Nuked by my toddler today

lauriegator wrote:

hipmama197190 wrote:


So, it's just crazy sometimes for me to think that I now can sit down and chat about how my two year old got into my game, which is hosted I-don't-even-know-where, and played by people all over the world, and laugh about how he has enough ability as a toddler to move all my pixels from one place to another without me knowing.

Future shock.

When my son was 2, he fed a sandwich to the VCR and tried to microwave his shoes :-) He started playing on the computer with Windows 3.1 on it...

At least he has his own iPad now, LOL!

:lol: :lol:

Our gas oven used to have the broiler section in a bottom pull-out "drawer". When our son was about 3, thats where he hid them from his sister, and forgot. Your shoes-in-the-microwave incident seems MUCH more exciting. :)

Yea my iPad has a lock screen. You're not the 1st & you won't be the last. Lol

Barry, Zozo was talking about your hairpiece, don't you mean 'My face is down here'?

annettemarc wrote:
OP, Someday you'll be in a restaurant and see a couple with a toddler at the next table and ask how old he is and theyll say he is two, and youll say nostalgically "I remember when mine was that age. He nuked my town." And then you'll chuckle to yourself, and they'll call the waiter over and quietly ask to be moved to another table. :)

Annette, I think I love you. If only we each had room in our lives, or games... But alas, I'll remain content that we're ships passing in the night. When JimJ321 told me Happy Tapping, and welcome to the forums, he didn't warn me that there would be people as fun as you here.

hipmama197190 wrote:
It's amazing what seems normal to us now. If you had told Eisenhower that there would be a device that could fit in a pocket, instantly access all of the information in the world, take and send photos and video instantly, and give directions via satellites,not to mention making phone calls without wires, you would blow his mind. He would immediately see the implications for the military, and he would be right to do so.

If you then told him that everybody carried these devices, teenagers and housewives and people sitting by pools in the summer, and waiting for their food in restaurants. And then you said we used them to play games, and keep ourselves and our kids busy, and be in constantfreakingcommunication with everyone we'd ever met, and most of us don't use our amazing handheld wonder machines to do anything earth-shattering at all. I imagine he'd go beyond mind-blown to dismayed with the wasted potential.

I dunno hipmama, if you'd just give Eisenhower two hours on any such device; hour one, let him argue with anyone, anonymously from a safe, unknown location, he'd be a Gotdam five star flame warrior - then, hour two, cat videos. Just. Cat. Videos. I don't think he would've been dismayed. He probably would've left Joseph McCarthy alone and five-starred Angry Birds instead.

Also, sorry about your Springfield. But I believe you'll Six Million Dollar Man it, and rebuild it, better, faster, and stronger.

smohqy wrote:
Barry, Zozo was talking about your hairpiece, don't you mean 'My face is down here'?

Maybe they weren't talking about the hairpiece on his head.... :lol:

I really wish parents took greater advantage of how open the young minds of kids aged 2-5 are.

This is definitely the time when personality foundations develop which can steer the child through later ages of development.

Kids will adapt to sports, creative arts, and other activities like moths to light bulbs if their parents give them the support they need to get started.

I've seen preschool age kids better than me at piano, skiing, etc.

Unfortunately too many parents are over scheduled, under interested, or whatever else they've got a reason for planting their children in front of a video screen as a baby sitter.

Kids are so smart. As adults, we impede their potential. It's one of the saddest things about humanity, probably second only to greed on my list.

When first saw Idiocracy (movie) I was not expecting it would become a documentary.

P.s. these are generalizations, not a criticism of OP. I don't know what her circumstances were at all. But hopefully she will be more mindful in the future about giving her toddler a device which could "blow Eisenhower's mind".

robynou wrote:

barryriddl474 wrote:

Zozobras wrote:
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Like your hair piece.

My face is up here :roll:

LOL! you are seriously the main reason I come to this forum. You are great at making me laugh. Your avitar is enough to do it, too. You just crack me up. So on behave of all the people you make laugh, thank you. Some times it is a great mood lifter.

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annettemarc wrote:
OP, Someday you'll be in a restaurant and see a couple with a toddler at the next table and ask how old he is and theyll say he is two, and youll say nostalgically "I remember when mine was that age. He nuked my town." And then you'll chuckle to yourself, and they'll call the waiter over and quietly ask to be moved to another table. :)

I did laugh out loud. Well played.

4junk3000 wrote:
I really wish parents took greater advantage of how open the young minds of kids aged 2-5 are.

This is definitely the time when personality foundations develop which can steer the child through later ages of development.

Kids will adapt to sports, creative arts, and other activities like moths to light bulbs if their parents give them the support they need to get started.

I've seen preschool age kids better than me at piano, skiing, etc.

Unfortunately too many parents are over scheduled, under interested, or whatever else they've got a reason for planting their children in front of a video screen as a baby sitter.

Kids are so smart. As adults, we impede their potential. It's one of the saddest things about humanity, probably second only to greed on my list.

When first saw Idiocracy (movie) I was not expecting it would become a documentary.

P.s. these are generalizations, not a criticism of OP. I don't know what her circumstances were at all. But hopefully she will be more mindful in the future about giving her toddler a device which could "blow Eisenhower's mind".

OP mentioned that she was sitting reading a book, with the 2-year old in her lap, playing with the device. I agree with your overall premise, and I know you specified that you were generalizing. Your statement that you didn't know what her circumstances were led me to think you missed her description in her later post.

BTW, I saw a kid riding a bike the other day. Haven't seen a kid riding a bike in ages. Reminder me of when I was a little kid and on Saturday mornings my parents would say "go find someone to play with" and we kids would spend the day God knows where doing God knows what with God knows who. We knew that when it got dark, we had to go home for dinner. And we'd spend all day having a blast, making up our own things to do. It's a wonder any of us survived. But we had to be creative, and nobody intervened. :)

moxxee wrote:

barryriddl474 wrote:


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Not a fan of the Foo Fighters? I must have missed that episode of TNG. :mrgreen:

4junk3000 wrote:
I really wish parents took greater advantage of how open the young minds of kids aged 2-5 are.

This is definitely the time when personality foundations develop which can steer the child through later ages of development.

Kids will adapt to sports, creative arts, and other activities like moths to light bulbs if their parents give them the support they need to get started.

I've seen preschool age kids better than me at piano, skiing, etc.

Unfortunately too many parents are over scheduled, under interested, or whatever else they've got a reason for planting their children in front of a video screen as a baby sitter.

Kids are so smart. As adults, we impede their potential. It's one of the saddest things about humanity, probably second only to greed on my list.

When first saw Idiocracy (movie) I was not expecting it would become a documentary.

P.s. these are generalizations, not a criticism of OP. I don't know what her circumstances were at all. But hopefully she will be more mindful in the future about giving her toddler a device which could "blow Eisenhower's mind".

I don't disagree with your premise, but technology can also do wonderful things to support young brains. One of the tiny humans in my life is TEACHING HERSELF FRENCH with a free iPad app. She'll be four next month, and she already knows as much French as I did when I was 12 or 13.

OP, I'm sorry your town got nuked! :? Good luck with the rebuild!