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It's so early! I'm your host, Will Schoellkopf, author of [the Bitcoin Dog, following the set to the Bitcoin C++ source code](https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09RG47RTQ), and [Bitcoin Girl saved the world](https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0BS8XB72K). Shout out to nostr:nprofile1qyxhwumn8ghj7mn0wvhxcmmvqyg8wumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnvv9hxgqg6waehxw309ahx7um5wghx7unpdenk2urfd3kzuer9wcq3qamnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3wwa5kuegpz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduq3samnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwwdhx7un59eek7cmfv9kqqg952ajete6988nljt2q7yfp397xaa46a732l0athlgwdrtyq7eqwstdl9aw , nostr:nprofile1qyt8wue69uhn2vfwxy6ngt3kxqhrjwf6xsurgwqprpmhxue69uhkummnw3ezucmjw4hxx6r9wghxxmmdqyt8wumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytngd9nxjumg9ehhyecpzfmhxue69uhhqatjwpkx2urpvuhx2ucpz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduq3vamnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwwpexjmtpdshxuet5qyt8wumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnnw3hkuetj9e3k7mgqypw5kmydfys3gmzsncqwpycv8fql9jqmlsr05pu5e0mnj7u2rs0wxusmvg6 . We are about to launch the newest territory on Stacker News called ~HealthAndFitness, and we are committed to doing a trial for the next four months. Thank you, nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7etyv4hzumn0wd68ytnvv9hxgqgdwaehxw309ahx7uewd3hkcqgswaehxw309ahx7um5wghxcctwvsq3qamnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3wwa5kuegpzfmhxue69uhk7enxvd5xz6tw9ec82cspz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduq3vamnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwwpexjmtpdshxuet5qqsqtyeas7pdz4w3pnu2qmehjchn9xz4rzqx8ypaxvn3f77csxavgmsmywlw5 for lowering the territory cost down to 50,000 sats a month for us to do this trial.
There previously was a health territory, there previously was a fitness territory. Both have gone to the territory graveyard. Health, in particular, charged an exorbitant 1,000 sat fee to post, which possibly led to the demise. I would like to float us charging a fee of 99 sats to post, to have a businessman-savvy 99 sats, or actually maybe 100 sats, because that's the typical default rate when you look at all the various territories, and it'll be easier at 100 sats to track the revenue of our territory. I'm excited to make various Excel spreadsheets tracking territory revenue and post in meta how we're doing.
What is RBD's vision for the territory? Well, first and foremost, accountability. Anyone who wants to track their daily goals, daily weight loss goals, daily muscle gain goals, strength goals, workout goals, post it in Health and Fitness, and you know the four territory founders will be zapping those posts. It doesn't have to be long posts, it doesn't have to be detailed posts, but here in the Health and Fitness territory we want to show our support.
I think absolutely food and diet, as relates to Health and Fitness, has a place here. Of course food and drinking exists, but I think of that more as that territory as cocktail drinks, or like delicious steak you're eating, when it comes to meal prep, you know, things like that. I think that that would belong in Health and Fitness because you're cooking food, or buying food, or grocery shopping food for a specific goal.
That's an idea definitely to think about my grocery store receipt and tracking for myself, like what is the price of the eggs, what are the eggs that I'm buying, what is the price of the milk, what is the milk that I'm buying, what is the price of beef in my local area. Am I doing the 80% lean, 85% lean, 90% lean, 93% lean beef? Tracking those prices. What is the price of the local salmon in my area? A lot of potential for Health and Fitness.
Obviously posting pictures of your abs, posting your gains, posting your back and stuff. You could always hide your face if you don't want to show your face. For me personally, I like to take the Bitcoin dog Sheila out on runs. I've been posting pictures of her and I on our runs in the dogs and cats territory, but to post the Strava of my run, of where I run, I think that would be a fun thing to post in Health and Fitness.
Of course, there's also actually organizing fitness goals or fitness pools or health pools and things. One that my coworkers like to start and then always give up on very early, very predictively is the 100 pushups a day challenge. Have you done 100 pushups today? I'm sure some people are relieved to no longer have to do 100 pushups till 100K. Those are just some of many ideas.
Weight tracking, strength tracking, meal prep tracking, grocery receipt tracking, body composition tracking, running tracking. I think it has a unique place separate from just stacker sports. Let me know.
Are you excited for this territory to be founded? Are you going to post? What are the polls that are going to come out in Health and Fitness? I think there's definitely opportunity for @realBitcoinDog to stoke some controversy with some controversial Health and Fitness polls about putting butter in coffee or ghee in coffee or have coffee black. Things like that. Things that are approached from a Health and Fitness perspective, not just food and drinks for the sake of taste. Coming for you. Bye.
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It's so early! I'm your host, Will Schoellkopf, author of [The Bitcoin Dog, following the set to the Bitcoin C++ source code](https://www.amazon.com/Bitcoin-Dog-Following-Scent-Source/dp/B09RG47RTQ/), and [Bitcoin Girl saved the world.](https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0BS8XB72K) It's going to be hard for me to spin this one to a Bitcoin twist, but anything is low time preference if you try hard enough, and try, try, try we did the last week. This episode is the potty training post-mortem. Tip of the hat to the Stacker News Parents Corner, where we talk about our parenting journeys as Bitcoiner parents. So we followed, with my daughter, the [oh-crap potty training method](https://www.amazon.com/Crap-Potty-Training-Everything-Parenting/dp/1501122983). This is a method where we have her go through various blocks, and this is how the author organizes the method.
