Another good night in the bed. Cute: he always wakes at 6, today he then climbed into our bed. So much better than having him cry for us to lift him out of the cot!
It took an hour to put him to bed though, like Sat evening. But I had expected more like four hours so that's fine.
For starters, your first sentence leaves me wondering if I should even be a part of this group. My son is now 28 and I have no grandchildren - so I have a very limited parenting role at this time. Just a statement that others that care for and about children are welcome would be more inviting.
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We are addressing "anybody with a parenting role". Should we change it to with parentingexperience instead? I'm not sure what kind of wording would make Marie happy. She may have a point that parenting role is too narrow - or is it?
I'd like to chat rather than have another comment-ping-pong, but it seems she's not using chat.
I think she does have a point about parenting role being too narrow.
I would like to see something in there about professionals and experts.
What about: "Parenting - Stack Exchange is for parents, grandparents, nannies and others with a parenting role, as well as experts and professionals in fields related to children, child development, and education."?
the "in fields related to" part feels a bit dodgy to me, but I can't think of a better phrasing
That's certainly an improvement! Let me try: Parenting - Stack Exchange is for parents and others with a parenting role, and for professionals that work with children's health and development
There's a teachers proposal; I don't want to include education here up front.
Woo-hoo, I'm at 5k rep! And only 6 measly points away from #1 :-) Not that it matters, but it's fun!
@Beofett I see you're busy again going for that Copy Editor badge ;)
just a hint: would it be more meaningful to ask "what are ..." rather than "are there any..."?
and yeah, I've got to make up for time lost over the weekend :P
most of the answers that have come up are either ones I don't have a good answer for, or have gotten such good answers before I even see the question that anything I add would be redundant :P
I admit that a sizable number of my answers can be attributed to keeping an eye on the new questions. I settled into a habit early on to read every question and almost all answers on the site (I know I can't keep that up forever). Whenever I could contribute something, I did. Sometimes I was typing up a comment and realized hey this might be useful and put it into an answer instead. Sometimes it goes the other way; only useful stuff should be answers.
I even find myself answering on topics I didn't know about before this site existed! Sometimes I've learned it from my son in the meantime, but often I learn from other answers too!
I keep an eye on stuff as much as possible, but I've noticed that most of the recent activity occurs when I'm not online. I'm certainly not shy about answering questions. I just seem to be in a temporary dry spell :P
Up until maybe 2 weeks ago I had been at the top of the rep earned charts for several months, and was fast catching up with you... you've really blown out the lead since then, though!
I like this title editing spree for the fact that we get to see some of the past content again. There's quite some gold in there, and I'm also seeing that the edited questions attract new users and new votes.
The only side-effect (downside?) I see is that nearly every question will show as edited by a mod, even if it's just title/tag. That didn't use to be the case, and it might send some kind of signal to users. Pro: every Q enjoys mod attention, and the data quality is high. Con: the mods interfere with everything, why can't they leave my contributions alone.
We should ask @AarthiDevanathan about these side-effects -- what's the network-wide feeling of this side-effect? (Aarthi, see earlier comment in this block)
Man I love how one can summon SE staff just like that. I didn't even rub a lamp!
I'm a StackExchange employee and I'm here to improve the quality of the site. I'm editing question titles to improve their readability and just generally working to make this site even more awesome.
If I edit a question title and you don't happen to like it, or you felt it was better the way it ...
@Beofett I don't see why NOT! It would show the community WHAT is changing, and WHY, and also give some credit to the WHO that are doing it -- I'm not sure most users know that there's a SE company behind this site.
I just wanted to let you all know that I'm a StackExchange employee and I'm working on improving the English Language site. Basically, that means I'll be correcting things like grammar, spelling, punctuation, and trying to make titles clearer (and represent the actual question better). Of course,...
I hope she's taking it in stride. People have pride and they probably feel interfered with, but it's all in a days' work.
In parenting, we've been kicking up so much dust with our edits that people are still recovering, I guess. I haven't seen a single reaction to the editing. But I have seen much more voting going on, on old questions.
Some users might notice that nearly all questions have been edited to some extent recently. This meta question exists to explain what is going on.
StackExchange (the company who is hosting our site) is actively working to raise the readability of the content. That's a good thing because it gene...
If you've noticed the flood of older questions that are suddenly showing as being recently updated, you may also have noticed that TorbenGB and I have been editing a lot of questions lately.
The reason for this is that we are helping with some clean up efforts that are being initiated within the...
@AarthiDevanathanΨ Sure it's good. It also means a surge of upvotes to users. It's boosted my rep unbelievably. Wasn't my intention, but I'm not complaining.
Note: this is tagged "draft" until at least the mods have had a chance to review it.
This community wiki defines the policy that users can refer to when deciding if a contribution merits a vote. This will ensure that high-quality answers that have community support bubble to the top.
Upvote ...
It's worth a lot! We needed that policy back when there was so much yelling going on about how people voted. Now we can just point here and end the discussion. Makes me wonder how many other policy topics there could be, and whether we could shamelessly steal them from sister sites.
@Davy8 It's funny: sometimes, days pass without any action. At other times, there's so much going on that it's hard to keep up.
@Davy8 Excellent, thank you! My son (22months) is sleeping in a BED since 2 nights ago, no problems. Hadn't expected it to go so easy, but it can change :-D And you?
Heh, I sometimes try to keep up with what's going on, but sometimes I just don't bother. I'm one of those people with a million tabs open though so I've had this tab open for the past week at least
nice, our baby's sleeping a little better now, she's starting to smile occasionally which is really coool :D
@Davy8 I noticed that, too. It seems that the avatar shows a short version for only 1 or 2 lines of chat, but expands if the person has a larger section of chat
my cousin introduced me to it by putting me into a rather sketchy chatroom on her account, and typed "Hi, I'm a horny girl!" before handing me the keyboard and saying "check out AOL chat!"
Well, I should get ready for work, was nice chatting with you (it feels odd to use "you" in the plural without any qualification, even though it's supposed to be proper)
@AarthiDevanathanΨ I haven't even glanced at that yet. I'm now torn: on the one hand, its another time sink, but on the other, I can rationalize it by claiming it will increase my productivity!
@Davy8 did you know: you can hit the up arrow for a chance to edit your last message. This chat system is full of neat tricks like that.
Hi all, I'm back from the eye doctor (what's the english word again?) They dropped something in my eyes, now my pupils are wildly diluted. I can only read this chat because I've zoomed like 400%.
Thank goodness for touch-typing skills. I can't read the letters on the keyboard.
@Beofett great parenting material :-D
This is the win! So funny: I'm at work but I'm physically not able to read my emails. They're right in front of me, mocking me, and Lotus Notes reminders too. But I can't read what they remind me on!
A long lunch, at 17:30? I'd say that's pretty long! Anyway, I am not able to work any more today so I'll just head home. Glad I don't have to drive! But I also can't play with my phone during the commute. I need an iPhone with a 19" display.
For starters, your first sentence leaves me wondering if I should even be a part of this group. My son is now 28 and I have no grandchildren - so I have a very limited parenting role at this time. Just a statement that others that care for and about children are welcome would be more inviting.
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Some users might notice that nearly all questions have been edited to some extent recently. This meta question exists to explain what is going on.
StackExchange (the company who is hosting our site) is actively working to raise the readability of the content. That's a good thing because it gene...
