:baby_symbol: Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit
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Last night I joked about something with my fifth grader and no more than the words came out of my mouth I knew with absolute certainty that this would lead to him at some point getting sent to the office and us having to probably meet with the principal at his school.
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@boomzilla said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
Yeah, you're supposed to use it so the kids leave you alone while you watch football, not soccer.
And while we're on the subject of using furniture incorrectly, what the hell is with the end table blocking the fireplace?
And don't get me started on the TV over the fireplace.
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This morning, before I've had coffee
"What is a bacteria-fag?"
"Wait.....what?"
"A bacteria-fag, this word."-shows me a word in a book-
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Paging @HardwareGeek for a short lesson on the word's original Greek roots, and how it may or may not relate to its modern English pronunciation.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
Paging @HardwareGeek for a short lesson on the word's original Greek roots, and how it may or may not relate to its modern English pronunciation.
I'm sure you weren't serious, but :
(Paraphrased from Etymology Online + Wikipedia)
Bacteria comes from Modern Latin, which in turn comes from Greek βακτήριον (bakterion — "small staff" because "rod"-shaped bacteria were the first discovered), diminutive of βακτρον or βακτηρία [none of the meanings translate to anything related in Modern Greek, according to Google] (baktron — "stick, rod, staff, cudgel") Pronunciation in Modern Greek would be something like vahk-tear-ee-ohn.-phage is from the Greek verb φαγείν (phagein — "to eat"). Pronunciation in Modern Greek is something like fah
gh--yeen,where the "gh" is a sound that doesn't exist in English, a back-of-the-throat "gargle", like "kh", but voicedNever mind; that's how it's pronounced before α, ο, ω, etc.; before ε, η or ι it's pronounced almost like "y".
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@HardwareGeek I was perfectly serious. I wanted to look it up myself, but
and even if I had not been serious, I'm going to say that I was, because doing otherwise would necessitate to admit that you're right, and I can't have that kind of thing on WTDWTF
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Baby-sitting my niece for the first time. She didn't want to go to bed. She is currently in bed, but I'm still not sure if I passed.
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@PleegWat said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
Baby-sitting my niece for the first time. She didn't want to go to bed. She is currently in bed, but I'm still not sure if I passed.
If she's alive and there's no blood, you did fine.
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@homoBalkanus said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@PleegWat said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
Baby-sitting my niece for the first time. She didn't want to go to bed. She is currently in bed, but I'm still not sure if I passed.
If she's alive and there's no blood, you did fine.
If there's no blood, that's a big problem. I hope there's plenty of blood that's all safely in arteries and veins where it belongs.
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@boomzilla Glad to know I don't have a kid out there.
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@Zecc image title added for the non-parent.
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@boomzilla said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@Zecc image title added for the non-parent.
Ha - I figured that out before I hovered.
My mom missed a couple of those letters - I don't think I ever heard her curse. She did, however, break a wooden spoon on my ass once.
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@Polygeekery said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
So today I ran across a really good deal on a Melissa and Doug 3.5' tall stuffed penguin. Our 8 year old really loves penguins. But I didn't give it to him tonight, I wanted my wife to weigh in on it, whether it should be a reward for something like good grades this term or something. We decided to just give it to him. Various ideas were presented and then it hit me.
Every morning he wakes up at ~6:30am and tromps down the hallway to the kitchen to get something to drink and a snack. In the morning when he turns the corner he is going to come face to face with the last thing he expected.....a 3.5' tall penguin....in our kitchen, just standing there.
I am absolutely kicking myself for not having some motion activated sound device to rig up, but I've no fucking idea what sounds penguins make. I think a Halloween screech owl sound would work though.
If I have to clean piss off the floor in the morning it will all be worth it.
I assume that he found where the penguin had been stored since the move as this is what I woke up to this morning:
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@acrow said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
if you need to detach ticks.
If you're not squeamish about things with more than four legs, like someone we know, you could also just grab them directly with your fingertips to pull them off.
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@HardwareGeek said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@Polygeekery said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
Everyone is their own best friend.
Except when they're their own worst enemy.
They can be both at the same time.
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@izzion said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@Polygeekery said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
A real picture would involve padding his pants defensively.
Wise parents know to have the child pull them down slightly.
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@DogsB said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
Some people need to disconnect from electronics.
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@GuyWhoKilledBear said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
watch football, not soccer.
it has foot on it's name, football == soccer, you should name the American football something else, like handegg
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@sockpuppet7 said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@GuyWhoKilledBear said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
watch football, not soccer.
it has foot on it's name, football == soccer, you should name the American football something else, like handegg
The etymology of "association football" comes from the fact that it's played "on foot" as opposed to polo, which is played on horseback. The connotation is that only poor people played it.
The etymology of gridiron football is that back in the day, the ball used in the game was 12 inches long. (They shortened the ball to its current 11.5 inches in the 1930s to make the forward pass easier to execute.)
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@djls45 said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@acrow said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
if you need to detach ticks.
