Ripley has been talking about space constantly for the last few days. Spaceships, space helmets, rocket ships.
Anyone know of cool space documentaries or something cool for a three year old to watch? Cosmos maybe?
Ask the StoryBots on Netflix has a good episode on how planets are made, season 3 episode 2. Honestly the whole series is great and I enjoy watching it with my 2 year old (though she mostly just likes the songs, sound, color and motion) and the guest stars are always a hoot. There is also a "StoryBots Super Songs" series which is just songs with little interludes to sort of tie them together. There are a few repeats between the show and super songs but they are all great quality/production value. The first half of the first episode of those is Outer Space.
NASA also has some good video and activity resources but they are designed for a slightly older audience (K-4 and up). You can also try searching for videos of rocket launches, some of the video clips of astronauts on the ISS doing "experiments" for grade schoolers may be a bit too high level but there's also fun stuff like watching food float around in space, astronauts doing EVAs, etc.
Not relevant to that question but Minecraft has a free International Space Station level and it's pretty dope, if any of your kids are into that.
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sponoMining for Nose DiamondsBooger CoveRegistered Userregular
If you're ever in California, it is imperative you take your kids to see the space shuttle Endeavour in Los Angeles. It's a really amazing exhibit, and it's only $2.
You can walk underneath and around the shuttle, plus they have the big orange fuel tank outside.
Destination Space - Ignore the GoodReads author link on this page, which is a link to some religious author, rather than the astronaut who wrote the book.
Edit: I've got a question for the thread: I'm toying with the idea of getting my kids Switch Lites at some point and I sorta know what the deal is with the Switch but any of y'all have multiple Switches in your house? Is there anything annoying I should know?
Edit: I've got a question for the thread: I'm toying with the idea of getting my kids Switch Lites at some point and I sorta know what the deal is with the Switch but any of y'all have multiple Switches in your house? Is there anything annoying I should know?
there's no good way of sharing digital titles between switches, you're stuck with hacky workarounds like installing on one switch then keeping it offline while the other is playing
life's a game that you're bound to lose / like using a hammer to pound in screws
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
I did know about that, and it's honestly the main thing that's kept me from getting any Switches up until now. Are cartridges cool, you can pass those back and forth?
I did know about that, and it's honestly the main thing that's kept me from getting any Switches up until now. Are cartridges cool, you can pass those back and forth?
Yeah carts work as expected.
life's a game that you're bound to lose / like using a hammer to pound in screws
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
Ripley, three years old, finds every single goddamn piece of popular culture with even the spectre of conflict too scary. She hides and covers her eyes.
Didn't even make it through the first five minutes of Moana because the shadow going over Te'Fitis island was too scary.
I am so everloving goddamn sick of Toy Story, Cars, Winnie the Pooh.
She always wants to spend time with Dad and watch movies and that's great but oh my God I am so sick of this shit.
/Puts Winnie the Pooh on again.
I am in the business of saving lives.
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KalnaurI See Rain . . .Centralia, WARegistered Userregular
Ripley, three years old, finds every single goddamn piece of popular culture with even the spectre of conflict too scary. She hides and covers her eyes.
Didn't even make it through the first five minutes of Moana because the shadow going over Te'Fitis island was too scary.
I am so everloving goddamn sick of Toy Story, Cars, Winnie the Pooh.
She always wants to spend time with Dad and watch movies and that's great but oh my God I am so sick of this shit.
/Puts Winnie the Pooh on again.
My sister and her oldest daughter are both like this. One is 44. The other is . . . 15? Same conflict issues in fiction.
And meanwhile her two youngest kids are just fine with all manner of conflict.
What I mean to say by this is some folks are just like this. Some grow out of it, some don't. All I can do, really, is wish you luck.
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I never believed people when they would say their kids were really sensitive from day one. I believed in nature over nurture, like no one is born a certain way, we just get conditioned to a way.
I've completely changed my tune. My daughter has just been exquisitely sensitive since day zero.
Ripley, three years old, finds every single goddamn piece of popular culture with even the spectre of conflict too scary. She hides and covers her eyes.
