I still have my CRT for retro games and it’s in the basement. We are moving soon and my husband is so annoyed with me for still having this thing.
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RoquetteQueen@sh.itjust.worksto Parenting@lemmy.world•Exploring the Pros and Cons of Dual Citizenship for Children2·2 months agoThey’ll get the ties to your country through you, like all immigrant and first-gen kids do. They’ll just be closer to the culture they live in. Speak your native language, feed them traditional food from your country, show them music or movies from your country, things like that. Take them on trips to visit your country, if that’s doable. I’m first-generation Canadian with Portuguese parents and through things like that, I’ve always felt Portuguese. Definitely more Canadian, but also Portuguese.
RoquetteQueen@sh.itjust.worksto Parenting@lemmy.world•‘Kids can bypass anything if they’re clever enough!’ How do you try to guide your children through the digital world while growing up?6·3 months agoMy kids are still youngish enough that I can get away with limiting their internet access to screens I can see and hear. They have the TV in the living room and an old laptop beside dad’s desk. I tell them that there are a lot of bad things on the internet and I need to be able to help them if they find something bad by accident. Whenever they stumble on something questionable, I tell them why I don’t like it and we look for something else. Luckily they really don’t argue about it (yet, I’m sure). I feel like it’s working, though. They seem to be developing a healthy relationship with tech and screens. They love to watch arts and crafts tutorials on youtube and have been teaching themselves to draw and play piano, and they’re actually doing well!
I once found a chewed up disposable razor handle. The head was missing.
(I found it later, not inside my dog.)
RoquetteQueen@sh.itjust.worksto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Do you have any tattoos, piercings, or scars that you regret?6·3 months agoI don’t. I have five, all decently large. My tastes have changed since I got my first one ~15 years ago but I like to see it. I was 18 when I got it, so it’s been with me my entire adult life. It was the first thing I did after turning 18, and it reminds me of who I was as a kid and what was important to me. I’m a parent now and I like the reminder, since it’s so easy to forget what it was like being a kid. I spent months researching artists before getting it. My husband regrets his, though. He got his on a whim in high school at somebody’s apartment. They were not sober. It wasn’t done well and just doesn’t look good and he wants it covered up.
Parenting reminds me of the abusive relationships I watched my mom and friends go through. Children scream at you and hit you and treat you like absolute shit, and then they turn around and lovebomb you by acting like the sweetest little angels. Never knew my coping mechanisms from my shitty childhood would be so helpful.
I can’t blow my nose at all. Some weird mental block. I sniffle incessantly and drive everyone nuts instead.
RoquetteQueen@sh.itjust.worksto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•If any of the languages you know is spoken in more than one region (ex: European vs Brazilian Portuguese), what version of the language do you speak?2·4 months agoI listened to a drunk Newfie (person from Newfoundland, Canada) give a speech once. I have no idea what he said. I heard they speak English there but I’m doubtful…
RoquetteQueen@sh.itjust.worksto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•If any of the languages you know is spoken in more than one region (ex: European vs Brazilian Portuguese), what version of the language do you speak?5·4 months agoI know European Portuguese and Canadian French, but I’m not good at either.
Edit: I just remembered this youtube channel called Wikitongues. You can hear people speaking in all kinds of different languages and dialects. It’s fascinating. I found a dialect of French that sounds like Portuguese and French combined.
I read once that kids believe things they overhear more than the things that they are directly told and have been trying to do this ever since.
RoquetteQueen@sh.itjust.worksto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What are the signs you've noticed that you're getting older?1·5 months agoI’m a farm labourer. I work outdoors doing a lot of heavy, physical labour, so no.
RoquetteQueen@sh.itjust.worksto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What are the signs you've noticed that you're getting older?1·5 months agoTech also just isn’t advancing and changing as much as it was when we were younger so it’s not as exciting anymore
RoquetteQueen@sh.itjust.worksto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What are the signs you've noticed that you're getting older?3·5 months agoI stepped out of a van wrong and completely tore my acl and mcl and partially tore my lcl (basically, fucked up my knee).
I put this on my laptop, too. It has games that teach kids how to use a mouse and keyboard.
RoquetteQueen@sh.itjust.worksto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•if you have a multilingual family, do you speak all their languages or just one/some?19·5 months agoMy family is Portuguese and they did the whole “speak Portuguese when we don’t want the kids to know what we’re saying” thing, which didn’t work because kids learn languages really easily. Nobody taught me so I can’t speak it very well but I can translate into English, as long as whoever is speaking has the same accent as my family…
RoquetteQueen@sh.itjust.worksto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What was your biggest facepalm moment of 2024?6·6 months agoI knew America was going to do it and I was still so disappointed in them. Really wanted to be wrong.
My daughters loved this show, too, and so do a lot of the kids I’ve met. Definitely recommend if you are looking for something Spiderman for little kids. There are also books based on the show if you would rather have books.
Yeah I’ve accepted that a lot of things simply come down to the personality a kid was born with.
I also want to point out that you can feed your baby/toddler all the “good” foods and none of the “bad” foods and they can still become picky and reject the things they used to eat. My kids ate all the same things yours did and then one day when they were each about three, they decided they didn’t eat anything anymore. Some days I can only get rice into one kid and eggs into the other.
I still have to parent but I’m not going to work. I actually kind of like it when my kids and I are all sick at the same time because we all just lie down together and watch cartoons or play video games.