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Fat-Lip-Sum-41.mp3 posted:the easiest number of streamers to keep track of is zero. i have a youtube extension that only shows videos from subscribed channels, so i can subscribe to something she can use, like a follow-along for practicing music, without worrying about her getting lost in some low quality bullshit. My kid is asking where the YouTube search bar went. He's on to me.
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My kid seems to have figured out how to get around the Unhook youtube blocker extension. Hopefully there's some other solution that doesn't include throwing the laptop into the sea.
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loquacius posted:If you have a young child, for many people the choice between a single-income and dual-income household is wholly aesthetic, because the parent that earns less will be making about as much money, total, as it costs to get the childcare necessary for a dual-income household. Yes but if you stop working and have a gap in your employment history it can be harder to start working again in future when daycare is no longer required. It's a great system.
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My kid asked me whether people will be ready to leave the earth in anticipation of the sun's terminal expansion into a red giant and what kind of wide-eyed optimist am I raising.
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Oct 11, 2022 18:40
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Many better Robert Munsch options anyway, Mortimer for example. Shown here me after 8pm any given day.
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Oct 25, 2022 16:25
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Elissimpark posted:Learning to anticipate activities and items that will generate havok or mess and then avoiding them is like 90% of parenting. Alternatively you can just learn to live in the middle of chaos and shambles. Many approaches.
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My older kid got into Minecraft recently and now it's a constant subject of conversation along with reading Minecraft-themed books and graphic novels to the exclusion of all else. I knew we should have lied about the existence of video games until they were 18.
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Probably the best parenting move we made recently was install the "Unhook" browser extension and have it disable 95% of Youtube features. Now when the page loads it only shows videos from subscribed channels, everything else like the search bar and video recommendations don't appear. Even as an adult it's a big improvement to the site, esp as before installing it the algorithm had apparently decided I wanted to see lots and lots of UFC video recommendations. Minecraft has admittedly been very useful as an incentive to get the kid to do their homework+music practice etc etc but it becoming their primary interest has been a bummer. Before we were using other educational games as the incentive and we thought Minecraft would be another good option, but the impact has been much different. KirbyKhan posted:Everything the children get into is evil and for the devil. This is how it's always been.
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Dec 22, 2022 22:34
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It can be tough when a kid expresses a preference for one parent over the other but the good news is they eventually grow out of it. Younger kid handed me an envelope today containing a note that simply reads "I don't love you Dada". Ok it can take a while.
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Benagain posted:Random question, I'm trying to get my 2.5 year old boosted and apparently her main provider either isn't stocking them right now or has no plans to? I'm trying to find a place that stocks the booster that will vaccinate under 3 yrs old around Chicago if anyone has any leads. It appears to be a real pain for under three year olds to get boosters right now. It was difficult enough for our four year old as our pediatrician's office similarly doesn't stock the booster. Don't have any specific recommendations for the Chicago area unfortunately. I'm guessing you looked into the CVS "minute clinics", which seem to be the only pharmacy option for under three year olds? Alternatively you might try checking out independent pediatric practices, some provide shots or have clinics open to non-patients. This is how we got our younger kid their primary series shots when we learned our pediatrician's office didn't provide them and none of the pharmacies had them in stock.
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lobster shirt posted:gonna crosspost from the a/t parenting thread in case you wonderful people have any advice Young children often develop a preference for a specific parent. My four year old still very much prefers their mother and tells me this in strong terms. However we were able to have me take over their bedtime routine and other specific activities, partially by making it clear that I was going to be doing them and partially through grit+tricks. It was easier that they were a bit older too, two/three year olds are very different from three/four year olds. One suggestion might be to make it clear a certain enjoyable activity only happens with their mother, for example baking cookies? Also not having the favourite parent present when that happens helped a lot. Regarding balance that is always hard. Especially in your case as infants require so much attention.
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lobster shirt posted:your kid might not get covid but he or she is definitely going to bring home some excruciating illnesses and infect your whole house. here is the last few months of my daycare experience: PerniciousKnid posted:I finally caved and sent my 2yo to daycare unmasked (he won't wear them) today, because we need desperately need the help. Hopefully we're not all hanging around the house this summer with blown-out lungs, but I held out as long as I could.
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brugroffil posted:What's some good things to do with a 4 and a 6 year old in Dublin and the southern half Ireland? Cork, Killarney etc My then 4 year old was fairly intrigued by the Dublin Natural History Museum though maybe google that one in advance because it might not be for every kid...
