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Second Hand Meat Mouth posted:my kid likes teen titans go, which apparently the Internet hates because it's not as good as the og teen titans, but it's pretty cute and there are some fun episodes. like the one we watched today was about how taxes pay for stuff and ended with them stringing up the "corporate fat cats" like a pinata and beating the tax money out of them HootTheOwl posted:You're av suggests steamed I was apprehensive at first, and ready to pull the plug (as I am with any fixation she begins to develop that I sense might be unhealthy or somehow affect her development), but this particular fixation has turned out to be very beneficial. While she's been getting more verbal over time, she's still extremely limited in that you can get, at most, up to two back-and-forths in any given conversation. One question, and maybe one follow-up if you're lucky and she's paying attention and she understands the question. The questions have to be simple and straightforward and have basically no clauses or parentheticals, or she gets lost. We've tried tea party type social games, but she gets bored of those really fast and starts looking for ways to make it fun for her (usually by knocking things over and running around). Also, if you ask her a question and she feels pressured by it for whatever reason, or even no reason, she'll just completely shut down. But this has all been improving substantially since steamed hams (lol). She'll wander up to me and throw out a line from one of the characters, and I'll take the other character, and we'll do the bit together, sometimes swapping roles, sometimes replacing Skinner/Superintendent with Dad/[Kidname]. Since we've started that she's been getting noticeably more attentive and responsive, and she's been trying much harder to express thoughts that she doesn't have words for yet. It's been a relief, because that part of her development was weighing on my mind daily. She's also gotten much better at pretend play, especially with toys. I've always tried to get her into some kind of pretend scenario with her toys, taking one and being like "I'm so and so, I want such and such, or am looking for so and so etc etc" but she basically never caught on, or didn't care (could honestly be either and I suspect it's more the latter). But since steamed hams (particularly the toy version) it's like something's clicked for her and now she does that kind of play just fine. Who knew steamed hams could have therapeutic value? Son of Thunderbeast has issued a correction as of 23:25 on Mar 23, 2024 |
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lol my kid around that same age went through a sugarposting phase, thank you to SA's own juiceone https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvkhVqWHR7k
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Woke Mind Virus posted:Does the show Trash Truck take place in the real world and the Trash Truck, Walter, and Donny characters are Hank's imaginary friends or is this some absurd world where Trash Truck, Walter, and Donny are real? I always assumed they were real. That show is cute and it's unfortunate that the trash truck phase in our family was very brief. Currently the big craze here is the sonic adventure show from the 90's and those youtube brain breaks.
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Second Hand Meat Mouth posted:lol my kid around that same age went through a sugarposting phase, thank you to SA's own juiceone haha nice, I haven't seen these, they're great. I'll introduce the kid to these at some point (assuming she doesn't discover them on her own)
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External Organs posted:Quote this if you had a tea party this morning
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kids love the Simpsons, I was my daughter's age when I started to watch it (maybe not an endorsement), and she has episodes she will insist I turn on if I go to watch some today the circle of comedy life
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my younger son watches the Treehouse Of Horror with the evil twin Bart so goddamn much. not sure what that's about.
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DR FRASIER KRANG posted:my younger son watches the Treehouse Of Horror with the evil twin Bart so goddamn much. not sure what that's about. does he like raw fish?
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we had my son's 10th birthday party at an arcade south of Seattle and it was the best goddamn birthday party. every machine on free play and all the machines worked (even the dozen plus pinball machines). one kid showed up in a custom denim vest that he cut at the bottom so that it looked exactly like Nelson Muntz' jacket. fuckin owns.
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DR FRASIER KRANG posted:we had my son's 10th birthday party at an arcade south of Seattle and it was the best goddamn birthday party. every machine on free play and all the machines worked (even the dozen plus pinball machines). what arcade does this??
