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He's really pushing boundaries now.
I tell him not to do something and he looks me in the eyes and does the thing whilst maintaining eye contact....
Really really testing my patience.
Ayup. It's the look that really gets me.
And they keep doing it, too; the "I know I just did something I'm not supposed to, so I'm going to stare at Dad to see if he reacts" move.
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I’m moderately hopeful it won’t do any harm in there, but it definitely won’t help!
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Now, if that sounds familiar to anyone, it happens to be part of the Fibonacci Sequence.
He's not even 6 yet. He learned the first 14-odd numbers in the Golden Ratio for funsies at 5 years old. I'm not entirely sure if I should be proud or terrified. Possibly a bit of both.
She thinks those shows are pedagogically revolutionary. She was like "If this existed 20 years ago my job would have been WAY easier"
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But I popped them on for the kid just then, and yeah, she’s super right the way they physically show the numbers and show how the numbers make each other up is really good.
Satans..... hints.....
I think for my kid it's also that they make a character out of every number presented, and heavily suggest that the kids themselves should extrapolate new numbers ("Just add 1!"), and can then characterize those new numbers.
They've got an infinite amount of new number friends, and I think that's generally appealing to at least my kiddo.
Some of the numbers have distinct features called out in their designs to make them more memorable, like 5 points on a star, 7 colors of a rainbow or 6 sides on a die.
Then the tens are coloured and styled like their 1 digit counterpart
and then, when you the ten and one digits go together, their digits are shown in different styles
My son was obsessed with Zero for a while because in the show Zero doesn't have a block, she's just a floating face and 0 and she has a very catchy song.
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"'I'm the number for nothing; I'm one less than one
When there's nothing of something, I'm the number for none!
When there's nothing there to count, none is the amount; you've got Zero!"
Zero is my hero.
So actually, yes, Numberblocks does present some of the numbers in the Fibonacii Sequence. Just, not as many as my kid decided to extrapolate.
Absolutely love the show. I even also enjoy Numberjacks as well. Not quite as good as Numberblocks, but she's still picked up quite a few mathematical concepts from it. Numberjacks seems a but more theory related in some ways? Bigger, smaller, round vs square, etc.
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But for the last week approximately she's having pee accidents and often doesn't manage to nap. Today also a poop accident.
Might be a bit of stress, too, as the kindergarten is having some staff shortage, too, so more to do for the staff that's there, resulting in a less relaxed atmosphere for everyone. What ever it is, hopefully we'll figure it out.
At least in my area the professional teams either run or are affiliated with youth leagues.
Assuming your local derby teams survived the pandemic, we lost a few.
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 show her the place to stand and she just starts making friends.
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Rollergirl? Great graphic novel.
Yup, my younger one got it free from the library for Summer Reading and they both read it. My first Google pass says that there's a youth roller derby team that practices an hour away, we're going to investigate further and see if it's doable and if she's really serious about it.
Mentally preparing myself for tonight.
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Our older one hasn’t napped reliably for like a year now. We just gave up on expecting it and get pleasantly surprised when he wants one.
He started kindergarten last week. The first day he came home, and within 10 minutes of being in the house, he was napping.
I don't even remember life with nap time.
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As-is, any suggestion of nap time is usually met with giggles in the "you're so silly, dad" range.
They always tell on themselves when someone says "we're going to exclude hateful people; no bigots allowed" and they get really angry. It's like . . . thank you for letting me know you're a bigot, I guess?
Do everything you can to support him. Show up to meetings.
Right wing hate is always the minority but they suck up all the oxygen and get all the attention
About an hour in I was in a blissful deep sleep and my son starts having some sort of nightmare which results in him screaming and crying for half an hour.
He then gets in bed with us and spend all night writhing around whimpering and kicking me. Any attempt to move him back to his bed results in crying.
So now I've been awake since 0400 and more tired than before!
Parenting woo.....
That's my plan, and I hope I can.
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So, on day-o later, I realized that I never really play music. My parents always played music on car rides, but since we very rarely take the car places, they're isn't a lot of music around. They're usually watching a show on their iPad, or doing something not conducive to music listening.
She's playing on her switch, so I turn on my Pandora station. Some of my songs aren't very PG, but I figure most are ok.
A few songs in, NIN, Closer starts to play, and I very quickly skip to the next song. She asks me what's wrong with that instrumental song( I got to it before the words started), and I say truthfully it has some bad words in it. She looks at me, earnestly, and says she's ok with bad words. I try not to overplay it and shrug as the next song starts. No, Ms 8-years-old, you aren't listening to that song.
Later, during another NIN song, she lets me know she's going to watch a show on her iPad, so asks if I could turn down my music. Ouch....
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Now he just has to be old enough that I'll feel comfortable playing the games around him, which are not, in my opinion, 6 year old appropriate.
We've had good experiences with Eurovision Song Festival, because it is camp as fuck, has plenty of different genres and is structured like a competition (and our kid loves those). He got to stay up a bit later to watch the finals with our friends and us. Subwoolfer is now one of his favorite songs. I've sent the clip to his YouTube Kids account so he can listen to it when he feels like it.
Also turned out to be how we explained sexual attraction induced erections to my 9 year old. 😳
- handle her in/out of her cot (so no bedtimes)
- give her a bath
- change a nappy
- wash our reusable nappies
- do a bunch of other non-baby tasks
Needless to say this absolutely sucks for my wife. I did not expect I'd be wishing I could change a damn nappy.
I've had music playing in the house and car every day since both of my kids were born. I don't censor anything, but I listen to mostly rock, punk, mixed with a bit of metal and pop. No rap or hip hop.
I think the whole "music for children" shit is patronizing as hell.