If you're not squeamish about things with more than four legs, like someone we know, you could also just grab them directly with your fingertips to pull them off.
If you pull a tick just from their lower body, it's possible for their neck to detach, leaving the head embedded in skin. And it'll cause an inflammation. So it's best to take hold of their head when pulling out.
Plus, some are just too small to pull with fingers:
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@acrow the fat shamingthread is
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https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2021/01/what-its-like-growing-family-never-lies/617773/
This was a very interesting read. People with kids, how do you make sure your kid has a balanced view of this? If you teach them to just lie only when needed it might easily pave the road to lying left right and center and then there is the other extreme like the article. I've always been fascinated with this aspect of parenting and have never gotten satisfactory answers. Or is this all wing it and hope for the best?
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@stillwater said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
Or is this all wing it and hope for the best?
All parenting is wing it and hope for the best. None of us really know wtf we're doing.
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Pro-tip: If you vacuum-pack the emergency-diapers that you leave in the car, they'll survive winter conditions without absorbing moisture. This way they'll be 100% dry and effective when you need them.
Turns out that diapers vacuum-pack to about 25% of their initial volume, which is also a plus.
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@acrow And what about the user acceptance test with your kid peeing into such a diaper?
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@BernieTheBernie I'll let you know when we have had occasion to use them.
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I'm suspicious. If this works, it could save diaper producers and grocery stores a ton in shipping. So why don't they?
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@PleegWat Because the compact material won't be able to catch a quick voluminous efflux from your kid's bladder. Like compacted soil where heavy rain won't enter but flow away on the surface. That's my guess, that's why I asked for a UAT result.
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@PleegWat Diapers in an unopened package are already packed rather tightly. I doubt I could re-insert all the diapers back into their original packaging after taking them out of it. The difference to actual vacuum packing is probably only a few percent.
That 25% savings is only when compared to an individual loose diaper.
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@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
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@izzion The difference between these test types is here rather fluent.
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@BernieTheBernie said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@izzion The difference between these test types is here rather
fluentflatulent.
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I'd just open one of the diapers and put it on Dolt#2 here at home to test whether they still work, like a proper UAT. But that'd mean I'd have to go get it from the car, 3 floors down and a 100 yard walk. And then I'd have to vacuum-pack another one to replace it. And remember to leave it in the car instead of forgetting it into my backpack for days like the last batch.
Yeah...
Testing in production it is.
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@acrow said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
I'd just open one of the diapers and put it on Dolt#2 here at home to test whether they still work, like a proper UAT. But that'd mean I'd have to go get it from the car, 3 floors down and a 100 yard walk. And then I'd have to vacuum-pack another one to replace it. And remember to leave it in the car instead of forgetting it into my backpack for days like the last batch.
Yeah...
Testing in production it is.Shouldn't be a huge problem. The stuff in there isn't called "superabsorber" for nothing.
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@homoBalkanus said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@PleegWat said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
Baby-sitting my niece for the first time. She didn't want to go to bed. She is currently in bed, but I'm still not sure if I passed.
If she's alive and there's no blood, you did fine.
I know that I am late to the part on this one, but here is my opinion (that precisely no one asked for but I am giving it anyway):
@PleegWat, you're an uncle babysitting your niece. If she is still alive, had fun, got fed, isn't bleeding, and not psychologically damaged, you passed with flying colors. It doesn't matter if she normally goes to bed at 7pm and instead fell asleep at 3am while on your watch. If she is safe and her parents got to get out and be normal people for a little while then you did just fine.
Babysitters always ask what time our kids go to bed. I tell them that we try to have them in bed by 8:30, but sometimes that ends up being after 9:00, and as long as they are safe and have fun I don't really care if they are still awake when we get home but they will start being moody little dickheads after 10pm so keep that in mind.
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@BernieTheBernie said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@izzion The difference between these test types is here rather
fluentsalient.What was the original? Perhaps there is a more precise option available, maybe even one we stole from Allemannsprecht at the end of New Great War...
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@Polygeekery said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@homoBalkanus said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@PleegWat said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
Baby-sitting my niece for the first time. She didn't want to go to bed. She is currently in bed, but I'm still not sure if I passed.
If she's alive and there's no blood, you did fine.
I know that I am late to the part on this one, but here is my opinion (that precisely no one asked for but I am giving it anyway):
@PleegWat, you're an uncle babysitting your niece. If she is still alive, had fun, got fed, isn't bleeding, and not psychologically damaged, you passed with flying colors. It doesn't matter if she normally goes to bed at 7pm and instead fell asleep at 3am while on your watch. If she is safe and her parents got to get out and be normal people for a little while then you did just fine.
Babysitters always ask what time our kids go to bed. I tell them that we try to have them in bed by 8:30, but sometimes that ends up being after 9:00, and as long as they are safe and have fun I don't really care if they are still awake when we get home but they will start being moody little dickheads after 10pm so keep that in mind.
normally, they take after their mother, but after 10pm, daddy’s influence shines through.