Didn't even make it through the first five minutes of Moana because the shadow going over Te'Fitis island was too scary.
I am so everloving goddamn sick of Toy Story, Cars, Winnie the Pooh.
She always wants to spend time with Dad and watch movies and that's great but oh my God I am so sick of this shit.
/Puts Winnie the Pooh on again.
So, because Covid, my 4 year old has watched a lot of tv with us this year. There are some shows without conflict I think you could try if you want to mix it up, if you’ve got Netflix, or Amazon prime.
Ripley, three years old, finds every single goddamn piece of popular culture with even the spectre of conflict too scary. She hides and covers her eyes.
Didn't even make it through the first five minutes of Moana because the shadow going over Te'Fitis island was too scary.
I am so everloving goddamn sick of Toy Story, Cars, Winnie the Pooh.
She always wants to spend time with Dad and watch movies and that's great but oh my God I am so sick of this shit.
/Puts Winnie the Pooh on again.
So, because Covid, my 4 year old has watched a lot of tv with us this year. There are some shows without conflict I think you could try if you want to mix it up, if you’ve got Netflix, or Amazon prime.
Hit me with it, amigo.
She wasn't interested in any of the space stuff I tried to show her maybe still to young.
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Bluey is solid, on Disney+ and also a few free episodes on Disney Now. Go! Go! Cory Carson on Netflix is pretty cute while also having some fun for adults (like the greeter at the toy store who drones on about having the same job for years and the dad asks if the dude is okay).
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Bluey is solid, on Disney+ and also a few free episodes on Disney Now. Go! Go! Cory Carson on Netflix is pretty cute while also having some fun for adults (like the greeter at the toy store who drones on about having the same job for years and the dad asks if the dude is okay).
Bluey has the benefit of also being hilarious. We were watching it earlier and the wife and I were cracking up.
Ripley, three years old, finds every single goddamn piece of popular culture with even the spectre of conflict too scary. She hides and covers her eyes.
Didn't even make it through the first five minutes of Moana because the shadow going over Te'Fitis island was too scary.
I am so everloving goddamn sick of Toy Story, Cars, Winnie the Pooh.
She always wants to spend time with Dad and watch movies and that's great but oh my God I am so sick of this shit.
/Puts Winnie the Pooh on again.
Not quite the same, but Sapling is terrified of things that are new, or that "makes sound". We tried buying that penguin egg timer to help with potty training, and I made the mistake of describing it as making a sound, so now it's hiding in the other room where she can't see it. It gets exhausting.
"I will write your name in the ruin of them. I will paint you across history in the color of their blood."
Moana can be pretty scary for little kids, though. Like, it has an ages 6+ rating in the Dutch system. Not just because ~conflict~, but because there's a lot of monsters that go 'boo'.
Also conflict free and cute: Timmy Time (from Aardvark Studios), Buddi, Miffy. Should all be on Netflix.
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Ellie starts primary in two weeks from tomorrow.
So, kinda fitting to ring in a huge life change with another.
Her first real big haircut.
She's had a trim about a month ago, but that was maybe at most an inch. This was closer to six inches.
@Peen hope your daughter recovered well from her concussion!
@MegaMan001 Anya is extremely sensitive, and I hear your frustration. Even most Studio Ghibli films are too much for her.
@Aldo Kindergarten standards here in the US are a little nuts, IMO. Niko was expected to come in being able to count to 100, recognize all his letters, and write in sentences. Luckily for us, reading ended up clicking pretty quickly for him as it did with Anya. They’re even beginning to tell time!
Wait there are prerequisites for kindergarten? I assumed it was just "are you 5 years old?"
What the hell is wrong with us
Our school had no requirement besides age. There were expectations about what they should be capable of, but they were much, much lower than the requirements others have mentioned.
Like, being able to identify most? of the alphabet, know the sounds of at least some of them. Something in that ballpark.
Yes; expectation vs requirement. It’s not required a kid but meeting those expectations would really struggle with a lot of the work dished out at the beginning of the year. We’ve had enough tears and anger from Niko as it is, and he did meet most of the expectations! They were asking him to do ear-spelling in the third or fourth week!
