My daughter started using a balance bike around 18 months. By the time she was 2.5, she zoomed around on it and had started asking about pedals. We got her a pedal bike two months before she turned 3, with the expectation that we might have to take the pedals off for a few more months. Instead, within a few days (maybe 2 total hours of practice?) she was riding confidently and totally by herself--at not quite 3 years old.
It's so different than the challenging, scary attempts to remove training wheels when my siblings and I were 5 or 6 years old. One of those things where I didn't realize the science and tradition on teaching kids to ride bikes could change so dramatically within two decades!
All three of my kids were riding full bikes around 3 years old, having used a balance bike for 12-18 months previous. I don’t think my kids are exceptional - balance bikes work wonders!
This reads like a carbon copy of my experience! When I learned to ride a bike at 6, it was so hard. I had to practice for a long time with my father. These balance bikes really are a game-changer.
She doesn't have very athletic parents, so she regularly exceeds my expectations for her, but she's not a particular standout otherwise!
Probably the more relevant factor: we replaced one of cars with a cargo bike when she was 15 months old, so she does 1500+ miles a year "on" a bike, and a tiny fraction of that in a car (we live in a totally car-centric US city, so this is pretty out of the norm). Bikes are the fabric of her daily life so she is really, really motivated to spend time on a bike.
Does anyone use a tool like this for shared family email? As the kids are getting older and there's email communication from daycare and school and extracurriculars and everything else, the method of "all communication about X goes to one parent" is not really scaling. Just using one shared gmail could also work, but requires more communication around "are you handling that response or am I?".
It seems like fundamentally the same problem as this tool is solving, but when it's for family instead of business, even $30/month starts to feel pretty pricey.
- We have a third email address that we share with the school (etc.); this email address is not a real inbox but a forwarding address that sends mail to the first two
- When email is sent TO this address, the default is to reply FROM the address
- When email is sent FROM this address, an Auto BCC rule sends a copy to the other spouse
In this way we both get our own personal email addresses, but we have a shared address that goes to both of us, and we know if an email sent to that address has been replied to, what the reply was, etc.
Just wanted to give another shout to FastMail. I'm a super happy user. I originally switched over for business reasons as it had a lot of features I liked. The past year, I exported my gmail history to it and setup forwarding so now I'm 100% on it for personal and business. So much cleaner.
Paid service - but with all the features + privacy of not being on Google (Well, anything going to my gmail still goes through - but slowly moving away) + they have excellent and fast customer support - all makes it worth it.
The easy option is to create a common email account and share that and create a rule to forward all emails to that common email to both your emails. This way any email is forwarded to both the parents.
Unlike team members in a small company I actually talk to my SO every day and if it is important she will tell me or forward the mail. There is no problem like CustomerX wrote to Joe last week but he went on vacation and no one knows.
shared mailbox. Just putting a label/tag/category on a message to call dibs and a todo/completed status can go pretty far. I once worked at a callcenter that did that with hundreds of messages a day.
I tried sparkmail but it's a little much for non-business purposes to be honest.
Not exactly a tool like this, which I'll give a try to (but introducing new workflows in personal life is always challenging). We use https://emailshot.io to easily share and keep track of emails outside of GMail. This is very convenient in cases where you get the email and want to share it via WhatsApp, for example, or add them to a google sheet.
I have another variation on this problem: my wife and I get the same emails from school. We both have accounts within the school platform.
So, what usually happens:
1. Both of us get email
2. One of us sees email before other, may or may not do something about it
3. Possibly one of us fwds the email to the other, creating two copies in one inbox.
4. It's not always clear if (2) results in something happening. And by that I don't mean in (2) that one of us said we would do it. Instead, I'm thinking one step further: we needed to pick a Parent-Teacher conference. How do we know we did it?
5. At some point we might archive/delete emails
6. Many of these emails contain admin dates. Things like half-days, dismissal changes, etc. Usually with dates/times that then need to go into a calendar. So, we try to send each other calendar invites (from personal Gmails) to handle.
#6 is often the real problem. We're looking into the Skylight Calender. Some people swear by it. I hear people like Cozi but that app is a mess.
