:baby_symbol: Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit
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@djls45 said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@izzion said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@djls45
Clearly, you need to spawn additionalpylonschildren.Got another on the way! (boy again) :)
Congrats!
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@Karla said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
I was betting my dog
You really know you have a problem when you have to perform a job of questionable legality in order to pay off gambling debts owed to your dog.
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@izzion said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@djls45
Clearly, you need to spawn additionalpylonschildren.That way the older ones can raise the younger ones and as long as you can keep feeding children and food into it, you've got yourself a nice effectively self-sustaining system.
Filed under: probably better not to make it self-replicating
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@Karla said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
I was betting my dog
Ooh, like in all those poker playing scenes. "I see your $5000, and raise you... my dog!"
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@izzion said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
in order to pay off gambling debts owed to your dog.
Beats the time I had to pay off gambling debts owed by my dog.
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@Maciejasjmj said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@izzion said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@djls45
Clearly, you need to spawn additionalpylonschildren.That way the older ones can raise the younger ones and as long as you can keep feeding children and food into it, you've got yourself a nice effectively self-sustaining system.
Filed under: probably better not to make it self-replicating
The replication part of the system is when they get married off and start producing grandkids. ;)
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@loopback0 said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@izzion said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
in order to pay off gambling debts owed to your dog.
Beats the time I had to pay off gambling debts owned by my dog.
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@izzion LOL Fixed.
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Um this might be useful for some:
I'm not sure it would have worked for me...I could fill multiple bags each session.
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@izzion said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
You really know you have a problem when you have to perform a job of questionable legality in order to pay off gambling debts owed to your dog.
That only seems far fetched until you get a credit card application sent to your house in your pet's name.
I spent $1500+ last year on emergency pet care for one of our dogs. I think it is about time that bitch paid me back.
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@Maciejasjmj said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
Filed under: probably better not to make it self-replicating
Yeah, it wouldn't take many iterations before they have no teeth and extra limbs.
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@Karla said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
I'm not sure it would have worked for me...I could fill multiple bags each session.
Careful saying that. @HardwareGeek will start sending you dirty chat messages.
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@Polygeekery said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@Karla said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
I'm not sure it would have worked for me...I could fill multiple bags each session.
Careful saying that. @HardwareGeek will start sending you dirty chat messages.
It's not like I can do it now.
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OK, now time for something a bit more serious:
Never underestimate the little things that your kids will hold dear. My oldest was home from preschool yesterday because he had a fever on Thursday. I went out to run some errands and I asked him what he wanted for dinner over the weekend in case I needed to pick something up. He said he wanted pizza. No problem little guy, we can make pizza.
I go out and run errands, including a trip to Costco to buy booze and other staples. Yes, booze is a staple around this house. He sees me bring in the Costco stuff and I can hear him talking to the nanny in the living room as I am putting stuff away in the kitchen:
"Sometimes daddy picks up a pizza from Costco but most of the time he makes them all himself. Costco pizzas are pretty good, but the ones my daddy makes are the best. He makes the dough and the sauce and everything. But the best part is that he has me help him. The other night he let me put all the sauce on and the cheese and I didn't want any pepperoni on my side so I made my side just cheese. I got to make it all by myself just the way I wanted and it was sooooo good. My daddy is such a good cook and I love that he has me help."
I nearly teared up and it showed me that it is the little things that matter to him. Also, even at 5 years old he has learned how to put together a pretty good pizza now that he stopped putting way too much sauce on.
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@Karla said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
I'm not sure it would have worked for me...I could fill multiple bags each session.
Mrs. Jaloopa had a lot of trouble with pumping and breastfeeding. She could never get much more than an ounce from pumping, and never managed to exclusively breast feed. She's still soldiering on with the help of domperidone but can't stay on it for too much longer
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@Jaloopa said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
She's still soldiering on with the help of
domperidoneDom Perignon
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@HardwareGeek said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@Jaloopa said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
She's still soldiering on with the help of
domperidoneDom PerignonI have no idea how Mormons like @abarker raise that many kids without alcohol. I couldn't do it.
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@Jaloopa said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@Karla said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
I'm not sure it would have worked for me...I could fill multiple bags each session.
Mrs. Jaloopa had a lot of trouble with pumping and breastfeeding. She could never get much more than an ounce from pumping, and never managed to exclusively breast feed. She's still soldiering on with the help of domperidone but can't stay on it for too much longer
Yeah, I never got her to latch and she lost too much weight at the hospital so they told me to rent the medical grade pump.
OTOH I was lucky with the oversupply. Which was great when I had to go back into the hospital 10 days after she was born.
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@HardwareGeek said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@Jaloopa said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
She's still soldiering on with the help of
domperidoneDom PerignonThey Guinness is supposed to help with milk production.