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When I was young we had pet rodents and one of my main parenting goals is to not put my children through that. So many unhappy gerbils... No space for a dog and we're allergic to cats so hoping the kids will accept pet rubber tree plants if the question ever comes up. ikanreed posted:This seems to be glossing over that they called their cat Yuri nothing wrong with naming your cat after the discoverer of the heaviest known element, Yuri Oganessian
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loquacius posted:WELP. Wife (pregnant) just tested positive for COVID. I thought it was over??? 2yo and I are both testing negative but I have a PCR scheduled for this afternoon now. No severe symptoms just yet, she lost her sense of taste this morning and has been coughing a lot but that's it so far Are you in the US? If so your wife can likely get Paxlovid. There are instructions in the COVID thread OP if you decide to go this route, though ideally your doctor would prescribe it. To be clear statistically your wife will very likely recover without problem. Hope they feel better and you avoid it.
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BonHair posted:Yeah, but I kinda feel like my high score benefits from avoiding trauma and such, plus getting them some good values. Nice, that's a W IMO. Semi-related my kid recently asked what is meant by "interest". I gave IMO a fairly neutral description of loans with interest and debt. It was interesting how repulsed they were at the idea that the debtors would need to pay back more than they borrowed, and that in some cases the interest could add up to make the debt unpayable. It seemed like a very authentic reaction from someone without any preconceptions about the institution. Like kids need to be extensively inculcated to accept notions like usury or war or that a bunch of animals will be killed by cars every day, and that otherwise find them objectionable.
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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? As for the wisdom of encouraging this interest, I'm ambivalent. We restrict screen time a lot and I don't think my childhood interest in video games helped me much as a person. However they appear legitimately interested and it's spurring other interests in math so it might be fine? The goal is definitely to develop problem solving skills and not some misguided notion of setting them up for a future career. They've become much less interested in Minecraft recently too, which has been welcome.
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PerniciousKnid posted:What kind of help do they need? I'd say letting them spend hours trawling articles and videos for ideas and galaxy-braining themselves into programming their visual novel in Icon would be an important life lesson.  DR FRASIER KRANG posted:get the kid the newest RPG Maker is my suggestion. I think it's on Switch now. Another Bill posted:I've done some simple platformer stuff with my kids in Gamemaker. The coding is mostly javascript level and there are tons of tutorials. What cool about it is you can export the executables to android devices (but not iPhones/iPads last I checked) which gives it a real cool factor for kids imo. BonHair posted:I don't have any experience or qualified opinion, but I'd treat it like an interest in carpentry or similar. Focus on what the kid wants to create and have them figure out how to with guidance, which probably means YouTube tutorials nowadays. Only instead of a tree house, it's a MUD or something. I'd be careful of engineer brain if they just learn the tools without anything to use them for.
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sonatinas posted:could learn red stone mechanics on Minecraft You're joking but there's no end to the Minecraft rabbit hole:   I dislike that these books exist and that we have both of them. We got them second hand from other parents that were likely trying to offload them and I look forward to doing the same. Though probably the most impressive Minecraft-derivative media products are "The Creepier Diaries":  Simultaneously piggy-backing off the popularity of Minecraft and the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series, it's so cynical and genius. My kid loves them. I complain about the excessive Minecraft interest and the whole product ecosystem based on and encouraging it, but must admit I did like getting my Nintendo Powers as a kid.
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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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KirbyKhan posted:I'm thinking real hard about getting crayons for my toddler. His first etch-e-sketch has got a few dead spots from wear and tear. I don't want mess.... But I kinda do. Get the kid crayons IMO. The big jumbo washable non-toxic markers are good too, no permanent mess.
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We've struggled a lot with what kind and how much screen time to allow for both our kids and still do. There's value to minimizing screen time as much as possible, but for the limited time allowed there are some very good options and some very poor ones. Probably the most important thing is to do the screen activity with your kid, but this is in tension with using screens as a temporary distraction when you're busy. One specific thing is we subscribed to Epic during the pandemic, which is an online library that has lots of read aloud stories where the pages turn along with the recording. I was fairly skeptical of the idea of having young kids read or listen to books on screens, but my kids really liked it and I think it helped my younger kid to develop their interest in reading. It also has a lot of the good Robert Munsch books! Not trying to suggest yet another subscription service, but I think that kind of screen time can be positive.
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If the kid really wants to watch youtube I recommend the Unhook chrome extension and setting it to full power so that it blocks everything on the site except videos from subscribed channels. Critically it blocks video recommendations. I also really recommend only allowing kids to watch youtube in your direct presence. Blocking it entirely also makes sense.
