• GluWu@lemm.eeEnglish
    24·
    3 days ago

    Buy him kerbal space program then ask why he hasn’t landed on jool yet when he starts talking about Minecraft.

    • Ep1cFac3pa1m@lemmy.worldOP
      212·
      3 days ago

      We let him have Roblox for one. single. day. before we had to delete it. He found a rainbow friends server or whatever and was driving us fucking nuts chasing us around making rainbow friends noises and telling us all about the different color friends. It was exhausting.

      • midnight_puker@sh.itjust.works
        28·
        3 days ago

        Annoying sounds should be the least of your worries about Roblox. That game is a cess pool of porn and Nazi shit. My kids aren’t allowed to know it exists, let alone play it.

        • Ep1cFac3pa1m@lemmy.worldOP
          15·
          3 days ago

          I turned the content filter to its most restrictive setting and it still gave him rainbow friends. I shudder to think what he might see if it was unrestricted.

        • Benjaben@lemmy.world
          8·
          3 days ago

          I’m fairly strict about content and usage with mine, and she plays the heck out of Roblox. I’ve played with her. This has not been my experience at all.

          I’ve heard there are some SERIOUSLY dangerous people / groups on the platform, but that’s true everywhere to some extent and we haven’t had issues. I don’t think I’ve ever come across something inappropriate, in fact. What makes you say it’s a cess pool of porn and Nazi shit? Not attacking you, genuinely just want to know for my / our benefit.

  • MoonManKipper@lemmy.worldEnglish
    16·
    3 days ago

    Embrace it and encourage the conversation - it’s when they don’t tell you what they’re doing online and who they’re doing it with that you’ve got a problem

    • Sockenklaus@sh.itjust.works
      11·
      3 days ago

      You’re correct but you apparently don’t know how exhausting it can be to listen to kids talking from the second they wake up until the very moment they fall asleep.

      I am very bad at filtering input (especially sound and touch) and sadly the Christmas days, when daycare was closed, were complete torture for me.

      • MoonManKipper@lemmy.worldEnglish
        111·
        3 days ago

        I have had two. It is exhausting - parenting is hard work. One thing I found helpful was to put a positive spin on it whenever possible (not always possible!). If it’s any consolation I’ve found my memory wonderfully selective over the years - a few happy memories of then as babies for example, when I know for sure there was a lot of missed nights sleep and frustration. It’s also kind of satisfying when they get older and it looks like you didn’t do a bad job of it.

        Hang in there!

  • TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.world
    15·
    3 days ago

    I think every dad has this story. I remember having my boy talk at me for almost 10 hours straight. I was solo parenting during the pandemic. His mom got home, I served dinner, and he kept talking at me.

    Somewhere in my mind, I thought, “His mom’s home. He’ll talk to her.” Nope. I had a quiet explosion. My wife noticed and graciously turned conversation to her.

    With that said, several years later, it’s a delight to see how he’s piecing information together in meaningful, insightful, and surprising ways. Still obsessed about a few things, but more interesting observations.

  • elucubra@sopuli.xyz
    7·
    3 days ago

    I remeber the “why” phase. “Son, bla bla”my kid: “why?” Because bla bla. Why? Because bla bla! Why?, rinse and repeat.

    • ilinamorato@lemmy.world
      5·
      3 days ago

      I always have more fun trying to answer the increasingly-non-sequitur "why"s (in increasing complexity) than they have asking them.

      “Why is the sky blue?”

      “Because the air is blue!”

      “Why?”

      “Because air molecules are so small that they get in the way of the blue light and bounce it around.”

      “Why?”

      “Because the other colors are big enough to get through.”

      “Why?”

      “Because the things we see as ‘colors’ are just different wavelengths of light.”

      “Why?”

      “Because it was evolutionarily advantageous for us to be able to distinguish between different objects by the wavelengths of light that they reflect.”

      “Why?”

      “Partially because things that reflect some wavelengths are dangerous to eat, and others are healthy to eat, and we wouldn’t know the difference based on the luminosity alone.”

      “Why?”

      “Presumably because ripening and decomposing food doesn’t undergo a visible physical change until long after it’s already unsafe, but it changes color very quickly.”

      “Why?”

      “Hmm. I think because the chemical processes that cause color changes and the chemical processes that accompany the growth of microorganisms tend to happen together.”

      They always tap out from boredom long before I do, and it’s fun trying to figure out the super esoteric stuff. Besides, the "why"s are so unspecific that you can answer it for any part of the question.