FedUpPhillyParent

@jwilcox79 I'm so sorry for your loss.

Scrolling remains a good distraction today, but will be absent from the feeds a couple days. We lost my brother to suicide yesterday. Please never miss a chance to tell those you love what they mean to you. Fuck depression. Fuck guns. Going to the Carolinas to be with family.

When you close schools, children don't disappear or get locked away. They just mix with their friends in other settings. ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P….

SCHOOLS & MASKS: Re-analysis of Boston mask study in schools: school districts that dropped mask mandates first experienced largest decreases in cases; as expected prior immunity explained cases rates. COVID-19 suffered from "infodemic" so less rigorous arxiv.org/abs/2307.11974

@ebennett74 @smarterparrot They also keep a lookout for sharks there and if one is hanging around in the deeper water and not swimming on, they will clear everyone out of even the shallow water. I've read shark attacks increase as you go north up the shore, so I justify that I'll always stay south!

@smarterparrot I will go in on South Beach, but only when the ocean is calm. There, the sand is white, the water is clear, and there is a huge sandbar that seems like an effective shark deterrent (at least in my head)

Medicine is my wheelhouse, so I knew COVID was low-risk to children (and to me) from the beginning. Apparently I do not possess this kind of common sense when it comes to sharks (was raised in flyover state). Shark Week is apparently my COVID Fear Porn because I CANNOT STOP WATCHING and AM NEVER GOING INTO THE OCEAN AGAIN.

@jelistrop Also a risky act: not leaving your house. The article seems pretty informative given many ppl having read local articles about others dying in flash floods or from heat recently. But the headline, and a lot of reporting over the past years, ignores competing risks.

IMMUNOCOMPROMISED: Important point media didn't cover for past 2.5 years (vax out Jan '21) but known to MDs who treat those with immunocompromise is how well vax works in population. Likely because mRNA raise high amounts of protein & strong immune response - see @Medscape summary here: medscape.com/viewarticle/97… Today nytimes.com/2023/07/17/bri…

@goldnecklace2 @JamesSurowiecki So scary. And young kids don’t always respond the way (untrained/non-parent) ppl expect them to. They can yell things like “you’re not my mom” or refuse to answer a stranger’s questions and appear forlorn. My 6 yo refused to give her name to TSA (clearly screening us for that) 🤯

This is what movies like Sounds of Freedom do: they make people think that 1 of every 10 crying kids in a grocery store is a victim of human trafficking.

Remember when we kept schools remote to ensure equity?

@Theophilus_TP @MSmelkinsonPhD 😱😱 this and “out of an abundance of caution” makes my skin crawl

@MSmelkinsonPhD "kids are resilient"

3 years later, students *remain* many months behind. Recovery has NOT been swift, gaps have NOT closed. Intense tutors for a year (💰&🕜& not scalable) can maybe make up 4 months. Summer school, maybe a month. Current solutions are simply inadequate. nwea.org/research/publi…

@helaineolen How is this be different than exposing letters written or a recording of an abusive phone call? Not sure why she shouldn’t be able to share her story. Lots of women share stories like this one. Unless it’s a bias against the medium it occurred on or was exposed on?

We need to have a serious conversation about privacy in this country -- and, no, I don't mean just mean privacy when we like the person whose privacy was invaded. washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2023…

@goldnecklace2 @ambernoelle I’m bad at handling it as a mom. My “make things nice/keep everyone happy” conditioning kicks in and I often don’t recognize what has happened until after. Then I’m frustrated for both me and my daughter. It’s scary how easily this stuff gets reinforced and passed down.

Yes, this is what Sweden got right. Tegnell stuck to flattening the curve, Swedish hospitals were rarely overwhelmed, and the country — though also benefiting from good population health and social policies — ended the pandemic with some of the lowest excess mortality in the EU.

@goldnecklace2 @ambernoelle 2/Bcs they're kids, they are trying it out as a way to control. (Eg: using the "everyone's feelings should be heard" as a way to always stop a game of tag when it's not going their way.) They're too young to be at fault. But I see parents reinforcing this new approach to mysogyny

@goldnecklace2 @ambernoelle I've actually seen this dynamic in young kids. Boys using "she's not listening to me" or "I didn't like how she said that, it was mean" as a way to control their peers. It's often girls who have to acquiesce bcs moms respond to the "people pleasing" impulse of this therapy speak

@ptb2003 @clhubes There are more than 2 tweets. That's what is being most highly circulated but she posted more examples than just those 2 tweets. And they show he wasn't walking away/breaking up. He was telling her what she needed to do for him. But for some, no amount of evidence will be enough.

@benryanwriter @helaineolen Even the lead photo is a great example. I'd be so hungry after eating that small plate of snacks! These accounts often also post content about how to exercise (note the "hot girl walk"). So women should workout more and eat snacks for meals. I'll take the boy dinner frozen pizza!

@helaineolen In my day, this was called dieting!

I’m so old I remember when we called the “girl dinner” grazing. nytimes.com/2023/07/08/sty…

@benryanwriter @helaineolen Yes, this seems like an overly glowing take on a trend that has been around for quite awhile on blogs then Insta if not TikTok. It's often close ups of snack plates (to make them look larger) holding beautiful but very small quantities of food. It's just aesthetic restriction.

@daniela127 @thsuburbanmommy There are lots of other decodable series. We liked Starfall. But we also made the most progress w Explode the Code workbooks (writing to reinforce phonetics helped solidify). It’s normal for kids to read btwn4-7. Earlier /=better but might need more explicit practice. Good luck!

@thsuburbanmommy We've been doing them for a few months but it's very slow going, and she just memorizes the books so it's hard to know if she's "reading" or reciting books from memory. But I have seen improvement.