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Wife does the wrap. I use a tactical strap harness. It is the most "his boots her flipflops" pairing of items we own. I agree with OP upthread, wearing babies makes me and them sweaty.
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the first time I ever managed to relax with baby 1 was when she was napping in a carrier while I played yakuza 7
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Mar 8, 2023 20:21
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A whole ago, I put baby number 1 down for a nap and snuck off to play the Yakuza 7 Slots mini game and it was like 5 minutes in where I said out loud "oh my god I've become my mother" to nobody in particular.
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god there was this golden-in-retrospect period when she was like, three or four months old? and she would just nap on me. Wake up, boob with mom, hang out for a bit, then strap on to dad and I get to eat lunch and play some video games while she sleeps. my wife was not amused when I handed her back over without brushing the sandwich crumbs out of her hair one time but she didn't seem to mind.
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definitely sweat is an issue, wearing breathable clothing for both is key, and the carrier i use has mesh that allows for a bit of airflow
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Nocturtle posted:Maybe more a question for the video game makers thread, but has anyone being trying to help their kid to learn how to make video games and programs? My older kid has been interested in making games for a while, and has been doing lots of stuff in MIT's Scratch. Scratch is fantastic and can be used to make some unexpectedly great things, but recently my kid has been asking to learn other non-block coding languages like python or whatever to make games. Unfortunately they bounced off code.org for some reason even though it seems like a good starting point, and also they haven't been enthusiastic about using the python Arcade library even though it looks fairly appropriate. Are there other platforms or tutorials that people have used successfully? Should we just start learning to use Unity already? This is a problem I tried to solve, but was never able to really answer 'what's next after Scratch?'. A class my son was taking now uses Godot https://godotengine.org/ as the next step, but I haven't researched it yet. They were originally using some javascript package, but I guess that didn't work out. This is a hard question as scratch incorporates so much (IDE, Resources, Code Sharing, Media Editing, etc.) that other non-unity packages just don't offer. And there is such a big jump from Scratch to Unity/Unreal/Gamemaker/etc. I would say that the programming I did as a kid (TI99/4A) was hugely important to how I understand problems and what computers can do/not do. We also limit screen time, but I also realize that our kids will interact with computers every day for their entire lives, and strongly think that understanding them, how they're used, and how to best use them is critical education, regardless if they end up coding. So I try to encourage their interests as best I can. Right now, my son is learning how to use davinci resolve to make cool stuffy videos with green screen. Previously it was more about game coding, but now its more about Minecraft modding. Also, my wife and I thought a long time about if we should let the kids have Minecraft, and how much screentime to let them have etc. etc. What turned the tide though was this tweet: https://twitter.com/Merman_Melville/status/1254248452604624898?s=20 Which resonated with me, as I don't want to deny my kids their generation's cultural touchstones. And like it or not, minecraft is that.
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Minecraft is fine. Just avoid Roblox.
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DR FRASIER KRANG posted:Minecraft is fine. Just avoid Roblox.
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DR FRASIER KRANG posted:Minecraft is fine. Just avoid Roblox. Funny enough, my daughter's friends play some pet game in roblox and we decided to investigate it together. I didn't know what the roblox vibe was (garbage freemium 3d games with kid-friendly aspects) so that was eye opening. She saw immediately what was good and bad about it. I did end up setting up an account for her, but she doesn't really use it. If she did it would probably be as a chat tool.
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Roblox is babies first darkweb. Tween cousin gave me a tour of his Anime Battle Arena accounts. Powerful stuff, has every anime, every P2W mechanic, has every exploit avaliable. We bonded over AutoHotKey setups, a fuckin 11 year old shouldnt use ahk to RuneScape style skillgrind while his mom calls him to the dinner table. poo poo is sick. Way better than the battle.net chatrooms and clans when I was the same age.
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if you guys are going to watch "aftersun" please be prepared to be a complete emotional wreck for a whole week
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Oh man that film hit my wife hard I, however, was saved by my inability to understand what was going on. Being an idiot is a blessing sometimes 
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i refuse to watch scary movies anyway because i am easily frightened but back when skinamarink as in the discourse i read a plot summary of it, and reading about how it starts with a little boy waking up to find his father has disappeared made me think of all of my son's night wakeups, and he alwasy calls for me, and i got really emotional and upset lol. parenting fucks your mind up man!
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Mar 10, 2023 19:37
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The complications that we had during both of my wife's pregnancies completely turned me away from watching any movie that might bring up emotions in me. Microplastics posted:Being an idiot is a blessing sometimes This is how I've been surviving!
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Mar 10, 2023 19:53
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Uhhhhh did you watch inside out I saw that very soon after my first child was born and it remains the movie I can watch if I really just want to sob mostly in a good way
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lobster shirt posted:i refuse to watch scary movies anyway because i am easily frightened but back when skinamarink as in the discourse i read a plot summary of it, and reading about how it starts with a little boy waking up to find his father has disappeared made me think of all of my son's night wakeups, and he alwasy calls for me, and i got really emotional and upset lol. parenting fucks your mind up man! I definitely wouldn't have gotten so mad about the ending to that movie if I didn't have a kid
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silvergoose posted:Uhhhhh did you watch inside out lmao I'm not watching that movie again. can't make me.