Block 1, the child is completely naked for the first day, and you read their body language and body cues to when to suggest for them to try, try, try to go pee, pee, pee in the toilet. Block 2 is they go commando, so they do have pants on, but no underwear, so you can still, in some light colored pants, so you can still see visibly if they have had an accident. Block 3 is introducing underwear, so they wear underwear alongside their pants. And finally blocks 4, 5, and 6 are all various levels of leaving the house without wearing a diaper. So I'm happy to report that after not one, two, or three days, but five days of keeping our daughter at home on day six, she returned to school not in diapers, in pants and underwear, and at school she had just one accident in the morning. So I would say this method was very arduous.
The author was correct to call it a hell week style method, and she gave a lot of caveats that sure, it could take only three days, but three days isn't the best case scenario. Please allow for yourself up to seven days. I will say that my experience day one was very hard for my wife and I in particular. We're so fortunate because our daughter is the best. I mean, I'm sure everyone thinks that their kids are good. Actually, probably not. Actually, there's probably some people who don't think their kids are the best, but our daughter is the best, and she loves us and trusts us and trusts our judgment. But this was the first time, finally, really the first time where we met resistance from our daughter. We would ask her to go potty, and she would shout, no, no, I don't want to go potty, and that caught us off guard a little bit.
Sure, in the past I've mentioned her knocking food off the table, putting her feet on the table, leaving the table with food, and daddy's superpower of infinite patience to sit with her until she does finish eating, or make sure she stays at the table to finish eating, or that she does pick up her toys, but this is different because you can't make your kid go pee in the potty, and certainly, you can't make your kid go pee in the potty. If you make them with all this pressure, they're not going to be able to relax their body to go. I think the timing worked out well, that it was after all of the holidays and Christmas and New Year's activities, after so much social time with family or friends, to just be home all day for three days in a row. I mean, really, honestly, not leave the house for three days, not use the phone, have the cell phone put away. That was definitely the wrinkle, was what it would mean when people would call us to talk to us, so how to figure that out, how to balance giving attention to the person on the call when we're supposed to be focused on our daughter.
Another wrinkle, of course, was having my infant newborn son and caring for him. Luckily, Jenny and I were able to both be home together for this. But yeah, the first day, after the first day, we really had to do a check with ourselves to say maybe we were over-emphasizing the potty, over-emphasizing the word potty, ***potty this, potty that, let's pee on the potty, sit on the potty, pee, pee, pee!***. And we said the word potty so much, we came up with a code word, Rambo. So Rambo was the code word for potty, just to make sure we didn't say potty constantly all the time.
We did nighttime training at the same time, too. We did sleep training at the same time, too, so this meant even when she goes to nap, even when she goes to sleep, no diaper, just buck naked, just pants, and then just underwear and pants. And we ultimately only had one accident in the bed from that. Kudos to my wife, of course, for being willing to lead the charge on this, to be willing to wake up at 5.30 in the morning before our daughter woke up so she could catch her the moment she woke up. So that was the struggle we found for our daughter was she wouldn't lift the bed, but after getting out of bed, instead of going straight to the potty, she'd go to put on shoes or something. She loves shoes, especially her sparkly ruby red slipper shoes. In that moment, then the pee accident happened, so working with her to catch that, also waking up our daughter at 2 in the morning so she could try to pee and stuff. So yeah, just very grateful that it was very difficult, but that day one success, she did.
So at the daycare, they put her in a pull-up to sleep for nap time because for them, with their 18 kids and three teachers in the classroom for the two-year-old toddlers, they can't deal with it, having every kid wet the bed, and sure enough, she did wet her pull-up. But for the daycare, they don't count that as an accident. They're happy with that. Hey, it's pee in the pull-up. Easy. It's pee in underwear or pants that's now soiled and have to deal with it. So we'll see if she holds her pee during the nap today, but she was successful overnight last night. I still haven't had any accidents in the car seat, in the car while driving, which I'm thrilled about, and yeah, just very hopeful.
I want to say it brought my wife and I closer together this bonding experience, but moreover, I would just say it really pushed us and challenged us and tested us in our communication skills, in our relationship skills, and in our parenting skills. So in the moment, it is absolutely tough or difficult, but at the end, and we're hardly done, right? Potty training's ongoing. They say to expect accidents up to five years old, but I think it was rewarding. It's tough for me to recommend the Oh Crap Potty Training Method to other parents. I don't know if other parents would have the patience to stay home from work for five days in a row. Luckily for us, we were on parental leave, so that made it both easier and harder, but we have immense pride in our daughter's hand-eye coordination skills, her accountability, her responsibility.
We can really reflect back on this time as a clear time where I raised my daughter, teaching her a new skill, and doing parenting. I look forward to, of course, later, when she's 10 years old, teaching her the skill of scuba diving and being a scuba diver, and as a 10-year-old, diving 18 meters, 60 feet, underwater with compressed air. That'll really be the pride moment. So thank you for listening, and clearly when it comes to hyper-Bitcoinization, it's so early!
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# It's so early!
