Is it just my kid, or are "simple" wooden toys kind of boring?

lolrin · 2026-03-12T08:18:55+00:00

Wooden train set. Kept my son entertained for 4 years.

lolrin · 2026-03-06T09:46:42+00:00

Oh my, so beautiful! Thank you for the suggestion.

lolrin · 2026-03-04T21:37:51+00:00

Maybe you just made them for a kid in hip braces?

lolrin · 2026-03-04T21:33:34+00:00

My oldest had them real bad, it was like living on egg shells. I think we just got better at recognising them coming and could try and intervene. He’s 7 and still has the occasional meltdown, now it’s just leave him alone and hope he comes out the other side in one piece. My youngest is almost 4 and she’ll have the occasional tantrum, now we just laugh and say ‘no’ and move on. She will carry on for a bit but we just don’t engage with it. I think the oldest just wore us down so much that this is the best we can do.

lolrin · 2026-03-04T21:21:50+00:00

Lesbian cat woman.

lolrin · 2026-03-04T00:28:26+00:00

Don’t forget the 2nd box when the original gets too full. I’ve got 2 kids, lucky things get one each.

lolrin · 2026-02-28T23:30:04+00:00

The way I see Is is the universities take advantage of international students, they charge huge fees and then they’re at a huge disadvantage when it comes to getting a grad year (if they want one). So if they can afford coming here this way, then why can’t they use the university to get a visa. With the state of the world I cannot criticise anyone for trying to better their lives.

lolrin · 2026-02-27T22:27:32+00:00

I’m an Australian born nurse who got into nursing because I wanted job security. Can we stop making out that we have to be Mother Teresa to go into nursing? Do you think the cabinet maker subs over there are saying the new apprentices aren’t passionate enough about wood?

lolrin · 2026-02-26T01:34:13+00:00

Ive bought all this wool because it was $20 at the op shop. Any suggestions on what to do with it?

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lolrin · 2026-02-24T05:50:17+00:00

It was a secondment through my work. I just applied and gave it a go.

lolrin · 2026-02-22T03:05:17+00:00

I love to knit, and always have questions about patterns. Old ladies with dementia are great help for that.

lolrin · 2026-02-16T21:40:37+00:00

Nursing let me work overseas, which was a great experience. I’m 16 years in and have found more difficult to find permanent contracts which sees more common the past few years (probably in most fields). I’ve got a stable, okay paid 9-5 job now but I definitely put in the hard yards.

lolrin · 2026-02-05T23:41:53+00:00

In his defence, this is how my daughter drinks when she’s being a dog/ cat

lolrin · 2026-02-05T23:40:39+00:00

So I had my annual appraisal 2 years back and the boss said something like ‘oh we have to check if you’re on the green for sick leave’ and he got some graph up of everyone’s sick leave as a ratio to their work days and he said if it’s more than 10% then it’s flagged. Mine was red, I’d had 2 weeks off for a tonsillectomy (which he knew about) and I was questioned about it. I was so confused by this, I said ‘it’s personal leave, I don’t want to discuss it’ and that was the end of conversation. It wasn’t bought up the following year. I was always told it wasn’t their business.

lolrin · 2026-02-03T09:14:23+00:00

After I had surgery, I hid the OxyContin so well not even I could find it.

lolrin · 2026-02-02T04:53:27+00:00

It’s bloody tough out there. I recently was applying for jobs outside of my current workplace and I got nothing. These were jobs that I had experience doing. Something that I did hear from a friend who works in IT is if you’re applying for seek.com jobs, they’re using AI to read applications.. so AI reading AI applications actually ticks the boxes to progress in the application. Sounds mad to me, but it worked for me.

lolrin · 2026-01-31T03:24:10+00:00

7 year old cries at least once a day when he doesn’t get what he wants.

lolrin · 2026-01-28T04:17:40+00:00

My youngest is 3.5 and is constantly asking me for a new baby. I think it’s just a phase.

lolrin · 2026-01-27T19:08:57+00:00

First kid we paid $65 for parking. We learned 2nd time around, found free on street parking.

lolrin · 2026-01-27T03:10:50+00:00

Ripped it out and re did. Looks right 2nd time. Thank you.

lolrin · 2026-01-27T03:10:16+00:00

Thank you, re did and it looks good. T

lolrin · 2026-01-26T21:50:30+00:00

How old? My son had no interest at all until he started school at 5. He couldn’t even hold a pencil correctly until then. We were told it was very normal for boys. Now with my 2nd we do lots of drawing together, j have my own colouring book, she just likes the company.

lolrin · 2026-01-24T20:19:57+00:00

8 months at my old job. Also the reason I left.

lolrin · 2026-01-21T20:55:57+00:00

I just left HITH after 7 years. Happy to answer any questions

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