:baby_symbol: Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit
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@Polygeekery said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
my son has more snark than is healthy for a child of his age.
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@Polygeekery Tell him to include a "Like and subscribe" blurb halfway through!
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@Rhywden done.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
Reminds me of my favorite line from Lilo and Stitch:
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@Rhywden said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@Polygeekery Tell him to include a "Like and subscribe" blurb halfway through!
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@Rhywden I think I'm going to try this chain of things at least once with my classes. Just to bug them.
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@Karla said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@Luhmann said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@Karla
Who hasn't played the "is this shit or not?" Game?Just recently, my daughter's crayon box fell over. While we were picking it up, my oldest picks up something that could resemble shit, and was like ew whats this?
Now, I was pretty sure it was not shit.
So I grab it.
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This is a finish your own story.In my story it's a Snickers bar that just fell out of my pocket seconds previously. Still in the wrapper.
What, you said to finish my own story.
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@HardwareGeek said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
My daughter even does extra math work. :proud_parent:
That's definitely my child, I asked for homework in math in early grade school.
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@PotatoEngineer said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
Enter COVID-19: I'm not commuting anymore, and I can do the sleep training. So for the past month-plus, I've been putting my daughter back in bed about every 5 minutes at night, until she stops climbing out.
Well, it's been a month, and she's not going to sleep easily. It usually takes 1-2 hours for her to fall asleep after we start putting her to bed at 8pm. She knows the score, and she knows that she can play once I walk out of the room. The only good news is that I'm no longer going in every 5 minutes; instead, it's every 15 minutes (because my wife persuaded me to concede), and I'm playing Fallout 4 while I wait.
If she's still getting out and playing at the 90-minute mark, I usually give her some melatonin. Better living through chemistry!
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@boomzilla said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
They're exercising so hard they're burping?
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From the next room I hear my wife talking to Lil'Dude.
"I want you to pick up all the toys you've scattered all over your room."
"Well mommy, you can want in one hand and poop in the other and see which one fills up first."He says it, I'm the one who gets in trouble. In what world is this okay?!?
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@Polygeekery said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
From the next room I hear my wife talking to Lil'Dude.
"I want you to pick up all the toys you've scattered all over your room."
"Well mommy, you can want in one hand and poop in the other and see which one fills up first."He says it, I'm the one who gets in trouble. In what world is this okay?!?
She knew what she was getting into when she married you.
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@mikehurley said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@Polygeekery said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
From the next room I hear my wife talking to Lil'Dude.
"I want you to pick up all the toys you've scattered all over your room."
"Well mommy, you can want in one hand and poop in the other and see which one fills up first."He says it, I'm the one who gets in trouble. In what world is this okay?!?
She knew what she was getting into when she married you.
Did she? Could any woman really know what they were getting into?
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@Karla said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
Could any woman really know what they were getting into?
That's a two-way street. Men are at least as unsuspecting as the women are.
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@HardwareGeek
Men only care about what they're getting in to
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@HardwareGeek said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@Karla said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
Could any woman really know what they were getting into?
That's a two-way street. Men are at least as unsuspecting as the women are.
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@djls45 said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
We have some family friends who have girls around the same ages as a couple of my brothers and me. Their mom could be a walking blonde joke, except she's a brunette. Whenever we'd get together, her husband would inevitably ask her, "Can I tell them?" and she would reply, "No! You can't tell them that!" Then a few minutes later, "Can I tell them?" Eventually, she would give in and say, "You can tell them." We would get together every week after church for dinner, so you can imagine what their life was like.
I'm missing something here. Can I tell them what?
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@Polygeekery said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@Rhywden she's used to my shenanigans.
Wouldn't it be more accurate to say that she's used to your henanigans?
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@Vixen said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@Karla said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
I try to go to be too early I wake up around 2 AM, wide awake.
OMG...... so i'm not the only person who if i sleep at all between 15:00 and 21:00 then i'm going to wake up at 03:00 and be unable to get back to sleep.........?!
I'm not seeing the down side. Is there supposed to be a down side?
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@brie said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@Vixen said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@Karla said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
I try to go to be too early I wake up around 2 AM, wide awake.
