:baby_symbol: Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit
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@boomzilla BTDT
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@boomzilla said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
So true...
ETA http://www.pophangover.com/25326/the-best-reasons-my-son-is-crying-pics/
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My kid set and baited a leprechaun trap:
Of course after bedtime we set it off.
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Bay-bee ... SHARK
Mom-mee SHARK
Da-dee SHARK
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Status: I just went full Papa Bear on a 13 year old girl who was pushing my 6 year old around.
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@boomzilla said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
I call foul on the play. Very few parents have that kind of money.
(Also, by four [barring multiple kids at once and psychological problems], the oldest should be getting mature enough to help out with the younger ones.)
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@djls45 said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
the oldest should be getting mature enough to help out with the younger ones.
My 23 year old is mature enough to help with my 21 year old. (Maybe. At least she tries. Well, mostly she just tries to boss him around.) I'm not sure my 21 year old is mature enough to help with anyone younger than himself, if there were any.
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@HardwareGeek said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@djls45 said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
the oldest should be getting mature enough to help out with the younger ones.
My 23 year old is mature enough to help with my 21 year old. (Maybe. At least she tries. Well, mostly she just tries to boss him around.) I'm not sure my 21 year old is mature enough to help with anyone younger than himself, if there were any.
Well, see, that's only two. I did imply the minimum was four.
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The most accurate one of these I've seen :
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@boner I'm dying. That is hilarious.
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So a week or so ago we saw a Triops kit in a thrift store. The oldest wanted it and it was only $3 so I got it. We did all the steps and...nothing. None hatched.
This week I have done some research. Probably not warm enough, nor enough light, nor the right water, nor enough calcium in the water, etc
New aquarium, new LED lights, new heater, new filter, new air pump, new airstones, new aragonite sand for substrate (to buffer up the calcium levels in water and bump up the KH), new Triops kit (from Amazon this time). Wish us luck. Kiddo is super psyched. Hopefully it works this time.
TL;DR, $3 at a thrift store ended up costing me ~$100.
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@karla said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@boner I'm dying. That is hilarious.
You should watch this channel, it's "pee your pants" funny
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@m_adams what if I don't want to pee my pants?
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@polygeekery different strokes...
But we all know that you won't use it to put out a fire...
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@m_adams said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@polygeekery different strokes...
But we all know that you won't use it to put out a fire...
God no. Not as much as I drink.
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@polygeekery said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@m_adams said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@polygeekery different strokes...
But we all know that you won't use it to put out a fire...
God no. Not as much as I drink.
It is true, pouring JD on a fire is not a good plan.
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So tonight the oldest had homework. It was a cool experiment to do with a kindergartener. They are covering sharks and rays in class and how they can sense other animals around them by sensing the electrical impulses they send out. The experiment was that they sent home a balloon and you blindfold the kiddo, inflate the balloon and rub it on something to generate static electricity. Then you hold it next to your child's arm close enough that they can feel the static charge. Kind of cool.
So I sent the teacher an email about something tangentially related and she thought it would be a cool experiment for class. So tomorrow I am going to take an oscilloscope to his class and show them how our bodies are antenna for common mode noise. How we always have a little bit of AC running through our bodies from all of the electricity around us. If you've never done the experiment, if you touch your finger to an oscilloscope probe you can measure a 60hz (or 50hz for Euroweenies) signal in your body.
Hopefully it goes well. My kiddos have always thought it was pretty cool. Let's see how well that translates to a group of 22 six year olds.
If anyone has any corrections to make to what I have said, I am more than happy to hear them. But I also don't think I need to get in to what a capacitive voltage divider is either. They are kindergarteners. ;)
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@polygeekery said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
If you've never done the experiment, if you touch your finger to an oscilloscope probe you can measure a 60hz (or 50hz for Euroweenies) signal in your body.
At least you're not in Japan. They've got both…
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@polygeekery said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
$3 at a thrift store ended up costing me ~$100.
BTDT. With a "free" kitten.
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@polygeekery said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
Hopefully it goes well. My kiddos have always thought it was pretty cool.
It went really well. All of the kiddos thought it was really cool. They were pretty fascinated by how their bodies have electrical signals running through them that they cannot feel. It was all a lot of fun. I even went early and had lunch with my son.
One of the highlights was when the teacher was demonstrating to the class and she noticed that my trace on the oscilloscope looked a lot different than hers. She asked the kids why they thought that might be.
"Because he's a lot older than you are?"
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@polygeekery
Clearly the kiddos don’t know you well enough to know that’s the asshole trace.
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@polygeekery said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
Because he's a lot older than you are
Whereas in reality it's the interference from the JD?
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@izzion it could be an arson trace.
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@jaloopa said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@polygeekery said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
Because he's a lot older than you are
Whereas in reality it's the interference from the JD?
...that is possible.
