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KirbyKhan posted:
it do be like that
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Jan 19, 2024 00:01
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high chairs are such disgusting objects
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Jan 19, 2024 00:11
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full plastic and weekly pressure washing is the way to go on high chairs
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Jan 19, 2024 00:32
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yeah the $40 plastic one from ikea is great because it's incredibly easy to clean
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Jan 19, 2024 04:21
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some of the booster sized ones will fit in a dishwasher just tie the straps up so they don’t get caught in the washer components.
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Jan 19, 2024 04:27
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It's been a long week for at-home parenting. Monday: MLK Day Tuesday: snow day Wednesday: sick day Thursday: sick day Friday: snow day Luckily the illness is just a cold and not RSV again.
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Jan 19, 2024 14:05
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oof that is tough, hope your kid heals up good and quick
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Jan 19, 2024 14:14
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Bar Ran Dun posted:full plastic and weekly pressure washing is the way to go on high chairs on a related note, I am convinced that the people that design car seats don’t have kids
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Jan 19, 2024 14:18
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Chad Sexington posted:It's been a long week for at-home parenting. same but from last week until yesterday. kid tested negative for everything except strep. fun start of the year
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Jan 19, 2024 14:55
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Kid is getting used to preschool! 😄 She's got a sniffle and slight fever. 😃😀😐
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Jan 19, 2024 17:03
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Oh man,and it's not just that the kid is sick. I have ironhealth a.d,before having kids,got sick once every decade. That's with lots of travel, crowded conventions, etc. And now I catch whatever my kid gets from kindergarten?? What gives!? At leastit hits me less hard than the rest of the family so I can keep the ship sailing.
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Jan 19, 2024 18:06
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My partner is very anti-Cocomelon and thinks that it’s uniquely damaging to children and their development. Digging into it a bit, and it seems as though the claim is based on the faster pace of the show compared to older shows. Specifically, the scenes change more frequently than other shows I’ve seen. This guy posted the original video based on one short clip: https://www.tiktok.com/embed/7021297010313563397 So I looked into it myself and yeah he’s right about the show moving faster than other children’s shows. Is this a problem? Well, I could see the pathway looking like “ faster pace -> more stimulation -> more addictive “ but who knows. Frankly I’m a little skeptical about any effects unique to one particular show .. I think excessive screen time is the problem, more so than any particular program, so a little bit of Cocomelon is not an issue in my eyes. Anyone here feel strongly about it, one way or another?
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Jan 19, 2024 18:25
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it can cause noticeable changes in behavior when they are smaller, to the point where you can test if it’s having an effect and see results in your kids. many of the better small children’s shows are placed slowly, think Daniel Tiger coming from related research. it seemed like there was an age threshold where it seems to matter less.
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Jan 19, 2024 18:40
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The Top G posted:Anyone here feel strongly about it, one way or another? I think it's a generational thing and I'd be shocked if CocoMelon is damaging in some weird way that Spongebob episodes from 20 years ago or even Garfield & Friends episodes from 35 years ago, are not. Vapid TV is vapid TV, and I don't think that consumption in some reasonable amount (and not just used as an opiate-babysitter) is loving fine that said cocomelon specifically is banned by name in our house when I am home and can hear it, because I find it uniquely loving annoying even compared to Mickey Mouse Clubhouse so, I'd say I'm feverishly anti-cocomelon, but for entirely selfish "this is a kind of trash I personally dislike" reasons. I don't love a lot of the bullshit they like; Gumball Adventures can be obnoxious and I think the animation is kind of gross, but I tend to just tune it out. Cocomelon gets turned off, they can watch that garbage at their friends' houses if they have friends with parents who are more tolerant of it. Dawncloack posted:And now I catch whatever my kid gets from kindergarten?? What gives!? I'm in the same boat and my only solution at this point is a rabbitAir minusA2 in my office, corsi cubes around the house, and if my kids have the sniffles I wash my hands a lot more and also have even started masking when I am in close proximity to them if they have symptoms. It sucks to have to strap on an n95 to then try to comfort a screaming kid, but, I am also pretty sure the thing that gave me COVID was comforting my kid and having her just hacking in my face. If I have to do that again (when), n95, and my bug glasses if she's really hacking. I can't deal with getting sick anymore, I had fever for 18 out of 24 consecutive days and then I got COVID. If I wasn't a full time remote worker I would probably have lost my job to sick time; as is, I worked through a bunch of days I would have preferred not to, still took like 10 days off. Sunday will be skiing with a 7 year old... in <10F weather. Always fun!! I don't make her go, but if we do I tend to let her call the shots so weather like that probably means stops at midstations and base every run but that's fine. Ski it while you can and all.
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Jan 19, 2024 18:43
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we have experienced nearly the full rainbow of school closures in the past week code blue, green, red, orange and yellow we have not had code purple (remote school) because they weren't able to get laptops out in time the kids are bored of like everything at this point
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Jan 19, 2024 19:00
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what do the codes mean?
