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oh hey, we have one of the smaller snap circuit sets it's really good bought during the lockdowns to have something constructive to do and it's still a hit
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we also have a snap circuits set and my daughter's had a lot of fun with it. just the starter set, so not nearly as many pieces at that one.
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Feb 26, 2023 19:57
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we’ve gotten a shitload of mileage out of a set of magnetiles we got out oldest when he was little. now our three year old loves them too and you can tell he’s figuring all sorts of stuff out when he builds with them. also one of the few things of material value I’ve been able to pass down to the kids is my old lego collection. it’s already grown a bunch since handing it over four years ago or so.
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I was just gonna say, we’re about to order more magnetiles when they go on a sale because my kids are doing this with them
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Feb 26, 2023 20:04
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yeah we got a ton of magnatiles that still get used, and my lego collection got turned over years ago and has probably doubled in size since.
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Feb 26, 2023 20:09
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magnatiles and snap circuits are both great
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the box art for snap circuits makes you think it’s gonna be garbage inside, but for the most part the build quality is very good. I think the leads on a couple capacitors or resistors broke at some point so I had to solder on replacements. my kid also burned out all of the LEDs by chaining battery compartments together from multiple sets
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Feb 27, 2023 00:00
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Volmarias posted:It's basically massively sharded mlm kid's pants
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polyester concept posted:my kid also burned out all of the LEDs by chaining battery compartments together from multiple sets whomst among us
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Feb 27, 2023 00:37
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lol, that owns
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More power!
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I had something like that when I was idk 7 maybe but it was actual components you pinned into these spring things and let me tell you I learned nothing about what any of it actually meant but I could follow the instructions important lesson: why learn when you can just copy and paste off stack overflow?
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:I had something like that when I was idk 7 maybe but it was actual components you pinned into these spring things and let me tell you I learned nothing about what any of it actually meant but I could follow the instructions oh hey, I had the same thing distinct memories of those springs causing calluses
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Feb 27, 2023 23:31
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i had the elenco 75 in one
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looks like my daughter is getting her "dads too embarrassing to be around me"s early, and my boy just hit the big four year "give a gently caress" regression
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snuggling in bed with one of the (almost 6yo) twins, I asked him what 100 minus 50 was, trying to give him an easy problem. he turns towards the wall and you could see the gears turning like he was visualizing the problem, using his finger to help him solve it. “eighty-five.” ….he had heard me say fifteen, not fifty. goddamn, kid, I’m impressed. kind of feel bad for him that they are just doing basic single-digit addition in kindergarten, he has to be so bored. kid is already reading dogman books, it is really cool to see how smart he is. he’s gonna have to be the one we have to watch out for as a teenager for sure, he will 100% be sneaky about poo poo and think of all the angles to not get caught.
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ive found it frustrating over the years how little interest my kids have ever shown in any kind of hobby or activity that requires effort well, my youngest loves sports and will do that for hours on end, so I suppose just mean my other son, but it's also kind of true for both of them its almost like, and i probaly blame myself for this, that growing up with easy access to modern computers seems to kill desire for making something like I had an amiga growing up - but no internet. and I wanted to program things I had never seen. but it feels like because unlimited content exists at kids fingertips that they never really have much energy at all for being creative maybe they're just not. idk. my kids aren't me and I shouldn't really feel sad that they aren't. and I suppose, knowing how lame I am, guess I am glad my kids aren't like me
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echinopsis posted:ive found it frustrating over the years how little interest my kids have ever shown in any kind of hobby or activity that requires effort For me, when I'm bad at something interesting, I want to dig in stubbornly until I am no longer bad. My kid does not, and I don't know how to teach that mindset because to them it just looks like "dad can do a lot of different things and I can't"
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MrQueasy posted:For me, when I'm bad at something interesting, I want to dig in stubbornly until I am no longer bad. My kid does not, and I don't know how to teach that mindset because to them it just looks like "dad can do a lot of different things and I can't" yeah I got this exact same thing going on with my kid too. i've started doing things wrong on purpose and correcting my mistake and talking about how that's good and cool but it doesn't seem to have sunk in.
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MrQueasy posted:For me, when I'm bad at something interesting, I want to dig in stubbornly until I am no longer bad. My kid does not, and I don't know how to teach that mindset because to them it just looks like "dad can do a lot of different things and I can't" Kids are only born curious once, and it's easy to kill that curiosity.
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echinopsis posted:its almost like, and i probaly blame myself for this, that growing up with easy access to modern computers seems to kill desire for making something none of us realized while growing up that that boredom is an essential nutrient
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echinopsis posted:ive found it frustrating over the years how little interest my kids have ever shown in any kind of hobby or activity that requires effort i’m struggling with this too with our oldest. also i was the exact same way.
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when i was a kid i didn’t really have access to a computer though so i spent my time memorizing simpsons quotes.
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President Beep posted:when i was a kid i didn’t really have access to a computer though so i spent my time memorizing simpsons quotes.