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My daughter climbed up on my lap during the scene from Coco where Hector sings the song to baby Coco and I might have cried in front of her
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I teared up a little bit when I took my kids to see Guardians of the Galaxy 2 ngl
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I'd cry too after exposing my children to that trash 
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For real though my nephew grabbed my hand and told me it was ok when I cried watching encanto so it's good to know he's on the right track
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Mar 11, 2023 02:10
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I cry during any movie where the characters have feelings.
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Mar 11, 2023 02:26
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"Love You Forever" try-not-to-cry-reading challenge i don't think it's possible
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Mar 11, 2023 02:51
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Everything everywhere all at once 🥹
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Dreylad posted:"Love You Forever" try-not-to-cry-reading challenge lol that book is so loving strange too we had another one by that author/illustrator team about a fart monster that eats a little girls parents + some cops
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Mar 11, 2023 03:23
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Robert Munsch is a legendary Canadian children's author
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F Stop Fitzgerald posted:we had another one by that author/illustrator team about a fart monster that eats a little girls parents + some cops I would still cry
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Dreylad posted:"Love You Forever" try-not-to-cry-reading challenge Robert Munsch had a 30 year cocaine addiction and that made me understand this book much better. This story has a certain relentless sadness that reminds me of cocaine addiction, like you can only express a sadness that deep when numbed out by drugs.
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Love You Forever was written as a way to deal with his grief after a miscarriage, I believe. Munsch even has a specific melody for the little song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DjIeuiFf60
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F Stop Fitzgerald posted:lol that book is so loving strange too good families dont is a canlit masterpiece
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AxGrap posted:Everything everywhere all at once 🥹 Watched it with my wife a month ago. Told her she should start practicing to say "I'm your mother" so she's ready when our daughter is a teenager.
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Mar 11, 2023 06:44
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F Stop Fitzgerald posted:
That's horrible! F Stop Fitzgerald posted:
I take it back, fart monster is awesome
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Bone Crimes posted:This is a problem I tried to solve, but was never able to really answer 'what's next after Scratch?'. A class my son was taking now uses Godot https://godotengine.org/ as the next step, but I haven't researched it yet. They were originally using some javascript package, but I guess that didn't work out. This is a hard question as scratch incorporates so much (IDE, Resources, Code Sharing, Media Editing, etc.) that other non-unity packages just don't offer. And there is such a big jump from Scratch to Unity/Unreal/Gamemaker/etc. That's a good point about video games and Minecraft is fairly omnipresent. They're even doing a Minecraft-based "battle of the boroughs" challenge right now at school, so some interest is clearly inevitable. It seems like the thread consensus is at least it's not Roblox. Related, for any parents with younger children "Scratch Jr" can be fun and the learning curve is not so bad for kids in the 4-6 year old range. My kids sometimes even work together on collaborative little animations, including one where I was thrown in prison while starfish (?) spun around the screen with screaming sounds mixed in. Every kid wants to throw their parents into ocean jail at least once in their childhood.
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Just said this in the popcult thread but I'm imagining watching Manchester-by-the-Sea after having had kids instead of before and christ that would be rough
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Nocturtle posted:Related, for any parents with younger children "Scratch Jr" can be fun and the learning curve is not so bad for kids in the 4-6 year old range. My kids sometimes even work together on collaborative little animations, including one where I was thrown in prison while starfish (?) spun around the screen with screaming sounds mixed in. Every kid wants to throw their parents into ocean jail at least once in their childhood. Yep, my toddlers loved Scratch Jr, I had the windows port on the laptop.
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Elissimpark posted:Love You Forever was written as a way to deal with his grief after a miscarriage, I believe. Shel Silverstein's A Light in the Attic was dedicated to his daughter who had just died of a brain aneurysm and goddamn but that just loving guts me
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My four year old couldn't get past Pitt's accent, tbh. E: oh scratch
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my 6 yr old asked us for help today because her tics are getting out of hand. she’s self aware of it but can’t stop them so thankfully there is one professional in our “midsized midwestern city” that can handle tics. usually one would have to go to like Chicago for a specialist. it started when the stay at home orders came and ended when she went back to school but over the past 2 years since there has been some in and out but the newest one that started about 2 weeks ago is enough that it’s bothering her. it’s kinda like shrugging “why?” a lot. we’ve thought of our daughter is absorbing the work stress. our families have history of OCD and tics so could be that too.
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could be Tourette’s, she sounds like the correct age when they start happening. one of my big tics is shoulder rolling
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Four month old baby was supposed to start getting a few tasting spoons of porridge this month. He would absolutely not have it. The spoon was to be full and also inserted into his mouth again, right the gently caress now, no scooping, only eating. Apparently he's just super into it, which is awesome but also a lot more work for me. It's quite a relief too, since my wife is going back to work in June and I have paternity leave, during which he will need to eat stuff.
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