What is meant by “natural” laws?

Where’s the fun in that?!

I also hate any baby clothes that use proper buttons instead of poppers. Such a pain in the arse trying to do them up when the kid is all over the place! Even better if the poppers have some kind of colour code so you know which goes where, some baby grows were a nightmare for this as they folded in a weird way.

Let’s be honest, how many current Linux users can trust any code that they run? There’s so many guides and instructions where you essentially copy/paste commands to install or configure something that it would be difficult for your average user to verify everything.

Yeah I appreciate the difficulty; a lot of people will look at you as if you have 3 heads and many people are very against it, often for the wrong reasons.

Do you know what it was that your son struggled with about going school and what changed when he did start?

Our son is very emotional and get very anxious easily (if you ever look up a “highly sensitive child”, he ticks a lot of those boxes) - less so these days but when he was younger it was a challenge. I think it was just too overwhelming for him - too many children, too much noise and chaos. Noise and chaos is still his number one issue with school, but he manages it much better now. He’s also a late August child, so he’s basically the youngest child in his school year group (the school year starts from 1st September in the UK), so he’s a year behind developmentally compared to some of his peers. When you’re starting school at 4 or 5, that’s a big difference.

Also, I didn’t know it was an option to go to school part-time these days

It depends on the school. We found a very small school that allowed part time schooling and it was popular with home-ed folks, however it was very far away and he wasn’t there for long as the commute was too much. We then found a local school and he went there full time and was OK for 2 years, had a wobble and we managed to agree with the school that he could do 3 days a week for year 3. We were very fortunate and the head teacher was very understanding about our situation. At the end of year 3, the school decided that he should go back full time, and we also agreed that it was the right thing, as that was our goal anyway. He went back full time this September and he’s been doing great, absolutetly no issues.

How did you go about finding groups and meetups? And what usually happens at them?

My wife mainly found them on Facebook. Usually the kids would play. The age ranges of the kids would vary but they’d all play together nicely. Some parents would set up activities for the kids to do. Sometimes they’d be at gymnatics clubs or drama clubs and so on.

Out of interest, what’s making you inquire about it?

Freedom(fromtaxesandregulationsforbillionaires) City

The headline is accurate though. What’s misleading about it?

We went down the route of homeschooling for our son when he was 4 & 5. It wasn’t our initial choice, however he simply wasn’t ready for school - we’d have to phsyically drag him to the school screaming and crying and throwing himself on the road when we were trying to cross it, couldn’t get him into the car, and him physically hurting himself (punching his head) and saying things like “then I’ll kill myself”. Once we’d pulled him out his mental health got way better.

I’ll summaries our experiences for the limited time we did it:

Pros

• Can tailor learnings based on topics that interest your child
• You can go at your own pace. School is like a conveyer belt where you’re just riding this process at a set pace. You can go as fast or slow as you need.
• Generally just a more relaxed pace, no need to be up at 7am to be out the door for 8:30. If your kid is tired or works best in the afternoon, you’re not locked into a timetable. If your kid isn’t feeling it that day, you don’t have to do anything; or if they’re in a very engaging mood on the weekend, you can do more then.
• More freedom to go and visit places during the day; significantly cheaper and quieter than when you’d go on a weekend
• No stupid school uniform bullshit rules! (Coming from a UK perspective)
• You don’t need to strictly stick to the curriculum (although I’d advise trying to work close to it)
• You can do family activities/holidays in term time, which can be significantly cheaper

Cons

• You need to be attending groups and meet ups with other homeschool kids, regularly. I’ve put this as a con because it can be hard work - both the primary educator and the child/children need to get on! Sometimes you might find a group but it’s cliquey and it’s difficult for the adults to keep going.
• On the above, there’s different reasons why people home educate, but unfortunately you’ll find a fair few anti-vaxxers.
• The CONSTANT worry about “are we doing the right thing?” The feeling of falling “behind” their peers in school, and whether you’re actually doing enough.
• Expensive: depending how you do it, you’re either going to have one parent out of work entirely, or have some kind of reduced hours for both parents who will take turns in being the educator. Activies in the days and getting resources can be expensive. You might also want a tutor to cover more difficult subjects if you don’t feel confident teaching it yourself
• Constantly having to justify to others why you’re doing it and not having others think you’re insane
• Dealing with people within the home school community who think their approach is best and yours is totally wrong
• It might test your relationship with your partner if you’re both not fully onboard.

In the end our son made the decision himself that he wanted to try school again and he ended up starting 3 days a week, and then ultimately full time. There’s been some wobbles but he’s doing really well now. Has the usual complaints about school, like we all did, but he cracks on and always tell us about his day.

Personally I wouldn’t recommend it unless there’s a good reason to and you and your partner, if you have one, are 100% commited to it, and know that there’s a healthy homeschool community around that are doing plenty of activities.

Your response is an example of what frustrates me with Lemmy. Anyone with a different opinion must be a fascist. No nuance. Just instantly labelling people. No wonder the numbers are dropping and not attracting new users.

Guess what? We can have people who aren’t far left who aren’t fascists. I’d rather see healthy discussions and debates than everyone patting each other on the back for saying “DAE capitalism bad”.

It’s because you tried to force it.

I’ve never heard the word rutabega, it’s what we’d call a swede in the UK

stiffyGlitch’s mum should have her own category on PornHub

Gross.

How long do we reckon it’ll be before it’s re-branded back to “Office”?

Polls also showed we were going to vote remain. I wouldn’t believe what any polls say now.

I dunno why people care what position the seat & lid are in. It takes like 1 second to put it into the required configuration.

This makes no sense to me what so ever. Why do any apps care about where the taskbar is? How’s it any different when a window isn’t maximised and the user resizes it? Either I’m seriously misunderstanding this or it’s a completely made up excuse.

I’d rather they just say “we completely rewrote the taskbar, but we know that less than 0.01% of users move their taskbar so we didn’t prioritize it”.

To me the bigger issue with the taskbar is that you can’t make it compact. Instead it has to be a big chunky mess.

Na winter can absolutely jog on. Give me my warm days and lots of sunlight.

Imagine the possibilities!

• Heated camping mattress
• Sausage roll warmer
• Car windscreen defroster

When you log into the console and all your shits gone and you start to have a mild panic, when you suddenly realise it’s switched you to a different region.

Laser - pilots look down at the ship I guess.