My 7-year old, cleaning the playroom with me: Do we have a hot glue gun

[what@chaosfem.tw]

@caroline just tell me how you get a 7 year old to clean a playroom

[caroline@chaosfem.tw]

@what in this extremely rare case he was highly motivated because tomorrow this room will become new baby bunny home base, and needed to be completely clear and cleaned

but yeah no the rest of the time it’s just desperate forms of bribery with a near-0% success rate

[lindasgoluppiart@mastodonapp.uk]

@caroline He's going to rule the world!

[devlinleathercraft@mastoart.social]

@caroline This child will be going places.

[burnitdown@beige.party]

@caroline Simple Ways To Understand Object-Oriented Compilers

a new book by O'Reilly

[afewbugs@social.coop]

@caroline why stop there though? Why not glue everything to everything else so you only have one thing to put away

[feministmom@eldritch.cafe]

@caroline The kid has grasped the concept of entropy! 🤩

[kierkegaanks@beige.party]

@caroline potential in silicon valley

[trinsec@trinsec.org]

@caroline@chaosfem.tw Did you tell him then he'd only have half as many toys?

[wordman@dice.camp]

@caroline Introduce kiddo to “bins”, and their magical ability to turn “many things” into “one thing”.

[jhaas@a2mi.social]

@caroline Time for an introduction to a retro game?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katamari_Damacy

[gwcoffey@mastodon.social]

@caroline Priceless. Reminds me of the time I told my four year old she could only bring one stuffed toy with her to the park. She slipped into her closet, shut the door, then emerged a few minutes later with five or six all looped together with a clip into on monster-stuffie.

[caroline@chaosfem.tw]

@jhaas I’m so pleased that myself and several others in the replies all had the same thought, what a perfect game

I do have to budget for replacing all the controllers that will be destroyed in frustrated rage though

[caroline@chaosfem.tw]

@gwcoffey “I want to raise my children to be creative and independent thinkers”

*monkey’s paw curls*

(this really is brilliant and I love it)

[driftya@mastodon.social]

@caroline most important thing how did you respond?

[caroline@chaosfem.tw]

@Driftya I neatly avoided the philosophical issue of what constitutes an object by pointing out that the act of joining things together was “crafting,” and we needed to be “cleaning”

there was probably a lesson in there on how optimizing a solution often takes more time than just finishing the problem, but there were crushed goldfish crackers to be vacuumed

[sondra@lgbtqia.space]

@caroline their brain is braining

[sberson@app.wafrn.net]

@caroline@chaosfem.tw

Kind of a brilliant solution. Saying that as someone with a slightly older kiddo that loves hot gluing objects together as well.