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lol my 2 1/2 year old kid just started counting from 1-20 in spanish one day and we're like "thank god someone is educating this child because it wasn't us" I mean she's not 100% she tends to skip 9 in both english and spanish and gets lost somewhere around 15 but hell, she can say quince! it's very cute. we also had a minor blackout near us last night and we could see the repair guy in a cherry picker from our kitchen window, which became the dominant topic of conversation for the next 18 hours. All through breakfast this morning she was asking where the crane was, what happened to the crane? was it hiding or sleeping?
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22 month old blasted our expectations out the water. We were searching for a video on YouTube and he started sounding out whatever letter we highlighted with the remote. Been pointing at this paper book and drawing with the magnet board, but nah it's the search interface that gets him past milestone. He pays attention because he knows that's the path to Yo Gabba Gabba.
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Jan 24, 2023 15:31
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Music is weird and embeds things into our brain completely differently than other forms of learning. I remember some story years ago about Gabby Gifford's recovery after she got shot in the head where she was nearly non-communicative in normal language but could sing songs.
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Jan 24, 2023 15:47
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music and singing songs really helped with some of the funkier pronunciation issues i had when learning another language, particularly consonant clusters that are not natural to me as an english speaker. songs are fun.
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Jan 24, 2023 16:04
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brugroffil posted:Music is weird and embeds things into our brain completely differently than other forms of learning. I remember some story years ago about Gabby Gifford's recovery after she got shot in the head where she was nearly non-communicative in normal language but could sing songs. I think you're confusing Gifford with Bumblebee.
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Jan 24, 2023 21:44
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I am currently tasked with keeping our newborn awake for her imminent newborn shoot. I'm jiggling her, I'm jostling her, I'm hassling her. My child will steal her sleep in the moments in between. She just shat in my lap as I typed this.
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Jan 25, 2023 16:48
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She's ready to shitpost. Get her an account
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Jan 25, 2023 16:54
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KirbyKhan posted:I am currently tasked with keeping our newborn awake for her imminent newborn shoot. I'm jiggling her, I'm jostling her, I'm hassling her. My child will steal her sleep in the moments in between. She just shat in my lap as I typed this. ours poo poo during the photoshoot on their blankets that they use to wrap the baby in because a diaper is too bulky for pictures. they said it happens all the time (i'm sure it does) and cleaned it up themselves. hope your kid shits on their stuff.
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Jan 25, 2023 17:34
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Woke Mind Virus posted:hope your kid shits on their stuff. Thread title
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Jan 25, 2023 17:36
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on a call with my GM, the last time I will see her before I go on parental leave "I hope you have a happy, healthy and restful leave!" The rest part was sure news to me.
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Jan 25, 2023 18:14
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yeah the first time around I went on parental leave to be primary caretaker for a month and one of my coworkers (no kids) said "enjoy your break!" and I loled on camera
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Jan 25, 2023 18:57
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I went on parental leave for 3 months with my first and then transferred to WFH so I never had to go back to the office and still haven't. I highly recommend it.
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Jan 25, 2023 19:06
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this morning my son produced more poo poo than i thought possible. i went into his room and found a huge pile of toddler sludge poop on the floor, so i thought he had taken his diaper off and let her rip. but no! not so! his diaper was ALSO completely full poo poo. it took like half a pack of wipes to clean him off. and then bathtime. i really dont understand how those little bodies can hold so much poop in them.
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Jan 25, 2023 21:02
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Another Bill posted:I went on parental leave for 3 months with my first and then transferred to WFH so I never had to go back to the office and still haven't. I highly recommend it. I'm going from WFH to three months of parental leave, so it will be a less radical change. I bet they'll try and claw me back after my vacation though.
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Jan 25, 2023 21:12
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Woke Mind Virus posted:ours poo poo during the photoshoot on their blankets that they use to wrap the baby in because a diaper is too bulky for pictures. they said it happens all the time (i'm sure it does) and cleaned it up themselves. Newborn did not poo poo on anything in the studio. Toddler did not smash any priceless artifacts. Photoshoot wildly successful. Toddler wasn't really interacting or staying next to newborn for the shot so I pulled this galaxy brained dad move: Grabbed some poof snacks from diaper bag, give one to toddler, put other on top of posed newborn, toddler goes to newborn for poof, magical golden shot where the two babies are interacting.