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@Polygeekery said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
they will start being moody little dickheads after 10pm so keep that in mind.
They usually stop by 35, 40.
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Two things:
First, our oldest has a birthday coming up and he has been fascinated with 'Five Nights At Freddy's' despite never playing the games. I also have not played them and only have a basic understanding of them that I picked up from discussions about how they created an interesting gameplay dynamic with very simple actions and interface.
Does anyone have any input on whether or not it would be appropriate for a boy who is turning 11? It seems fine to me, but I know very little about it.
Secondly, we had his parent-teacher conference today. The assistant principal sat in on it and brought something up at the end of it. His grade has worked on an art project that, from what I understand anyway, the theme was roughly "What makes you, you?" He laid his out in roughly a circular pattern and drew wavy lines to delineate the different sections. He included his favorite animal (penguins), his favorite holiday (Easter), Minecraft, there's even a section for Javascript because he had me teach him what I knew about it in order for him to program the game he has been working on (since I taught him, there is absolutely no way that any of it will ever work, total "blind leading the blind" scenario right there), etc. He also included a section for his ancestry as it was a suggestion from the art teacher for all of the kids.
Well, we are of strongly German heritage and he did some research about Germany and there was a certain symbol that kept coming up in reference to Germany so it got included in the art project. Yep, my kid put a swastika in a school art project.
Of course he has no idea what the symbol means but of course this became a big deal. The vice principal admitted right off the bat that he was aware that he had no idea what it meant when he included it, but something along the lines of it being exclusively a symbol of hate.
"I don't disagree with you, that is the association that most of the world has with it, but if you are from the Indian subcontinent it is very similar to the Christian cross. In their religions it is a symbol of well-being, peace, prosperity and good luck."
My wife gave me a look that I interpreted to be "Did you just 'but actually' a swastika?". It was just a general look of disapproval.
Then my son's teacher and I got off on a total tangent as he asked if their version was pointed the other direction.
"The symbol that points the other direction represents different cultural and religious aspects of each of the religions that use it. But the symbol that the Nazis adopted represents well-being, peace, prosperity and good luck for Hindus and Buddhists and Jains."
I also pointed out that the Nazi version is rotated 45 degrees from the original religious one, etc.
So yeah, now I am yet another variation of "that guy" and this version is "that guy that knows entirely too much about goddamn swastikas". I never would have saw that coming and paradoxically I totally should have saw that coming.
Generally speaking I do not think the vice principal approved of my overall stance on this non-issue. I explained to him that if I thought he had any idea what it meant it would be an issue, but he was suggested to put something in there about his ancestry and as uncomfortable as it might be that is a part of Germany that is a gigantic part of the country's history and any research that a kid might do would come up with that so maybe either omit that as a suggestion or have a plan to head that and other bad parts of history off before they make it into the assignment.
He had also included the modern German flag and some other innocent stuff. Honestly, I was just happy that a swastika was the only thing that made it in there. If there had been SS bolts, an iron cross, death's head, Parteiadler or specific variations of the Reichsadler from the 1935-1945 era I don't think I could have retained plausible deniability.
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@Polygeekery said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
Yep, my kid put a swastika in a school art project.
I managed to draw one out of ignorance too. No idea how old I was, definitely primary school. There was a TV show talking about historic events that happened on that day. One day it talked about Nazi Germany and I distinctly remember the scene where a large group of people formed the swastika with torches and then marched in a circle with it. It looked pretty impressive to a kid so I decided to draw two of those and show them to the only other person at home, my grandma. My grandma born in 1920s. My grandma, whose parents were taken by Nazis to a concentration camp. My grandma, who had to house German soldiers under her roof while taking care of her younger siblings.
I never truly comprehend just how pissed off with me she was that day.
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@Polygeekery said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
First, our oldest has a birthday coming up and he has been fascinated with 'Five Nights At Freddy's' despite never playing the games. I also have not played them and only have a basic understanding of them that I picked up from discussions about how they created an interesting gameplay dynamic with very simple actions and interface.
Does anyone have any input on whether or not it would be appropriate for a boy who is turning 11? It seems fine to me, but I know very little about it.
This thing was huge at my kids' elementary school, and both of mine have been fascinated by it. My son (who turns 16 next month) still watches youtube videos about it. Very odd.
The subject matter seems super inappropriate for that age group but they all seem to love it. I'd probably keep letting him be fascinated from afar.
Also, there were some American Indians that used swastikas. Navaho?
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@boomzilla the number of arms drops off over time, but the symbol shows up all over the world. Afaict no human civilization has used the original, 23-armed, form.
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@Polygeekery said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
Does anyone have any input on whether or not it would be appropriate for a boy who is turning 11? It seems fine to me, but I know very little about it.
It’s shallow jump-scare streamerbait. (No, I haven’t played either.)
At first glance you’d think jump-scares are perhaps not entirely appropriate, but upon further consideration, that age group is basically the entire target audience