My 14 year old recently did very well in their sport in a big tournament with lots of contestants. They never expected going that far.
I never understood the joy of sport myself but I am extremely proud of what they're achieving and of how dedicated they are.
When getting ready for bedtime runs a little long and I don't want to turn on the light, I just add a thread to my episodal storytelling of my sons getting sucked into their favorite game (fortnite and minecraft respectively). It never misses.
I read books to my youngest this week and he goes "dad you are the best reader". 
Us dads need a repertoire of about 30 unique character voices for bedtime stories. It’s a hard life.
I do regional dialects for variety (and for my own fun).
I will never retire these funny voices. I absolutely plan on running campaign with my boys
I get busy weekends. On Sunday here one of the wheels on our trailer pram completely shit itself. The axle broke and is stuck inside the pram by the release pin, now the wheel is bent out of place and I can't get it out.
Then on getting home after that expedition the garage door broke. So our car with the baby seats in it was stuck inside and our other means of getting the kids around was also broken.
I've had a few problems with the trailer pram recently, so I'm almost thinking of selling it and the ebike, and getting something like a Tern so I can do the work commute and cart the kids around with a single unit. The trailer pram makes navigating some things a bit cumbersome, so something the size of a normal bike would be great.
I’ve always wanted that experience of living somewhere where I could put the kids in a bike trailer and go to town. But we live in hell (rural suburban America).
It can be different. Where I live the city is very insistent that children ride bikes to school, they've even made it illegal to drive on roads next to schools when school starts in the morning. Teachers will take kids on field trips riding bikes and parents are expected to teach their kids how to ride bikes.
Why you gotta dunk on me like that? 😭
I'm on the cusp of it in metro suburban Australia but I'm able to make it work.
Unfortunately we still live too far out for it to replace a car, so you have all that space in the garage taken up and all the expenses of both another car and a bike. But it's great and the kids love it
Baby Beaver is getting way more mobile, we might have to actually put the gate up soon to keep her contained.
Fun! It's always exciting when they get to explore more.
The little gate/ playpen thing we had actually helped my kid get around, he would pull up on it and move all around the living room. He loved it.
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Hi friends. I drove an hour away to the childrens museum with my kid today. They had a band there playing drums and my kid got super over stimulated and wanted to go home. They recently made a sensory room there and I took him into that instead and it was like magic. He calmed down in about 10 minutes. I am sold. They should have these everywhere!!!
Anyways, still solo parenting and just happy I got us out to do something really fun and it went well :)
That's always a hard thing to have happen. We drove to a farmers market a few weekends ago and the kids were over it in like 20 min. Hot, crowded, and the oldest had zero interest in the food truck offerings. So we got some cool drinks and drove home. Sometimes you swing and miss! Glad it worked out though! Kids museums are great.
It’s funny because I actually have memories of my parents bringing me to farms and places like that and feeling like I was going along with them to do chores and now I know they were doing it for me. They just also bought vegetables and stuff while we were there.
This week somehow both the little Fish picked up a stomach bug. Wasn’t too bad. 2yo threw up twice and 4yo was terrified they might as well. We made a campsite in our living room and ate a lot of Goldfish. We watched a lot of movies, which we normally don’t do. I picked movies that I used to watch when I was sick. I was not ready for the emotional devastation of Homeward Bound. It was a good time.
Took the family to get boba tea yesterday. At the front desk they have a basket full of keychains that were huge turgid black cocks. Kid picks one up, puzzled, "What are these? Are they whales?". I immediately burst out in uncontrollable laughter. The girl behind the counter is laughing her ass off too.
"Yes kid, they're whales, carry on."
"I don't understand, why are you laughing?"
Definitely won't forget that one any time soon.
ook the family to get boba tea yesterday. At the front desk they have a basket full of keychains that were huge turgid black cocks.
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The keychains. They were penises. And turgid. Like a basket full of these.
I’m starting Derek Ford’s (from the Reading Capital with Comrades podcast) Encountering Education: Elements for a Marxist Pedagogy. This book is not geared towards kids, but I’m reading it hoping to pick up any applicable kernels of wisdom that will help me foster a Marxist outlook in my kids.
Oh interesting. I should give this a read.
They have the PDF for free on Iskra Books website.
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