Anyone here got a mor constructive term for when one's daughter is being a complete pill?
I don't want to tell her she's bossy for all of the reasons you've already read about.
Different age, but we use the term "turkey pickle". They're being a turkey, we're in a pickle, they're a turkey pickle. It doesn't really make sense but it's a pretty fun to talk about it.
Yes, 5 on and only a year. Before that kids typically go to preschool for a couple of years.
Hu, I'd thinkit would be the other ways around, kindergarten and then preschool school. Interesting.
Here kindergarteneither start at age 3 or at about 1 if they have U3 groups. If you can find a place...which we haven't so far...It's a nightmare. We registered for I think 15 or 16 for this year, same as last year, where in the end we only got daycare-mother which isn't really the same. It's another example of us aparently not having the right connections I think.
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Ellie has 8 days of daycare left.
They had a lunar New year party tonight and in looking around the room at all these teachers that have helped her and me along the way and then suddenly in two weeks they're out of her life.
In the Netherlands school starts at age 4 in combined groups (group 1/2). When they turn 5 they have to go to school, at 4 they're allowed to go to school. After those two-ish years they graduate to group 3 and are expected to follow a curriculum with reading/writing/maths.
These are the expectations of the group 1 kids halfway through a school year:
Language:
Tell a story with the use of pictures and simple questions
Be able to guess what a story is about based on the cover of the book
Recognize the letters of your name
Maths:
Count to 10
Recognize small quantities (ie: how many dots are there on this side of a dice?)
Place objects in a row from big to small/tall to short and use those words
Place objects in a row from full to empty
Recognize basic shapes and recognize the colors red/blue/green/yellow
For the group 2 kids after 1.5 years in school:
Language:
make simple rhymes (bear/pear etc)
write the letters of your own name
be able to tell a story without the use of pictures.
Combine separate sounds to form a word (buh oh nnnnne --> bone!)
Maths:
Be able to estimate quantities up to 12
Count up to 20
Be able to count to 20 starting from any random number
Be able to split quantities (here are 5 balls, give 2 balls to dad, how many balls do you have left?)
Measure stuff with bits of rope or your arm.
Be able to make a building plan (ie: give your class mate instructions on how to build the same car from Duplo. Or: make a plan of your living room)
Most of the school days are filled with playing and sports. They go to school for 4*6 and 1*4 hours per week.
I remember being one of the only kids who could read in my 1st grade class. It was normal that most were still figuring it out. But my kids are expected to know by the end of K, yeah.
I'm really glad that the school we chose is a bit more flexible on that, though. It focuses on experiential play- based learning and individualized attention in smaller groups. Our local school is a bit more rigid, old- school and focused on testing. Glad we found the one we did.
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Interesting! I'll have to look into the kindergartens and elementary schools around here and see what's in store. We're still a ways off (he's 2).
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Anyone know of cool space documentaries or something cool for a three year old to watch? Cosmos maybe?
There's some of the newer Magic School Bus episodes that are about space. My kid has a bunch of space books he loves, I can find the titles.
Ask the StoryBots on Netflix has a good episode on how planets are made, season 3 episode 2. Honestly the whole series is great and I enjoy watching it with my 2 year old (though she mostly just likes the songs, sound, color and motion) and the guest stars are always a hoot. There is also a "StoryBots Super Songs" series which is just songs with little interludes to sort of tie them together. There are a few repeats between the show and super songs but they are all great quality/production value. The first half of the first episode of those is Outer Space.
NASA also has some good video and activity resources but they are designed for a slightly older audience (K-4 and up). You can also try searching for videos of rocket launches, some of the video clips of astronauts on the ISS doing "experiments" for grade schoolers may be a bit too high level but there's also fun stuff like watching food float around in space, astronauts doing EVAs, etc.
You can walk underneath and around the shuttle, plus they have the big orange fuel tank outside.
Here's the books:
First one is probably most age appropriate:
The Cat In The Hat: There's No Place Like Space
These might be better when slightly older:
Smart Kids Space
Destination Space - Ignore the GoodReads author link on this page, which is a link to some religious author, rather than the astronaut who wrote the book.
