've always just assumed that it seats 8, maybe 9 if someone has pissed off the owner of the plane.
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@Polygeekery that'd be a proper first world problem.
"I got a lift in my friend's private jet but I had to sit on the toilet for the whole flight"
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@loopback0 said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@Polygeekery that'd be a proper first world problem.
"I got a lift in my friend's private
jetplane but I had to sit on the toilet for the whole flight"FTFY, but fair point.
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@Polygeekery said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@Polygeekery said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
on the plane that has no toilet
Fun fact time: The King Air series of aircraft is one of the few smaller turboprops that has a toilet. The King Air 350 also has seating for up to 9 people.
Unless you really don't care about your passengers' comfort, in which case you can cram 17 in a King Air 350:
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@nerd4sale said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@Polygeekery said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@Polygeekery said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
on the plane that has no toilet
Fun fact time: The King Air series of aircraft is one of the few smaller turboprops that has a toilet. The King Air 350 also has seating for up to 9 people.
Unless you really don't care about your passengers' comfort, in which case you can cram 17 in a King Air 350:
is that article using fractions (spelled out, natch) instead of percentages:
When making this change, you will lose about a fifth to a quarter of your aircraft range depending on the weight of the passengers and the luggage.
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@Polygeekery said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
The King Air series of aircraft is one of the few smaller turboprops that has a toilet.
That makes me wonder if any of the King Air crashes I hear about in aviation circles have been due to, um, explosive decompression.