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waterland arcade in Des Moines
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DR FRASIER KRANG posted:we had my son's 10th birthday party at an arcade south of Seattle and it was the best goddamn birthday party. every machine on free play and all the machines worked (even the dozen plus pinball machines). our local retro arcade fronts as a video rental store and has a replica 80s-90s basement just beyond. you can sit on an old brown couch and play duck hunt on the nes. the couch was even broken last time we went so you werent allowed to sit on it - just like at your friend's house Fat-Lip-Sum-41.mp3 has issued a correction as of 14:42 on Mar 25, 2024 |
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So yesterday I was putting my older to sleep, with a tony on. A song he likes came up and he was singing/mouthing it, partially asleep. Since I was still soothing him I said "oh this is a noce song." Then he said "Yes. It's like you." And the floodgates have opened. I havent stopped crying randomly since yesterday. drat man. Like I know I need more sleep but also... drat. I'm going to buy myself a gold medal.
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Yeah I put that crayon drawing of me up on the wall in my office and keep looking at it a lot Parenting is tough but it really does pay off
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Second Hand Meat Mouth posted:my kid likes teen titans go, which apparently the Internet hates because it's not as good as the og teen titans, but it's pretty cute and there are some fun episodes. like the one we watched today was about how taxes pay for stuff and ended with them stringing up the "corporate fat cats" like a pinata and beating the tax money out of them Yeah, same. I remember the OG one, but this new one is cute too. loquacius posted:Yeah I put that crayon drawing of me up on the wall in my office and keep looking at it a lot Yo, I gotta do that. Fuckin flex
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I love weird new toddler language as they pick things up. My daughter, screaming and crying while we put her shoes on this morning: FOR REAL?? FOR REAL?? 
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this morning i was driving my son to daycare, the following conversation occurred daddy i have to tell you something what is it? im not the luckiest kid in the world you aren't? what does that mean? i dont know alright man!
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External Organs posted:I love weird new toddler language as they pick things up. My daughter picked up "too bad so sad" at preschool and has decided it is an automatic argument-winner like, she wants to blow bubbles but we're out of bubble solution. "Too bad so sad, we're blowing bubbles." At some point pre-preschool she tried doing the same thing with "if you say so" but I countered with "I DO say so" and she had no response whatsoever. Just absolutely loving owned.
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loquacius posted:
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External Organs posted:I love weird new toddler language as they pick things up. drat she skipped straight ahead to teenager
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Six year old is now mainly interested in the effects of Pokemon moves and the type effectiveness chart. This accounts for most of our conversations. Made more fun by him not speaking English, so most of the moves are kinda hard to guess because he reads them like Danish words. Also, while I am a huge nerd, I don't remember every single move and type combination.
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Hope you're ready to learn them all!
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Son of Thunderbeast posted:Hope you're ready to learn them all! and what regions they come from, their evolutions, if legendary or not, etc I bought some thick pokemon encyclopedia a few years ago and it keeps on paying off . it’s not up to date but it’s good enough.
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My kid doesn't know what pokemon is yet and I'm going to keep that knowledge from her as long as possible. I have been shoving zoobooks-type things in front of her at every opportunity so she gets interested in real life pokemon aka animals. I know I'm just delaying the inevitable but still
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My wife calls our daughter "her lil Pikachu" and sometimes I get the intrusive thought that "this is appropriation"
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sonatinas posted:and what regions they come from, their evolutions, if legendary or not, etc we have multiple printed Pokédex artifacts in our house and they're all organized differently and in varying states of currency. my kids pore over those things and they don't even play the games.
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Vox Nihili posted:drat she skipped straight ahead to teenager I'm not ready for that. Stay cute for a while longer, please.
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Around here all the arcades are trying to make their money on food and ~the experience~ instead of actual coins. Except one where every machine was etrofitted for nickles. e:im late and tired, sorry
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this place wasn't exactly cheap or even close by, but it was his 10th birthday party and he's never really had an actual party anyway. we just brought doughnuts and coffee and had general snacks for anyone who needed some calories. two hours then everyone goes home and it's not a huge mess at my house. hell yeah.
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we’re traveling right now with our 16 month old to visit my brother in Japan and his 3 kids (9, 7, 4) and it is loving bananas. they have an unhappy relationship so we keep getting pulled in as referees for their little stupid fights - meanwhile they do like 1 meal a day with the kids and then just go go go go from meltdown to meltdown until midnight and then restart around 11 the next day. We’re in the car with em and there’s usually 3 tvs running at max volume and a fight and the radio. Our little guy with his fixed routines and bedtimes and quiet times and everything is surprisingly taking it in stride but definitely melts down by the end of the night every day. I am absolutely losing my mind though and I’m getting the snip when I get home lol.
