edgesmash

@edgesmash@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Splitting Hairs, Splitting Atoms⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m glad you shared! Life is hard, parenting is doubly hard, and we’re all just trying to make it through and do at least a little better than our parents did.

  I’m just glad my kids didn’t inherit my messy room… I had literal layers of stuff on the floor, like it was some sort of strata. I can’t believe my parents let me get away with it. That said, I knew where everything was.

  Anyway, good job to you as well!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Splitting Hairs, Splitting Atoms⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey man, I honestly appreciate your insight and ideas. You’re spot on for what to do for how to cook and prepare veggies for kids (and adults too). My parents raised me on the most bland American cuisine imagination (they rarely even added salt), but when I left home, I discovered the greater world of veggie preparation.

  But, with all due respect, you haven’t met my kids. My partner and I are not perfect parents, but we’ve tried many different ways to prepare and serve veggies, including salted, roasted, sautéd with oil and seasoning, boiled, raw with/without dip/sauce… It doesn’t help that my partner is nearly as picky as my kids (to be fair, I can be quite picky with respect to texture). But, at least we’re making sure they understand that a balanced diet is vital to health. And, hey, both of my kids are healthy and in the lower percentile for height-weight ratio, so we haven’t failed them yet.

  Regarding my original downvoted comment, it was just an old Gen x dude trying to make a dumb old joke.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Splitting Hairs, Splitting Atoms⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Come on, man. I have my kids eating their veggies, but they don’t like it. The older one knows they are healthy and eats them reluctantly, the younger never chooses veggies unless we attach consequences for not eating (e.g., no dessert unless you eat your veggies).

  But neither wants to eat them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Splitting Hairs, Splitting Atoms⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What kid wants to eat salad?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stupid recipe ⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d recommend someone check it out :)

  OK, I’ll be your someone!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kid gave a reasonable answer without all the math bullshit⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Teachers like this exist. One of my kids had an elementary school teacher like this. Two examples:

  1. The math assignment was about currency denominations; what coins and bills you need to make up $7.42, for example. My kid answered using $2 bills (uncommon in the US but still printed), as we have them at home. Teacher marked the answer wrong because teacher didn’t mention $2 bills in class.
  2. The writing assignment was to rewrite the Snow White story from the perspective of another character. My kid, having read a bunch of those “twisted tales” and recently fallen in love with “Wicked”, wrote from the evil queen’s perspective and made her a sympathetic character. Teacher marked her down for “changing the story” without acknowledging my kid’s creativity. Teacher did not back down when we confronted her on this during our parent teacher conference.

  (FWIW, in both cases we reassured our kid that they did great in both cases, and that we were proud of them.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Punk circa 1200 AD⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  HE STEALS ONLY WHAT HE CAN’T AFFFORD… THAT’S EVERYTHING!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just a little guy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Also, I got punched in the face by a fish while I was down there.

  Please elaborate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon plays shirts vs skins⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The word “pinny” pulled forth visceral memories of my middle school. Wow, impressive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Choose your Fighter⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Has been and always will be stegosaurus. How can you not love those bone plates and spiked tail? Dude’s a beast.

  That said, ankylosaurus comes in at a close second. It’s armor is pretty boss.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Come on, science!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Fair enough!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Come on, science!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh wait, now I realised that’s basically r2d2

  Is that a bad thing?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I have unlimited cellular data on my phone but not if I use it as a hotspot.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  … but it becomes an annoying game of cat ND also cat…

  Hello, The Monarch: Image