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i got a bad case of hand foot and mouth from my kid, my wife just had a fever i got the fever and the headache and blisters on my hand and feet and a couple on my tongue but worst of all, I AM PARTIALLY BLIND IN ONE EYE yes you can get hand foot and mouth so bad you go blind, hopefully its temporary Unilateral acute maculopathy https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4333364/
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Volmarias posted:No and hopefully that answer does not change afaik that one's literally just a map modelled after a public bathroom and you spawn with a vape pen lol. that's it
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Roblox and Minecraft mods seem to fill the void that Flash games did. There’s a few gems here and there, but most of it is cheap imitations of things that kids without disposable income or transportation have limited access to. So many squid game clones… god of war knockoffs… Pokémon card game reimplementations of poor quality… As an adult who can just go do the original, they are baffling. but yeah, Roblox is a scummy company, and i don’t want my kid getting mixed up in the money making aspect of Roblox programming, as it’s not really achievable if you’re not a scammer at some level. I see the Minecraft marketplace being similarly sketchy, but Microsoft has more reputation on the line, so there’s at least some semblance of policing the content.
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my kid just loves making redstone poo poo in minecraft. little dude made a conveyor belt today just off the top of his head. i decided to run a server on an extra machine i had kicking around and now it's become a really great thing that all 3 of us do 
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Perplx posted:i got a bad case of hand foot and mouth from my kid, my wife just had a fever holy piss I did not know this
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Blinkz0rz posted:my kid just loves making redstone poo poo in minecraft. little dude made a conveyor belt today just off the top of his head. a crack up thing is that a lot of things in minecraft are emergent and people have created “farms” and they’ll be these elaborate battery farms for things and my kid obv knows they aren’t real animals because drat they’re some pretty inhumane farming practices
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I may or may not have built an iron farm that involved putting 6 groups of three NPC villagers way up on platforms with 3 mobs in the Center of the grouping in a puddle of water so that when he bobs up the villagers have a panic attack, spawn an iron golem into an adjacent platform which then dumps the iron golem into a pit of lava that drops iron into a conveyor belt and into a box
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my kids have really been enjoying doing a little soccer camp this week. I think it’s generally great for them to get their energy out, learn to try new things/evaluate them/try to enjoy them, and I like the effects on their mood and attention. thus far I guess the major activities we’ve encouraged have been bikes&scooters, swimming, rock scrambling in the park, and soccer, though I guess gymnastics and dance classes (for both my son and daughter) count too. skiing and the rock climbing gym have been done very few times, but made big impressions maybe it’s good if I just encourage them to grow up into friendly, peaceful little jocks. I wish I had been raised to spend more time enjoying and taking care of my body and the internet is only getting weirder and more hostile and seemingly more influential on non-online culture too
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Shifty Pony posted:sorry Huxton, you are A Fucker right now. I really hope you parents wise up to the reason they only ever find out about a play date after it happens and reconsider their parenting strategy of letting you be a complete jerk to other kids for fun. Perplx posted:i got the fever and the headache and blisters on my hand and feet and a couple on my tongue but worst of all, Elder Postsman posted:oh man wait until they get a bit older and start finding stuff like "is it cake" and "floor is lava" In other news we went skiing for the first time this year and kid 1 is already *absurdly* good at it for only going like 3 times last year on a tiny nearby hill. Started the day on easy blues and by the end he was racing his pal down spicy reds. evil_bunnY fucked around with this message at 18:31 on Feb 24, 2023 |
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Feb 24, 2023 18:20
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Elder Postsman posted:oh that reminds me, is there like a self-hosted instagram sort of thing? my kid's been talking IG lately and she and her friend pretend to do it but idk it might be nice to set up a private one that the two of them can use without exposing them to, you know, all the pain and garbage of the real thing
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Feb 24, 2023 18:31
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evil_bunnY posted:floor is lava got us through a hellish 14 hours unplanned layover so I can't hate it. look they might be fun to watch once, but by the fourth time through "is it cake" in the past month, any kind of appeal really starts to fade
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evil_bunnY posted:There's picture-centric ActivityPub stuff if you wanna go that way (god rest your soul). i will maybe look into this. thanks (?)
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evil_bunnY posted:you don't get a second chance at hitting my little guy. 
