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David Hedlund

Sep 9, 2020 06:45

I have previously discussed gravity with my 3.5 yo as part of her being interested in everything space related. Now she's playing on her own when I hear the scattering of hundreds of beads across the floor. Me: Oh, what happened here? Her: I was playing with the beads and then the earth just pulled the box to the ground.

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Rory Alsop

Nov 18, 2021 09:16

@TimurShtatland Your development on here is appreciated. It is positive seeing responses to comments (both positive and negative) that lead to improvement. I have someone on one of my other sites who is the opposite (reacting incredibly badly to any criticism, rather than working to improve), so it's very refreshing seeing positive outcomes here! Thank you

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anongoodnurse

Dec 31, 2019 22:00

Happy New Year to all! I hope that 2020 is a great year for all of us.

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Stephie

Mar 15, 2021 18:13

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Anne Daunted

Oct 27, 2019 16:12

@anongoodnurse I do believe that SE is solely interested in their public image. They don't care about marginalized groups, they just want to give the appearance of doing so. Monica was a scapegoat. But they went too far and I guess law is on Monica's side. That's why they sit it out and have closed their ranks (every SE employee seems to have to remain silent about it). They won't explain it, they won't apologize, they won't reinstate because their lawyers dictate their actions.

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Stephie

Oct 10, 2022 17:42

What I learned today: I can place out the most beautiful fruit on the table / counter / wherever and it’ll be largely ignored by the minors. However, start chopping a colander full of small apples for apple sauce, and all family members will start racing me picking the pieces out of the pot faster than I can cut them. Duh.

Rory Alsop

Oct 1, 2019 17:36

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A: Firing mods and forced relicensing: is Stack Exchange still interested in cooperating with the community?

tl;dr - I mod 6 sites: Security, Music, Parenting, Outdoors, Sound and Video - I'm suspending all my mod activity on them until SE sort this out. I am just one voice among many, but I hope I add to the clamour. I have been hovering in TL hoping someone from Stack Exchange would come in with any ...

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anongoodnurse

Apr 14, 2020 13:12

Well, my nurse-child on the Covid unit has Covid 19. So far, so good. They felt pretty poorly with aches and chills/fevers, but feel better today, so here's to hoping the worst is behind them.

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Rory Alsop

Feb 9, 2022 18:56

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Q: 2022 Moderator Election Q&A – Question Collection

Parenting Stack Exchange is scheduled for an election next week, 2022-02-14. In connection with that, we will be holding a Q&A with the candidates. This will be an opportunity for members of the community to pose questions to the candidates on the topic of moderation. Participation is completely...

Rory Alsop

Jun 8, 2015 18:54

@bjb568 We have discussed this on various sites, including this one, and the consensus is that it really helps retention of new members by making them feel welcome, so I'd say - yes, they are needed.

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Rory Alsop

May 1, 2018 19:01

parenting.stackexchange.com/election?cb=1

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Stephie

Jan 31, 2022 08:52

Oh the joys of Covid. Got a phone call from the school: Minor 1 tested positive. Then a second call: They somehow mixed up the test and he’s negative. So with all the adrenaline floating in my system I am equally relieved that he’s fine and worried about him being exposed to an infected class mate.

Anne Daunted GoFundMonica

Dec 7, 2019 14:28

Robert Harvey was suspended for a year on MSE for asking a question. He links to the question here and the mod message here. This place is becoming scarier and scarier.

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anongoodnurse

Jan 4, 2022 21:05

@Stephie Wow! What a super smart pupper (<3), and a good trick to teach him, too! It sounds like you're going to get there, waiting out his nerves.

Anne Daunted GoFundMonica

Nov 3, 2019 18:45

@anongoodnurse But it's not enough for the broader public. I mean, there were no transphobic tirades or anything and the timeline is also clear. In the end, they fired her for asking about subtleties (that they later incorporated into the CoC...)

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Anne Daunted

Oct 4, 2019 13:15

And I don't think the company really cares. Regardless of what happens now, Monica is out and won't get another chance. Her reputation severly damaged. Their fig leaf is that they will have to improve some mod firing process. And every criticism is and will be interpreted as bullying by a malicious, reactionary community so it can be easily ignored.

