So when my kid was a bit over a year old, it became clear that there was an unprecedented sportsman in the making!
I immediately went out and bought a balance bike similar to this one:
Anyway, turns out that no amount of tape, even construction style one, was enough to keep the little one on the bike in an upright position at a reasonable speed. After a couple of bumps, I decided that the reasonable thing is to wait a little.
After what felt like eternity, but probably wasn't too long, he started to use it more and more. Jumps were made over garden hoses. Little hills were mastered, gaining more and more speed.
At about two / three years of age, my kid was pushing his balance bike with verve downhill on skate tracks!
He absolutely learnt to love it super quick and he still uses it now and then while learning how to use a peddle bike. The balancing side of the peddle bike worked pretty much from the start as a result of the balance bike. The peddle bike is a fair bit bigger however and he needs to build up some confidence with it though.
Anyway, I can wholeheartedly recommend a proper balance bike for toddlers. They are great fun and give them a great sense of freedom.
Things to look out for:
I've got very little lemmy experience in general, so this is a bit of an experiment for me.
The experiment is about sharing parenting experiences, and discuss how to survive and enjoy parenting while getting better at it.
It's also about managing partnerships that may have caused parenting and/or are impacted by it.
Let's discuss our problems, solutions, and breakdowns.
Parenting has been easily the most intense relationship I've had. It's enjoyable and fu**ing stressful. I wouldn't want to miss it yet I'd love it to be easier....
Can we work towards this?
Parents of lemmy, unite!
I installed FreeBSD a few days ago. So far the experience is pretty good:
While it starts with a very minimal system, it's relatively easy to build it up to something "normal", in my case a KDE desktop.
The biggest change compared to linux I have to get used to is that the documentation seems often to be better than a search on the internet.
Case in point was my 60 minute effort fixing a DNS leak with my VPN:
After spending some time managing the openvpn connection and automating it on startup, I noticed that I'm leaking DNS...
Spent some time searching the net, until I found and followed 30.7.2. DNS Server Configuration in the handbook, which explains how to set the system DNS. After getting the public DNS from my VPN provider, and following the instructions in the manual, the leaks were gone...
I remember having chased DNS leaks in linux for weeks.... Quite happy so far :)
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