:baby_symbol: Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit
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@acrow
That's the release lever, it's designed to be omitted so your youngling can't hang on for dear life
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@acrow said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
Fully restored/finished.
And missing a spoke.
Give 'em the benefit of the doubt. That was the before picture! Just imagine how good it must look now, after being restored!
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My sister just sent this around:
2-year-olds are fun. After establishing that Grandma and Grandpa X are MY mom and dad, and that Grandma and Grandpa Y are DAD's mom and Dad...
: So who is MY mom and dad? [Obviously hoping for someone cool.]
Me: Well, it's me. I'm your mom, and Dad's your...
: Oh.
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My son's school is giving them two "catchup days" where students can work on assignments they haven't completed yet and get help from teachers. If they're done with their assignments, the teachers can let them go or give them other "enrichment" work (bet that's popular) or whatever.
His day starts at 7:30. So sitting here at a little after 8:00 I hear the TV come on. I ask if he has any assignments for other classes and he's not sure, but maybe (of course any parent knows this means yes). So I tell him that he should be working on his assignments now instead of goofing off.
"But I do that in 4th period." That's his study-hall like period. So I spent several minutes trying to explain why he shouldn't be wasting this time and should be taking this time to get stuff done, because yada yada yada. He looked at me like I'd taken a dump on the floor or something. But eventually I convinced him to go check stuff.
A few minutes later the TV is back on, so I logged into the school's system to look for missing assignments. There were a bunch, but mostly older stuff. My experience with this system is that by the time the teachers grade stuff and you can see a missing assignment it's usually too late to do anything about it, but who knows?
So I call him in and show him all the missed stuff and ask how he confirmed that he was done. It boiled down to him remembering one teacher assigning something due tomorrow that he already turned in. So now I told him to go back over each teacher's google classroom page or whatever and look at what they've assigned and make sure he's done it all.
Good lord.
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@boomzilla That sounds a lot like my son. He's in college, so he should know better, but...
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@Mason_Wheeler Related to that:
I don't wanna pumpkin pie. I hate pumpkin!
4 days later
Can I get a fourth helping of pumpkin soup?
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@Mason_Wheeler said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
Oh good, a chance to teach that marketing is lying.
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@Mason_Wheeler said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
My sister just sent this around:
2-year-olds are fun. After establishing that Grandma and Grandpa X are MY mom and dad, and that Grandma and Grandpa Y are DAD's mom and Dad...
: So who is MY mom and dad? [Obviously hoping for someone cool.]
Me: Well, it's me. I'm your mom, and Dad's your...
: Oh.
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My 7 yo broke her first board today.
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@Mason_Wheeler said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
I mean, in fairness, the stove doesn't appear to be on...
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@mikehurley said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@Mason_Wheeler said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
I mean, in fairness, the stove doesn't appear to be on...
There is a story of a small kid putting a baby in a lit stove (one of that old wood burning ones) because it was cold. It was saved by their mother in time
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Introduced my son to this tonight:
Why did I do that, you ask? Well, my wife gave my son the time worn advice to never stick your dick in crazy. So I figured it was time.
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@boomzilla said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
Introduced my son to this tonight:
Why did I do that, you ask? Well, my wife gave my son the time worn advice to never stick your dick in crazy. So I figured it was time.
Make's sense.
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@Karla said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
Make's sense.
In my experience, make has very little sense.
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Yesterday, after returning from work, I had to take the whole family to the grocery store. After shopping, when we were getting packed into the car, an episode happened where my kid got stuck between the seat and the front chair. My wife was returning the shopping cart at that moment, so she did not see it, and she asked me why our eldest was crying. I thought about it for a moment, and realized I had no words to describe the whole thing.
So after we got back home, I drew this short comic to try and explain what happened:
The kid was wearing winter boots, and I think they got stuck on the kid-seat, in case you're wondering.
Now, remember, I drive a Nissan Note. That footwell is not large.
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@acrow said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
Nissan Note
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@Luhmann said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@acrow said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
Nissan Note
Fits 2 adults, 2 Isofix safety seats, a BabyJogger City Mini carriage, and 6 grocery bags. Has enough headroom that my hair is not constantly brushing the ceiling (and I'm 188cm). Crisp steering. A superb view all around. Never failed to start in the middle of Finnish winter. And the 1.2 liter engine has managed to get me up all hills so far, if little else.