I'm your host, Will Schoellkopf, author of _The Bitcoin Dog: Following the Scent to the Bitcoin C++ Source Code_, and _Bitcoin Girl Save the World_. Parents' Corner has taken over again this It's So Early episode, and it's too early that I'm already having to potty train my two-year-old daughter, Paige. My wife has recommended that I read the book, [Oh Crap! Potty Training](https://www.amazon.com/Crap-Potty-Training-Everything-Parenting/dp/1501122983), at least as one example of a method to potty train your toddler. I have to say, I'm grateful for Bitcoin because I can just call anything low-time preference, low-time preference thinking,
# low-time preference potty training
So, what the author recommends for how to potty train is, and this is the impossible part, block off at least three days where I'm completely away from stacker news. No stacker news. No phone. No going outside. This is it. My wife and I are home with our daughter, and she is buck naked. That's right. Having my toddler completely naked, running around in the house. EGAD! I am definitely afraid of accidents on the floor, but this is a skill. This is a learned skill, potty training. The author advocates that there's
# four stages
that a toddler goes through. They have to go from completely ***clueless*** that they're peeing, and what does clueless look like? Clueless is so clueless you're peeing and walking and you slip on your own pee. That's clueless. The next is, ***I'm peeing***, like realizing that they're in the act of peeing, feeling the pee trickle down their leg, like they have that realization. Then ***I peed***, the realization that they have already peed. The pee is done. And then finally, ***I need to pee***, which is the absolute hardest, something the author calls self-initiation. So what the author advocates is having a whole day, that hard day, a super difficult day. Tell my daughter this day when she's 12 years old, 10 years from now, _the day that my wife and I were home and she was naked and we played with her all day in the house_. And what were we looking for was to find out her
# pee cues
You see, that's the thing with a warm, dry, snuggly diaper pressed against you. You don't even think twice about peeing. You think nothing of it. You're in the middle of your day, your time, whatever, you're peeing. And we don't know, we're not watching our daughter constantly, so we don't have a sense of her
# pee dance
What is her pee dance? Does she all of a sudden waddle with her feet? Does she clap her hands? Does she turn her neck slightly? Does she make a face when she pees? Does she squint her eyes? Does her toes, does she cross her toes? What does she do as the pee dance that she's about to pee? And all kids have a pee dance. Now, the author advocates for some kids, even if you're watching the whole time, the whole time, you're not leaving to go to the restroom. You're not leaving to go cook in the kitchen. You're not taking your eyes off your kid at all. Even if you feel like you can't see any indicators of your child's pee dance, then there is at least learning their
# pee pattern
Are they kind of a camel? Do they hold the pee naturally for a long time? Or is it after you give them a four-ounce glass of milk, they're likely to have dribbles of pee every 15 minutes for the next hour? What is their pattern? This is what the author advocates. So as soon as you catch them in the act of about to pee, you whisk them away to the bathroom to have them pee on the potty. See, that is the thing that, I mean, how can you not laugh listening to this?
# We are not teaching our kids how to pee.
They know how to pee. They pee on their own. We're teaching them ***where to put the pee***. Where does the pee go? _Pee goes in the potty_. And the author's research says it doesn't make a difference if we use a portable potty, which I'm really curious to see what one of these containers looks like. But whether it's a portable potty so they can pee right there in the living room, or the actual potty in the bathroom, it doesn't affect the toddler's potty training development either way. What matters most, of course, is just that you are making sure that the pee goes in the potty. And later, you can pour the pee from the potty into the actual toilet. But from her research, that's not an effective technique or something. So that's day one, the absolute hardest day.
# Day two
would then be the toddler is wearing clothes, but no diaper, no underwear, going commando, as they call it. So that way, but you're studied, you're still obsessing over your toddler, you're still not looking at Stacker News, and you're watching to see what are their pee cues, and you whisk them away, and your toddler is a toddler now. So you've got the very loose, elastic waist pants, or if you have a girl wearing a dress, go commando, nothing under the dress, so that the toddler can very quickly go to the toilet, and then pee there on the toilet. You only have a five to 10 second warning at that point from your cue to when the pee comes, and you're looking for success. The name of the game is success with the clothes. So it's very interesting to me. I've learned that nighttime training,
# nap training is totally different.
For the kids, they understand they wear a diaper to sleep. They can appreciate that difference. There's no pressure on that, especially since our toddler goes to daycare. Daycare will absolutely have a diaper on her at naptime. So we don't need to stress over training her that, but she's ready. She's definitely ready. At over two years old, if she poops her diaper, she will already, if I'm not looking, see that she's pulled her pants down and pulled her diaper off. So she has an
# open poop diaper just on the bathroom floor
which I definitely don't like. So if I don't potty train her, she's going to climb on the toilet for me. But it's all about the methods. What are the methods? What are the alternative methods? How did you potty train your child? An alternative method is to take the child to the potty every 30 minutes to say,
# do you need to go pee?
Do you need to go pee? We're sitting on this potty. Do you need to go pee? I'm asking you, do you need to go? And that makes the child very nervous. They get very stage fright. Even worse is an M&M reward system. If you pee in the potty, I'll give you an M&M.
# I'll give you an M&M if you pee in the potty.
So I can agree that I think that's a terrible idea. It should already be a natural reward, natural feeling sensation to urinating. There shouldn't need to be a candy reward for doing that. I would, of course, hate the opposite, that my child refuses to pee in the potty and on purpose does accidents unless I present them with an M&M. So I'm, of course, nervous about this. I'm, of course, nervous about having to clean up pee on the floor. The book has reassured me.