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The inevitable happened and my older kid got the younger kid interested in Minecraft. I'd be annoyed but they are very cute playing it together. Less cute is my younger kid talking about how a Creeper can kill you. I told them I would become the Creeper's friend but they didn't believe me.
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Fat-Lip-Sum-41.mp3 posted:clearly i have given my children too many books and too few opportunities to simulate ethnic cleansing You can do both, for example we semi-recently finished reading "The Hobbit".
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Siblings getting on well together is fantastic. A semi-recent development is my kids will team up to berate me if I happen to upset either of them. For example asking one of them to please get ready for bed for the fifth time will get their sibling shouting "HOW DARE YOU" at me. It is good to see solidarity.Panfilo posted:Speak of the devil, I was talking to my mom today and she was gushing about my nephew then asked how my daughter was doing. I talked about how we're helping her navigate first grade and how grateful I am that her school has so much resources to support her in subjects she's struggling with-she gets extra help in math and 1 on 1 work with a reading specialist. The teacher doesn't assign homework but I always try to spend time practicing math and reading each day.
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Really don't enjoy cajoling my clearly tired kid out of bed for school. I've become what I hated.
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My younger kid has placed a sign in their room reading: "<kid's name>! FART!"
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The younger kid put their own name on the sign. In their older sibling's room the younger sibling apparently also placed a sign reading: "<older sibling's name>! BUTT!" They included a drawing of floating buttocks.
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Willzilla posted:“good morning dad I brought you a monster truck and a battery and where is my dinosaur shirt and I want breakfast and curious george tv and all of this is shouted at full volume at 5 in the morning” 🥱 yeah ok buddy Starting the day with a monster truck sounds great though.
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We let our children watch "Ben & Holly's Little Kingdom" a bit last year, from the same people as "Peppa Pig". It's a cartoon depiction of a deeply classist (British) society presented as completely normal and fun! Probably should avoid. We watched the French dubbed version and must admit that I found Roi Chardon delightful.
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lobster shirt posted:nothing like a six month odl baby smiling the worlds biggest smile at you, disarmingly, before grabbing your beard and pulling as hard as possible It was a big relief when my older kid grew out of doing that. You might have another 1-1.5 years to go though.
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School is out for the summer and my older kid is so happy. Suspect they will be less happy when their summer program starts next week. It's too bad. The last couple of summers they had more of a Calvin and Hobbes-esque "just do whatever" summer holiday experience and it created the expectation that it was the norm. On this topic the summer camps and programs for children are so expensive. Some friends told us that in Germany summer programs are paid for by the govt, and the returning question is are we giant suckers for raising kids in the US? meanolmrcloud posted:at bedtime, I fake farted while pretending to be a sleeping cat (her idea) and my daughter laughed so hard she fell over. 2.5 is the sweet spot. lots of interaction but not enough awareness to be a genuine terror.
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Elissimpark posted:Our 4yo had an accident this morning on the way to the toilet. Your kid is the MacGyver of peeing.
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Sunny Side Up posted:Does anyone use outschool and have any favorites on there? Have looked through many virtual and hybrid options and it seems like the best we’ll do for a 3 year old. We tried a few other things like PreK math, arts+crafts outschool sessions and they were ok. The instruction you're providing is likely better than any outschool teacher can do esp at this age range. Second Hand Meat Mouth posted:we know someone who uses it, but there's not much to say about it in general because it's gig economy style in the sense that the teachers aren't being centrally planned or anything, so your experiences will vary depending on the specific teacher
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Lol was wondering where this thread went. Any good vegan ice creams? Kids got to have ice cream but would prefer an option involving less sad cows.
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Those Ben and Jerry dairy-free options look good, going to try them thanks. We have an ice-cream maker but of course our older kid rejected every single home-made offering. The older kid also figured out that their summer program is essentially summer school and yes they are mad.
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Recently my older kid has started to secretly make Scratch projects late into the night after their bedtime. They'll wait until the lights are out then sneak a laptop into their room and code up a rocket game or whatever. We've told them that the deceit is not acceptable and obviously this could be setting up some bad habits. However I can't deny being delighted at the ingenuity they've shown trying to get around the restrictions we've put in place and their plainly stated intent to thwart them.
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Rock Puncher posted:my 9 year old has discovered you can change the icons on desktop and has changed steam to be a picture of a windows folder with the title "boring school stuff" Love to see that kind of problem solving.
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