Interesting Links for 11-06-2018

[andrewducker]

Red states are realising how much Trump's trade war is costing them.

(tags: trade republicans usa )

Edinburgh to close two more streets to traffic during the festival

(tags: Edinburgh transport festival )

That photo of Trump at the G7, as seen from various directions

(tags: politics photos )

A Marvel movie on a budget of just $1 million and a 21 day shooting schedule. Then the studio screwed them over. This is the story of Roger Corman's Fantastic Four

(tags: movies marvel comics )

Fake reviews now generally necessary to do business online

(tags: reviews fraud )

Lord of the Rings TV show will be most expensive series in history

Most amused at them getting the name of the third film wrong
(tags: tv lotr )

Polio makes comeback in Venezuela after decades

(tags: Venezuela disease poverty OhForFucksSake )

How to get your children to do chores without resenting it

(tags: children work )

Theresa May has acknowledged that Russia has flooded Britain with lies and abuse - what's she going to do about it?

(tags: russia uk news fraud )

There is an island off the coast of Wales that the Government forgot

(tags: wales uk )

The long, slow, death of Toys R Us

(tags: toys business fail )

Comments

Polio makes comeback in Venezuela after decades

[doug]

Aaaaaaaaaaaa!

Re: Polio makes comeback in Venezuela after decades

[agoodwinsmith]

This - so much this.

[momentsmusicaux]

> The moms see it as an investment, Mejia-Arauz says: Encourage the messy, incompetent toddler who really wants to do the dishes now, and over time, he'll turn into the competent 7-year-old who still wants to help.

Yup.

And my experience of toddlers matches what the article says.

The trick is finding something they can do which is taking part, but safe and doesn't create more work for yourself. Stirring things that are cooking is one. As is peeling garlic. Or sweeping the floor, or emptying the washing machine. S is actually now pretty good at hanging up clothes.

The thing is, for small children, chores are just as much fun as play.

[calimac]

I agree. My impression is that small children see chores as among the things that grownups do, and they're eager to claim as much maturity and responsibility as they feel they can handle. Giving them something within their capacities that they can handle (once they're old enough to tell whether they're doing a good job at it) feeds legitimate pride and self-confidence.

[danieldwilliam]

My son did washing up from quite a young age and he likes helping with some of the cooking, particularly when he's getting a decent amount of one on one attention whilst he's doing that.

And, yeah, I can make pancakes in 5 minutes on my own and it takes 25 minutes if he helps but that's 20 minutes I've spent doing something with him.

[calimac]

"but that's 20 minutes I've spent doing something with him."

Aw. That's the spirit.

[andrewducker]

Yeah, it was watching you with yours that made me confident that this was possible.

[momentsmusicaux]

Aw... That's lovely to hear :)

Some of it, I will confess, is selfishness on my part: I want to get chores done during childcare time, so that during non-childcare time I can have more sitting down and watching telly or faffing on the internet (!!), so I put effort into figuring out which chores can be tweaked to be child-compatible, and sometimes just try and see if it'll work. I discovered quite a few things that the kids can help with by accident that way.

Another thought I had after reading the article is that I wonder whether it's more affluent families that have more of this problem, and that it's because they have cleaners and more labour-saving appliances, and so the adults do fewer chores anyway. I'm surprised, for instance, at how many people where we live have a cleaner.