# I will definitely have to clean up pee on the floor.
There definitely will be accidents, but I am setting up my child for that low time preference long-term success. Don't have an expectation that my child will be able to say when they need to go. Me watch my child. Me watch pee cues. Me prompt them gently in every natural transition before nap, after nap, before bed, upon wake up, before eating, after eating, before leaving the house, after leaving the house. But those are all just the basic general prompts that even I do myself as an adult. You know, am I gonna go somewhere? Let me make sure I relieve myself. The big thing the book emphasizes is put away the confetti.
# No poppin' bottles or champagne.
This is just a socialized behavior. That's all it is. My kid already pees. My kid already poops. I'm just introducing them. If they're gonna be a part of society, a functioning member of society, they need to pee in the potty. And there's no special award for peeing in the potty. It's just a socialized behavior. And of course, with peeing in the potty, she will naturally consolidate her pees,
# consolidate her Bitcoin UTXOs
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[pod 10:02] @realBitcoinDog It's So Early! - Low Time Preference Potty Training🚽
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# It's so early!
I'm your host, Will Schoellkopf, author of _The Bitcoin Dog: Following the Scent to the Bitcoin C++ Source Code_, and _Bitcoin Girl Save the World_. Parents' Corner has taken over again this It's So Early episode, and it's too early that I'm already having to potty train my two-year-old daughter, Paige. My wife has recommended that I read the book, [Oh Crap! Potty Training](https://www.amazon.com/Crap-Potty-Training-Everything-Parenting/dp/1501122983), at least as one example of a method to potty train your toddler. I have to say, I'm grateful for Bitcoin because I can just call anything low-time preference, low-time preference thinking,
# low-time preference potty training
So, what the author recommends for how to potty train is, and this is the impossible part, block off at least three days where I'm completely away from stacker news. No stacker news. No phone. No going outside. This is it. My wife and I are home with our daughter, and she is buck naked. That's right. Having my toddler completely naked, running around in the house. EGAD! I am definitely afraid of accidents on the floor, but this is a skill. This is a learned skill, potty training. The author advocates that there's
# four stages
that a toddler goes through. They have to go from completely ***clueless*** that they're peeing, and what does clueless look like? Clueless is so clueless you're peeing and walking and you slip on your own pee. That's clueless. The next is, ***I'm peeing***, like realizing that they're in the act of peeing, feeling the pee trickle down their leg, like they have that realization. Then ***I peed***, the realization that they have already peed. The pee is done. And then finally, ***I need to pee***, which is the absolute hardest, something the author calls self-initiation. So what the author advocates is having a whole day, that hard day, a super difficult day. Tell my daughter this day when she's 12 years old, 10 years from now, _the day that my wife and I were home and she was naked and we played with her all day in the house_. And what were we looking for was to find out her
# pee cues
You see, that's the thing with a warm, dry, snuggly diaper pressed against you. You don't even think twice about peeing. You think nothing of it. You're in the middle of your day, your time, whatever, you're peeing. And we don't know, we're not watching our daughter constantly, so we don't have a sense of her
# pee dance
What is her pee dance? Does she all of a sudden waddle with her feet? Does she clap her hands? Does she turn her neck slightly? Does she make a face when she pees? Does she squint her eyes? Does her toes, does she cross her toes? What does she do as the pee dance that she's about to pee? And all kids have a pee dance. Now, the author advocates for some kids, even if you're watching the whole time, the whole time, you're not leaving to go to the restroom. You're not leaving to go cook in the kitchen. You're not taking your eyes off your kid at all. Even if you feel like you can't see any indicators of your child's pee dance, then there is at least learning their
# pee pattern
Are they kind of a camel? Do they hold the pee naturally for a long time? Or is it after you give them a four-ounce glass of milk, they're likely to have dribbles of pee every 15 minutes for the next hour? What is their pattern? This is what the author advocates. So as soon as you catch them in the act of about to pee, you whisk them away to the bathroom to have them pee on the potty. See, that is the thing that, I mean, how can you not laugh listening to this?
# We are not teaching our kids how to pee.
They know how to pee. They pee on their own. We're teaching them ***where to put the pee***. Where does the pee go? _Pee goes in the potty_. And the author's research says it doesn't make a difference if we use a portable potty, which I'm really curious to see what one of these containers looks like. But whether it's a portable potty so they can pee right there in the living room, or the actual potty in the bathroom, it doesn't affect the toddler's potty training development either way. What matters most, of course, is just that you are making sure that the pee goes in the potty. And later, you can pour the pee from the potty into the actual toilet. But from her research, that's not an effective technique or something. So that's day one, the absolute hardest day.
