Managed to create an entire morning plan at Legoland so that we waited in 1 queue for the boats, and then really efficiently — without rushing! — did basically all the small kid rides at Legoland, skipping all queues.

My kids are living the dream today and I’m left wishing I had someone that could see and appreciate me working so hard to give my kids a great day.

Obviously it would be even nicer to collaborate with someone on all this, but I hope I can find someone that at least finds it (very) desirable in a partner since I increasingly feel this is something I am quite good at. ↳

It lowkey sucks when you’re on vacation but the only parent within a group.
It’s difficult to persuade people without kids to stick to a kid schedule, there’s no other kids around, and it’s just generally more not less work…↳

Why are kids pens circular rather than square? they roll away.. maybe triangular is the move… ↳

my mother was taking her dog for a walk and was bringing Henry; without thinking she tried to put a leash on Henry rather than her dog ↳

things i forgot for our big trip:

  1. a bluetooth speaker

  2. an extra USB cable (i brought 1x cable but it has 2x ends, but i think I need another one)

One Way Parents Can Fight the Phone-Based Childhood ↳

But if parents want their kids to put down their phones, they need to open the front door. Nearly three-quarters of the children in our survey agreed with the statement “I would spend less time online if there were more friends in my neighborhood to play with in person.”

Teacher AI Use is Already Out of Control and It's Not Ok ↳

I teach HS Science in the south. I can only speak for my district, buta few teacher work days in the wave of enthusiasm I'm seeing for AI tools is overwhelming. We're getting district approved ads for AI tools by email, Admin and ICs are pushing it on us, and at least half of the teaching staff seems all in at this point. I was just in a meeting with my team and one of the older teachers brought out a powerpoint for our first lesson and almost everyone agreed to use it after a quick scan- but it was missing important tested material, repetitive, and just totally airy and meaningless. Just slide after slide of the same handful of sentences rephrased with random loosely related stock photos. When I asked him if it was AI generated, he said 'of course', like it was a strange question. Then, I told the team I might go in a different direction because I wanted to avoid using AI in the classroom and the team lead made a face and told me that all of the lessons she brings for our meetings have been AI generated for the last year.

Constantly amazed at how often Product Managers jump on the AI bandwagon without full context. Eg: someone excitedly discussing the Agentic Shopify MCP when just using a simple Restful API is more than sufficient. ↳