It was published in 2013, why aren’t I taking my immortality tablets yet??
I totally think I watched a webinar by him too… by a DOI on predictive modeling filings…
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Well, not my pet Greenland shark.
Shit I Shouldn’t Have to Say to My Kids
With respect to one of my fabric accent chairs:
“Well that’s not a hand towel.”
“No, you don’t have asthma.”
“Your mom is right on that one - we will not be allowing her to move you to New Zealand.”
Can she move me to New Zealand? I’ll take the kids’ spot 
This I can probably get on board with.
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Lol, fond memories. Our youngest suffered from ashtma for 2 years. It was nonstop. Everytime it got humid or damp, we spent 2 days with them coughing nonstop, 24-7. Emergency room visits in the middle of the night, masks and steroids all the time. We couldn’t get it under control, they saw multiple doctors.
Finally we got a specialist. The specialist barely looks at them, but asks like 50 questions. At the end of all the questions, they conclude they don’t have ashtma, they have an ongoing sinus infection. a couple weeks of antibiotics, and it’s cured.
But that’s not the funny part. The funny part is three weeks later we’re at soccer practice. They come running over out of breath and say 'I need a break. My ashtma’s acting up". Dude, you don’t have asthma. “Oh Yeah” and off they went back on to the field.
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I think I managed to downgrade her to allergies - but then again she’s been said to be “allergic to cats”, but also has 3 cats at home. And also here.
I was going to make a comment on this but someone would probably point to it as evidence on stunted development from COVID precautions.
Mine has entered the etymology phase…
“Why can’t they call it a rain-stick?!”
“Can I have some NEW bay instead?”
“Does twilight come from toilet?”
etc.
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Update on her social life:
Me: How was school? Did you talk to anyone?
Her: It was okay. So…uhhh… When’s the next sickness???
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Kindergarten: In “technology” class she watched a TV show about turning off her tablet.
She’s taking a test to skip kindergarten now… If it’s on a computer, she’ll pass, because she knows all that stuff and a lot more. If it’s on paper, she’ll probably fail because she gets her letters and numbers backwards half the time… She’s also taking a gifted and talented test later. It all seems pretty dumb. Who knows.
Today she was sitting in the bathroom, reading and muttering to herself, and finally had the break-through thought: “I WISH THERE WERE NO WEEKDAYS”.
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In other news, after nap-time, I found her unicorn-girl doll manacled under her bed.
Instead of asking wtf, I insisted we free her.
“You can’t just leave your doll there alone!”
“well she hasn’t eaten in 6 days.”
“okay let’s feed her first, then free her.”
“we can’t do that. It would kill her best friend.”
“why???”
“germs! she has a deadly sickness.”
After discussing 4 different quarantines, we finally moved her to a drawer.
#covid generation.
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I thought there was some study or commonly accepted knowledge that talking in baby-talk-voice isn’t “good” for your kid. My source is probably lost with the AO.
Well, today I came across this article that says it’s good for your kid 
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Isnt it common sense that it would be good for babies? They smile and focus on baby talk.
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I’d thought it was the words themselves that matter. You don’t want to talk gibberish to your kids but talking in a voice they like is good. The former being bad because they’re learning language despite being so young.
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We did that with my son. Spoke to him in a baby’s tone, but used regular, conversational language. He’s had a good grasp on the language ever since.
This was my go to website when I was a new papa. I don’t recall ever speaking baby at my kid though. And the website looks like it might be a little out of date now? sadly, but I recommend it for anyone into the weird and often disappointing research on babies/kids. It covers a lot of ground, into basically everything, and written by someone who is both excited by and skeptical of “scientific” results.
One of the more funny experiments is whether -adults- could learn Chinese better with baby talk.
More random kid thoughts: “I wonder if Bambi’s mother was eaten right away, or if they waited until Christmas.”
Maybe that’s what it was. I’ll go with that - it makes sense.