It gets better. Way better.
Last night I explained quicksort to one kid.
Now we are designing cards to laser cut.
The kids get interesting and independent quicker than you might imagine.
The days are long, but the years are fast.
Last night I explained quicksort to one kid.
Now we are designing cards to laser cut.
The kids get interesting and independent quicker than you might imagine.
The days are long, but the years are fast.
Yesterday I fell in the Collatz trap (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21780068). So after a few hours my 7y old son asked what I was doing (what was I doing?!). Explained him how it works and then we did Collatz "by hand" for almost an hour. These sorta random triggered experiences are the best.
I meditate on this idea quite a bit.
https://blog.samaltman.com/the-days-are-long-but-the-decades...
Her godmothers son, which is just 4 months older is so happy sitting in my lap for ages as I explain ilustrated books to him; my own daughter gets bored real quick with that.
So true!
Nicely put. That's going into my "how to explain parenting" quotes right alongside "it doesn't get easier, just a different kind of difficult"
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6398634-the-happiness-pr...
Gretchen Rubin had an epiphany one rainy afternoon in the unlikeliest of places: a city bus. “The days are long, but the years are short,” she realized. “Time is passing, and I’m not focusing enough on the things that really matter.” In that moment, she decided to dedicate a year to her happiness project.
My mom always says "the older the children, the harder the problems". Which is also true and quite counter intuitive. You might think that the harder years are when kids are young and demanding, but us humans turn into quite complex beings :)