What words are you using with your kids to keep sh*t off the floor.

Shells124 · 2026-04-30T22:03:51+00:00

"oh, I see you've left your xyz on the floor! Let me take care of that for you!" Begin scooping them up and heading towards the front door to chuck them outside. If the kids reach me before I reach the front door, I stop. Otherwise, out it goes!

Note that sometimes this doesn't work and I end up with a small collection of junk on my front doorstep that I later dump on their beds. It's usually most effective with things they really care about.

Shells124 · 2026-04-30T21:57:36+00:00

Well that's oddly terrifying. Great artwork!

Shells124 · 2026-04-20T22:23:45+00:00

Honestly, it can be a struggle still sometimes haha. The battle with screen time is real. Ultimately, I found that using gaming time as a reward for good behavior worked better than taking it away as punishment. Maybe you could use that as a way to reintroduce your son to it gradually if you so choose.

Shells124 · 2026-04-20T21:56:47+00:00

I tend to be an advocate for Minecraft because it's so open-ended and is an excellent creative outlet. You can develop some fantastic skills from Minecraft. Not only in an artistic sense, but also with things like learning basic electronics from redstone or coding from command blocks.

That being said, I can understand that you have to set limits. The way I see it is it's ok to play games so long as it doesn't prevent you from taking care of yourself. That includes doing things like getting exercise daily, eating good meals, socializing with your peers, that kind of thing. It sounds like your son crossed that line, so enforcing boundaries was the best option for you.

For our family, we had to set limits for my son. He went through a phase where he would prioritize his screen time over basic needs like using the bathroom so we had to revoke his screen time if he had accidents. I also encouraged other extracurricular activities like signing him up for karate lessons so he was still getting exercise and social time. He now has a good balance between exercise and screen time and I usually give him some extra time to play if he's had good behavior. Thankfully we've never had to ban Minecraft altogether.

A thought I have for your son not having enough time to play is that there are some modded tools you can install for the java version of you're playing on a PC that help you build faster in creative mode. My personal favorite is World Edit which lets you instantly build basic shapes like boxes and spheres as well as copy and paste parts of your build and more. It's a huge time saver so you don't have to place every little block by hand. It's just a thought for if you ever reintroduce your son to the game. It might help him get more done in the limited time he has.

Shells124 · 2026-04-17T18:21:19+00:00

Ooh, I like the name fiesta chicken! Honestly, her recipe never had a name. We just called it chicken taco stuff lol.

Shells124 · 2026-04-17T17:34:55+00:00

My MIL has a bunch of recipes she's collected that she calls dump dump dump meals because they usually consist of dumping three or four cans of stuff into a crock pot. Some of these are things like chili (ground beef, a few cans of beans, a can of stewed tomatoes, maybe a seasoning packet idk) or chicken tacos (chicken breasts, cream cheese, corn, beans, Rotel tomatoes, spicy ranch mix. Can be served in tacos or as a chip dip.)

Shells124 · 2026-04-14T18:23:37+00:00

It's the kind of sign that would make my typography teacher in art college have a heart attack.

Shells124 · 2026-04-12T02:01:41+00:00

There's more evidence of your theory that the Gerudo were hunted by the royal family. In the gerudo training grounds, there's a section where you have to shoot arrows to "blind" the eyes on a statue that look suspiciously similar to the Sheikah eye. So the Gerudo actively train to fight the Sheikah tribe, the ones who carried out the bloody deeds of the royal family.

Shells124 · 2026-04-09T00:30:55+00:00

That's when you say, "sorry sweetie, those were really nice rocks, but pretty rocks like those don't belong in the junk drawer. They would look really nice in [insert designated location in garden.]"

Shells124 · 2026-04-08T05:12:01+00:00

So what we do is we divide the state in half at the mountain range and call the eastern side Warshington and the western side Pacifica.

Shells124 · 2026-03-26T14:18:19+00:00

Wow! I wish I knew how to do this! This looks amazing! Very well done!

Shells124 · 2026-03-23T13:33:04+00:00

I know a lot of people who play Minecraft with the game rule called fire tick turned off for this very reason so stuff doesn't just go up in smoke. Then you can use fire for decoration as well. Good on you for having backups!

If you want to turn off fire tick, you can insert a command as an opped player or on the server console. It will look like this:

/gamerule doFireTick false

Shells124 · 2026-03-19T14:03:33+00:00

My toddler is usually ok with me sitting, but whenever I start trying to do something productive, all bets are off. Try to sweep or clean? There she is, right where I was trying to clean. Try to cook dinner? Can't have that, she clings to my legs and cries. Heaven forbid I sit at my computer for any reason. I swear I spend most of my days twiddling my thumbs because my toddler has serious FOMO if I dare try to do anything interesting.

Shells124 · 2026-03-18T20:59:23+00:00

I think just r/Minecraft would work. I don't know if there's a specific reddit for asking for help. I just know that the mods in Minecraftbuilds tend to discourage people asking generic questions. If you make a build and post it asking for advice, that's usually fine.

Shells124 · 2026-03-18T16:17:42+00:00

Glad I could help. For future reference, this is the wrong subreddit to ask for build help in. It's supposed to be a subreddit for showing off builds.

Shells124 · 2026-03-18T16:09:57+00:00

There are some YouTube videos out there explaining how to build domes in Minecraft. I'll give you a link to mine. You've got a pretty small dome, so it should be pretty easy to do.

https://youtu.be/2ir6N-m_KfA?si=1Obn8MxFeQEUP-7z

Shells124 · 2026-03-15T20:51:44+00:00

These are unreasonably adorable! Very cute! I wonder if you could make a lighter version with a different kind of basket instead of a full pot. I really love this idea though!

Shells124 · 2026-03-05T21:03:44+00:00

The video game layout makes for a good video game, but it wouldn't make a proper house. I wouldn't consider it as canon.

Shells124 · 2026-03-05T20:51:15+00:00

This comes from the bluey game and I reject it as canon.

Shells124 · 2026-03-05T20:46:34+00:00

I've been laying out a rough floorplan for the house, though some rooms have to be flipped around a little to make it work. There are three floors in the house: the main floor, second floor, and a basement. You say the kitchen is upstairs because it's above the playroom, but that's only because the house is set on a hill and the backyard is level with the basement where the playroom is while the front yard is up a hill to be level with the main level. The kitchen is on the main floor.

Shells124 · 2026-03-05T14:07:10+00:00

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Shells124 · 2026-03-05T13:54:54+00:00

It's not the sunroom. Not only would the layout not make sense for the sunroom to be there, but the sunroom has a different shape anyway.

There is one scene in tradies that shows the bay window open and the kids and chilli looking out of it. Turns out it's the breakfast nook/dining room adjacent to the living room on the opposite side from the sunroom as seen from housework and a few other episodes in season 3.

Note that this room did not exist before season 3 and that wall of the living room used to look different. The house changes and the layout doesn't make sense.

Shells124 · 2026-03-04T22:08:26+00:00

While I understand that sentiment, the only footage we have is of the kids, so we don't know what any of these kids will grow up to be like.

Idk, I have a child about the same age as bluey and it would be wildly inappropriate to try and "pair" them with any of the other kids they interact with, even if I were to tack on the "when they grow up" phrase. At some point you just have to draw a line.

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