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anongoodnurse

Nov 18, 2021 17:46

@TimurShtatland Thanks! I am finally on the mend. It only took , well, 18 months longer than they said it would. Them's the breaks. Ha, the breaks, get it? I have broken so many bones, I've lost count. I'm not even osteoporotic; I'm just clumsy, I guess.

anongoodnurse

Nov 18, 2021 17:42

And you probably are a pretty hardy soul. I'm not, but I rarely take meds, preferring to just push through it. My kids have seen me scrub out a deep, dirty laceration on the sole of my foot with a toothbrush and dish detergent until the wound sparkled, then I sutured it with a big needle (sole skin is thick), all without any lidocaine/other.

anongoodnurse

Nov 18, 2021 14:57

@RoryAlsop Agreed! Some people are dreadfully sensitive to criticism. Take it to Meta, etc. "Too bad, so sad." Is what my orthopedist would say. Unfortunately she said it about my leg pain! lol!

anongoodnurse

Nov 18, 2021 14:54

Stay long enough, and you realize votes mean almost nothing. Some of my highet voted answers were off the cuff; some of my best answers have much less than 10 votes.

Anne Daunted

Aug 3, 2019 12:02

It seems that SE cares less and less about their users and the quality of the content and more about its public image.

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anongoodnurse

Jan 1, 2019 00:56

Auld Lang Syne
Robert Burns, 1759 - 1796

Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
And never brought to mind?
Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
And auld lang syne!

Chorus:
For auld lang syne, my dear,
For auld lang syne.
We’ll tak a cup o’ kindness yet,
For auld lang syne.

And surely ye’ll be your pint stowp!
And surely I’ll be mine!
And we’ll tak a cup o’ kindness yet,
For auld lang syne.

Chorus

We twa hae run about the braes,
And pou’d the gowans fine;
But we’ve wander’d mony a weary fit,
Sin’ auld lang syne.

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Rory Alsop

Apr 5, 2021 14:17

thanks for that :-)

Stephie

Apr 1, 2021 10:37

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Q: What are some good car-crafts for long trips?

Sometimes on those long car rides, coloring doesn't cut it for a kid when parents are trying to avoid screen time. What are some good crafts that a kiddo can do in the car without making an overly difficult to clean mess? For example, slime is out, and so is anything with runny glue. I won't leav...

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Joe

Mar 15, 2021 15:49

@RoryAlsop You all have a ... weird spammer, parenting.stackexchange.com/users/40794/user40794

Torben Gundtofte-Bruun

Feb 25, 2014 21:29

"vaccinate your kids if you want them to live" -- sounds a bit brutal, but I came across this and wanted to share. Article: Angry Scientist Finds Uneducated Internet Comment And Delivers Badass Response

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Anne Daunted

May 10, 2018 15:18

Regarding the arbitration clause drama (still) unfolding on MSE: This answer describes how to opt out.

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Karl Bielefeldt

Jan 27, 2014 18:47

Blog - Stack Exchange: Stack Exchange for Android is here!

David Fullerton on January 27, 2014

This mobile thing will never last, right? We figured if we waited long enough, this whole “mobile application” thing would blow over and everything would go back to the way it used to be. You know, when phones were for calling people, and computers were for typing long, angry rants about how things aren’t the way they used to be.

In retrospect, we may have misread that one a bit. It turns out that even for Stack Exchange mobile is eating the world.

So today we’re excited to announce that Stack Exchange for Android is finally available for download on the Google Play store, for Android phones version 4.0 (ICS) and up: …

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Beofett

Jan 6, 2014 19:15

Perhaps if we had a question that we thought he'd have a personal interest in (such as the "Can a Stepfather and Stepson relationship work" question), it might go over better than just asking him to mention our site.

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Stephie

Dec 12, 2020 18:20

But how can I help her cope with the fact that doing the right thing and following the rules means that only she has to give something up and others don’t - without immediate negative consequences? It just not fair.

user132126

Nov 17, 2015 04:05

Looks like a couple of problem-causers self-selected removing themselves from the community? What a plus!

