But like so many parents & work from home spouses.... I'm apparently irreplaceable & I have MORE work & responsibilities today than on an average day. 😭
Oh the luxury to be able to "call in sick" and go back to bed. What does that even feel like??
@syntaxseed the worst part of being a parent: there is just no time off. No sick leave, no annual leave, and most especially no paternity/maternity leave 😁
And when I complain to my parents about it, they tell me that you don’t even get to retire…
Akimbo Attack: hits 4 different targets at the same time. Damage 1d6 each.
Compass of Comfort: toddler spins horizontally, with head and feet striking in cardinal directions. Some of those directions are the attending parent's chin, stomach, and private parts.
Rotisserie Escape: twisting out of restraints while twirling.
Projectile V: bonus action, ranged attack. Always catches the target flat-footed and prone.
Has anyone else watched The Americans and couldn't help themselves asking when do they sleep or why they're never tired at "work" after spending the night chasing or being chased, who takes care of their children at night, and whether they ever go to the beach, where they kids could see all their scars from so many injuries during fights?
@mdione wasn’t really aware of this series before, but I now see that this is critically acclaimed so I’m interested to watch it. 👍 (If I can find out where it can be streamed because it’s not on Netflix or Amazon Prime Video at least in my region.)
So, we’re soon finally getting around to the Duplo->Lego transition in our household. Our youngest (soon turning 2) has only recently got out of the habit of putting everything in her mouth. We don’t have a space that’s inaccessible to her that could act as Lego play area, and, well those 2x1 basic bricks are prime causes of suffocation.
Any tips for keeping Lego vaguely organised & contained with young kids? I’m dreading it going absolutely everywhere and small parts getting lost. #parenting
Någon i #Lund som söker en trevlig och skötsam hyresgäst till hösten? Vår exceptionellt kompetenta dotter skall plugga industriell ekonomi efter två år i dagligvaruhandeln, som kökschef på sommarläger och som ryggsäcksresenär. <3
My youngest two are 9 and this week they had a Scholastic Book Fair. One thing that they've found is that, from time to time, there is Disney manga at the book fair from TokyoPop. Which, by the way, there were no comic books at Scholastic Book Fairs when I was a kid, but I digress.
As my youngest like Lilo and Stitch, they picked up this volume called "Stitch: Best Friends Forever!" Short version: It's cute.
The story has Stitch's ship crash landing in an island in Okinawa. While there, Stitch becomes friends with a local girl named Yuna and goofiness ensues. This single volume has self-contained stories in each individual chapter of Stitch getting into silly / funny situations with an elementary aged girl and her friends.
This is, however, a compilation volume. There is a full, two volume Stitch manga that was previously released. "Best Friends Forever" picks some fan favorite chapters and mashes them together in what, at times, feels like no particular order. It's not bad, but it does give you kind of whiplash from time to time
Long story short, it's a taste of the Stitch manga. If you enjoy it (which we did), then it's worth checking out the full series (which I probably will with my kids).
It's a cute, all ages manga about Stitch and a different friend in Japan. If you like cute kid's manga, check it out.
This weekend I went to a band trip with my 12 year old as a chaperone. It started with band performances, ended with them (and me) at an amusement park all day.
I met a bunch of Middle Schoolers who were friends / acquaintances with my daughter. They referred to me as "cool," "legendary," "icon," and one said I was "an icon on par with Madonna." But...but why?
I think about that day and all I can think is that I'm an adult, a parent who was willing to engage with these kids. I talked with them about music, their hobbies, anime, video games, whatever they wanted to talk about. I listened and interacted. Apparently, that's enough to make me an icon.
It feels very basic. But, the fact that just this level of interaction felt out of the norm for them from their friend's parents that it made them call me an icon, I feel that says more about the other adults in their lives than it does about my awesomeness.
Amazing how my kids now have professional skills that I've never been near. Junior can write code , design electronics and translate from Japanese into English and Swedish. Juniorette can run a kitchen full time that cooks for 150 people, as well as work the floor and back stage of a major grocery store.
Can anyone recommend a kid-friendly painting app for iPad? Something like Kid Pix? Kindergarten/elementary age. No ads, no in-app purchases, no commercial characters (ideally).
I used to be a parent who when out in public felt like I had to perform a middle ground between my kid and social norms.
Now I am a parent who when out in public role-models the accommodation, flexibility, low-demand, and calm that I would like other people to practice around my kid - or any kid. Instead of trying to appease society, I'm showing society how it can do better.
It may not seem a big deal in the world, but this personal change is nothing short of revolutionary.
A month ago I spent an hour or two going through all of our winter hats, gloves, coats, scarves, and misc crap that had gotten thrown into them. I sorted everything into bins, and labeled them "hats", "gloves", and "buffs/scarves".
Two weeks after I did that, I noticed that someone had put gloves in the hats bin, and vice-versa. The next day I noticed that the buffs/scarves were in with the other two. I mentioned it to my wife, and she shrugged.
@Andres4NY Another trick: have less of each? At home we're only 3, I only use gloves, and I keep them in my current jacket, so the two kids do no spend more than 15s finding the missing globe or their bonnet.
@mdione I keep a pair of gloves for each kid in my winter coat.. because I'll pick one of them up from school, and inevitably we'll have the following conversation: "My hands are cold" "put on your gloves" "i don't have them" "you went to school with them, did you check your backpack?" checks backpack "I can't find them" "okay, here, I have an extra pair in my pocket"
According to @Joysauce, fewer women in East Asia and Southeast Asia are choosing to have children — Taiwan has the world's lowest birth rate and South Korea, Singapore, Hong Kong, Macau and Japan aren't far behind (or ahead, depending on your point of view). Jiaying Grygiel takes a look at the societal and economic reasons for these steeply falling birth rates. “People are making a perfectly rational decision about childbearing under the circumstances,” says Stuart Gietel-Basten, a professor of social science at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
Unbelievable curbside find today on my way home from a lovely solo breakfast. I’m sure 2yo will like it fine, but this is the Barbie Dreamhouse of my dreams.
The neighbor who helped me load it up said it’d been sitting there for a few days, but I couldn’t bear to leave it for 10 minutes to go home to get a different vehicle in case it got snatched up by someone else. Turns out I didn’t have to!!
Age restrictions on books for toddlers/small kids are not to protect the kid from the potentially disturbing content, but to protect the book from being torn apart 😅
