LW - Text Posts from the Kids Group: 2023 I by jefftk
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Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Text Posts from the Kids Group: 2023 I, published by jefftk on September 5, 2023 on LessWrong.We have a Facebook group for kid stuff, because if we post a mixture of kid things and other stuff FB's algorithm gets very confused about who to show our posts to. While my annualpictures posts mostly cover the visual side, the text posts are only on FB and I don't like that. So: here's the first ~half of 2023.(Some of these were from me; some were from Julia. Ones saying "me" could mean either of us.)Anna: I thought a blue heron was a bird with blue hair that was in?Lily: I've figured out that if you tell grown-ups something is healthy, they're more likely to get it.Lily: [Confined to her room with covid] Could you refill my water cup?Me: Sure! [Gets cup][Fills cup. Starts doing something else.]Lily: [Over walkie-talkie] I'm having trouble remembering where I put my water cup, have you seen it?Me: [trying not to laugh] Sorry, I forgot to bring it back up!Lily: Your voice sounds funny, are you ok?Me: I was trying not to laugh. Had you actually forgotten or were you being polite?Lily: Mostly being polite; did I do something funny?Me: Yes, I mean no, I mean I didn't that approach was something you knew how to do yet.Lily: Thanks, I guess?(Worrying when your 8yo is better at social stuff than you are.)Anna: dad, I'm really cold.Me: how about a sweater?Anna: I can't find any of my sweaters.Me: have your looked in your drawer?Anna: I don't want to go upstairs!Anna: Nora, should Lily... not be allowed to play in the fort?Nora: ???Anna: Is that true?Nora: Yeah!Anna: See Lily, you have to get out!Lily: But Nora says yes to everything!Me: I'm worried you're going to jump on me in a way that hurts.Anna: No, I'm only going to jump on the blanketMe: Yes, but I'm under the blanket!Anna: I don't like it when someone wins and I'm not the person who winsThings Nora is really into right now:Balls, or other round things that could plausibly be consideredballs (M&Ms, the globe)Shutting the dishwasher doorAnimals that roar, especially lions, but also bears, tigers, andother animals that she thinks might roar (monkeys, wombats, cows). There's a house near us with concrete lion statues outfront, and she likes to go roar at them.Anna: In the story the king got happier and happier as he gave away his things, but that isn't how it is for me. The problem is I get sadder and sadder as I give away things because I like most things. I just really really like things!Anna: I'm always ready for a challenge that's not at all hardLily: I'm at an age when I get bored easilyAnna: I'm at an age where I don't get bored easily, especially whenI'm eating cakeAnna: "I was standing on the coffee table watching my fish, and then I started to walk away. I forgot I was on the table and hurt my knee when I fell."She was fine in a minute. I'm not sure what she hurt more: her knee or her pride.Me, a month after getting Anna black socks instead of white ones: Anna, where are you putting your socks when they're dirty?Anna: They don't get dirty.Nora really likes ice cream, and signs for it hopefully at many opportunities. Today, when Erika said no ice cream she started alternating between signing it and saying "Papa". I think as in "Papa let's me have it!"I was just telling this to Julia, and because Nora was present I spelled out "i c e c r e a m". Nora immediately started signing "ice cream".Still hard to distinguish from her base rate of signing "ice cream" at people.You know how you can get more food in a burrito at Chipotle by asking for all the fillings?Anna: "I want an ice cream sundae with double chocolate brownie batter ice cream, whipped cream, chocolate sauce, caramel sauce, a piece of popsicle, and a piece of the donut."Lily: Anna! You're taking all the gems!...
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