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My four year old doesn’t believe that computers ever looked or loaded like this. Hacker News is ‘farty’ and ‘telling stories’ today. Edit - The four year old d
by hluska 7y ago
My four year old doesn’t believe that computers ever looked or loaded like this. Hacker News is ‘farty’ and ‘telling stories’ today.
Edit - The four year old doesn’t believe that I went to school. This is going to be quite the ride to daycare...
- ConceptJunkie 7y agoOne of my kids asked me, when he was 4, if the negative numbers go on forever. To this day, almost 20 years later, that still blows my mind.
- ConceptJunkie 7y agoAnd no, he's not a math whiz. None of my kids are. That was disappointing. But he's a whiz at plenty of other things.
- paulmd 7y agoHe'll probably think Hilbert's Hotel is pretty fun. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faQBrAQ87l4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faQBrAQ87l4
- JadeNB 7y agoWhat does "telling stories" mean in this context? It actually sounds like a pretty good description of HN to me …. (EDIT: Oh, I guess it means lying.)
- hluska 7y agoI’m very sorry. My child has a wonderful imagination and loves to tell stories. Sometimes the stories happened (they are true) and sometimes they didn’t really happen (they are stories). In our family, we have telling truths (these are things she saw and that I can ask other adults about) and telling stories (these are things that she didn’t see with her eyes). We don’t have a concept of lying yet, but that will likely come this year. For now, ‘telling stories’ fills the role of lying.
- rjsw 7y agoDo you read books to your child ? I can remember stuff from quite a young age, I think that one thing I took from getting books read to me was that inventing worlds and setting stories in those worlds was just something that everyone did.
- hluska 7y agoWe read almost constantly and she has been surrounded with books since she was an infant. Now that she’s a little bit older, she ‘reads’ and I read to her. At bedtime, she’ll often ‘read’ a book with a lot of pictures, then I’ll read it back to her and then we’ll switch to a book with fewer pictures and I’ll read it to her until she goes to sleep. Do you have any book recommendations? I’m always looking to add to the library! :)
- balls187 7y agoAny libraries near you? Our system (king county library system) is top notch, and their children section is organized with books specific to children development: life events, feelings, bedtime, concepts, etc. Every two weeks I go and pick out new books, rotating topics.
- hluska 7y agoWe live two blocks from a library and she goes regularly. It’s great on weekends (especially during the winter) - it’s full of kids and it’s a lot of fun. I like asking people for book, television or even website suggestions. We’ve found some unbelievable gems that way, including a site she uses to ‘wave to the International Space Station.’ :)
- JadeNB 7y agoNo need to be sorry! I wasn't being snarky; I genuinely didn't understand at first.
- pdpi 7y agoI guess it's more the fanciful sort of talking about things that don't actually exist like a book does, versus the impact intent to deceive that goes with lying.
- hluska 7y agoThat’s a perfect description. She’s a kind, innocent little person with a big heart and a big imagination. Sometimes the line between imagination and fact is a little fuzzy, but I don’t think it has the intent of a lie. They’re just stories...
- gowld 7y agoIt's cute when kids with their not-yet-developed brains to it, but when adults do it pathological lying, narcissism, psychopathy, or various other personality disorders.
- hluska 7y agoThis is a good point and it’s one that I try to be mindful of. At this point, it’s age appropriate but at some point we’ll start talking about consequences, truth and lies. The strangest part of parenting is how quickly time flies. A little over four years ago, I sent my parents pictures from the first ultrasound. Today, the baby in the ultrasound is sitting here, eating an orange and watching My Little Pony. It’s been years, but it feels like minutes... It’s wonderful but it goes by too fast and there’s a heck of a lot of responsibility crammed into a short number of years.
- bananamerica 7y agoI think it means fiction, which is distinct from lying.
