"Don't eat your boogers."
Holds finger out to me. I wipe it off.
"Don't pick your nose, blow it instead. No, don't pick my nose either."
The whole "child" thing is great for DIY enthusiasts, but totally impractical for the rest of us.
Mine is 2, so most of the situations so far are just about English rules. (Though every language has stupid inconsistencies)
But there are many things like this in the world. I'm looking forward/dreading trying to balance "OK, from first principles, you're right. But in order to exist in society, you need to do something differently. It's important to recognize when you need to try to fit in. And also important to recognize when it's worth breaking those rules. And even if you choose not to break them, you should be aware of the underlying purpose or lack thereof"
I think it's an impossible task. My kid is going to hate it. I'll do my best.
The one that blew my mind was, when you're out in the yard, playing with the running hose, and you decide to come inside for something, don't bring the running hose with you! Turns out kids don't automatically know that.
You purchased the DIY version. With this version, you are expected to continuously update the programming. Most people seem to focus on higher level programming using a language of "ivy league".
Either way, you are expected to keep the programming updated at your expense. Without it, your Small Child unit might fall behind other versions and become a negative influence on other Small Child units.
This is blatant Programming as a Service propaganda. Keeping your Small Child unit updated is possible using the GNU/Homeschooling suite, even if self-hosted operation does take more effort compared to managed offerings.
Scheme is much more useful.
Its possible that nose picking and similar behaviors by kids are important for helping build the immune system.
It seemed really weird for a few years, when conspicuously talking to yourself went from being a "this person has a serious mental illness" indicator, to being a "this person has a cell phone" indicator.
"No, there's no good reason you have to do it this way, but you do."
I don't actually say that to him (he's 3), but I say it to myself a lot. And the "Don't pick my nose, either" isn't a joke, that's verbatim.
I suppose if people used hand sanitizer after every nose picking, then maybe it be less of a problem?
Sorry about the copy link, but it seems that The Onion has removed the original story.
I guess that explains a lot.
If it's dry, I can't blow my nose... Unless there is some method I am not aware of.
I wake up breathing freely, regardless of position. If I stay still, I can get about an hour max of no concern breathing/existence. After that time, or if I sit up, I have between 3 and 15 minutes before mucus seems to accumulate in my nose, lungs, and throat simultaneously. It starts as a mild cough to clear the airway, which I always think will be the end of it because it's a "clearing" or "productive" cough with a little spittle and/or grating feeling. Then, about 3 seconds later, some kind of loop triggers, and I cough dryly and unproductively until it's time to inhale. This repeats sort of randomly for several rounds, never really obstructing breathing and producing no obvious mucus; after a cough, I can inhale and exhale freely through my nose and mouth both, and nothing stops a full inhale/exhale cycle.
After 3-6 of those cycles, mucus magically appears everywhere; the mouth I hale and exhale becomes ragged and wheezing, the nose inhale becomes nearly impossible, and the coughs produce globs of white mucus that must be spit out or swallowed.
Sometimes it all disappears after a few rounds of this, but that's maybe 1/50 chance. If this cycle goes on for more than 5 rounds, the esophagus starts chiming in saying hey maybe I can help, and the rest of it jumps in too. Now every cough becomes a prelude to a gag, which may or may not become more. If the gag causes any output in the form of vomit, it (the vomit) is strangely not acidic like bile, nor does it contain any fragments or traces of recently consumed food/liquid. The vomit is purely aerated mucus, and causes zero pain while going the wrong way through my system. This goes on until the mucus is all gone and I breathe fine in all ways for the rest of the day, with maybe a brief encore 12 hours or so later, but inconsistently. I have no idea what this is and neither do doctors I've seen.
I am 100% sure this is the wrong place to document this and irrelevant to the rest, but it struck my mind while reading this comment as a thing to write down fully for the first time, and I trust instinct in this regard. Maybe someone needed to hear/read it, or maybe I just needed to get it out properly, who knows!
I have nothing like that, but for me personally all mucus-related stuff (sneezing, gummy eyes, frog in throat) is are controlled by drinking water. Can serve both as preventative and cure, but it gets the mucus membranes working normally again.
My issues have been resolved by controlling reflux and they rear their heads again when I allow the reflux to return for more than a very brief amount of time (ie. I stop paying attention to the food and drink I consume and my intake of <things that trigger my reflux> becomes too high for a sustained amount of time)