Browsing around on YouTube, looking for something interesting to watch. Found this advertisement. OMFG. I totally need some of these. They represent all that is sacred and holy in the world. I must find some.
Month: March 2008
question: re fine tuning of a dummy/pacifier
I’m trying to determine if my children are just really strange, or if this is a normal behaviour.
So I’m asking this of other parents of children who have used a dummy/pacifier/whatever. Do they try to tune it in, or adjust the volume or whatever? What I mean by this is they get the handle and they twist it around once or twice one way and then the other way and maybe back a bit the other way, until it is apparently “just right”. Both Abigail and Kristian do it. So is it a normal thing for children to do with their dummies; or is Abigail a strange freak and Kristian learned it off her; or are they both strange freaks who came upon the habit as a result of genetics? Likely I wouldn’t be able to determine between the two latter options, but you can help me to figure out if it’s the first :)
kids weather
Mr Flagrant Disregard, who you may remember from such productions as “FD’s Flickr Toys“, has made a very cool new site: KidsWeatherReport.com/. You put in your location and it shows the weather in a very simple and kid-friendly way. Just the upper and lower temperature and then pictures to indicate the conditions, and also another picture to show whether it’s “warm clothes” or “cool clothes” or “umbrella” kind of weather.
Stephanie is often asking me what the weather is going to be like, so I am going to put this on her computer and hopefully, have peace!
wrong point
I read this article in the newspaper: Classmates see footage of girl’s sex act which explained how a video circulated around to most of the students at a school, via their mobile phones, of a girl “performing a sex act on a classmate”.
There was a bit at the bottom of the article which really annoyed me though:
Parents said yesterday the incident underlined the dangers of mobile phones in schools.
Sorry? It has NOTHING to do with the “dangers” of mobile phones in schools. Mobile phones are designed for communicating and sharing images, videos and sounds. Kids are designed to gawk and take interest in the personal goings on of other people that are not necessarily any of their business. The video could just have easily been made with a webcam or digital camera and emailed around between all the students, or even posted on the web. And then what would the danger have been? That kids can be exploited online?
It seems that the incident, to me, highlights the dangers of not teaching your kids to respect other people. So that maybe they would think twice about forwarding around such a video which clearly should be a private matter between the girl and boy involved. Or maybe the danger of not educating your kids about what people are really like. For Christ’s sake: if a teenage boy wants to make a video of you giving him a blow job, OF COURSE he’s not going to be able to keep it to himself. So maybe try teaching your daughter DON’T LET ANYONE MAKE VIDEOS OF YOU DOING SEXUAL THINGS. It’s not rocket science, people.
photo time capsule
I came across this site called Photojojo’s PhotoTimeCapsule and thought it sounded interesting so I registered to see how it was. What happens is you link up your flickr account and then every two weeks or so they send you a “time capsule” email with a few photos from your photostream dated around a year ago.
Every couple weeks, the Time Capsule looks at your Flickr account for photos you took a year ago. It picks the ones that are most interesting — the ones that got viewed the most, favorited the most, and commented on the most — and sends them to you in email.
That’s it!
You’ll be amazed by how wonderful it is to get a photo blast from the past.
Today I got my first email. It had a picture of Abigail and my mum having a swimming lesson, Stephanie holding a tiny Kristian and a couple of Kristian sleeping by himself looking very cute and very small!
I think I’ll keep it :)