# Day two
would then be the toddler is wearing clothes, but no diaper, no underwear, going commando, as they call it. So that way, but you're studied, you're still obsessing over your toddler, you're still not looking at Stacker News, and you're watching to see what are their pee cues, and you whisk them away, and your toddler is a toddler now. So you've got the very loose, elastic waist pants, or if you have a girl wearing a dress, go commando, nothing under the dress, so that the toddler can very quickly go to the toilet, and then pee there on the toilet. You only have a five to 10 second warning at that point from your cue to when the pee comes, and you're looking for success. The name of the game is success with the clothes. So it's very interesting to me. I've learned that nighttime training,
# nap training is totally different.
For the kids, they understand they wear a diaper to sleep. They can appreciate that difference. There's no pressure on that, especially since our toddler goes to daycare. Daycare will absolutely have a diaper on her at naptime. So we don't need to stress over training her that, but she's ready. She's definitely ready. At over two years old, if she poops her diaper, she will already, if I'm not looking, see that she's pulled her pants down and pulled her diaper off. So she has an
# open poop diaper just on the bathroom floor
which I definitely don't like. So if I don't potty train her, she's going to climb on the toilet for me. But it's all about the methods. What are the methods? What are the alternative methods? How did you potty train your child? An alternative method is to take the child to the potty every 30 minutes to say,
# do you need to go pee?
Do you need to go pee? We're sitting on this potty. Do you need to go pee? I'm asking you, do you need to go? And that makes the child very nervous. They get very stage fright. Even worse is an M&M reward system. If you pee in the potty, I'll give you an M&M.
# I'll give you an M&M if you pee in the potty.
So I can agree that I think that's a terrible idea. It should already be a natural reward, natural feeling sensation to urinating. There shouldn't need to be a candy reward for doing that. I would, of course, hate the opposite, that my child refuses to pee in the potty and on purpose does accidents unless I present them with an M&M. So I'm, of course, nervous about this. I'm, of course, nervous about having to clean up pee on the floor. The book has reassured me.
# I will definitely have to clean up pee on the floor.
There definitely will be accidents, but I am setting up my child for that low time preference long-term success. Don't have an expectation that my child will be able to say when they need to go. Me watch my child. Me watch pee cues. Me prompt them gently in every natural transition before nap, after nap, before bed, upon wake up, before eating, after eating, before leaving the house, after leaving the house. But those are all just the basic general prompts that even I do myself as an adult. You know, am I gonna go somewhere? Let me make sure I relieve myself. The big thing the book emphasizes is put away the confetti.
# No poppin' bottles or champagne.
This is just a socialized behavior. That's all it is. My kid already pees. My kid already poops. I'm just introducing them. If they're gonna be a part of society, a functioning member of society, they need to pee in the potty. And there's no special award for peeing in the potty. It's just a socialized behavior. And of course, with peeing in the potty, she will naturally consolidate her pees,
# consolidate her Bitcoin UTXOs
not so much dribble, dribble, dribble, pee, not so much, dribble, 10-sat, 7-sat UTXO replies and comments. So. Oh crap! Is it time to potty train my toddler? How did you do it? Let me tell you, when I think my parenting journey is all done, absolutely not. ***It's so early!***
[pod 12:52] @realBitcoinDog It’s So Early! - Bitcoin Parent Boundaries 👶
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It's so early! I'm your host, @realBitcoinDog Will Schoellkopf, author of _The Bitcoin Dog, Following Descent to the Bitcoin C++ Source Code_, and the novel _Bitcoin Girl Saved the World_. Today I've got burning on my mind the topic of Bitcoin parenting. In general, the advice I've gotten on parenting together with my wife, the mother of my kids, is it's much more important for us to have a united front rather than whether or not we agree or disagree. So of course, ideally, we would both agree on different topics of parenting or things, but when it comes to our two-year-old toddler and her acting out and testing her boundaries, what really matters is that her mom and I both stand firm on what are the boundaries or rules of the house, even if we're not in alignment. So to work that and to do that communication, I've tried to really be explicit and think about what are the boundaries she's testing, think of it for myself rather than just have the internet tell me, and try to think where I stand and where I think my wife stands. So definitely one of the ones is this concept of
## inside voice.
So our daughter has found her voice, you know, aren’t we thankful? And so she might shout or scream, or it's not even anger or crying, but just excitement and just excitements of glee. And it wasn't necessarily an issue until her baby brother was born, and he is only seven weeks old. He is a newborn. So when we finally get him to sleep, it's definitely our preference if we could use our inside voice. The thing is, I love my daughter. I love her. And when I go to, you know, change her, change her diaper at the changing table, it's just a moment, the two of us, no cell phone, no distractions. And then all of a sudden, she'll just yelp out, _eep_! And then I'll yelp out even louder, _eep!_ And then she'll yell even louder, **eep**! And then I'll yell even louder, ***eep***! Okay, this is the fun of having a podcast. I will, of course, transcribe this post for Stacker News. So you can leave your comments there or on Fountain. But yeah, so her mom, my wife heard this, and she was not thrilled that not only was my daughter shouting with glee, but I was egging her on and encouraging the behavior.