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Jan 19, 2024 19:11
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early out, all open, all closed, closed but offices open, and 2 hour delay obviously
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Jan 19, 2024 19:13
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The Top G posted:My partner is very anti-Cocomelon and thinks that it’s uniquely damaging to children and their development. Digging into it a bit, and it seems as though the claim is based on the faster pace of the show compared to older shows. Specifically, the scenes change more frequently than other shows I’ve seen. This guy posted the original video based on one short clip: When my child sees TV, she's maybe interested. Depending on if it's a show she likes. She tends to pay attention to some extent, and then get bored and move away from the screen, eventually. With CocoMelon she fixates like she's fully hypnotized. It just seems to be better at grabbing and keeping kids attention, I think, which has knock on effects such as causing prolonged screentime easier? CocoMelon is banned in our house cause it's irritating.
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Jan 19, 2024 20:26
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We banned cocomelon in advance, and unfortunately baby shark got through and it's similarlly adcitive. Stuff like Bluey or Sesame Street catches her attention for a little while then she wanders off to do something so they're great. And it's watchable, so I'm cool with it. I'm sure none of this stuff is probably going to damage your brain but a lot of is intolerable.
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Jan 19, 2024 20:38
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I'm more worried she's going to find my phone or any of my gaming systems
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Jan 19, 2024 20:52
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when I bought myself a switch I just didn't point it out to my kids. it took them about three weeks to even notice it was there.
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Jan 19, 2024 20:55
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same but i use my phone as a phone so jokes on her
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Jan 19, 2024 20:55
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HootTheOwl posted:I'm more worried she's going to find my phone or any of my gaming systems Keeping our 3-year-old away from our phones is a pretty constant struggle but gaming consoles might be a little too complicated for them to operate well enough to do much at all with until they're at least like 5 I think The 3-year-old can play Mario Wonder but not very well
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Jan 19, 2024 20:56
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I'd definitely recommend showing kids games as toddlers because they're very effective on them. Showed my daughter Banjo-Kazooie at 2 and she was obsessed. but today my wife texted me this pretend conversation between two of her stuffed animals  so in retrospect maybe showing her Zelda might not have been the best idea e: That could be a verbatim conversation from Dave the Diver too come to think of it but she hasn't seen that one
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Jan 19, 2024 20:58
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my son is almost 4 and has never touched a tablet or held a phone. but he likes to watch cocomelon on the tv. it doesnt seem any more or less bad than other childrens programming, although the nursery rhymes do get very annoying after a while. however i think i read that nursery rhymes can help a childs brain development. who knows!
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Jan 19, 2024 21:11
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You can ban any media you want from your child. They're your's, you can do what you want with them.
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Jan 19, 2024 21:55
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Baby shark rules, cocomelon drools. Meekah and Blippy reign supreme
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Jan 19, 2024 21:57
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loquacius posted:I'd definitely recommend showing kids games as toddlers because they're very effective on them. Showed my daughter Banjo-Kazooie at 2 and she was obsessed. Zelda is merely a horse game with occasional combat for my kid. one day she will appreciate the grinding I put in BOTW and ToTK in order for her to play it as a sandbox without dying
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Jan 19, 2024 22:12
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lobster shirt posted:my son is almost 4 and has never touched a tablet or held a phone. but he likes to watch cocomelon on the tv. it doesnt seem any more or less bad than other childrens programming, although the nursery rhymes do get very annoying after a while. however i think i read that nursery rhymes can help a childs brain development. who knows! simple rhymes and repetition definitely help i think
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Jan 19, 2024 22:13
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sonatinas posted:Zelda is merely a horse game with occasional combat for my kid. BOTW/TOTK are too scary, I'm showing her the Link's Awakening Switch remake It's a very harmless game with the exception that Link stabs things with a sword instead of jumping on their heads all cartoonish-like like Mario does or pecking them with a beak like Kazooie does
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Jan 19, 2024 22:14
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i wish my son liked watching me play map staring games but i get it, they arent very visually interesting
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Jan 19, 2024 22:21
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lobster shirt posted:my son is almost 4 and has never touched a tablet or held a phone. but he likes to watch cocomelon on the tv. it doesnt seem any more or less bad than other childrens programming, although the nursery rhymes do get very annoying after a while. however i think i read that nursery rhymes can help a childs brain development. who knows! this just seems logistically unlikely
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Jan 20, 2024 00:05
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lobster shirt posted:i wish my son liked watching me play map staring games but i get it, they arent very visually interesting Sometimes when there's a meaty text box I'll scoop up one of the babies and read it to them. I like the jrpgs with codexes and bestiaries. It's like flash cards for things that don't exist.
