Genuine question about dreaming
I couldn’t see anything in the rules, or previous posts on this topic so apologies if this is the wrong community to ask… …but my 10yr old boy just asked me to ask: “do people who have been blind from birth, when you dream, dream visual dreams, or dreams using other senses?” Many thanks for any feedback!
Questions from your child
Maybe someone can help me with a question my 10yr old put to me. ‘A few people (in school) think of me as their best friend but I don’t think the same way, I’m best friends with Bob (not his real name :)) instead, and don’t like playing with the others as much. How do I deal with that?’ My initial response was something along the lines of ‘just be as good a mate as you can and be kind to the others’ but I’m not sure I’m getting the nuance. Any pointers?
What's blue and doesn't fit?
Hear me out on this ICJ
Can you recommend a book for me please?
I’ve basically been ordered to pick up any fiction book and read, after a friend discovered I’ve not read anything but non-fiction for a decade. The ones I’ve enjoyed in the past have been short, fantastical or sci-fi (think Aldous Huxley, Ian McEwan), but crucially with amazing first person descriptive prose - the kind where you’re immersed in the writing so much you’re almost there with the character. I liked sci-fi as the world’s constraints weren’t always predictable. Hope that makes sense. Any recommendations?
Update: Advice re son learning to program.
Hi all, A fair while ago I asked the community here advice as my 8yo lad wanted to experiment with programming: Old Post [https://lemmy.world/post/6087801]. Thanks so much for all the words of wisdom - there’s still stuff we can explore in the replies. Thought I’d just give a little update. So I installed dual boot Linux Mint / OSX on an old intel MacBook Air (dual boot in case his homework/school stuff needs it, but he hasn’t used OSX much!). It was much easier than I thought it’d be. Perhaps it’s just the hardware/OS choice, but I don’t consider myself to be ‘properly’ technical and it was a breeze. Perhaps the only difficult part was creating a bootable OSX restore disk just in case I destroyed the OS… it’s almost like Mac really don’t want you to be doing this. He’s working his way through foundational courses on programming, in codeacademy, and using scratch as usual. So far, so good. Is there an IDE you’d recommend that has some element of a tutorial to it?
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Advice needed, son wants to learn how to program
Hi all, My 8 year old is asking if he can learn how to program. He has asked specifically if I could set him up with a ‘programming kit with lessons’ for a Christmas present. I’d like to support this, and it seems like it’s not a transient interest as he’s been all over scratch, and using things like minecraft commands for the last year. I have an old (pre 2017) MacBook Air I can set up for this. How do I / what would you advise I set up for him, to a) keep him safe online (he’s 8!) and b) give him the tools he needs in a structured way. I am not a programmer. I know enough bash/shell and basic unix stuff to be dangerous and I was a front end dev a very long time ago, but I wouldn’t call myself a programmer and don’t know what concepts he needs to learn first. Hugely appreciate any advice, thanks.
Have got vs Have
Hi folks. Can I ask: Is it better to say “We’ve got to get going” or “ We have to get going”? I hear the former in conversation and it slightly irks me. I think it’s because of the redundancy (?) in the sentence. Which is better, grammatically? The latter feels cleaner. Am I wrong?
