Be me. Shitposting after dinner. Wife in charge of kids till bedtime. Kids want dance party, but Valentine's Day theme. Then the children decide to take their pants off for a "no pants dance party".
4 year old gyrating on the coffee table wearing only underwear to "love shack".
took the day off yesterday, and on my errands I stopped by the library. They have a section for jigsaw puzzles to share. Being inspired by @maryXmas I looked through it and found a Cinderella puzzle with large pieces. Brought that home for the 4 year old, because she knows that Cinderella is the best princess EVER. For the rest of the day I got to put that puzzle together maybe 20 times. Because, you know, Cinderella is the BEST princess EVER!
It has actually been pretty great. We hit up the dollar store and got a bunch of them. We did a 100 piece together and he was contributing much more than I was expecting. It says 7+ and he is still 4. He can rip through the 24 piece puzzles in 5 minutes.
The next excursion is likely to be some second hand legos-by-the-pound I picked up a while back. I was pretty happy to find that.
Initially, this sounds like a good parenting method as it builds resilience and problem solving but I don't think this is good parenting, and I think it is very lazy. There is a whole book called anti-fragile that is a good read and I would recommend. I am not advocating for helicopter parenting or raising soft children, but after a certain point of struggle, they fail to learn the best way to tackle a problem. You need to let them struggle and then support with giving them chain of thought process in order to solve the problem.
My 3 year old has informed me that he now identifies as a spider. He now walks everywhere with a bizarre spider walk. It has been going on all evening. I am in shock. He looked at me with a straight face and said, "I'm a spider!". 3 weeks ago he was a robot, a crab and a monster before that. Anyone know how to raise a spider? Do they only eat flies or will they also eat pet store bugs like crickets and mealworms? Do they need a little bowl of water or do they just suck the liquids from their prey. Please help!
I don't know what to think about them. Are they worth the tuition? I went to public school and it was fine for me but maybe there are benefits I don't know about. I know, this is exactly the private school crowd but maybe some of you have had experience.
I have been working with the kids to make birdhouses for the family for Christmas. They usually take a few months between the building and painting and such. Last year we made standard wooden houses but I think this year we will use PVC with some plugs on each end.
My boy asked for a treehouse a few days ago. We don't actually have any trees close to the house so we spent a few hours building a platform on some older timber I had in the garage. I think we need a few braces and a floor then we should be off to the races. He had a great time. He doesn't know it but we just built the new chicken coop, he will just got to play in it for a while before I take it to the back pasture. He liked holding the wood while I cut and handing me screws. It is a good size - 4x8 and 4 ft off the ground. It could have been more elaborate but that is about all the time and energy I have at the moment.
We also changed the spark plugs, filter and starter on the mower so that was another win.
Now we are watching ninja turtles cartoons from the 90s and I am about to fall asleep.
Hope you are having a nice weekend with your kids.
I had some bad gas in the log splitter so we changed the carb and split the 8 logs I had laying around. My boy loved it. I didn't let him work the controls but he got to turn it off when we were all done. He was totally in awe. I was hamming it up and made a big mess which was great. Well done son.
I just got back from a new customer. They need a dozen of extruders networked to their main hub. The Mrs has been holding down the fort quite well and the boys have been trying her abilities this entire past week/weekend.
I have not been away this long since the boys have been born, I don't like it. I just want the father's here who do go on extended trips often to know that my heart goes out to you and I admire your resolve.
Remember to give your wives time off and plow her proper if you can excuse the crass language lol!
I couldn't do all this without my partner in crime.
