Parenting
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Miss 12 got busted messaging on her phone at midnight on a school night. Very unfortunate she tried to fire back at her Mum with "You and Dad are on your devices until all hours!"
I don't give a shit. Mrs TA, however, seems to hold a grudge about the fact she IS on her iPad a lot and generally watches videos to fall asleep at night ... which science has said is fucking awful for you, but what do THOSE people know?
Is that the equivalent of us reading until midnight with a torch under the covers back in the day?
I'm with Mrs TA in that you shouldn't always trust the science, I had bad insomnia for years, but found watching old sitcoms has me to sleep pretty much within 15 minutes. It might be a bad way to fall alseep but it's better than being awake all night. (Although, it's probably a mixture of my going to sleep pattern - which the experts always suggest - and the switching off of my brain).
It's the blue light from device screens that keeps you awake. iOS has options to filter that out in the evening to help combat that.
I use my laptop but I don't think I've ever used the night shift mode ... I should probably do that even though it's not keeping me awake.
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eldest boy used to get those. Always between 10 and 10.30. and only if he was really tired
He would "wake up" and walk around, and talk about random shit to you, but in a hysterical way. You couldn't calm him down without "waking" him up. Then eventually he would go back to sleep, but only after he had yawned (that was the trigger for me to know he was all good).
Some of the shit he would be saying was weird. He would be asking me to help him (or not hurt him) and i would be standing right in front of him. Took me ages to work out he wasn't awake.
Next day he would have absolutely no recollection.
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@R-L said in Parenting:
contemplating whether to have a cup of tea
You spelled gin wrong. It's also far more effective than tea, and has no caffeine, along with the anti malarial that comes with tonic. It's basically a health drink.
So go and have two G and Ts and call me in the morning.
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@mariner4life yep same with Miss 11.
No recollection also, too much screen time was another trigger for her.
There were a couple of times we fully expected her head to spin around, very scary times.
Sometimes we could guide her back to bed and she would get in and stay until morning.
Edit: typing my reply on phone @Snowy got it
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Found it...
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I'm with Mrs TA in that you shouldn't always trust the science, I had bad insomnia for years, but found watching old sitcoms has me to sleep pretty much within 15 minutes. It might be a bad way to fall alseep but it's better than being awake all night.
Agree with that, however it's the other 8 hours a day she spends on the iPad that get me. First thing in the morning, and every spare minute thereafter.
Better off putting one of those hours into physical activity.
Also: bros before hoes.
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@taniwharugby I'm talking about the need to take a full license driving test, and also the contracting out of the testing to the AA and the introduction of the plastic photo license used for ID to buy alcohol. That was 1999 according to Wikipedia.
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My guy had a condescending attitude and a uniform, so I remember him as a cop.
Jeez, can you imagine that job? Having to be driven around by 15-17yo's every day, with little to no control on the car, ability to survive, etc. My heart wouldn't take it, and I'd get fired for saying some honest truths to them. Fark that.
That’s parenting material right there....
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@taniwharugby I'm talking about the need to take a full license driving test, and also the contracting out of the testing to the AA and the introduction of the plastic photo license used for ID to buy alcohol. That was 1999 according to Wikipedia.
Friends of my parents have a daughter ( probably in her early 30s now ) who won't drive purely cos she has failed the practical so many times. Apparently they nitpick everything these days.
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@taniwharugby I'm talking about the need to take a full license driving test, and also the contracting out of the testing to the AA and the introduction of the plastic photo license used for ID to buy alcohol. That was 1999 according to Wikipedia.
Friends of my parents have a daughter ( probably in her early 30s now ) who won't drive purely cos she has failed the practical so many times. Apparently they nitpick everything these days.
I had an ex-staff member who's daughter failed a few times in her home area. Apparently they were more lenient in another area 20 minutes down the road, so she went and got it first time
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@taniwharugby I'm talking about the need to take a full license driving test, and also the contracting out of the testing to the AA and the introduction of the plastic photo license used for ID to buy alcohol. That was 1999 according to Wikipedia.
