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- autoflavour3
know that it never gets easier, and that your life will have to change.
and then, before you know it your kid is 14 and you are lamenting you only have 4 years left before they are an adult
- They grow pretty quick don't they.pseud
- I found it DOES get easier after the first two years.. but then I haven't hit the next stage yet - I'm not looking forward to adolescence, hahaNairn
- agreed nairn, it’s much easier once they aren’t always trying to kill themselvesmonospaced
- Count the number summers you have left before they wont want to hang out with you anymore. Don't waste them!slappy
- It totally gets easier********
- ok, maybe never gets easier is an overstatement, i guess i meant more whatever you get used to, changes, and then its new again.autoflavour
- Ramanisky210
- Heromonospaced
- Dude deserves an award.utopian
- yupYakuZoku
- a free car?Nairn
- hero until he steals yoursNBQ00
- lol what?monospaced
- no hero, knows he'll go free for stealing a car if caught but not for kidnapping a baby. the love affair for making heroes out of criminals is real.hotroddy
- It's not like the hero cops will even bother showing up, they're too busy get BJ's from prostitutes, robbing drug dealers or sleeping in their car somewhere.utopian
- wow you guys are so confusedmonospaced
- annnnd there's hotknobby again. he judges not with fact but assumptions. no way he knows the real reason for returning the baby.pango
- Low expectations for the marginalized 'heroes'. The mother briefly left her baby in the car seat to pay for gas.hotroddy
- Soft bigotry of low expectationshotroddy
- how you know "The mother briefly left her baby in the car seat to pay for gas" seems like another assumption.pango
- The baby asked to be left in the car.palimpsest
- Someone always fails to understand sarcasm ... and still does not understand the difference between socialism, capitalism and communism.utopian
- holy shit, “hero” was a fucking joke you autistic literal cuntsmonospaced
- lol at pango defending the criminal. #defund the police amiright Pango?hotroddy
- Of course it was a joke, but your response inadvertently reveals your bigotry. That joke wouldn’t have the same impact with a white or Asian mug shot.hotroddy
- my joke was independent of race, you sick bigoted beta soft little man bitchmonospaced
- Ever notice Hotrod only posts inflammatory notes on anything that has to do with race/black people ?? About 99.9% of the time. Never contributes here.Ramanisky2
- Never posts anything fun or of value.
Just a miserable MAGA trolll.Ramanisky2 - supreme mental midgetutopian
- ram we know what you're doing. you're the race baiter.hotroddy
- ^ lol ok trollolloRamanisky2
- it's amazing you can load qbn with posts about a fight, a meltdown, or a criminal incident but always very carefully selected and curated. :)hotroddy
- #voice of the culture = RAMhotroddy
- Oh ohh! You can't rebut what I said so you brought up other irrelevant stuffs. Lol every single time with out fail.pango
- Why is this extreme racist bigot going around trying and failing to accuse others of being racist. It’s so weird.monospaced
- ¯\_(ツ)_/¯pango
- Nairn1
Advice, please?
Girl-kid is five. I need to get her into computers.
How?
I'm thinking to buy her a second hand laptop and customise a windows profile and just go with that, but... thoughts?
Is touchscreen necessary? I'd prefer her to learn keyboard, trackpad/mouse (a path she's already a bit on, from using my laptop here), but I can certainly see the advantage of a touchscreen interface too.. but then part of me wants to keep that seperate from the concept of a tablet. I think that sort of thing after she understands 'what' a computer is.
Thanks in advance.
x- * I think that sort of thing *after* she understands...Nairn
- Local Coder Dojo?
https://coderdojo.co…mort_ - Oh sorry, it’s from age 7mort_
- thanks. I think I had a stroke up there.
I'm thinking to aim for something like
https://scratch.mit.… long-termNairn - I feel like they’re going to get into computers anyway, plenty, so there’s no big need to really force it early. But ... Minecraft?monospaced
- My first meaningful computer experiences were with HyperCard on Mac classics in the 80s. As long as it isn’t YouTube :)monospaced
- For slightly older kids, this looks impressive - https://www.mblock.c…Nairn
- I'd say iPad with ProCreate for art or simple music apps like Koala, maybe Logic (with help). My daughter (now 7.5) understood procreate at 5microkorg
- to be able to do multilayer images. both my kids 6&7 can jam on koala and have fun.