## So am I the third child that my wife has in the house?
So how important is it for me to enforce this boundary? You know, I don't want to just say, oh, yeah, no, makes sense. Got to be quiet for inside voice. I really want to think about, I don't want to make empty promises. I mean, this is the beginning. These are the tests, the tests of our marriage and the tests of our parenting, you know, and it's important to think about these things deliberately and not just say what I'm supposed to say. For me, another one is
## feet on the table.
I can't believe it. I wish I was this flexible. I never thought of this. Have you ever been at your dining room table, your kitchen table, eating dinner, and then after eating a whole meal, think, I would like to just rest my feet on top of the table? Not once. I have not once thought of this, but my daughter has thought of it. This one, I definitely know I can't stand for. I have a visceral physical reaction. I don't even have the patience to wait to ask my daughter and work with her to take her feet off of the table. I will take my hand and sweep away the feet off of the table. ***There is no place for feet on the table at my house.*** I was ready and I was prepared for this concept of no elbows on the table, but the feet, so that was a new one. So as far as I can tell, my wife is on the same page with me, no feet on the table, but I know it's not beyond her to put
## her feet up on the dashboard of my car
but that is a discussion for another time. Definitely there are people out there who like putting their feet on the dashboard of people's car when they're in the passenger seat. So anyway, I'm not bitter about that. ***I'm not bitter***. We're not here to talk about that. Another one I didn't think of was I feed her food or dinner and then she
## leaves the table with the food.
That's pretty interesting. For me, I'm hungry. I'll just eat at the table. I'm hungry. Food's right there. Let's go. I'll finish eating, then I'll go play with my toys, do whatever I want. But for her, eventually she's done and really the example I have is breakfast time, and I try to save giving my daughter carbs, giving her a bagel until the end of breakfast, because if I give it to her right at the start, there's a chance that's all she'll eat. I try to focus on her having her eggs, her protein, her sausage for breakfast. And we do have a dog, the Bitcoin🐕 , Sheila, Australian cattle dog. So my daughter, the other day, we finished breakfast and she runs off with a piece of bagel in her hand. But ultimately for my wife and I, how much do we want to enforce this boundary? We're trying to eat breakfast too. We're trying to eat at the table too. If she is preoccupied off to other things, she ate her eggs, she ate her sausage, let her go. Let us have a chance to eat in peace before baby brother wakes up. And what happened? My daughter goes out into the living room, the dog, very smart. Sheila, the Bitcoin dog is _very smart_. She is tracking that bagel. And I know what Sheila's thinking,
>like stealing a bagel from a baby.
And sure enough, my daughter's not looking. Sheila's not biting Paige's hand. She's not biting skin or anything, but she just takes the bagel right out of Paige's hand. And here come the waterworks, Paige crying. So what am I to do? A Bitcoin parent, **low time preference**. My daughter's crying because the dog took the bagel and she's not just crying. She wants another bagel. She wants more bagel. The dog took her bagel. Now, of course, my dog is not supposed to steal food. My dog is not supposed to take food on the table, but we definitely use the dog as a vacuum cleaner to clean up all the food at the bottom of the table when we're done eating. So that's a boundary that the dog has kind of needled her way more and more to see what she can get away with. But so, I mean, really, how many kids do I have in this house? This four legged family member. So I told my daughter, no, no more bagel. That's it. You know, this is why we eat at the table. There are consequences for her actions. If she leaves the table with her bagel, she needs to be careful of the dog. The dog will take the bagel if she's not looking. But also, she could just stay at the at the table or even
## eating dinner.
I mean, these things I just never even thought of, like she'll just stop eating. It's not even a thing of leaving the table with the food, but she'll eat just some of her meal. She'll prioritize eating the rice over the chicken at dinnertime or eating the rice over the salmon. I'm not saying she won't have any salmon. I'll make sure she has some, but she'll not finish the meal. She'll have enough to satiate and then go on playing. And this is rare. But this did happen the other night, too, where we had an earlier dinner than usual and we put Paige to sleep a little earlier than usual. And as we put her to sleep, she said she was hungry and she wanted chicken.
>I want chicken. I'm hungry. I want chicken.
And as a parent, it definitely breaks your heart. I don't necessarily just want to put my daughter to sleep hungry. I don't want her to, you know, go to sleep hungry. But I offered her a full meal. I offered her a full dinner. And from the parenting podcast and parenting books I've read, this is perfect. This is the perfect moment. I know I talked about before on Stacker News how daddy's superpower for parenting is ***infinite patience.*** The best things to take advantage of in parenting and setting the boundaries, the podcast and books say _natural consequences_. So things happening from the outside world or from nature that you don't control. Dog taking bagel out of her hand, her stomach growling. So rather than cater to her, rather than come in at 10 o'clock at night, 11 o'clock at night offering her late night snack to bed because she didn't finish all her dinner, let this be a teachable moment. It's going to be hard for us to hear her crying through the night. Hopefully eventually she falls asleep, which she did. She did eventually fall asleep. And let it be a teachable moment for her and reassure her that in the morning we can have a big breakfast. And then the next night for dinner we can eat a full meal. So that's what we did. That worked out well. So, so far I think the only boundary I've identified that I don't see eye to eye on with my wife is the inside voice. The one that maybe my wife does that I'm not the biggest fan of is, well, there's a lot of things I'm okay with. Definitely having the toys all over the room. But I can, I can appreciate how that's not good. I think what, I think what my wife does is she's very supportive of having Paige help cook with us and really getting into baking and
