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My 5yo, 2yo, wife, and I: *trying to have a nice continental breakfast while on vacation*

The TV in the hotel lobby as we eat: "this man was electrocuted for 10 minutes while drowning in a hot tub, here are the excruciating details!"

#parenting #5yo #2yo #vacation #vacationfail

According to my 2yo, there has never been and will never be a stand-up comedy routine so absolutely hilarious as when their foot "rings" and I answer it like a telephone. Belly laughs for days.
#kids #parenting #2yo

Had a fun parenting moment the other day. Blew a breaker in the kitchen and was using a voltage wand much like this to figure out exactly which line was blown.

My 5yo & 2yo asked me what it was and rather than outright tell them, I said it is a tool that tells me something, and asked if they could figure out what exactly it was trying to tell me.

So we went around the house putting it near different things to see if the light would stay green, or turn red and beep. It took them a bit, but eventually they determined that it tells you when there's "dangerous electricity" in the thing it was near, not "safe electricity" like batteries or cords that weren't plugged in, but also that sometimes things that aren't obvious (like a lamp that is plugged in but not turned on) can still carry dangerous levels of electricity.

It was a really nice teaching moment and I think they learned a good thing or two about both different types of dangerous electrical items, why we use some tools for safety, and how to apply reason and deduction to narrow down possibilities to come to a conclusion.

#parenting #5yo #2yo #learning #tools

Non-contact voltage tester with a yellow and black body, a clip, and a white tip.

My daughter was having trouble using Home Assistant dashboards because her hands are tiny and she kept accidentally right clicking. So I made her a toddler friendly interface.

Introducing Home Assistot!

Left or right clicks on any of the sections trigger a correspondingly named Home Assistant script: red, blue, green, & rainbow. I've set those scripts to change the lights.

Dockerized Flask app here: https://github.com/gregology/home-assistot

#HomeAssistant #Linux #Parenting #2yo #SugarLabs #Tech #Technology #Flask #Toddler #Docker

It's my daughter's second birthday! I setup Sugar Labs on an old laptop MacBook Air. The laptop had a broken keyboard so I bought her a cheap fun keyboard and mouse combo.

Sugar Labs is neat, it's got a simple UI which will help her learn how to navigate and a few simple programs for her to play with. It has a simple Python IDE but it might be a little while until she's ready to play with that. It has a web browser too so I might setup some custom Home Assistant dashboards so she can change the lights, control her train, etc. And I'll see if I can setup Signal or alike so she can call her grandparents.

I remember playing on our family Amstrad CPC when I was 4yo. It came with BASIC and it was my first exposure to coding. I want my daughter to have the opportunity to be a creator of tech instead of just a consumer of tech.

#Linux #Parenting #2yo #Birthday #SugarLabs #Distro #Fedora #HomeAssistant #Amstrad #AmstradCPC #Signal #Tech #Technology

Day #4 of a cold going around the house - hit the #2yo and wife last night. I was up half the night comforting the kiddo and sleeping on the couch so the wife could have some relief. Taking the day off today to care for the #kids (the #4yo is on the mend!) and let the wife rest more... And to await my inevitable fate. I feel like this bit from #HIMYM. :lolsob:

#2yo: whining to be let out of their highchair

Also #2yo: immediately rebuckles it and continues whining

#parenting

The peak of human culinary achievement is clearly the #2yo dipping their banana in their ranch dressing.

#parenting #kids

My toddler at two likes to sing in the rain.

#singing #rain #toddler #2YO #2YOSinging #song #raining

#2yo #BeardGrabber has repurposed one of my miniature dimpled 'pint jug' shot glasses as a small glass for his apple juice. :)

It looks really cute. :)

#parenting #DadsOfMastodon #ParentsOfMastodon

won't be long till the #2yo #BeardGrabber makes his own lunch. 😂
He already knows where everything is. After I handed him the package of wraps, he took the clothespins off that we use to keep them from drying out, took out a wrap, asked for his 'kanin fat' (rabbit plate), put the wrap on it, and covered the wrap with cheese I sliced off one slice at a time.
Then he put it in the microwave himself, added the plastic cover and closed it.
Waited for me to turn it on 'cause he knows he's not allowed

Yay, #BeardGrabber's development is perfectly fine. :)
Apparently his speech development even is 'far above average', which does silence my worries a bit that #Norwegian not being my native language, and his mother and me still frequently speaking English together, would hurt his own #language development. :)

Any #parenting tips for teaching a #2yo the difference between I, you, mine and yours?