All this for €11k, in Finland. So **** you.
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And, yes, I have to keep telling myself that. Taking a €30k loan for something bigger and better would be a bad idea.
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@boomzilla said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
Introduced my son to this tonight:
Why did I do that, you ask? Well, my wife gave my son the time worn advice to never stick your dick in crazy. So I figured it was time.
They took that from How I Met Your Mother.
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@abarker said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@boomzilla said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
Introduced my son to this tonight:
Why did I do that, you ask? Well, my wife gave my son the time worn advice to never stick your dick in crazy. So I figured it was time.
They took that from How I Met Your Mother.
I think this one is canon.
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Also, my son can tell you who that is, what kind of blaster that is, how many darts are in that load, his relationship with Hasbro® (corporate shill), his relationship with the Nerf® community (lost a lot of respect due to being corporate shill), etc.
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@HardwareGeek said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
Also, my son can tell you who that is, what kind of blaster that is, how many darts are in that load, his relationship with Hasbro® (corporate shill), his relationship with the Nerf® community (lost a lot of respect due to being corporate shill), etc.
It's you, isn't it?
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@abarker Some YTer whose name I don't remember (because, frankly, I don't care and didn't care while my son was telling me). Apparently, there's a fair amount of sour grapes in the community, too, because this guy's video has 100x the views of other people participating in the same "X-Shot Crush" challenge, despite being active for less time and having fewer subscribers, because of this meme.
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@HardwareGeek said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
Also, my son can tell you who that is, what kind of blaster that is, how many darts are in that load, his relationship with Hasbro® (corporate shill), his relationship with the Nerf® community (lost a lot of respect due to being corporate shill), etc.
My son used to watch a lot of these videos, too. Now he seems to be hooked on Linus Tech Tips.
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@boomzilla said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
Now he seems to be hooked on Linus Tech Tips.
As a parent, do you ever just shake your head and wonder where your training went wrong?
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@izzion multiple times per day.
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@izzion My experience so far is that we know (or think we know) exactly where we've gone wrong. And it usually has something to do with or or both.
I regret especially all the . I really should spend more time playing with the kids. But after a day of -related , and the resultant , I just can't bear any more loud 3yo-level commentary. Even if it's now coming from an actual 3yo.
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Generic Parenting Advice :
If you're choosing a new car due to increase in family size, pay attention to seatbelt buckles. Backseat buckles that recede into the seat may be nice for carrying cargo. But they make buckling a 3yo... more difficult. Like, need to dive into the lap of the kid, so you can use both hands on the buckling in the middle of the car, kind of difficult.
Bonus advice:
Make engaging of the child-lock of the car door a part of your car seat installation routine. No matter how small they are, they will not need to open the door from the inside. And this way they won't surprise you by opening the door mid-ride by the time you get a 3yo seat.
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@acrow said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
And this way they won't surprise you by opening the door mid-ride by the time you get a 3yo seat.
And that's when you discover what this is for:
(that's [edit: above] what mine is like, from googling I didn't realize some required tools. dumb.)
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@acrow said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
Make engaging of the child-lock of the car door a part of your car seat installation routine.
When my kids were of the age that that was necessary/appropriate, I don't think we ever disengaged it. Also, we never removed the car seats, if we could avoid it. It's
hardermore difficult — no ; no QooC — than you think to install them properly. If they're installed properly, you should be able to grab them and pull or push in any direction, forcefully, and they should not move at all. That's almost impossible to achieve in any car I've ever owned; newer cars that have an attachment point for the top of the car seat are much better, but still, the padded upholstery that makes it tolerable for a human to sit in the back seat makes it very difficult to tighten the straps sufficiently for an ankle-biter to sit there safely.Also, if you strictly follow the car seat age/size/weight requirements (i.e., kids less than X years, Y weight, and Z height must be in approved seats), most kids won't meet the height and weight requirements for years after they've met the age requirement. At least mine didn't.
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@HardwareGeek said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
Also, we never removed the car seats, if we could avoid it. It's more difficult than you think to install them properly.
This.
Also the main reason why Isofix was a mandatory requirement in my last car shopping. It made installation almost trivial.
Also allows for a dock, for the newborn's bucket. So we could strap him to the seat indoors (Finnish winter is harsh), just carry him to the car like a basket, and click he went to the dock.