Edit: I've got a question for the thread: I'm toying with the idea of getting my kids Switch Lites at some point and I sorta know what the deal is with the Switch but any of y'all have multiple Switches in your house? Is there anything annoying I should know?
there's no good way of sharing digital titles between switches, you're stuck with hacky workarounds like installing on one switch then keeping it offline while the other is playing
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
Yeah carts work as expected.
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
Ripley, three years old, finds every single goddamn piece of popular culture with even the spectre of conflict too scary. She hides and covers her eyes.
Didn't even make it through the first five minutes of Moana because the shadow going over Te'Fitis island was too scary.
I am so everloving goddamn sick of Toy Story, Cars, Winnie the Pooh.
She always wants to spend time with Dad and watch movies and that's great but oh my God I am so sick of this shit.
/Puts Winnie the Pooh on again.
My sister and her oldest daughter are both like this. One is 44. The other is . . . 15? Same conflict issues in fiction.
And meanwhile her two youngest kids are just fine with all manner of conflict.
What I mean to say by this is some folks are just like this. Some grow out of it, some don't. All I can do, really, is wish you luck.
I never believed people when they would say their kids were really sensitive from day one. I believed in nature over nurture, like no one is born a certain way, we just get conditioned to a way.
I've completely changed my tune. My daughter has just been exquisitely sensitive since day zero.
So, because Covid, my 4 year old has watched a lot of tv with us this year. There are some shows without conflict I think you could try if you want to mix it up, if you’ve got Netflix, or Amazon prime.
Hit me with it, amigo.
She wasn't interested in any of the space stuff I tried to show her maybe still to young.
Bluey has the benefit of also being hilarious. We were watching it earlier and the wife and I were cracking up.
Not quite the same, but Sapling is terrified of things that are new, or that "makes sound". We tried buying that penguin egg timer to help with potty training, and I made the mistake of describing it as making a sound, so now it's hiding in the other room where she can't see it. It gets exhausting.
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Also conflict free and cute: Timmy Time (from Aardvark Studios), Buddi, Miffy. Should all be on Netflix.
So, kinda fitting to ring in a huge life change with another.
Her first real big haircut.
She's had a trim about a month ago, but that was maybe at most an inch. This was closer to six inches.
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@MegaMan001 Anya is extremely sensitive, and I hear your frustration. Even most Studio Ghibli films are too much for her.
@Aldo Kindergarten standards here in the US are a little nuts, IMO. Niko was expected to come in being able to count to 100, recognize all his letters, and write in sentences. Luckily for us, reading ended up clicking pretty quickly for him as it did with Anya. They’re even beginning to tell time!
I don't want to tell her she's bossy for all of the reasons you've already read about.
Be like a reed that bends with the wind but does not break because it has deep roots.
What the hell is wrong with us
Our school had no requirement besides age. There were expectations about what they should be capable of, but they were much, much lower than the requirements others have mentioned.
Like, being able to identify most? of the alphabet, know the sounds of at least some of them. Something in that ballpark.
Hu, I'd thinkit would be the other ways around, kindergarten and then preschool school. Interesting.
Here kindergarteneither start at age 3 or at about 1 if they have U3 groups. If you can find a place...which we haven't so far...It's a nightmare. We registered for I think 15 or 16 for this year, same as last year, where in the end we only got daycare-mother which isn't really the same. It's another example of us aparently not having the right connections I think.
They had a lunar New year party tonight and in looking around the room at all these teachers that have helped her and me along the way and then suddenly in two weeks they're out of her life.
I got all misty eyed.
This is going to be so hard.
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These are the expectations of the group 1 kids halfway through a school year:
Language:
Maths:
Count to 10
For the group 2 kids after 1.5 years in school:
Language:
Maths:
Most of the school days are filled with playing and sports. They go to school for 4*6 and 1*4 hours per week.
I'm really glad that the school we chose is a bit more flexible on that, though. It focuses on experiential play- based learning and individualized attention in smaller groups. Our local school is a bit more rigid, old- school and focused on testing. Glad we found the one we did.