Interesting Links for 11-5-2011

[andrewducker]

• Google forms alliance to ensure all Android phones get 18 months of updates
  (tags: android google mobile_phones)
• The epic AV Referendum post-mortem blog: Evil triumphs when the good are led by incompetent halfwits
  (tags: uk politics voting av)
• Google Lobbies Nevada To Allow Self-Driving Cars
  (tags: google TheFuture usa law cars)
• BMI Says A Single Person Listening To Their Own Music Via The Cloud Is A Public Performance
  (tags: copyright stupidity)
• iFlowReader shuts down because Apple's 30% cut of ebooks makes it unprofitable.
  (tags: business apple ebooks)
• Nine out of 10 Free School applications fail to pass first test
  (tags: education uk government)
• Spelling out, in very big letters, something the LibDem leadership don't seem to understand
  (tags: libdem government uk)
• Mind/body program to reduce stress increases pregnancy rates in IVF treatment
  (tags: stress pregnancy)
• The six stages of movie geek evolution
  (tags: movies geeky)
• YouTube starts renting movies. The end is nigh for Cable.
  (tags: movies youtube vod)
• How not to Raise Spoiled Brats
  (tags: psychology education children money parenting)
• One Professor’s Attempt to Explain Every Joke Ever
  (tags: psychology research humour funny jokes)

Comments

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

Wow. My daughter Caractacus (not her real name, as I assume your isn't either ;) is 17 months. I'm not sure how I'd get her up to the height of the sink or the cooker... how do you do it? Plus C is a clamberer -- I would worry she'd try to climb down or climb further.

Chores and Clambering

[danieldwilliam.livejournal.com]

We have an Ikea step / stool thing in the kitchen. The Captain pushes it to the sink or the hob and climbs up it. He sometimes falls off but breakfast is more important to him than pain. (Pain is temporary, Breakfast is forever!)

The Captain climbs everything. I can't work out how to stop him. He's fast and determined. I hope a few tumbles will make him more circumspect but so far not. I'm fully resigned to visiting Sick Kids A&E at some point soon.

Re: Chores and Clambering

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

Will get some once my kitchen is no longer a building site and give it a try.

Recently I had the idea that maybe if I take C to the playpark and let her have a really good climb that'll use up her climbing desire for the day... she climbs up the slides backwards and since last weekend tries ladders too.

Re: Chores and Clambering

[undeadbydawn.livejournal.com]

my daughter is autistic, loves to help and is heartbroken when she thinks she hasn't


this generally involves asking her to do something, letting her crack on with it, then checking everything *very carefully* afterwards to make sure no-one will die.

watching her sheer joy at doing / fixing stuff is totally priceless. We drive each other completely nuts.

Re: Chores and Clambering

[danieldwilliam.livejournal.com]

I'm not convinced that there is a finite amount of climbing.

I think the Captain climbs the things he does in the house because he wants to be closer to something and climbing is the way to get there. He climbs the kitchen stool to help with cooking or washing up, he climbs the window seat so he can look at the birds, he climbs the bed to come for a cuddle. He also likes the climbing gear in the park.

It's difficult to tell what's going on because it all changes so quickly.

The Captain had a pretty bad fall yesterday and I wonder if it will make him more circumspect. It's not the climbing I mind but the dismount.