## baking those tasty treats.
But it does lead to a big mess. It does lead to flour all over the kitchen. My style, I am much more a clean as you go cook, clean as you go chef. And I can appreciate that when you're with a toddler, it's enough to just make sure they're safe, make sure they're not burning their finger on the stove, which she's already touched a hot skillet and that's okay. Put some neosporin on it. But I appreciate, I can see how when we're cooking together in the kitchen, it just makes a big mess. So I don't think it's a, you know, a boundary crossed with me necessarily. I love the benefits of my daughter baking with her mom. I've been eating _cranberry bliss bars_. They're absolutely delicious. But it is a consideration to say that, oh, I just see that mess. And I know I will be cleaning it up just because it bothers me if there's flour on the floor. I don't want to just walk on the flour or step on the flour and then have it lead to a bigger mess walking around. It sounds so obvious, but it just is the case that when it comes to cleaning, my wife's focus is much more on deep cleaning, like _deep cleaning_ the bathtub or _deep cleaning_ the shower or _deep cleaning_ the sink itself. These are things that I just don't see. And when I clean, I've learned to not call it cleaning, but _tidying up_ because it's not actually cleaning the floor. If I wipe all the flour spilt on the floor up, I didn't actually clean the floor. I just tidied up the floor and tidied up the flour. But I want to be loving and I want to be supportive. And I think it's great that we're involving her in the cooking. So let me know what you think. Let me know what you think, Stacker News. Tell me what you think. It's so early, listeners.
## I could use some guidance.
I could use some help when it came to your parenting or even reflecting on your own childhood if you don't have kids. What were the boundaries that were tested? And which boundaries do you think are worth enforcing? It's a wild concept because it's not just you or your partner. Now it's your two-year-old toddler. And I will leave you again with what we say, when it comes to Bitcoin, ***it's so early!***
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[pod 12:52] @realBitcoinDog It’s So Early! - Bitcoin Parent Boundaries 👶
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It's so early! I'm your host, @realBitcoinDog Will Schoellkopf, author of _The Bitcoin Dog, Following Descent to the Bitcoin C++ Source Code_, and the novel _Bitcoin Girl Saved the World_. Today I've got burning on my mind the topic of Bitcoin parenting. In general, the advice I've gotten on parenting together with my wife, the mother of my kids, is it's much more important for us to have a united front rather than whether or not we agree or disagree. So of course, ideally, we would both agree on different topics of parenting or things, but when it comes to our two-year-old toddler and her acting out and testing her boundaries, what really matters is that her mom and I both stand firm on what are the boundaries or rules of the house, even if we're not in alignment. So to work that and to do that communication, I've tried to really be explicit and think about what are the boundaries she's testing, think of it for myself rather than just have the internet tell me, and try to think where I stand and where I think my wife stands. So definitely one of the ones is this concept of
## inside voice.
So our daughter has found her voice, you know, aren’t we thankful? And so she might shout or scream, or it's not even anger or crying, but just excitement and just excitements of glee. And it wasn't necessarily an issue until her baby brother was born, and he is only seven weeks old. He is a newborn. So when we finally get him to sleep, it's definitely our preference if we could use our inside voice. The thing is, I love my daughter. I love her. And when I go to, you know, change her, change her diaper at the changing table, it's just a moment, the two of us, no cell phone, no distractions. And then all of a sudden, she'll just yelp out, _eep_! And then I'll yelp out even louder, _eep!_ And then she'll yell even louder, **eep**! And then I'll yell even louder, ***eep***! Okay, this is the fun of having a podcast. I will, of course, transcribe this post for Stacker News. So you can leave your comments there or on Fountain. But yeah, so her mom, my wife heard this, and she was not thrilled that not only was my daughter shouting with glee, but I was egging her on and encouraging the behavior.
## So am I the third child that my wife has in the house?
So how important is it for me to enforce this boundary? You know, I don't want to just say, oh, yeah, no, makes sense. Got to be quiet for inside voice. I really want to think about, I don't want to make empty promises. I mean, this is the beginning. These are the tests, the tests of our marriage and the tests of our parenting, you know, and it's important to think about these things deliberately and not just say what I'm supposed to say. For me, another one is
## feet on the table.
I can't believe it. I wish I was this flexible. I never thought of this. Have you ever been at your dining room table, your kitchen table, eating dinner, and then after eating a whole meal, think, I would like to just rest my feet on top of the table? Not once. I have not once thought of this, but my daughter has thought of it. This one, I definitely know I can't stand for. I have a visceral physical reaction. I don't even have the patience to wait to ask my daughter and work with her to take her feet off of the table. I will take my hand and sweep away the feet off of the table. ***There is no place for feet on the table at my house.*** I was ready and I was prepared for this concept of no elbows on the table, but the feet, so that was a new one. So as far as I can tell, my wife is on the same page with me, no feet on the table, but I know it's not beyond her to put
## her feet up on the dashboard of my car
but that is a discussion for another time. Definitely there are people out there who like putting their feet on the dashboard of people's car when they're in the passenger seat. So anyway, I'm not bitter about that. ***I'm not bitter***. We're not here to talk about that. Another one I didn't think of was I feed her food or dinner and then she
## leaves the table with the food.
That's pretty interesting. For me, I'm hungry. I'll just eat at the table. I'm hungry. Food's right there. Let's go. I'll finish eating, then I'll go play with my toys, do whatever I want. But for her, eventually she's done and really the example I have is breakfast time, and I try to save giving my daughter carbs, giving her a bagel until the end of breakfast, because if I give it to her right at the start, there's a chance that's all she'll eat. I try to focus on her having her eggs, her protein, her sausage for breakfast. And we do have a dog, the Bitcoin🐕 , Sheila, Australian cattle dog. So my daughter, the other day, we finished breakfast and she runs off with a piece of bagel in her hand. But ultimately for my wife and I, how much do we want to enforce this boundary? We're trying to eat breakfast too. We're trying to eat at the table too. If she is preoccupied off to other things, she ate her eggs, she ate her sausage, let her go. Let us have a chance to eat in peace before baby brother wakes up. And what happened? My daughter goes out into the living room, the dog, very smart. Sheila, the Bitcoin dog is _very smart_. She is tracking that bagel. And I know what Sheila's thinking,
>like stealing a bagel from a baby.