OMG...... so i'm not the only person who if i sleep at all between 15:00 and 21:00 then i'm going to wake up at 03:00 and be unable to get back to sleep.........?!
I'm not seeing the down side. Is there supposed to be a down side?
Being exhausted for the work day.
If I didn't need the sleep, it would be fine because then I would either do something useful or entertaining.
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My daughter just asked me how the first person spawned.
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@Karla said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
My daughter just asked me how the first person spawned.
var player = GameController.InstatiateObject(typeof(Player));
player.SetView(FirstPerson);
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@GOG said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@Karla said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
My daughter just asked me how the first person spawned.
var player = GameController.InstatiateObject(typeof(Player));
player.SetView(FirstPerson);Much to my chagrin, she has not shown interest in programming yet.
Though I think I can give her a pass until at least 4th grade. My earliest memory is little BASIC programs on a TRS-80 when I was in 5th grade.
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@Karla Now that I think about it, my beginnings were pretty similar - except it was on the MSX and more around 4th grade (I guess; different education system, but the age bracket seems to check out).
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@GOG said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@Karla Now that I think about it, my beginnings were pretty similar - except it was on the MSX and more around 4th grade (I guess; different education system, but the age bracket seems to check out).
I was also lucky that my grandmother also had a TRS-80 at the time. I'm so proud of her for being such an early adopter.
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@Karla Grandmother, eh? Now I am seriously impressed.
On a completely unrelated note, the wife and I just had a brief conversation about Children's Stories That Will Scar Them For Life. H.C. Andersen, for example, is one author that I'd hunt down with extreme prejudice, if he weren't dead.
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@GOG said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@Karla Grandmother, eh? Now I am seriously impressed.
On a completely unrelated note, the wife and I just had a brief conversation about Children's Stories That Will Scar Them For Life. H.C. Andersen, for example, is one author that I'd hunt down with extreme prejudice, if he weren't dead.
Meh. Kids are a lot more resilient than we give them credit for.
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@Mason_Wheeler I'm talking about the stuff that left me scarred for life, 'coz, y'know FOR KIDS!
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@Mason_Wheeler @GOG have either of you ever read a traditional book of fairy tales?
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@PleegWat Yes. I had one when I was in elementary school. It had some really crazy stuff in it. (Not to mention an unabridged Thousand And One Nights; I don't think my parents had any clue what sort of content was actually in that book when they got it for me!)
None of it left me traumatized in the slightest.
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@Mason_Wheeler said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
None of it left me traumatized in the slightest.
You say that, but... Gestures
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@PleegWat Define "traditional". Does Aesop count, or are we talking folklore studies here?
But, yeah, I've read a bunch of pretty "non-literary" stuff (as in: people collecting folk tales, rather than writing their own) and I found it, overall, less depressing and all around nasty than most of what the "we're gonna teach you some important life lessons" crowd has tended to put out.
Honestly, I find the gory details one finds in traditional tales (which is what I assume you're referring to) much easier to stomach than the emotional torture some folks seem to find extremely important to put into their stories. Since I already mentioned Andersen, let me go on record saying that stuff like The Steadfast Tin Soldier and The Little Match Girl should be rated as "unsafe for everyone, should not be read by anyone".
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@Jaloopa Oh, sure, I went through traumatic experiences as a kid. But never from books I read.
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@Mason_Wheeler said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
Not to mention an unabridged Thousand And One Nights; I don't think my parents had any clue what sort of content was actually in that book when they got it for me!
Yeah, that's like the folk-tale equivalent of anime, all of which is obviously for kids, 'coz it's animated, amirite?
I do have to admire some of the more... interesting... descriptions found therein. I was going to say "euphemisms", but it's not like there's any doubt about what is being described there.
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@GOG said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@PleegWat Define "traditional". Does Aesop count, or are we talking folklore studies here?
But, yeah, I've read a bunch of pretty "non-literary" stuff (as in: people collecting folk tales, rather than writing their own) and I found it, overall, less depressing and all around nasty than most of what the "we're gonna teach you some important life lessons" crowd has tended to put out.