Both love to build and build on minecraftmicrokorg - but we've weened them off this till they are older. minecraft intense screen time isnt good for their brains.microkorg
- As a father to an 11-year-old girl, my advice is: Do not do that. Let her develop her motor skills instead. She will master computers in no time herselfzaq
- Por que no los dos?Nairn
- I agree with you zaq.
We cut our kids screen time massively and got an electric piano. Kids both really into it. Calms them too.microkorg - Just to be clear, I am a total fascist where it comes to screen time. But,causing a computer usefully and productively is something I want to encourage.Nairn
- *using. Damn mobile.Nairn
- I was thinking about this again recently (this post being 8 months old and i've still not got her a pc) - i had a tv and a [literally Basic] computer when I ...Nairn
- ... was not far off her age. Difference then being there were only 4 tv channels, most of which wasn't kid-centric, and the computer was.. well, Basic.Nairn
- I spent 90% of my free-time not watching that tv or using that computer, but I *did* use them. I can't deny her at least the basics I had. And more.Nairn
- I just want to find that line - i DO NOT want her having a basic tablet and unfettered media/app access. Quite the opposite.Nairn
- Trick here is: Computers are going to be fundamentally different to use in five/ten years so.. maybe not bother?
I don't like that route.Nairn - My youngest (15) has an iPad and also access to a laptop. He has zero interest in the laptop. He makes music, animations, art all on the iPad. I'd go tablet.mort_
- OBBTKN0
A nice trick:
I am a tall father, sometimes rough and stubborn as a mule... And I admit that sometimes, I am scary. And the truth is, I would have benefited from this advice before, but hey, nobody is born knowing ;)
- If I did this, my kids would tell my wife and she'd say something stupid to them, and question me about it.ArchitectofFate
- yeah, but it's worth a try...OBBTKN
- Nairn1
OK, what's the current day encyclopedia for kids?
I mean, obviously Wikipedia et al. But how to encapsulate that in an analogue form?
- Every time I search for physical encyclopediae sets they're from like 1986.Nairn
- lol that sounds about right, they can learn about Yugoslavia, the benefits of leaded gasoline and the wonders of the fax machine!_niko
- Not analogue, but sounds like you can download all Wikipedia articles and media for about 100GBakiersky
- hahahaNairn
- @akiersky - yeah, I've long-liked the idea of a tablet or something that is JUST wikipedia. I might have to think on't.Nairn
- download the 100gb then print-on-demand at Blurb.com haha.microkorg
- My daughter likes reading about people and what they have achieved. LittlePeopleBigDream... books are good for younger kids but she is craving a bit more.microkorg
- Haven't found much. There are some 'brilliant people' type books with a page on each person. But Wikipedia still seems to be the best source of ALL infomicrokorg
- on individuals.microkorg
- Nairn1
Any of you lot into and know much about boardgames? for kids?
is there such a thing as a game with a 'dynamic board'?
like you have a range of rule types and basic interactions, but you 'build' the game from scratch each time.
At its most basic, you could constuct a novel snakes and ladders game each time.
Does that make sense?
I know I could just do this all on graph paper, etc, but..
- not really a board game but marble run is one my kids loved._niko
- and super Mario-maker but that's a video game obviously_niko
- What kind of age range?Morning_star
- Nairn, let’s make one. We have kids the same age almost.monospaced
- sounds like the old school Mouse Trapfaxion
- @m_s - 6-ish. @faxion - I could never get that cunt to work! I mean more simplisticaly - just laying down the spaces with directions. No 3d plastic stuffNairn
- Sure Nairn, Carcassonne is a solid beginner game where players draw tiles and build the board trying to score points.Nutter
- other suggestions:
World Wonders
Galaxy Truckers
The Quest for El Dorado
Betrayal at House on the HillNutter - try looking up on youtube and see if any of them might be somethingNutter
- Hey, thanks nutter! They might be a smidge above my daughter's pay grade, but even so, they're immediately useful to help me find things for younger kids. TA! xNairn
- My son just turned 7 and 3, and my brother and I made our own board games when we were children in the 80s and 90s.monospaced
- I imagine a grid where you can design the "path" you travel, locations of action spaces, and then you can invent what happens, or use their canned suggestions.monospaced
- Check out Labyrinth. It’s a constantly moving maze that’s different each time. My 8 year old loves it.greyandred
- Ooh, thanks!Nairn
- That was a good call, greyandred - it's a little complex for the kid (should've got the kids version) but she's getting a handle on it. Thanks!Nairn
- Happy to hear it pal.greyandred