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@djls45 said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@Polygeekery said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@abarker said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@Mikael_Svahnberg said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@Jaloopa Yup. Right now I am using clicker training to get my kids to pick up their dirty laundry and put it in the laundry bin.
... This works on students too, BTW.
I just snap my fingers for my kids. ยฏ\_(ใ)_/ยฏ
That is your interrupt.
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But sometimes I will raise my voice just to get their attention.My dad whistled. He can do it just with his mouth, but if he needs to be really loud, he uses a finger and thumb. If he wants to be really really loud, two fingers, one from each hand. It was basically his way to call "Front and center!" or "Attention!" if we were scattered all over someplace. With 8 kids, that becomes much easier than running through all the names. I still haven't figured out how to whistle like that.
My mom did this. To this day when I hear a whistle like that I stop dead in my tracks and turn to see what she wants. Then I remember that she is not there, and exchange an embarrased look with the kid who is likewise frozen next to me.
For some reason I started with bird sounds on my kids. The sound of a tit carries quite far and reminds you of spring, so I can happily whistle that in the middle of a store and only get happy smiles in return.
With the dog it's bugle calls (again, natural tones that carry well). I will whistle "charge" or "mess call", and then you hear the ground vibrating as he comes galloping. Quite effectful.
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@Mikael_Svahnberg said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
sound of a tit
Obligatory
But then again ... if your title makes a sound I wouldn't trust it
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@Luhmann said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
if your title makes a sound
...then it's probably another XSS.
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@Mikael_Svahnberg said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
I will whistle "charge" or "mess call", and then you hear the ground vibrating as he comes galloping. Quite effectful.
"Mess call" would certainly be effective with mine, if they had learned to associate that sound with food, but just shaking a bowl of food works quite well.
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@HardwareGeek said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
"Mess call" would certainly be effective with mine, if they had learned to associate that sound with food, but just shaking a bowl of food works quite well.
I'm lost. Are you talking kids or dogs?
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@remi said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@HardwareGeek said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
"Mess call" would certainly be effective with mine, if they had learned to associate that sound with food, but just shaking a bowl of food works quite well.
I'm lost. Are you talking kids or dogs?
The part of @Mikael_Svahnberg's post that I quoted was referring to dogs, but the obvious answer is
I think shaking a bowl of food would work for my son, too. (Unless his nose is buried in Facebook; nothing can get his attention then.)
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"Who's on first" situation with a toddler.
How do you explain "My Little Pony" isn't "your little pony" when she says it?
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@Karla If she correctly understands the difference between "my" and "your", then that's a win.
Perhaps if you explain that the whole name is "My Little Pony" -- that "My" is just a part of the name and doesn't change, that might help? I.e. everybody calls it "My Little Pony".
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@Mikael_Svahnberg said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
With the dog it's bugle calls (again, natural tones that carry well). I will whistle "charge" or "mess call", and then you hear the ground vibrating as he comes galloping. Quite effectful.
Just saw that: What type of breed would that be if it makes the ground vibrate? Cross-breed with a large cow or an elephant?
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@Karla said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
"Who's on first" situation with a toddler.
How do you explain "My Little Pony" isn't "your little pony" when she says it?
It's about the same as the difference between "here" and "there" when you're there but she's not here.
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@djls45 said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@Karla If she correctly understands the difference between "my" and "your", then that's a win.
She's almost 4, so I am pretty sure that is age appropriate.
Perhaps if you explain that the whole name is "My Little Pony" -- that "My" is just a part of the name and doesn't change, that might help? I.e. everybody calls it "My Little Pony".
Yeah, we will work on it. Still funny though.
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@Rhywden She didn't enjoy the video but I will give it another few tries.
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@Rhywden he was a Newfoundland dog. In his prime he weighed around 75kg.
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@abarker said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
If you do, and you have had it for a while, budget for a new one 2-3 years from now. Babies kill washing machines.
Ours has survived 3 kids over the last 6 years. YMMV.
So we moved shortly after I made this post. After reconnecting the washer, it did two more loads before dying. Goes to show, once you have kids, expect to be doing a lot more laundry, and expect that you will need a new washer in <10 years.
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@abarker said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
So we moved shortly after I made this post. After reconnecting the washer, it did two more loads before dying. Goes to show, once you have kids, expect to be doing a lot more laundry, and expect that you will need a new washer in <10 years.
Or you could get a good washer. Ours has been going for 17 years and has survived everything our three kids (ages 16, 13, and 10) have done to it so far - and a house move too, back when we only had two kids.
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@Scarlet_Manuka The washer was included as part of the house build. We could have upgraded, but that would have been pricey.
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@abarker Fair enough, there's always a cost-benefit tradeoff.
But in general, for those planning to start a family, I would recommend spending money on a good quality, high capacity washer. You're going to need it.
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@Scarlet_Manuka said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
I would recommend spending money on a good quality, high capacity washer.
Preferably a decent European made front loader. Europe just gets washing machines.