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Our kids play "Prodigy" which is an educational math game that shamelessly unapologeticaly rips off Pokemon. The main idea is that when your little wizard wants to order a creature to maul something the kid has to answer a math question. It's very in your face about getting a subscription though so don't really recommend it. It might also just be a gateway to Pokemon, but maybe could be a Pokemon-methadone for kids already hooked? I am now at peace with Minecraft. Minecraft is wholesome compared to the free online browser games my older kid somehow found out about during computer time at school. I'm currently blocking large sections of the internet on the home network and just act baffled when poki.com doesn't load. Also youtube.
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Nocturtle posted:Our kids play "Prodigy" which is an educational math game that shamelessly unapologeticaly rips off Pokemon. The main idea is that when your little wizard wants to order a creature to maul something the kid has to answer a math question. It's very in your face about getting a subscription though so don't really recommend it. It might also just be a gateway to Pokemon, but maybe could be a Pokemon-methadone for kids already hooked? yeah prodigy is one of the games pushed by my kid's online portal thing and it's...it's okay, I guess, but not great. Minecraft is totally fine, got it for the switch and they just play it all the time in creative mode or not and build giant stuff and take guides out from the library and built bigger stuff
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Nocturtle posted:Our kids play "Prodigy" which is an educational math game that shamelessly unapologeticaly rips off Pokemon. The main idea is that when your little wizard wants to order a creature to maul something the kid has to answer a math question. It's very in your face about getting a subscription though so don't really recommend it. It might also just be a gateway to Pokemon, but maybe could be a Pokemon-methadone for kids already hooked? my kid loves prodigy. however in my opinion the math one is like a jrpg and English one is animal crossing. yeah Minecraft is loving quaint compared to everything else. the neighbor kids were talking about all their poo poo I don’t let my kid do. I mentioned to their parents how I restrict my kid and they were like”that’s so good how do you do that” or” I wish we could change” or” I wish we had those rules” and then I’m at my kids karate class and I’m watching , paying attention while parents are checked the gently caress out while their brood is being raised on phones…
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loquacius posted:Yeah I put that crayon drawing of me up on the wall in my office and keep looking at it a lot it really does, it's really hard to overstate how much they help to highlight the little things, like a doodle. I've got a bunch of my daughter's art taped inside the cabinets of my lab bench lol
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sonatinas posted:
Lookit this helicopter parent who actually goes to karate classes, what kind of lessons in self reliance is your kid gonna learn if they know you're right there. They need to be able to take on opponents when no one is around to help!
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Roblox is powerful. Kid I tutored was running AutoHotkey so he could grind stats on his laptop while he was in School From Home and at dinner. I looked into some of the discords and more proprietary codebase website and they are RIFE with financial predators and sexual predators. Absolutely terrifying environment to allow a kid into. But, he knew computer. He understood computer very well. He could also recite all the One Piece fruit and the powers they granted and every JoJo's character and their Stand. So... I think he'll end up alright. What was I saying? Oh yeah, never let your kid touch a Roblox in their life.
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sonatinas posted:
I can't wait to put my kid into martial arts so he can learn to go someplace and listen to an adult for an hour. That's a valuable skill.
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KirbyKhan posted:But, he knew computer. He understood computer very well. He could also recite all the One Piece fruit and the powers they granted and every JoJo's character and their Stand. So... I think he'll end up alright.  if the cost is a little less computer knowledge, it's worth it. failure to heed warnings like this in the 90s-00s is how yahoo chat and the games RP channels to have a decade of unmitigated predator poo poo.
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Spent a lot of time this morning between the hours of 4:30 and daycare dropoff at 8:15 contemplating the duality of parenting. Specifically, how I can be so incredibly tired and bored killing time with this 1.5 year old in the tortuous pre-dawn hours and also simultaneously amused and delighted by every little thing she does and says.
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