Many years ago I got so hungover at a party that a biometric access control locked me out until I felt better. It is kind of a funny story actually.
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@polygeekery said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@m_adams what if I don't want to pee my pants?
Says the guy who guzzles JD. :/
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Molly has discovered her own name. Everything now belongs to "Mah wee"
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@lorne-kates Sienna, for a long time, thought her name was You, because we'd show her photos of herself and say "it's you".
She's now starting to pick up "Me" and "nenna"
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@jaloopa said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@lorne-kates Sienna, for a long time, thought her name was You, because we'd show her photos of herself and say "it's you".
She's now starting to pick up "Me" and "nenna"
For the similar reasons my kids thought their names were "No".
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For a week my office chair has been occasionally locking up when I roll. I have swept and vacuumed my office twice because it seemed like I was rolling up on to a little pebble dropped from my shoe or a piece of grit or something. The flooring in the office hides dirt rather well so I never saw anything. Finally I got annoyed enough that I flipped the chair over to see if there was some issue with the wheels.
It was a string that looks like it is from a yo-yo.
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@polygeekery said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
For a week my office chair has been occasionally locking up when I roll. I have swept and vacuumed my office twice because it seemed like I was rolling up on to a little pebble dropped from my shoe or a piece of grit or something. The flooring in the office hides dirt rather well so I never saw anything. Finally I got annoyed enough that I flipped the chair over to see if there was some issue with the wheels.
It was a string that looks like it is from a yo-yo.
Mine's easy. Dog hair. Which is pretty much impossible to get out once it's tangled... (I've debated torching it, but I'm not sure I have a gas mask adequate for the job)
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@dcon said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@polygeekery said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
For a week my office chair has been occasionally locking up when I roll. I have swept and vacuumed my office twice because it seemed like I was rolling up on to a little pebble dropped from my shoe or a piece of grit or something. The flooring in the office hides dirt rather well so I never saw anything. Finally I got annoyed enough that I flipped the chair over to see if there was some issue with the wheels.
It was a string that looks like it is from a yo-yo.
Mine's easy. Dog hair. Which is pretty much impossible to get out once it's tangled... (I've debated torching it, but I'm not sure I have a gas mask adequate for the job)
Drench it in sodium hydroxide. Metal should be fine, though some types of plastic may disagree with the process.
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@polygeekery That's Doctor Who, isn't it?
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@pie_flavor I think so, but I am not for sure. I did a GIS search for "pyrokinesis gif".
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@rhywden said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@dcon said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@polygeekery said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
For a week my office chair has been occasionally locking up when I roll. I have swept and vacuumed my office twice because it seemed like I was rolling up on to a little pebble dropped from my shoe or a piece of grit or something. The flooring in the office hides dirt rather well so I never saw anything. Finally I got annoyed enough that I flipped the chair over to see if there was some issue with the wheels.
It was a string that looks like it is from a yo-yo.
Mine's easy. Dog hair. Which is pretty much impossible to get out once it's tangled... (I've debated torching it, but I'm not sure I have a gas mask adequate for the job)
Drench it in sodium hydroxide. Metal should be fine, though some types of plastic may disagree with the process.
I wonder how well drenching my entire home in NaOH would work. Because that would be the only way it would ever be free of dog hair.
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@polygeekery
As an added bonus, Liz is also teaching her daughter about the value of offline backups!
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@izzion said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@polygeekery
As an added bonus, Liz is also teaching her daughter about the value of offline backups!Not to mention offsite backups. If she used a service like ours she would not have to worry.
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@polygeekery
Although assuming Liz's daughter is your standard school kid, she would probably pop her mouth off, something like...You can't harm my save files, I already have offline backups!
Oh, like that USB key you thought I didn't know anything about? I've already confiscated it.
That's so unfair, I'm gonna have my offsite backup provider burn your house down!
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@polygeekery Hmm, I wonder if my son has changed his Steam password. If not...
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@hardwaregeek people have been disowned for less...
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"Mommy, how is white bread different than regular bread?"
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@greybeard said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
"Mommy, how is white bread different than regular bread?"
Nowadays? They omitted the brown sugar that makes normal bread brown.
Doesn't like the consistency of white bread.
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2 year olds are super cute so that you don't beat them. Natural selection at its finest.
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@polygeekery said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
2 year olds are super cute so that you don't beat them. Natural selection at its finest.
I've often said that babies are cute as an evolutionary defense mechanism. The ones that weren't died horribly--the rest were cute enough to make us forget how much of a pain they are.
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@benjamin-hall said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
to make us forget how much of a pain they are.
"Babies are the best birth control"?
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@izzion said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@benjamin-hall said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
to make us forget how much of a pain they are.
"Babies are the best birth control"?
Funny story--I have some friends who have an 8-month old (their first). The wife is the one who's talking about having another, and the husband's the one pushing back. Somehow the pain gets forgotten...