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@flabdablet I don't get the concept of front-loaders. It means that you can't open it while it's in operation without making a mess. Top-loaders have no problem with that.
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@masonwheeler said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
It means that you can't open it while it's in operation without making a mess.
You can with this one:
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@masonwheeler said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
It means that you can't open it while it's in operation without making a mess
Generally, you can't open in operation at all. They tend to lock.
Front loaders make sense when you consider that most washing machines in the UK are in the kitchen under a counter, not in a separate utility room
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@Jaloopa said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
Front loaders make sense when you consider that most washing machines in the UK are in the kitchen under a counter, not in a separate utility room
That makes even less sense. It means you can't load them standing up; you have to bend over or crouch down.
Probably the best arrangement I've seen yet was at a previous apartment: a top-loading washer, a bit on the short side, with the opening at chest height, and the (normal, front-loading) dryer suspended above it, with the opening at head height. It was great!
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@masonwheeler said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
I don't get the concept of front-loaders. It means that you can't open it while it's in operation without making a mess.
That's true. But what you get for trading that off is a machine that washes clothes very thoroughly while being extremely kind to the fabric and using about half the water and detergent of a typical top loader.
A front loader works by repeatedly picking up each piece of wet washing and then dropping it with a splat, driving out a bit of water that carries dirt away from the fibres as it goes. It's essentially a mechanized version of this action:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESxPdzN3cNI
The fabric gets abraded a lot less than it does in a top loader with central agitator, because most of the work is done by the momentum of the water as the fabric jolts to a stop on the floor of the drum instead of the hauling, rubbing and ripping action of an agitator. And unlike a top loader, the drum in a front loader doesn't actually fill up with water - the machine uses only just enough to make the load completely soggy, not enough to drown it.
So yes, you have to plan your loads better than you would with a top loader - none of this chucking that last pair of underpants you scooped out from under the bed in with the load that's already washing - but the payback is lower energy, water and detergent costs and longer-lasting clothes.
Front loaders are generally mechanically simpler too, because all the motor ever has to do is turn the drum in one direction. Spin-dry is the same mechanical action as wash, just faster.
Cycle interruption due to unbalanced spin is also rarer with front loaders than top loaders, due to every part of the load spending a little bit of time in zero gravity as the drum accelerates from washing to drying speed. Of course, when unbalance does occur it tends to make the machine leap about a bit more spectacularly due to the vibration's vertical component.
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@flabdablet said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
Of course, when unbalance does occur it tends to make the machine leap about a bit more spectacularly due to the vibration's vertical component.
In other words, be careful if you're a lady leaning against the machine during the spin cycle :D
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@masonwheeler said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
Probably the best arrangement I've seen yet was at a previous apartment: a top-loading washer, a bit on the short side, with the opening at chest height, and the (normal, front-loading) dryer suspended above it, with the opening at head height. It was great!
They would be great, except in my experience, they tend to be quite small. The one in my last apartment, the most I could wash was two pairs of pants and two shirts. A normal washer will hold double that, or a bit more.
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@HardwareGeek Really? It had no trouble with a full load of laundry for me. (About a week's worth of normal clothes-wearing.)
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@HardwareGeek said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
two pairs of pants and two shirts
@masonwheeler said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
About a week's worth of normal clothes-wearing
Sounds about right to me
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@masonwheeler said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
Really?
I'll admit that my experience with that type of washer-dryer is limited to a sample size of one, which may have been smaller than typical, but it was definitely smaller than typical for separate units.
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@masonwheeler said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
a top-loading washer, a bit on the short side, with the opening at chest height, and the (normal, front-loading) dryer suspended above it, with the opening at head height. It was great!
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@flabdablet said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
The fabric gets abraded a lot less than it does in a top loader with central agitator, ... And unlike a top loader, the drum in a front loader doesn't actually fill up with water - the machine uses only just enough to make the load completely soggy, not enough to drown it.
I'll grant you this, to some extent. Traditional top-loading washers don't really abrade the fabric all that much (unless you overload them), because the clothes are sloshing back and forth in an abundance of water, but the newer HE types seem to be very hard on clothes. They're more or less the automatic, mechanical version of
I bought one a few years ago, and I don't like it. With an old, inefficient top-loading washer, a shirt might last me 5 years; with the HE washer, it starts looking obviously worn around the collar and cuffs in maybe 6 months or less.
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@HardwareGeek said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
Traditional top-loading washers don't really abrade the fabric all that much (unless you overload them)
Some are worse than others. Our Fisher and Paykel Smart Drive machine is really neat in many respects (one big flat direct-drive stepper motor drives both the agitator and the spin drum; the spin drum floats off a dog clutch attached to the agitator when the machine has water in it and that's all there is to the mechanism) but its agitator has always had a disappointing tendency to tear holes in my T shirts and underpants.