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HedgeMage

Apr 6, 2011 21:52

ROFL... so, my housemate made a comment about wanting my parents' doberman pinscher to eat a Dell rep. My 8yo asked why $housemate said that, I replied "he has a sick sense of humor". My 8yo looks shocked and said "a disease can malke you evil like him?!"

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user132126

May 20, 2015 02:02

You made me think things, and now you must suffer my sharing them.

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Jeremy Miller

Jan 16, 2015 06:03

Sharing this was hard. Whenever I share something about my daughter, I show her (seems only appropriate). She & I teared up. I told her, though, that it is good that the bad things in our lives can help others... it is the best we can hope for. She hugged me and I recalled my own last line in that post. These things are what make me so much attached to Parenting.SE... the so-very-personal nature.

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anongoodnurse

Jun 18, 2020 04:09

@Stephie - About masks, don't be fooled. True, social distancing is more important, and handwashing is mighty important, but so are masks. I don't know about Germany, but in the US, the primary reason the CDC didn't recommend masks right off the bat was because they were afraid of even more severe shortages for health workers.

Rory Alsop

Jun 9, 2020 20:57

It's contagious, @Stephie :-)

Joe

Jun 9, 2020 20:10

Congrats to @Stephie @SomeShinyObject and @RoryAlsop for their election as moderators! Thanks for stepping up, I look forward to relaxing and watching you all do a great job!

Stephie

Jun 8, 2020 18:13

If anyone has last minute questions to the candidates, feel free to hop over to the Election Chat Room and post them there.

Stephie

Jun 1, 2020 13:59

Just a reminder: Nomination for the moderator election closes in a few hours. If you have been wavering so far, now it’s about time to post your nomination.

Jeremy Miller

Nov 7, 2014 08:06

@Beofett I'm sorry to hear that! You are a superb person and exemplary leader!

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Tim Post

Oct 24, 2014 15:40

PS, I've been out for most of this week and part of last due to our newest daughter being born a month early - she's in the neonatal ICU working on building up her lung function (after three doses of surfactant). I'm going to be appointing the new moderators most likely on Monday.

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Rory Alsop

May 19, 2020 11:39

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Q: 2020 Moderator Election Q&A - Question Collection

Parenting is scheduled for an election next week, May 25th. In connection with that, we will be holding a Q&A with the candidates. This will be an opportunity for members of the community to pose questions to the candidates on the topic of moderation. Participation is completely voluntary. Here'...

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Beofett

Oct 10, 2014 12:52

@JeremyMiller Age and even weight are poor measurements for whether a seat belt will really be appropriate for a child. What matters, from what I understand, is that the seat belt fits, both appropriately across the chest, and around the waist. If it fits improperly (such as the lap portion being too high, or the chest strap crossing over the collar bone), the child could get injured by the belt in the case of an accident.

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Ida

Oct 3, 2014 20:13

@medica Sometimes someone here posts an answer I disagree with, and sometimes I feel they post something that 'attacks' my personal parenting philosophy.
I think you have to ignore something like that, and not start a discussion, it is super hard though.
I personally try hard to differentiate between something I a) just disagree with b) disagree with and find harmful/unhelpful c) a plain unhelpful or badly written answer. for a) the solution is to write a good answer with the opposite viewpoint, for b) it is downvote + comment and write a better answer c) downvote. (and maybe write a bette…

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Rory Alsop

May 7, 2020 08:47

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Q: Moderator Election - Community Interest Check

We last had a moderator appointed back in 2018, and we have had a moderator step down, so currently are running with just 2. Now, the good thing is that generally this site runs without too much moderator involvement - the community generally has things in hand. That said, this is an opportunity...

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Stephie

Mar 28, 2020 14:25

Social distancing and being stuck at home: My kids discovered hopscotch.

Stephie

Mar 27, 2020 18:08

@Joe pretty much what I thought. Borderline-ish, leaning towards off-topic.

Jon Ericson

Jun 16, 2014 15:26

@JeremyMiller "Be nice" is the foundation of our behaviour policy.

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Rory Alsop

Mar 13, 2020 18:00

@jkerian I recommend rubbing hot chillies on your hands for the next few days - not touching the face will rapidly become second nature :-)

Beofett

May 11, 2014 17:21

Parenting contest!

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