When my daughter was a little younger than yours we took turns writing and playing interactive fiction adventures. My first story began with a
neighborhood walk. You find what appears to be a lost dog. You want
to return it to its owner. Something is written on its collar
but it's frightened of you and retreats when you try to get close to read it.
How will you earn its trust?
Ask HN: How to keep my daughter busy while tickling her curiosity
181–190 of 227 posts
Re: Ask HN: How to keep my daughter busy while tickling her curiosity
#182Earlier quoted context omitted.
Quoted post unavailable.
The truth is that you can be a successful computer software developer and not need to know much at all about how computers work. Or even how things like compilers work. Some of us never even studied in a CS program - gasp!
It’s all layers of abstraction, right? While it’s good to have a basic understanding of how the whole stack works, it’s also a feature and a goal of those building the lower levels to enable others to operate at higher levels independent of that knowledge.
Taking this away from software for a second, I know a hell of a lot of people skilled in their professions that have no idea exactly how their cars work but they drive them just fine.
Re: Ask HN: How to keep my daughter busy while tickling her curiosity
#183My son is 12 y/o, and he's into Minecraft. Yesterday he discovered the server mc.openredstone.org. He spent all day yesterday and about one hour today, and he ended up building a 4-bit adder. On this server players learn how to build logic gates, and mix them so they eventually build CPUs. It's fully gamified, so beginners are called "students" and more advanced players are called "builders". To become a "builder" yo…
I've been programming for 15 years and had to google what NAND was. Had a sense of XOR
All the Ns are just the opposites.
Re: Ask HN: How to keep my daughter busy while tickling her curiosity
#184I became a single parent when my daughter turned 1 year old. When she got old enough we'd go fishing, bicycling, swimming, and hiking a lot. We'd also go to a used book store twice a month (on pay day) so she could pick out a few books to read. She loved doing that. She had no interest at all in learning how to code or gaming but she loved helping in the garden and in the kitchen prepping and cooking meals. When she…
We have such a weird culture around how we treat teenagers in this country. We all remember drinking and smoking as teens, but parents tends to rule with an iron fist and convince themselves that they have more control than their parents did, which means we force healthy normal curious kids to go out to a secluded area (probably by car) to get high or drunk or explore in other ways, away from an adult that could help…
I wonder how teenage alcohol abuse compares across countries, France in particular comes to mind since it's common to introduce wine relatively early (in moderation, and perhaps diluted, of course). I thought there was quite a young supervised with-meal drinking age too, but having searched for it perhaps that's changed (or I was wrong). If it's not some forbidden fruit maybe the run off with a bottle of vodka thing doesn't happen so much.
Re: Ask HN: How to keep my daughter busy while tickling her curiosity
#185Spider eggs, spider eggs,
Can do all that an egg can.
Does nothing?, what surpraise!
Here comes the mayonaise...
https://aleteia.org/blogs/simchafisher/whats-for-supper-vol-...
Re: Ask HN: How to keep my daughter busy while tickling her curiosity
#186In training academic Pedagogist here: It may be worthwhile to take a two or day three reading of Rousseau's classic, "Emile; or On Education." It gives tremendous insight into how it is that adults can have positive relationships with the children that they might be governing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emile%2C_or_On_Education Rousseau recommends: Night games, obstacle courses, Natural Method (Parkour), but in sh…
If you’re going this route there is a whole field of early childhood development; don’t read one archaic text and declare “this is the way” or you risk coming off like the new grad student in Good Will Hunting. [0] Montessori (the person) and Steiner are other interesting originating sources in Western culture but reading about how the e.g. Aka parent might be a shorter path. [1] [ 0 https://www.americanrhetoric.com/…
Fuck off dude. I'll come off however I like.
Re: Ask HN: How to keep my daughter busy while tickling her curiosity
#187Earlier quoted context omitted.
It doesn't with mine, I'm afraid. I frequently give them 1-3 options and they shoot them all down (even pancakes?!). Eventually I give up and ask them what they want, and they still don't know, or just want to eat nothing.
It’s because they’ve learned that they can say no and you’ll keep coming up with more options. They’ve exited the game because you created the exit by failing to enforce the boundary.
Yeah I've experienced this when I was young.
My mom was running a daycare at home, and I would sometimes try to help at lunchtime.
Me: , do you want apple juice? No. Do you want orange juice? No. Do you want grape juice? No. Well that's all we've got, which one do you prefer? None, I want something else. ... and obviously whatever we had would not do. My mom who saw I was not efficient enough: Okay do you want apple or orange juice? Orange.
My first reaction was "but I already suggested it", but I got better after a while.
Re: Ask HN: How to keep my daughter busy while tickling her curiosity
#188I became a single parent when my daughter turned 1 year old. When she got old enough we'd go fishing, bicycling, swimming, and hiking a lot. We'd also go to a used book store twice a month (on pay day) so she could pick out a few books to read. She loved doing that. She had no interest at all in learning how to code or gaming but she loved helping in the garden and in the kitchen prepping and cooking meals. When she…
Thank you for posting this.
Re: Ask HN: How to keep my daughter busy while tickling her curiosity
#189I became a single parent when my daughter turned 1 year old. When she got old enough we'd go fishing, bicycling, swimming, and hiking a lot. We'd also go to a used book store twice a month (on pay day) so she could pick out a few books to read. She loved doing that. She had no interest at all in learning how to code or gaming but she loved helping in the garden and in the kitchen prepping and cooking meals. When she…
This should go on twitter as "Dudes posting their massive W's" :D Mine is 22, about to start grad school for a Ph.D. in applied math (I'm Ph.D. in theoretical physics, but am a secret math nerd ... wife is also a math nerd and an M.S. Physics). Early on we discovered how much she loved reading. So, we read to her, every night. For a while, I could quote whole sections of "The Sleep Book" (Dr. Seuss) from memory. As s…
As a 27 year old physics grad turned maths PhD with a physics MSc wife... I'm taking notes :)
Re: Ask HN: How to keep my daughter busy while tickling her curiosity
#190Earlier quoted context omitted.
This should go on twitter as "Dudes posting their massive W's" :D Mine is 22, about to start grad school for a Ph.D. in applied math (I'm Ph.D. in theoretical physics, but am a secret math nerd ... wife is also a math nerd and an M.S. Physics). Early on we discovered how much she loved reading. So, we read to her, every night. For a while, I could quote whole sections of "The Sleep Book" (Dr. Seuss) from memory. As s…
"I'm Ph.D. in theoretical physics, but am a secret math nerd" Uh...you know that secret got out some time before your doctorate, right? =^>.
Physics grad here. We used to say theoretical physicists were people just not good enough for actual math. "Regular" phycisists like myself simply admitted they are too lazy.