When one of them does something wrong and we don't know which one, they will both claim it wasn't them. We find that upsetting, because one of them is lying to us.
We don't want to punish. We want a conversation about what happened and why, and an apology.
But it can take days of asking before one of them admits it, and that time is horrible. How can we get whoever did it to admit it sooner?
@RPBook I can't speak to parenting children with autism and ADD but I can say what's worked in our home. We have a special object that, when held by one of the kids, they can't get in trouble for telling us the truth. All we're allowed to say is "thank you for being honest" if they tell us something while they're holding it.
@RPBook Bonus points if you use the object yourself to regularly "confess" something of your own, having forgotten the milk at the store, or losing something on the train. Having them practice being the forgiver can help them get used to the concept.
Cancer robbed my of two things that have made me pretty angry. I missed seeing what could possibly (probably) be Depeche Mode's last tour. I also had to cancel seeing another band I love, The Kills. I used to see so much live music and I think that part of my life is over. 😡 So for that I will say #FuckCancer
I just heard the best explanation of AI tech bros. "This is what happens when you're a nerd but you think you're too cool to read sci-fi. You eventually come up with it all yourself and think you created it."
"That's what's happening there [in AI tech]. It's dark, and cramped, and sweaty, and it's growing mushrooms, and some of those mushrooms are fucking fascists."
🤣 The latest Behind the Bastards podcast is great.
Just played Smash Up with my partner and a couple of friends, and her Penguin Grannies absolutely ran away with the game. Use grannies to scry minions to the top, then use penguins to play them off the top. I was trying my hardest to combo off with Wraithrustler Kaiju and just couldn't get set up. #Boardgames
Just overheard an old lady say "taste the biscuit" on the train and it was like a Russian trigger word for my chronically-online brain. I had no idea that I had something so viscerally living in my head rent free this entire time.
@nixCraft I like to think of them as prototypes. If the project is worth continuing then I'll finish it, but some projects are just good for learning a few lessons and moving on.
Interesting Fact: If you took every billionaire on earth and stacked them on top of each other, starting at the bottom of the Mariana Trench, that would be great.