My wife and I have personal emails but also one that’s shared between us and set up on devices for both, so we can keep track of things that should be shared, like credit card statements, bills, and whatnot.
We use Migadu, which allows you to have as many mailboxes as you want with any plan, so it’s pretty cheap.
I use Cloudflare Email Workers to manage this kind of thing. It works well, especially for receiving mail, but when you need to respond it does break down a bit. Jelly seems like a better solution overall, but if you need something simple and totally free Cloudflare is pretty good.
Definitely been looking for the same. I thought I would have a little time before needing to worry about it. However, our newborn has additional medical needs, so my SO and I are needing more coordinated back and forth with medical teams. Also means that our newborn needs a mailbox of their own in order to register for medical secure portals, which we need to access on their behalf.
Thinking of building this (and also for sms). Feel free to reach out if anyone is interested.
I think I can do something like $25 or $50 a year for an email address that's basically a distribution group w/ some smart routing for replies and something similar for sms.
Use cases as varied as shared accounts, everyone getting grocery delivery notifications, etc.
from my own experience. There are some amazingly interesting use cases for organising family life. We have shared drop offs/pick ups with another family which is a constant flow of WhatsApp messages.
I too have thought of a shared comms channel for all "incoming family business" SMS & Email would be a good start, but WhatsApp is a non-negligible channel as well.
And dont get any parent started on the 35 different School/Club apps etc
You can just leave a note to your spouse in a draft reply of your shared mailbox, like „going to take care of this, XO“ and avoid yet another tool in your setup, I think
i use racknerd and mailinabox. 3 years rock solid. no fuss.
i just have 1 mail@domain.ext email id that i use everywhere. everyone is logged in to that email
i use backblaze b2 for backups which are taken automatically.
this costs me something stupid, like $15/year for vps and $12/year for domain if i remember correctly.
have to occasionally update the server by ssh which takes 5 minutes every 6-10 months.
I remember reading this article (or a very similar one) as well. It sent me down a path of looking for evidence based dentists, which are quite hard to find. I couldn't end up finding one that seemed to fit that bill in my local area. I talked to a recent dental school graduate friend who described some evidence that school debt is highly correlated to over-treating.
I ended up going the direction of looking for dentists unlikely to have debt and found a former army dentist and have been thrilled with how much less "well, let's do it all just in case" she is than my previous dentist (who had a TVs on the ceiling of every room and a new piece of major equipment every time I went).
An interesting approach could be to visit at least a few, 3 to 5, and get an idea of the scope and work they want to do on you (or your bank account), and then go with the one you like most, out of those wanting to do the LEAST work on you.
> teen pregnancies were much less than now with all the Sex Ed, wide availability of contraceptives, etc.
While a common perception, that's actually almost entirely false. Teen pregnancies have been dropping pretty steadily for the last ~70 years and they're now almost one quarter the rate of just 30 years ago. Sex ed and availability of contraceptives (especially IUDs) are quite effective at preventing teen pregnancies.
When my partner does this to me I call it his "audio buffering" mode -- he'll be absorbed in something and make no indication that he's heard me, but if I wait long enough (in the 15-60 second range), it'll suddenly make it all the way to his conscious attention and he'll respond as though there was no gap at all.
I think the appropriate frequency is (should be) derived from the subject matter.
Some subjects deserve daily coverage, but the vast majority do not.
Nearly all of the newsletters I subscribe to and actually read are weekly, with a couple of exceptions for highly news-driven content, which does make sense (for me) on a daily basis.
Are you pointing out any genuine connections between the management styles or financial decision making of these other CEOs, or bringing them up just because of their shared gender?
Is there any non-sexist reason to have a list of "terrible female CEOs"?
Not a female here, but one reason to have a list is that people are always looking for a relatable role model. As a women you would want to avoid looking at these CEOs as role models. You should have a list of reasons why you're avoiding them and bring it up when somebody else non-critically tries to put them on a pedestal.
EDIT: on the other hand as an immigrant (really my only "discriminated against" feature) I wouldn't search for immigrant CEOs as role models, so I'm not sure if it's worth it to look for women role models as a woman.
It spun out of an internal hackathon and turned into a tool we use for pretty much all of our feature development.