- Waterluvian 7y agoThis is my favourite part about my 3 year old. I love when he combines his imagination with his ability to have unwavering opinions on things. Recently: a conversation in which he insisted that no, that person isn't my dad, it's his grandpa. But I have a dad too. No, you're my dad. That's grandpa. etc. Also I'm apparently five years old which is very old. Mom got off easy. She's four.
- exikyut 7y agoUndeniably interesting to witness how the yours/mine infrastructure hasn't come online yet.
- hluska 7y agoI love this comment - it describes so much of my child and reminds me so much of her, right down to her confidence about her grandparents’ ages. She’s a little older so she knows some pretty big numbers. I’m 20, her granny and grandpa are 20 and she’s either 4 or if she wants to be the boss she’s ‘10 hundred’. :) But you’re 5. That’s really old...
- balls187 7y agoI took my 3 year old to a local wilderness park. After, we talked the animals, and he confidently told me that he "was almost eaten by a bear."
- zaat 7y agoYou say that you have a dog? Yes, a villain of a one, said Clesippus. And he has puppies? Yes,and they are very like himself. And the dog is the father of them? Yes, he said, I certainly saw him and the mother of the puppies come together. And is he not yours? To be sure he is. Then he is a father, and he is yours; ergo, he is your father, and the puppies are your brothers.
- asveikau 7y agoIt didn't look like this. Especially not in 1993. They are mixing a bunch of metaphors from different time periods. Mostly late 90s but nothing ever animated like this either.
- toyg 7y agoUh, not in 93, but around 98/2000 definitely it looked like this. Well, without the animated windows effects. (I’m looking at v1 only, on mobile at the moment)
- anticensor 7y agoWindows 93 is what became Windows 95.
- roelschroeven 7y agoNah, I don't think so, Windows 95 was codenamed Chicago before it was released. I can't remember ever having seen the name "Windows 93" mentioned in that time.
- chungy 7y agoYou wouldn't have. It was still being called "Windows 4.0" until very close to its release in 1995.
- anticensor 7y agoSee The Old New Thing, by Raymond Chen: https://books.google.com.tr/books?id=wYrCitbs5PQC https://books.google.com.tr/books?id=wYrCitbs5PQC , where he says "Windows 95 was originally Windows 93, after all."
- roelschroeven 7y agoYou're right, apparently, and I was wrong. Wikipedia says so too: > So the development of Windows "Chicago" was started and, as it was planned for a late 1993 release, became known as Windows 93 which was also known as Windows 4.0.
- duxup 7y agoAt 4 years old they're not able to understand how much world there is outside their own.
- tartoran 7y agoYes but their imagination knows no boundaries. Later on they get it but so does their imagination diminish.
- williamdclt 7y agoI'm quite unconvinced by that. This might be true, but most of "kid imagination" I've seen or heard of was mashing up things they've had some experience with ("the dinosaur fights the action man", "my uncle can teleport"...). They don't seem to be able to think in the abstract, or even think outside any box (such as imagining that somebody could be more than 10yo! What would a 1000yo, 10000yo be like? An adult would have much much more imagination). We find them funny and weird because they take mash up things we got bored or familiar with (dinosaurs, age), so they shake up our world a bit. But imaginative? Some adults are terrible at imagination, but many are amazing
- latexr 7y agoAgreed. I keep coming back to a comic by Boulet which you might enjoy: http://english.bouletcorp.com/2007/12/11/fuck-peter-pan/ http://english.bouletcorp.com/2007/12/11/fuck-peter-pan/ Part 2: http://english.bouletcorp.com/2008/06/19/fuck-peter-pan-part-2/ http://english.bouletcorp.com/2008/06/19/fuck-peter-pan-part...
- williamdclt 7y agoHaha Boulet is great, I forgot about this particular comic, thanks! Exact explanation of what I mean
- zaat 7y agoLast Friday, at my parents house, I showed my four year old an album of me as baby, when she failed to guess who's in the pictures and was told it's me, her face was at first sheer horror, then total disbelief.
- matthewhartmans 7y agohaha this made my day! thanks man :')