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FAT32 SHAMER posted:I may or may not have built an iron farm that involved putting 6 groups of three NPC villagers way up on platforms with 3 mobs in the Center of the grouping in a puddle of water so that when he bobs up the villagers have a panic attack, spawn an iron golem into an adjacent platform which then dumps the iron golem into a pit of lava that drops iron into a conveyor belt and into a box minecraft is pure sadism
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curious but do your kids swim? my kids were quite lucky because school pools were a thing when I grew up but increased regulations closed most of them my kids school however had the community pool next door and it became de facto school pool so in summer almost every school day for like six years my kids got to play in a pool. there’s just little substitute for the amount of hours they had in the pool and now they’re just so confident in the water. my eldest is NOT into sports or physical stuff at all but he’s easily the best swimmer in his friend group, at least in the sense of confidence. we went to the pool today and diving off a 4-5 meter diving board and only later did it occur to me that not even once did I worry that they wouldn’t be fine anyway is swimming valued in the education system? or in society at all? I can’t help but feel like it’s something we probably all grew up doing but has become something only some kids get to do also lol going on the hydroslide was sk much fun hahah 
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The community pool here is at the high school and they have a pretty strong swim team. All of my sons friends do swim lessons and swimming at a lake is popular in the summer
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i’m pleased to hear it. i mean swimming isn’t an essential life skill but it really feels like something worthwhile for everyone to be able to do
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tbh I feel like swimming is a core skill on the same level as riding a bike
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it doesn't have to be your favorite hobby but you should know how to do it in a pinch
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echinopsis posted:i’m pleased to hear it. i mean swimming isn’t an essential life skill but it really feels like something worthwhile for everyone to be able to do i think it actually is. my 5 month old will start swimming lessons soon  her mother doesn't know how to swim and in a way i live in constant fear that she wi fall in water some day and drown
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we started our kids at swim lessons at 2 and 3, my now four year old toodles around the in laws pool for as long as you’ll let her on her own and she told me this summer she wants to learn to swim under water like daddy 
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The Fool posted:tbh I feel like swimming is a core skill on the same level as riding a bike and never mind that water parks are like the most fun you can have without sex or drugs like coming out of a hydroslide and ending up rear end over face and being totally disoriented and hosed up is so good lol
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The Fool posted:tbh I feel like swimming is a core skill on the same level as riding a bike Truth Learn how to survive 2/3 of the planet's surface with this one neat trick (some restrictions may apply)
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(offer void where rescue does not come in the first 1 to 20 minutes)
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The Fool posted:tbh I feel like swimming is a core skill on the same level as riding a bike yeah. passing a basic swimming test (iirc swim a 2 laps, tread water for 5 minutes) was a graduation requirement at my high school.
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The Fool posted:tbh I feel like swimming is a core skill on the same level as riding a bike
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if you find yourself needing to tire kids out and can’t let them do it on their own or with someone else, swimming is a very good choice of activity. a lot of the energy people use in swimming just comes from body heat lost into the water. children’s volume to surface area ratio is way lower so they lose a lot more energy just being in cool water than adults do. many other activities, if you do them with your young kids, you will run out of energy before your kids do or your kids will recover from that activity before you do. NOT SWIMMING
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my kid doesn’t know how to swim or ride a bike he’s also a very cautious little dude and has a lot of difficulty getting into new things
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Blinkz0rz posted:my kid doesn’t know how to swim or ride a bike same. he's been in the pool a million times and had All The Lessons but 
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prisoner of waffles posted:if you find yourself needing to tire kids out and can’t let them do it on their own or with someone else, swimming is a very good choice of activity. hell yeah, this is the type of parent hack i need
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swimming lessons are great because they unlock primo kid activities at the beach, friends' pools, hotel pools, etc. like ok your seven year old can beat bloodborne but if they can't swim they're a bad hang
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Elder Postsman posted:yeah. passing a basic swimming test (iirc swim a 2 laps, tread water for 5 minutes) was a graduation requirement at my high school. no poo poo? Blinkz0rz posted:my kid doesn’t know how to swim or ride a bike my partners mum is from ireland and she can’t swim and is terrified of the water to the point of not having a bath well she was like that…. in her late 70s early 80s she’s started to face that fear and has even gone out into the water in a bay up to her waist some things just take a bit of time
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echinopsis posted:no poo poo? it was because my hometown is on the shores of lake superior and there were multiple drownings every year. it's a dangerous lake.
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but yeah it’s like a freshwater sea
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Elder Postsman posted:yeah. passing a basic swimming test (iirc swim a 2 laps, tread water for 5 minutes) was a graduation requirement at my high school. we didnt have to do laps but we had to do a 40 minute deadmans float to pass 10th grade gym swimming was mandatory in jr high and thats when i learned to swim. thank you so much mrs. shaneyfelt for keeping me after class and making me jump into the deep end one on one
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swimming was once a week for like 2 months and kids would get so nervous a couple would yarf on the way to the pool every time
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there was a pool at my primary school and I can't remember any kids not being able to swim but idk I was just a kid. we used to be allowed to swim and cool off on hot summer days at lunch  we are not lucky enough for the local school to have a pool now days though  sorry kids housing market etc means you can't grow up where I did
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my 5 year old got a pretty cool Christmas present for learning how electric circuits work: https://shop.elenco.com/consumers/sc-750r-snap-circuits-training-program.html he's putting together all the stuff simply by looking at the diagrams and learning lots, such that he can build his own circuits and predict how they'll work given the electricity flow, the components used and their polarity etc does anyone know anything similar for biology? there's a nice duck pond at his school that must have all sorts of great stuff swimming in it, but I don't know that just getting a microscope would be that compelling for him
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