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357 sats \ 13 comments \ @cryotosensei 24 Jan AskSN

In my country, sometimes the children of teachers ironically don’t do well academically because their parents suffer burnout at work. And have limited capacity to groom their children.

My son has yet to enrol into primary school, but I doubt that will be a problem for me. I love teaching him.

Thanks to Chinese New Year, he is fascinated with lion dances. To the extent that last year, he asked me to write the characters for him to copy.

So lion dance is written as 舞狮. (Just notice the number of strokes in the first character)

He built his own lion dance out of LEGO blocks. That’s the extent of his passion!

Back to me teaching him. I don’t have a lot of time every day, and frankly, forcing him to sit down to mug with assessment books may harm the parent-child relationship more instead. But I make it a point to go through some useful phrases every time I pick him up from the childcare centre.

Like this:

I didn’t expect my boy to know how to read dance (跳舞) since it’s beyond his grade level. To my surprise, he recognised 舞 from last year’s Chinese New Year experience!

I’m blessed that my boy has a pretty sharp memory. I also realised how the rewards of teaching are slow-burning - that you may only see the fruits of your labour one year down the road.

Enough about me. What about you?

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24 sats \ 1 reply \ @oliverweiss 24 Jan

I started to play chess with my little one, and it goes pretty well.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @cryotosensei OP 24 Jan

That’s great. Teaches him focus and problem-solving methods

24 sats \ 1 reply \ @Blank 24 Jan

children of teachers ironically don’t do well academically because their parents suffer burnout at work

I have never thought about it this way. One of my daughter's teachers often tells everybody some of the everyday things their kids have never done, or learned to do.

I've been teaching my daughter a lot about cooking by baking with her lately. I figure it's worthwhile teaching her my fall-back skillset, and it's been a good bonding experience.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @cryotosensei OP 24 Jan

It’s great that your daughter’s teacher not only has the energy to connect with her kids, but also has the headspace to talk about them during work!

We have a bread-making machine at home. Few things in life are as satisfying as making your own food

24 sats \ 2 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic 24 Jan

I taught my son about starting cars in very cold weather. It is a car with fuel injection that you cannot pump before trying to start. He pumped it to try to start it and failed, then ground the battery to nothing. We had to unfreeze the battery and charge it before trying again the next day. We got the car going on the first try the next day. I hope that he learned about patience before pumping on the gas as if he were driving a carbureted engine car. I hope he learned some patience. I hope, I hope!

20 sats \ 1 reply \ @cryotosensei OP 24 Jan

I’m sure your son wouldn’t forget that lesson in a hurry!

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic 24 Jan

No, he got very cold trying to start it himself and failing. It was still cold the next day when we got it started. He got very cold fingers both times. I take it that he learned this lesson well because getting your hands that cold hurts a lot when you thaw them out again.

24 sats \ 5 replies \ @SimpleStacker 24 Jan

I taught my kid how to use nmap and now he likes scanning our home network.

Not sure what I should introduce to him next. He likes messing around

30 sats \ 0 replies \ @cryotosensei OP 24 Jan

This is the first time I have heart of nmap! Sounds techy! (Which I’m not)

0 sats \ 3 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic 24 Jan

Why would you want to teach him to scan networks with nmap? That will trip a lot of alarms on other networks. If I were administering the network being scanned I would look back to who was doing it. The logs have all of the info and I would work with the whole Kali suite. That is a nice suite of tools, isn’t it?

10 sats \ 2 replies \ @SimpleStacker 24 Jan

It was just for fun. I think learning these enumeration tools is really useful because it helps you understand how things work. Sometimes just being able to list stuff is what unlocks your understanding

But yeah I'll probably install a kali box for him at some point

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic 24 Jan

But yeah I'll probably install a kali box for him at some point

There may be too many tools if you install the whole Kali box. That gets a tad overwhelming for noobies. You might want to limit the array of tools you give him. You might want to install it into a VirtualBox to minimize possible damages.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic 24 Jan

Were you scanning for all the open ports? That gives interesting information and methods of attack.