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Jan 20, 2024 00:36
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My 2yo loves cars so he sits and watches me drive around in GTA5. Loves seeing the police cars Have to resist the urge to get out and start shooting tho
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Jan 20, 2024 13:05
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HootTheOwl posted:I'm more worried she's going to find my phone or any of my gaming systems I've been reading to our 7 year old, Robert Aspirin's Myth Adventures books. I liked these a lot when I was 11-15, they are kind of standard joke-fantasy fare and do have some amount of stuff that doesn't read as well in 2023 as it did when I was 14 in 1995. There is nothing super offensive, and I've barely edited it reading it to her, just skipped sentences here and there that would be over her head. There's very light sexual references, but then also just some generally not great depictions of women, which I do read to her, and use as teaching moments to talk about generally lovely depictions of women in fantasy/SF and how that has, to some extent, changed or been challenged. (this has been a common theme in a lot of stuff we've read, sf/fantasy or not!) Anyway, I was always told I had a "strong vocabulary" as a kid, but, I noticed our kid just straight up reading one of these books to herself recently, which surprised me slightly; they're not incredibly dense but they are much wordier than the stuff she brings home from the school library, mostly. I told her if she had any questions about anything to just ask. This caused me to think pretty hard about what's actually on all of our bookshelves, but, I didn't see any reason to move anything. Possibly the most offensive thing I own is a 1st-English Printing copy of Spengler's Decline of the West that we got along with other books when my wife's grandfather died. My phone on the other hand, yea, we're back to lock screens and that's possibly the only PIN code to poo poo she for sure does not know because it's long, it's not reused anywhere, and it's not written down anywhere. It's actually kind of terrifying how powerful my phone is in terms of doing stuff in my life that has material effects and part of me wants to become one of those litephone freaks. She can game on whatever she wants, and my computers are incomprehensible piles of babel which do not have porn littered on the drive but do have many, many boring PDFs about A/V synthesis. Honestly I'd like to see her playing more video games, it would be another thing we could do together and might re-ignite my own interest in gaming . She likes watching me play some stuff (Disney Speedstorm, myriad platformers) but until just recently she's only wanted to play PBS Kids phone games. My spouse got some real cheap gameboy-sized emulator things that come stacked with 400 NES roms on them, and now she has been playing Mario and Tetris. Progress! My standing offer to my kid is that if she wants her own gaming system or any other piece of consumer hardware that costs as much as a PS5 MSRP at launch (inflation adjusted to however long it takes) -- all she has to do is beat mario 3 with no warp whistles. Emulated is fine, just no save states or speed hacks etc. I remind her of this offer about once every six months, I think at some point the lights will go on and I will suddenly see a flurry of Mario 3 related efforts. Chad Sexington posted:this just seems logistically unlikely lobster shirt lives in a luddite community and secretly posts from an old Nokia phone that's kept hidden under hay bales. Cabbages and VHS has issued a correction as of 13:29 on Jan 20, 2024 |
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Jan 20, 2024 13:26
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Cabbages and Kings posted:
He's not wrong. Thanks for the stories, I just know I'm a media-addicted goon with a ton of digital hobbies because we had access to desktop computers as kids from a young age and I want better for her without being the digital dad from the digital town in digital footloose.
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Jan 20, 2024 14:33
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This is my dilemma too. My kid begged me for Roblox but goons made me all  about it and I'm not sure if it's the Satanic Panic of our generation or just overblown concern, plus every kid is different. So I decided to err on the side of caution and explained to my wife, who isn't into vidya games and has no context from one other the other. She also wanted Minecraft so I told her I'd buy it for her if she paid her own money (7bux).though I have been disappointed to see that she's more interested in videos with other kids playing Minecraft than playing, experimenting, and discovering stuff herself.At the risk of getting  I feel like when I was young I had to find more creative ways to preoccupy myself with my time and we live in a world with a lot more instant gratification. I was a voracious reader (and even most of my smartphone addiction is an extension of that-mostly reading forums/articles/etc not just passively watching videos. My older kid isn't nearly as interested in reading as a pastime and it worries me a bit. It's also a tougher sell for her-before I had a Gameboy reading books was all there was to do at my grandma's house so there wasn't other options. My kids aren't nearly as limited and telling them, "no, you can't do those fun things you like you have to READ" just makes reading itself seem even more of an unpleasant chore than it already is for her.
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Jan 20, 2024 15:19
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the other day my son came up to us and said he was bored and my my wife said "that's okay. it's okay to be bored sometimes."
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Jan 20, 2024 15:48
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i mean maybe my sons teachers at daycare let him mess with their phones but neither my wife nor i let him. he sees me looking at my phone a lot obviously but im not letting him watch videos on it. this is less a screen time thing and more an "i want to preserve my ability to look at my phone in peace" thing lol. he does have a toy phone that he likes to call the zoo and ask them to take me away to live with the monkeys.
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