We liked to get a bungalow somewhere in a rural area and stay in the same one for the whole duration, so it becomes a base from where you to day trips with the car, which becomes your second base where all the necessary stuff is with you all the time and where the kids can sleep if necessary.

Not moving between hotels removes a lot of stress already. And then don’t try to cramp too many things into a day, it’s just a rural area, you don’t need to see every single tourist attraction there. Instead explore the local area around the bungalow. Find a local playground, look at the local animals, find the local restaurant and convenience store, etc.

I’m running https://www.home-assistant.io/ on mine.

Yeah, that seems about right. My earliest memories are about playing outside unsupervised.

That ones is very difficult, there are so many favorites like Israeli Sabbich, Korean Beef BBQ, Silesian beef roulades and so on. But the thing for what I think tastes best is:

Tuna Sashimi

It’s the food which brings me back to Japan over and over. I couldn’t find this quality anywhere else in the world and god knows I tried.

I met her end of 2020 and we stated dating on the spot while I was on a business trip to South Korea during the pandemic.

The best is to move to that country and start working there an you will be forced to learn it.

The thing is, it doesn’t matter how many languages you speak somehow you end up not being able to communicate anyway because of the language. Some anecdotal evidence:

• I speak Polish, German, Swedish and English. Me and my siblings went to Morocco for vacation, my sister was vegetarian and we wanted to order something without meat. The guy at the street food stand didn’t understand and then he asked: Do you speak Arabic? No, Do you speak Spanish? No, do you at least speak French? Also no. None of the languages helped even tho the other guy also spoke 3 languages.

• After speaking 4 languages fluently I moved to Korea thinking it’ll be easy to pick up another language. After 4 years of living here I still can’t even have a very simple conversation. The language is so different that even after trying hard and spending money and time the learning doesn’t move forward. And me working from home mostly with Europeans makes it even more difficult, but I can’t get a local job without the language, chicken and egg problem.

Every language is good to know, and I kind of agree with my grandfather that every language is like another hand you have to disposal, but somehow you end up in situations that even 6 hands are not enough ;)

I think the title of polyglot is just silly. I speak 4 languages fluently but I would never introduce myself as a polyglot.

I haven’t seen any changes for months. I didn’t even realize new people joined.

Normally we have bath time in the evening but not every day. In the morning we saw that his next was so dirty, so even for him the shower was a surprise which then triggered the rest.

Today ours was naked after a morning shower and refused to put on anything, no panties, no socks, no T-shirt, no pants. It took forever to first to try it with force, which didn’t work, and then later with convincing.

What would the difference be to a Lemmy community?

Ok, I see where the confusion is. So it’s apparently called a push car:

The parent pushes it and steers it on the back of the car with this stick.

Actually it was a little car not a stroller.

The ChatGTP translation for Americans:

This morning was a full-blown suburban Olympics on the way to preschool.

Kid wakes up with big scooter dreams. We barely make it down the driveway before he changes his mind: “No scooter! Stroller!” Cool. So now I’m pushing the stroller with a diaper bag swinging off the handle like it’s trying to fight me. He hops in. Two minutes later? “Actually… scooter.” Classic.

Now I’m pushing the empty stroller, juggling the bag, and he’s scootering like a mini Tony Hawk. That lasts maybe 500 feet before he’s “sooooo tired” and wants back in. So guess who’s carrying a scooter, pushing a stroller, and already questioning life choices? This guy.

Then comes the poop situation.

We pull over for an emergency grassy field bathroom attempt. Pants off. Nothing. (Mind you, we were already late because he did a 15-minute fake poop session at home too.)

Now he refuses everything. Doesn’t want the stroller. Doesn’t want the scooter. Won’t walk. Won’t be carried. Just stands there, arms crossed like a tiny union worker on strike.

Eventually I scoop him up — full meltdown, flailing, screaming like I’m kidnapping him. I’ve got him in one arm, the scooter in the other, still pushing the stroller like a deranged octopus dad.

I finally strap him back in the stroller. Two seconds later? He’s trying to escape. One leg on the sidewalk, the other still in the stroller like he’s halfway into a getaway car.

Then — divine intervention — we pass the other preschool, and the kids are dressed as firefighters. Suddenly, he’s riveted. Climbs back in like a civilized citizen.

The rest of the trip? Just continuous low-level whining.

So now Mom gets to pick up the stroller AND the scooter from school later — sorry, babe.

And me? I’m parked in a café, mainlining espresso and pretending I’ve got it all together.

#DadLife #MorningWorkout #PreschoolChaos #IJustWantedCoffee

Here in Korea there are so called Kids Cafes which are basically indoor playgrounds where you pay an entrance fee. There are often quite many children different ages and we take our kids there sometimes.

The more obvious one would be just the normal public playground, check when other kids usually are there and join them. If you do it regularly you will find that there are more or less the same children there at the same time.

But the biggest problem for the child in first day Kindergarten is that their parent suddenly disappears, over time they get used to it bit even after years in Kindergarden there are days where they don’t want to go :D

You’re misunderstanding what I wrote, because:

People leave the platform: “I don’t get why this upsets anyone, it’s his platform”.

Is exactly the opposite of what I was trying to say with:

he is not forcing you to use his platform

you can just leave, there are so many alternatives available, if you don’t then you are part of the problem, giving him power and putting more money into his pockets. In fact you should have seen the writing on the wall many years ago and latest when he bought it.

Being upset about this now after he did so many worse things is just silly.

We practically only use the calendar, it’s possible to use tasks also with it but there is no native tool for it on iOS which my wife uses so we don’t use it.

I selfhost https://radicale.org/v3.html and just added the calendar to iOS as a CalDav calendar, in GNOME Calendar and with help of DAVx5 on Android with the built in calendar. And then I added it to Home Assistant too, and made a dashboard which I automatically show at 7am on the TV.

So what, it’s his platform, he can do whatever he wants on it, he paid a lot of money for it.

I really don’t get why this would upset anyone, he is not forcing you to use his platform.