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@acabjones@lemmygrad.mlStarted swimming lessons for the kiddo this week. It went pretty well - I was mostly worried about her ability to follow directions since I have suspicions that she might have ADHD or something.
My kid's been obsessed with rice cakes since she had some from a hot pot restaurant, so I made some tteokbokki for the family dinner tonight
Swim lessons are like crack in this house. Sadly the community pool has been in repair for the last couple weeks and they canceled the rest of this sessions lessons. Thankfully we were credited. But the kiddo is not happy haha.
Spent most of the weekend playing tetris with the nursery, taking out a cot and work desk and putting in a double sized floor bed so we can make some work on the cosleep situation. Apartment living with minimal space is difficult.
minimal space is difficult
I feel like we're constantly having to purge stuff to not have a cluttered house over here lol
Were getting to that point here too. One simple trick, take the old nick back stuff you get from happy meals or whatever and periodically purge them when the kids are unaware. 😎
We're lucky enough that we don't go to fast food places that give away junky toys lol. We have to quietly purge so many coloring sheets that she takes home from preschool, though
Oh I know, we have an endless stream of artwork, some great, some basically a line on a paper. We bought these frames designed to store lots of kids artwork and hung them outside her door, so we can at least let her pick some to save. She loves that, and it makes getting rid of the extra easier.
One of my boys pulled down the next record I had queued up yesterday whilst I was vacuuming. It was in it's paper protective sleeve and he tore that and it was out on the floor.
I know he wanted to be involved because I had records on but they need to know there are some things you don't touch and let parents handle.
I know he doesn't mean to be bad but it always feels like it's the same kid getting into these things
I collect fidget toys for stimming and have a custom 3D printing "joystick with roller ball" thing. I keep them all in a tray on my computer desk and there is a rule that no one is allowed near my computer. But I got home from doing something a few weeks ago and my partner was snoozing on the couch and I noticed some stuff on my desk was moved and immediately noticed that toy was missing. No one knows what happened to it. My oldest was showing my youngest my fidget, even though he knows he's not supposed to touch them without my permission, and we think my youngest took off with it.
I hope the vinyl is ok. Can you get another sleeve for it?
Fortunately it wasn't damaged and I have some rice paper sleeves I was saving for my favourite albums, but I can always get more and this is kind of a collector's item so it's worth having one of the good sleeves
Ah I hear twins can be crafty. We're going through that with our youngest but with ornaments on our tree. We underestimated his curiosity, which we shouldn't have lol. Nothing some super glue can't fix.
I got my boys into batman so we need to make sure they don't pull this batman ornament off our tree.
I recently picked up this batmobile ornament as well and one boy just threw it and broke off a fin because he wanted the matchbox car I got at the same time
I’m currently listening to the audiobook of How to Talk so Little Kids Will Listen by Joanna Faber. I actually really like it and find it to be very helpful. Basically what it comes down to is validation, which makes sense. It’s also something I’m very familiar with. Years ago my ex-gf and I were having a lot of troubles, and based on our relationship dynamics I spent like a year or two diving into validation techniques. It didn’t work with her and obviously we’re not together anymore, but I’m realizing those were valuable lessons for how to interact with my kids.
Ok, I found the first book in the series and read the first chapter (it's a fast and easy read) and definitely going to keep this one handy. Someone had mentioned a book club for the comm, and this might be a good intro to that. It's practical, and dare I say, feels like parenting theory, something you can digest and then put into practice, peace by peace.
I'm going to have to give this a read. There seems to be various editions of this book, which one are you reading exactly?
Did a long flight with the kids that was exhausting but could've been a lot worse. Been working on teaching reading but she keeps forgetting the sounds for letters and its frustrating for both of us. I have to keep reminding myself there's no hurry while balancing out my expectations.
She does great with a lot of the letters but whenever we see 'M' its "I dunno"
I've been using the app Anki to teach my kids to speak more. It's a flashcard app so it could easily be adapted to learning to read as well
So, in the district I work in, the pre-k / K / 1st grade classes use an app called Teach Your Monster To Read. I put it on my iPad at home, and my kiddo really enjoys playing it (she's 4). Mostly, she enjoys making the monsters, which is frankly good because she ends up repeating the first section of the app pretty regularly. It teaches her letter sounds and eventually tries to onboard her into pronouncing words. That part hasn't been very successful, but again, she's 4. Definitely play it with them, as some of the "games" can be tricky.
Gearing up for a long holiday vacation. Going to take a long flight with both Kiddos. Our oldest was easy last time we flew, our oldest can oldest be very opinionated and loud for a 1.5yr old. Hopefully we can get a good nap in on the flights.
It's not for everyone for a variety of reasons, but my wife and I switched to taking the train with a sleeper car for holiday travel the last two years and it's so much better. Instead of dreading the airport, I'm looking forward to the train. It works out for us because the cost to fly that close to my parents and their small airport is honestly close to the same cost as the sleeper train and we both have the vacation time.
Kiddo loves it. He doesn't have a bunk bed, so that alone gets him hyped up. He can walk around the train as it goes. He brings some toys and has room to play with them. Most airplanes have power in the seats these days, but it's very nice to know we have power for the Switch and what not. We get to take it easy (arrive only a half an hour before leaving), no security line, no checked baggage, you just take everything on with you. And we get in midd day. In order to make that time on the plane, we'd have to be up by like 5:00 AM to catch the flight. Instead, we sleep on the train. A about 18 hours or so to just decompress and get out of work mode and into holiday getaway mode.
I would love to do that. I would have to save all my vacation days for the whole year, but it might be worth it lol.