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Jan 25, 2023 22:36
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBj9Qlpwjcs Ok, so I'm mixing in some Mrs Rachel into my 23 month old's media diet. He's getting a lot more tv time now newborn is here. Only watched and reviewed 2 of the more recent videos so far. Based on the thumbnails there is a big jump in production value like this year or last. I think I've seen someone drop her name in this thread a while ago, but I can't remember. I can see the Yo Gabba Gabba influences, the non-sequiter cuts in between lessons are neat and the sessions are paced well. My favorite childrens media thing is when the video makes an active effort to competently repeat some of the songs or lessons at the middle and end of the episode. Each video is either a half hour or an hour long, they seemed themed on lessons and developmental stages, right now I picked out colors and so far it is cohesive. Mrs Rachel as a performer is fine, the camera is extremely close to her face, on purpose. Like half the appeal of these videos is that they show the mouth shapes and face muscle motions for sounds and phonics. It was too intense to be on the big screen, cellphone screen washed out all the back ground details, but having it on the computer monitor that can swing towards the highchair, yeah that's the goldylocks sweet spot. The songs arn't rhythmically different than the SuperSimpleSongs versions he is used to. So far I've been able to get the jist of each sing-along song and pick it up and sing a long on the second go around. I've been pretty down on cocomelon, but after doing a close reading like last week I found out that my problem with it is that it was just low rent low production low effort. There were also some song lyric changes they did to some songs that I just could not abide. Mrs Rachel is very low production, but it is absolutely high effort.
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Jan 25, 2023 23:28
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Ms Rachel taught my delayed 2yo how to talk.
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Jan 25, 2023 23:47
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kiddo came down with her first ear infection today, and vomited her entire dinner on the way to the doctor
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Jan 26, 2023 02:42
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my parental leave was approved today, can't wait to start it next month 
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Jan 26, 2023 22:15
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Parental leave is a trip because I don't remember either of them really. Just a haze
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Jan 26, 2023 23:45
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Four and a half! year old is ignoring us to read Captain Underpants during dinner. I'm so proud of our little nerdling.
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Jan 27, 2023 03:16
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Finished Kirby's Epic Yarn with/for my 2-year-old and she has requested a Mario game next. Which would be a good next one for me to show a 2-year-old? She's already seen Super Mario 3D World, which is how she knew to request Mario. I'd just use Odyssey but I'm worried the scope of the levels is too big. Something with a bunch of smaller levels would probably work better. I filled the rest of the evening last night with Mario 3 ("Daddy's favorite game when he was a little boy") but even if 8-bit graphics manage to hold her attention all the way through it's not a very long game.
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Jan 27, 2023 19:36
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loquacius posted:Finished Kirby's Epic Yarn with/for my 2-year-old and she has requested a Mario game next. Which would be a good next one for me to show a 2-year-old? She's already seen Super Mario 3D World, which is how she knew to request Mario. I'd just use Odyssey but I'm worried the scope of the levels is too big. Something with a bunch of smaller levels would probably work better. Collecting star bits is totally in the range of a toddler
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Jan 27, 2023 19:40
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Mario world, do all the levels including special world, then do more in fall mode
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Jan 27, 2023 20:26
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loquacius posted:Finished Kirby's Epic Yarn with/for my 2-year-old and she has requested a Mario game next. Which would be a good next one for me to show a 2-year-old? She's already seen Super Mario 3D World, which is how she knew to request Mario. I'd just use Odyssey but I'm worried the scope of the levels is too big. Something with a bunch of smaller levels would probably work better. If you wanna go lower budget, I liked reading "Monster Loves You" to my 23 month old. It is extremely basic choose your own adventure story book. I let him waggle the mouse to pick the next little storylet.
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Jan 27, 2023 20:41
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ikanreed posted:Collecting star bits is totally in the range of a toddler Yeah Galaxy 1 is a good choice, most stars are nice and short - plenty of natural points to end it. And echoing the starbits collection as p2
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Jan 28, 2023 03:12
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Unfortunately my Wii and Wii U are both in storage -- Mario 3D World was emulated on Steam Deck, and Galaxy would probably have to be too, which would preclude star bit collection since I don't have the sensor bar set up. Galaxy still isn't a bad choice, though -- I'll try that out if she gets bored with 2D Marios. Thanks 
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Jan 28, 2023 03:43
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I found my 8 year old working on something and it looked like he was trying to decode a cypher but then I realized he was working out my iPad PIN based on his observations so that he could bypass it and get more screentime. apparently this morning he successfully hacked the mainframe. I'm not even that mad.