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@HardwareGeek said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
most kids won't meet the height and weight requirements for years after they've met the age requirement. At least mine didn't.
Mine did. Too young for his current seat when we bought it. But too tall for his previous one, even if still within the age limit.
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@acrow said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
Also the main reason why Isofix was a mandatory requirement in my last car shopping. It made installation almost trivial.
Also allows for a dock, for the newborn's bucket. So we could strap him to the seat indoors (Finnish winter is harsh), just carry him to the car like a basket, and click he went to the dock.Those have been around for a long time even without having to use the Isofix stuff. We had it for my daughter 20 years ago using seat belts to secure it. Very convenient even when you live in a nice climate.
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My son finally managed to hit the soft part of the playpen floor when falling down today. 1.5 years and countless of falls face-first. But this was the first time that we've seen him hit the camping mattresses, which cover merely 95% of the playpen floor.
Woo-hoo! :raise_the_roof:
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I've mentioned it elsewhere, but my son is not finishing schoolwork, and so this is having a big effect on his grade.
Last week I told him that he needed to let me know whenever he finished an assignment. He could write it down on paper, email it to me, whatever. Of course, this didn't happen on the day I asked him to (Thursday) nor the next day. He worked on stuff on Sunday and after some threats, he finally put some data into a Google sheet for what he did.
Of course, it was laid out in a dumb way, with the subjects going down column A and the assignments across the respective rows. OK, that would be fine for one time, but he's supposed to be doing this every day, so I transposed it so that dates are along column A, with the subjects across the top row.
So a few minutes ago he came out to make lunch. I asked if he'd seen my changes...
No.
Oh, so you haven't finished any assignments today?
defensively Yes, I have!
So why haven't you logged them!?! This needs to be part of your process! Finish something and log it. Right away.Fuck.
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@boomzilla said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
I've mentioned it elsewhere, but my son is not finishing schoolwork, and so this is having a big effect on his grade.
Last week I told him that he needed to let me know whenever he finished an assignment. He could write it down on paper, email it to me, whatever. Of course, this didn't happen on the day I asked him to (Thursday) nor the next day. He worked on stuff on Sunday and after some threats, he finally put some data into a Google sheet for what he did.
Of course, it was laid out in a dumb way, with the subjects going down column A and the assignments across the respective rows. OK, that would be fine for one time, but he's supposed to be doing this every day, so I transposed it so that dates are along column A, with the subjects across the top row.
So a few minutes ago he came out to make lunch. I asked if he'd seen my changes...
No.
Oh, so you haven't finished any assignments today?
defensively Yes, I have!
So why haven't you logged them!?! This needs to be part of your process! Finish something and log it. Right away.Fuck.
@boomzilla is growing into a Project Manager so fast
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@dcon said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
(that's [edit: above] what mine is like, from googling I didn't realize some required tools. dumb.)
It's so the child can't easily manipulate the switch themselves during the half a second you're not looking.
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First day back in school!
His bus comes at 7:06. After getting up and showering, I came down at about 6:20. I didn't see him downstairs, so I figured he was up getting ready, and went about my normal business. Then I started getting worried that he was goofing off upstairs. So I went up, but he wasn't there.
Turned out that he'd gone out to the bus stop at about 6:10. So I hauled him back, because his mom wanted to get pictures for the first day of school and say goodbye, etc.
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@boomzilla said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
Turned out that he'd gone out to the bus stop at about 6:10.
Sounds like somebody is excited!
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@dcon yeah, looking forward to hearing about it this afternoon, though it'll probably just be a shrug and, "OK."
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@boomzilla said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@dcon yeah, looking forward to hearing about it this afternoon, though it'll probably just be a shrug and, "OK."
Have you ever tried "I'll give you $20 if you can write me 5 sentences that describe your day"?
The most interesting part is how long it takes them to decide whether to take the offer or not.More seriously though, I hear you're supposed to ask them more specific questions. Apparently "how was your day" is too broad, they struggle for a moment on how to describe a full day's experience in few sentences, and finally settle for "OK".
And then there's, of course, "relativity":
So apparently more specific questions can pave the way for them to open up a bit more about their day.
Like, "How did you like your lunch?", or "Did you spot any bullying?", or even "So how's your school building maintenance-wise?".