Heh. I was just at a conference where a not-quiet 2 or 3 year old ran rampant through the panel I was on and at one point managed to clothesline himself on the cord connecting laptop to projector and nearly pull the projector off the table.
Everyone was extremely tolerant and smiling about the whole thing but I think it had an painful air of not knowing what on earth to say or how to say it.
He and his mother stayed for the entire session, and I jury rigged the cord to be above his head height to prevent a repeat. Which made him think it was a game...
I have tremendous empathy for parents trying to combine roles, but that did strike me as falling on the wrong side of a balance.
In contrast, it sounds like you nailed it right on the mark.
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Date: 2009-04-28 04:09 pm (UTC)Everyone was extremely tolerant and smiling about the whole thing but I think it had an painful air of not knowing what on earth to say or how to say it.
He and his mother stayed for the entire session, and I jury rigged the cord to be above his head height to prevent a repeat. Which made him think it was a game...
I have tremendous empathy for parents trying to combine roles, but that did strike me as falling on the wrong side of a balance.
In contrast, it sounds like you nailed it right on the mark.