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Jan 28, 2023 17:03
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DR FRASIER KRANG posted:I found my 8 year old working on something and it looked like he was trying to decode a cypher but then I realized he was working out my iPad PIN based on his observations so that he could bypass it and get more screentime. Free the means of YouTube from the dadgeoisie
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Jan 28, 2023 17:13
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Hell yeah, lil jailbreaker breaking chains. Love to see it. I did Linux at an Amazon kid tablet and it is stripped down to just have zoobooks pdfs on it. I'll put a copy of The Jakarta Method in the root folder in case I underestimate the lil guy.
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Jan 28, 2023 17:15
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kiddo's ear infection is now a double ear infection, and my wife now has either a stomach bug or food poisoning 
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Jan 29, 2023 02:51
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in the past three weeks we have got emails from our daughter’s first grade teacher that some kids in the class had strep throat, then some had hand foot and mouth, then on Friday a couple of kids were home with scarlet fever don’t even want to send my kid to school what the hell we already went through everyone getting RSV in December
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Jan 29, 2023 02:58
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DR FRASIER KRANG posted:I found my 8 year old working on something and it looked like he was trying to decode a cypher but then I realized he was working out my iPad PIN based on his observations so that he could bypass it and get more screentime. Mine still haven't figured it out and it is insanely easy to guess. The youngest did figure out apple's parental timer has a dumb "I just need one more minute" feature that works per app so he downloads a million games and when time ran out he just plays them one after the other for 1 minute. He can squeeze in like 45 extra minutes if he starts scraping the bottom of the barrel checking stock prices or adding huge numbers
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Jan 29, 2023 03:14
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little 14 month old wont stop moving or wriggling and singing at her is the only thing that stops her so i am basically trapped in a musical of my own making
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Jan 29, 2023 03:32
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Brandon Proust posted:kiddo's ear infection is now a double ear infection, and my wife now has either a stomach bug or food poisoning gotta get some of the pink stuff (amoxicillin) from a doctor if you haven’t already
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Jan 29, 2023 03:45
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Vishass posted:Mine still haven't figured it out and it is insanely easy to guess. oh dang my kids found out about the 1 more minute feature but they definitely don't realize it's on a per-app basis. this is useful info.
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Jan 29, 2023 04:00
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loquacius posted:Finished Kirby's Epic Yarn with/for my 2-year-old and she has requested a Mario game next. Which would be a good next one for me to show a 2-year-old? She's already seen Super Mario 3D World, which is how she knew to request Mario. I'd just use Odyssey but I'm worried the scope of the levels is too big. Something with a bunch of smaller levels would probably work better. Mario adjacent, but the last 2.5d Kirby game Star Allies was the one that taught my youngest how to play video games that wasn't just tapping on poo poo. I don't think it has that nintendo style "I am a literal baby" difficulty option, but it's easy as poo poo and I think has co-op so player 2 can just gently caress around most of the time
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Hm. I'll keep that in mind, thanks! I don't think my daughter has enough fine motor to manage playing herself just yet, though -- I'll come back to it in six months or so 
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A few months after my son was born, he got a gift of a little stuffy lamb. He really loved it, even as a little baby, and we also read that it’s good to have a ‘main’ stuffy or toy or whatever for comfort. He got pretty attached, and we realized that we would need a separate identical toy for emergencies or to be able to clean the toy or whatever. We had to troll Ebay globally to find an identical stuffy which was an expensive pain, but we found some replacements. Whenever we swapped it out with the replacement, it was a full Mission Impossible scheme so he wouldn’t realize that we had swapped it, and that there were two stuffies. We thought we were so slick, cause he never found out. When he was like 2 years old, calmly asked for the other stuffy. We tried to play dumb, but it turned out he knew the whole time, there were like minor differences in the fabric that he could feel, and he knew and didn’t mind. Owned.
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All my problems start with underestimating my boy.
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