And sure enough, my daughter's not looking. Sheila's not biting Paige's hand. She's not biting skin or anything, but she just takes the bagel right out of Paige's hand. And here come the waterworks, Paige crying. So what am I to do? A Bitcoin parent, **low time preference**. My daughter's crying because the dog took the bagel and she's not just crying. She wants another bagel. She wants more bagel. The dog took her bagel. Now, of course, my dog is not supposed to steal food. My dog is not supposed to take food on the table, but we definitely use the dog as a vacuum cleaner to clean up all the food at the bottom of the table when we're done eating. So that's a boundary that the dog has kind of needled her way more and more to see what she can get away with. But so, I mean, really, how many kids do I have in this house? This four legged family member. So I told my daughter, no, no more bagel. That's it. You know, this is why we eat at the table. There are consequences for her actions. If she leaves the table with her bagel, she needs to be careful of the dog. The dog will take the bagel if she's not looking. But also, she could just stay at the at the table or even
## eating dinner.
I mean, these things I just never even thought of, like she'll just stop eating. It's not even a thing of leaving the table with the food, but she'll eat just some of her meal. She'll prioritize eating the rice over the chicken at dinnertime or eating the rice over the salmon. I'm not saying she won't have any salmon. I'll make sure she has some, but she'll not finish the meal. She'll have enough to satiate and then go on playing. And this is rare. But this did happen the other night, too, where we had an earlier dinner than usual and we put Paige to sleep a little earlier than usual. And as we put her to sleep, she said she was hungry and she wanted chicken.
>I want chicken. I'm hungry. I want chicken.
And as a parent, it definitely breaks your heart. I don't necessarily just want to put my daughter to sleep hungry. I don't want her to, you know, go to sleep hungry. But I offered her a full meal. I offered her a full dinner. And from the parenting podcast and parenting books I've read, this is perfect. This is the perfect moment. I know I talked about before on Stacker News how daddy's superpower for parenting is ***infinite patience.*** The best things to take advantage of in parenting and setting the boundaries, the podcast and books say _natural consequences_. So things happening from the outside world or from nature that you don't control. Dog taking bagel out of her hand, her stomach growling. So rather than cater to her, rather than come in at 10 o'clock at night, 11 o'clock at night offering her late night snack to bed because she didn't finish all her dinner, let this be a teachable moment. It's going to be hard for us to hear her crying through the night. Hopefully eventually she falls asleep, which she did. She did eventually fall asleep. And let it be a teachable moment for her and reassure her that in the morning we can have a big breakfast. And then the next night for dinner we can eat a full meal. So that's what we did. That worked out well. So, so far I think the only boundary I've identified that I don't see eye to eye on with my wife is the inside voice. The one that maybe my wife does that I'm not the biggest fan of is, well, there's a lot of things I'm okay with. Definitely having the toys all over the room. But I can, I can appreciate how that's not good. I think what, I think what my wife does is she's very supportive of having Paige help cook with us and really getting into baking and
## baking those tasty treats.
But it does lead to a big mess. It does lead to flour all over the kitchen. My style, I am much more a clean as you go cook, clean as you go chef. And I can appreciate that when you're with a toddler, it's enough to just make sure they're safe, make sure they're not burning their finger on the stove, which she's already touched a hot skillet and that's okay. Put some neosporin on it. But I appreciate, I can see how when we're cooking together in the kitchen, it just makes a big mess. So I don't think it's a, you know, a boundary crossed with me necessarily. I love the benefits of my daughter baking with her mom. I've been eating _cranberry bliss bars_. They're absolutely delicious. But it is a consideration to say that, oh, I just see that mess. And I know I will be cleaning it up just because it bothers me if there's flour on the floor. I don't want to just walk on the flour or step on the flour and then have it lead to a bigger mess walking around. It sounds so obvious, but it just is the case that when it comes to cleaning, my wife's focus is much more on deep cleaning, like _deep cleaning_ the bathtub or _deep cleaning_ the shower or _deep cleaning_ the sink itself. These are things that I just don't see. And when I clean, I've learned to not call it cleaning, but _tidying up_ because it's not actually cleaning the floor. If I wipe all the flour spilt on the floor up, I didn't actually clean the floor. I just tidied up the floor and tidied up the flour. But I want to be loving and I want to be supportive. And I think it's great that we're involving her in the cooking. So let me know what you think. Let me know what you think, Stacker News. Tell me what you think. It's so early, listeners.
## I could use some guidance.
I could use some help when it came to your parenting or even reflecting on your own childhood if you don't have kids. What were the boundaries that were tested? And which boundaries do you think are worth enforcing? It's a wild concept because it's not just you or your partner. Now it's your two-year-old toddler. And I will leave you again with what we say, when it comes to Bitcoin, ***it's so early!***
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