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President Beep posted:when i was a kid i didn’t really have access to a computer though so i spent my time memorizing simpsons quotes. my eldest turns 14 this month he has just picked up the bass and is practicing smoke on the water and some black sabbath so.. maybe it just takes time idk maybe I was just a weird freak of a kid
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i never learned that I need to try hard and stick with things to get good at them until my 30s so i can’t blame my kids for doing the same
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Internaut! posted:my 5 year old got a pretty cool Christmas present for learning how electric circuits work: I got one of these for my kids. They did not give a SINGLE gently caress until we added the little detachable fan, which was then all they cared about. More recently I brought it back out and they did a little bit more, but mostly they just snapped all the pieces together to make a pattern or something and didn't even try looking at or understanding the directions. I genuinely try to spark interest and they just give me the old "ok whatever dad" attitude and go back to playing computer games. Which, fair, but I really wish I could figure out how to spark something more in them. 
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Yeah, I'm scared that basically nothing I like about myself will be transferable to my kids because those things emerged opportunistically out of a soup of abuse, poverty, neglect, and chaos - none of which I am planning on exposing my kid to. I've been expecting to have to settle for learning to love my dumbass kid fall in love with jock poo poo and want to be like an embarrassing MBA bro or something.
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my youngest has these homework challenges and they’re somewhat self directed and god it’s heartbreaking he just sits there in tears, because the topics are too vague and so he doesn’t know where to start them. it might be like “make a poster of a meaningful person in your life”, and he just can’t even begin it I totally feel it. he’s such a bright kid, one of the top kids in the class of the top class at school for maths I’m so awful at self directed work too and have to do some for professional development, and it just feels like it’s really unfair on some people. like this homework doesn’t really teach anything, there’s not much learning at all, it just distresses him. he goes to bed and cries himself to sleep because he hasn’t completed the tasks even though he’s sat there for hours with them. imma email the teacher. although don’t know what to say, don’t expect them to say not to do it spose just wish they’d give more instruction. lack of requirements is a serious hinderance to some people
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i failed a shitload of assignments like that back in the day, including shamefully flunking rhetoric 101 more than once in undergrad im not sure which thing wound up getting me out of that mindset but i got over it the year i 1) started drinking coffee and 2) had a rhetoric teacher that could explain the logical justification for the topics covered. One thing that really stuck with me from that class was a brain hack that i still use all the time: when faced with an open-ended problem, come up with way too many answers, just like blast out tens of em, long enough to where the later ones get silly/satirical/stupid; and then skim the list and see which one your brain resonates with (or which one seems easiest if its for work/school). so for this assignment just bang out like person after person, focused only on people and not execution at all, and then reread the list and pare down to a few that would be easy to convey then do the same with what to add to the poster, shitload of ideas, pick some entertaining to do (or easy) ones, done. I really got hung up on perfection and choosing the "right" answer for annoying open-ended stuff like this so reframing it as an exercise in generating too much stuff and then paring down made it a lot easier for me.
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Yes, but paring it down to WHICH ONE?
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I think I've messed up with my 19-month-old. He knows exactly what he's not allowed to do, so he says "Nooooo" before he does it 
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lol, sounds about right to me
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my almost 19 month old looks at you and smirks as he does something he’s not suppose to do
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lol that’s very normal and always funny even if you can’t laugh while they’re gleefully willingly disobeying
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what helped me with those sorts of bullshit assignments was realizing that I was focusing on the wrong part. the vague part was vague because it truly didn't matter. the person wasn't important at all, the poster was. it could be about Eggman for fucks sake, the teacher just wants a poster describing a person. make a few quick sketches of different poster layouts as they come to mind, pick whichever one clicks best, and that usually provided enough structure to limit down the choice of people to let me decide which person to cram into it. almost like meta gaming for homework I guess. starting with what I know they want it to look like and building backward. doesn't make it easy, but it did help add enough structure and limits that I could keep somewhat on track even with untreated ADHD Shifty Pony fucked around with this message at 13:08 on Mar 2, 2023 |
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FAT32 SHAMER posted:lol that’s very normal and always funny even if you can’t laugh while they’re gleefully willingly disobeying it is very funny and cute and also horrifying when I see him run into the kitchen saying Noooo
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any radio guys on here? my son can't get enough of the Hardy Boys and is fascinated by the setting where you can't just reach into your pocket and contact anyone you like anywhere in the world - recent stories have started to feature the boys using their own radio to contact their dad and other people to help them with cases, when I was young we had primitive CB but I took a look at the hobbyisyt state of the art and the idea of being a kid staying up late with a set of headphones scanning for stations and watching the waterfall quickens my Cold War-vintage heart: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7exz7VAFuh4 I was wondering if ham has something to offer kids in 2023 or is it all just greybeards and software out there in the ham band?
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Shifty Pony posted:it could be about Eggman don’t you dare plagiarize my work
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