• 2 Posts
  • 226 Comments
Joined 3 years ago
cake
Cake day: June 20th, 2023

help-circle







  • Presenting options and the illusion of choice has saved me since my kid was three. Getting out of the house in the morning was a huge struggle until I landed on, “what do you want to put on first, your shoes or your jacket?” I also don’t know what I’m doing, but I think kids simply don’t like to be told what to do, they want to do whatver they want. Presenting options gives them that agency while also getting them to do things they wouldn’t do on their own.

    On the topic, nowadays my kid is very easily convinced by reverse psychology. For the hand washing, I’d probably tell him not to wash his hands and make up something silly and say “if he washes his hands and then touches me with his clean & wet hands i’ll melt because I’m made of sugar” Then when he washes his hands I’d let him chase me around a bit and pretend to melt or something. If they call my bluff I’m all out of options, but 60% of the time this works every time for me. YMMV.













  • In terms of command line editors, vim is extremely powerful and relatively easy to get started with, once you know how to get into insert mode and then save/quit. nano/pico are easier to learn but less powerful, and emacs is probably more powerful than vim, and more daunting to learn. Also, vim is installed on almost all systems, so there’s not really any extra work to get started using it.