Friends of my parents have a daughter ( probably in her early 30s now ) who won't drive purely cos she has failed the practical so many times. Apparently they nitpick everything these days.
I had an ex-staff member who's daughter failed a few times in her home area. Apparently they were more lenient in another area 20 minutes down the road, so she went and got it first time
I think from what she said they have all the warmth and friendliness of an undertaker. Not exactly encouraging.....
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@taniwharugby I'm talking about the need to take a full license driving test, and also the contracting out of the testing to the AA and the introduction of the plastic photo license used for ID to buy alcohol. That was 1999 according to Wikipedia.
Friends of my parents have a daughter ( probably in her early 30s now ) who won't drive purely cos she has failed the practical so many times. Apparently they nitpick everything these days.
I had an ex-staff member who's daughter failed a few times in her home area. Apparently they were more lenient in another area 20 minutes down the road, so she went and got it first time
I think from what she said they have all the warmth and friendliness of an undertaker. Not exactly encouraging.....
Probably need to ask around, find an area with higher pass rate
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@taniwharugby I'm talking about the need to take a full license driving test, and also the contracting out of the testing to the AA and the introduction of the plastic photo license used for ID to buy alcohol. That was 1999 according to Wikipedia.
Friends of my parents have a daughter ( probably in her early 30s now ) who won't drive purely cos she has failed the practical so many times. Apparently they nitpick everything these days.
I had an ex-staff member who's daughter failed a few times in her home area. Apparently they were more lenient in another area 20 minutes down the road, so she went and got it first time
I think from what she said they have all the warmth and friendliness of an undertaker. Not exactly encouraging.....
Probably need to ask around, find an area with higher pass rate
or maybe it's a good thing she's not on the road
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@taniwharugby I'm talking about the need to take a full license driving test, and also the contracting out of the testing to the AA and the introduction of the plastic photo license used for ID to buy alcohol. That was 1999 according to Wikipedia.
Friends of my parents have a daughter ( probably in her early 30s now ) who won't drive purely cos she has failed the practical so many times. Apparently they nitpick everything these days.
I had an ex-staff member who's daughter failed a few times in her home area. Apparently they were more lenient in another area 20 minutes down the road, so she went and got it first time
I think from what she said they have all the warmth and friendliness of an undertaker. Not exactly encouraging.....
Probably need to ask around, find an area with higher pass rate
or maybe it's a good thing she's not on the road
It has always surprised me how hard the test is now, considering how many shitty drivers are out there.
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@taniwharugby I'm talking about the need to take a full license driving test, and also the contracting out of the testing to the AA and the introduction of the plastic photo license used for ID to buy alcohol. That was 1999 according to Wikipedia.
Friends of my parents have a daughter ( probably in her early 30s now ) who won't drive purely cos she has failed the practical so many times. Apparently they nitpick everything these days.
I'm sure that's the story she tells. The rest of us are better off not having the likes of her handed licences.
Driving is a skill and with the amount of safety, both passive and active, engineered into vehicles these days, a diminishing one.
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I think from what she said they have all the warmth and friendliness of an undertaker. Not exactly encouraging.....
The guy that did my motorbike licence was bloody hilarious. Cheesy cop moustache, looked like an extra from "Chips" was supposed to follow me around on his cop bike and then pass or fail me, but I lost him after a few minutes. Rode around on my own for while then went back to the cop shop. He just started laughing and handed me the "pass" slip.
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@antipodean said in Parenting:
@taniwharugby I'm talking about the need to take a full license driving test, and also the contracting out of the testing to the AA and the introduction of the plastic photo license used for ID to buy alcohol. That was 1999 according to Wikipedia.
Friends of my parents have a daughter ( probably in her early 30s now ) who won't drive purely cos she has failed the practical so many times. Apparently they nitpick everything these days.
I'm sure that's the story she tells. The rest of us are better off not having the likes of her handed licences.
Driving is a skill and with the amount of safety, both passive and active, engineered into vehicles these days, a diminishing one.
By the sounds of it some of you older buggers need to be re-tested