Honestly, I find the gory details one finds in traditional tales (which is what I assume you're referring to) much easier to stomach than the emotional torture some folks seem to find extremely important to put into their stories. Since I already mentioned Andersen, let me go on record saying that stuff like The Steadfast Tin Soldier and The Little Match Girl should be rated as "unsafe for everyone, should not be read by anyone".
There's an essay by Isaac Asimov on the subject of Faerie Tales that I remember reading (but can't find online). He's responding to a parent complaining about the "intensity" and "bad messages" from some of his fiction, and saying "why can't we go back to the nice faerie tales as childhood books." He then meticulously goes through Hansel and Gretel (and not even the most original/dark version), showing how the entire tale is designed to scare the living daylights out of kids. Parent died and survivor got remarried? Be afraid. Be very afraid. Parent takes you out on a walk? Carry stones so you can find your way home when they inevitably dump you out there. Something looks enticing? It's a trap. Someone offers you help? Be afraid, it's probably a witch. Etc.
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@Benjamin-Hall Seems like Stranger Danger is older than we think.
Seriously though, many of those lessons were good at the time - especially if you happened to be born in a position to inherit any wealth. (I have a hard time imagining peasants trying to get rid of children from a former marriage, but that sort of thing happened among the upper classes depressingly often across all sorts of cultures.)
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@Benjamin-Hall said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@GOG said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@PleegWat Define "traditional". Does Aesop count, or are we talking folklore studies here?
But, yeah, I've read a bunch of pretty "non-literary" stuff (as in: people collecting folk tales, rather than writing their own) and I found it, overall, less depressing and all around nasty than most of what the "we're gonna teach you some important life lessons" crowd has tended to put out.
Honestly, I find the gory details one finds in traditional tales (which is what I assume you're referring to) much easier to stomach than the emotional torture some folks seem to find extremely important to put into their stories. Since I already mentioned Andersen, let me go on record saying that stuff like The Steadfast Tin Soldier and The Little Match Girl should be rated as "unsafe for everyone, should not be read by anyone".
There's an essay by Isaac Asimov on the subject of Faerie Tales that I remember reading (but can't find online). He's responding to a parent complaining about the "intensity" and "bad messages" from some of his fiction, and saying "why can't we go back to the nice faerie tales as childhood books." He then meticulously goes through Hansel and Gretel (and not even the most original/dark version), showing how the entire tale is designed to scare the living daylights out of kids. Parent died and survivor got remarried? Be afraid. Be very afraid. Parent takes you out on a walk? Carry stones so you can find your way home when they inevitably dump you out there. Something looks enticing? It's a trap. Someone offers you help? Be afraid, it's probably a witch. Etc.
I read once, (don't remember where, in some magazine article somewhere, back when those were still a thing,) that the true message of Cinderella is a mother telling her daughter, "the absolute worst thing that could ever possibly happen to you is for me to be gone and your father to marry some other woman."
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@Mason_Wheeler said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
None of it left me traumatized in the slightest.
Or so you claim ...
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@Karla said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
My daughter just asked me how the first person spawned.
A fascinating tale.
Once upon a time, there were the Arthropods, Molluscs and Chordates, and everything was Good.
The Chordates sought new heights and realms to inhabit, thus their Tetrapods found ways of life beyond the seas. To cement their independence, a group called the Amniotes made eggs that could endure outside water, and thus the Amniotes could inhabit lands far from the seas.
But the Amniotes grew lofty and conceited. In their complacency, some managed to become Shit, and hence the Synapsids arose. By the time they noticed what had happened, the Shitness was innate to their being. Scorned by the Sauropsids, who had remained True, the Synapsids decided they would endeavour to become the Most Shit.
And hence, the Mammals were born. They distinguished themselves by disgusting habits that even they themselves were put off by when spoken of without euphemism.
But even the Mammals could not delude themselves about how well the world had gone on in spite of their Shitness, and so they drafted a dastardly plan: if the Mammals were to make everything else Shit, they would no longer suffer alone or be so painfully reminded of how they had fallen.
To accomplish these goals, the Mammals developed their Shittest specimen yet, one that could effect the massive undertaking that would be to make the whole world as Shit as them.
And thus, the first person was spawned.