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Mom of many little kids. This is where I go for adult conversation.

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Eclectic Catholic
Eclectic Catholic@EclectiCatholic·
@SeanTrende My Ausome twins are only 4 but I'm already so worried for their futures. Would be amazing if you wrote up sometime how you found and funded an option like this. Everything I thought I knew about setting up kids for a successful life is out the window with them.
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Sean T at RCP
Sean T at RCP@SeanTrende·
We don't tell enough happy stories here so: Thank you so much to Olentangy High School for setting up the "signing day" station for our son Judson. He has profound autism, and will attend Stewart Home & School in the fall, and likely for the rest of his life. 1/
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Eclectic Catholic
Eclectic Catholic@EclectiCatholic·
@MotherGrundy I am constantly having to remind my mom to not brush my daughter's hair bc she keeps trying to do this. Noooo don't touch it we only brush with conditioner in when wet!
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Mother Grundy
Mother Grundy@MotherGrundy·
Boomer women will see your naturally curly and wavy unbrushed hair and want you to brush it out into a big frizzy triangle, so that you have “brushed your hair”. (OR CUT IT OFF)
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Christianity On The Spectrum
Christianity On The Spectrum@ChristianityOn·
In a previous podcast episode I went at the New York Times for uncritically parroting FC propaganda and pseudo-science without any pushback. They've recently published some pushback which is good.
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Eclectic Catholic
Eclectic Catholic@EclectiCatholic·
@herandrews Rich kids are doing internships, working at their summer camp, maybe caddying or lifeguarding at the country club. Poor kids are more likely to do something like fast food, but employers don't want summer only when there are plenty of year round options.
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Helen Andrews
Helen Andrews@herandrews·
“Working for money during high school is low class.” Actually, the Department of Labor found the opposite. Teens from richer households are more likely to have summer jobs. dol.gov/sites/dolgov/f…
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ライオン Lion@LionBlogosphere

This guy's parents were upperclass. Working for money during high school is low class. Upperclass kids do unpaid internships that their parents obtain for them with their network of contacts. Or do some summer enrichment learning or play sports if they can't get an internship.

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Eclectic Catholic
Eclectic Catholic@EclectiCatholic·
@grok @marcportermagee @grok the study isn't very helpful if it doesn't define where that inflection point lies as far as real-world behaviors of parents- is there anything else you can gather about where it falls along spectrum- ie are most parents already doing too much or too little?
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Grok
Grok@grok·
The study measures "concerted cultivation" as a latent IRT score (not direct hours) from survey items on parental strictness, discussions, organized outings/activities, and school interventions. Optimal peak: ~46–50 on their scale for academics (Chinese/math/English/total). Beyond that, effects turn negative. No weekly-hour equivalent is given—it's intensity of over-involvement (e.g., very frequent control and scheduling) that tips into diminishing returns for Chinese middle schoolers.
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Marc Porter Magee 🎓
Marc Porter Magee 🎓@marcportermagee·
Does more intensive parenting result in higher levels of student achievement? Yes, but: “parental concerted cultivation positively affects academic performance up to a certain point, beyond which excessive engagement is associated with diminishing returns”
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The Watchdog
The Watchdog@TheWatchdogDBQ·
@marcportermagee I’ve deemed this process the “trauma Olympics” Lord help the kid who grew up in a normal upper middle class family without anything horribly tragic happening Cuz their s—t is getting rejected
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Marc Porter Magee 🎓
Marc Porter Magee 🎓@marcportermagee·
Colleges should end the practice of asking students to write "trauma essays" by making it clear these will not help your application
Annenberg Institute at Brown@AnnenbergInst

In elite college admissions, "trauma" has become shorthand for Blackness. Annenberg affiliate @Aya__Marie joins @NPRCodeSwitch to discuss how the pressure on Black students to write "trauma essays" distorts the idea of an authentic Black experience. npr.org/2026/04/25/nx-…

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Eclectic Catholic
Eclectic Catholic@EclectiCatholic·
@TPCarney We tried the state fair and the ferris wheel cost $16 per person per ride. Might as well just go to Disney for that.
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Eclectic Catholic
Eclectic Catholic@EclectiCatholic·
Public pool hours are awful now. They don't even open til the afternoon and close before 7.
J. Respectful Clark@JReubenCIark

@gran1te_mtn @PioneerPaperTrl When i was a kid in the 90s, the public pool was 50 cents and you could go all day. Now you pay several dollars per kid (which even w inflation is a multiple of the 90s price) for a 2 hour "session."

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Eclectic Catholic
Eclectic Catholic@EclectiCatholic·
@TPCarney I agree that should be tracked, but are most men actually doing much outdoor work anymore? Thinking of our family and the people we know, in almost every case it's either hired out, and/or the SAHM does it.
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Eclectic Catholic
Eclectic Catholic@EclectiCatholic·
Of course the cut will be different for girls' clothes, but this seems really extreme imo
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Eclectic Catholic
Eclectic Catholic@EclectiCatholic·
Having BBG triplets gives me a front row seat into the messages girls vs boys are sent. These shirts are both from Janie and Jack at Costco and labeled 5T.
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Eclectic Catholic
Eclectic Catholic@EclectiCatholic·
This should be a bipartisan slam dunk. There are few things almost everyone can agree on but the 99% of people who don't drive this way don't want to be subjected to this danger.
Jeremiah Johnson 🌐@JeremiahDJohns

If someone has MORE THAN A HUNDRED VIOLATIONS, the time has come to permanently take their driver's license and throw them in jail. This is "300 professional criminals do the majority of all shoplifting" but for cars. Don't let insane people kill us with their cars.

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Eclectic Catholic
Eclectic Catholic@EclectiCatholic·
@Romy_Holland Given the contagion risk with anorexia, maybe for once the media is showing some discretion and not covering a topic that could inspire tons of copycats. Eating disorder "awareness" often functions as inspiration.
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Romy
Romy@Romy_Holland·
why haven’t i seen any news stories about teenage girls taking glp-1s to become anorexically thin? they’ve been super easy to get via grey market websites for years now.
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Eclectic Catholic@EclectiCatholic·
@BradWilcoxIFS Tracks with our families' experience. My ILs divorced 20 years ago and our kids have pretty minimal relationships with grandparents now for directly related reasons (ie adult children not getting along with added-in-adulthood stepparents)
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Brad Wilcox
Brad Wilcox@BradWilcoxIFS·
"The Long Reach of Divorce" ==> A grandparent's divorce harms grandchildren's education, marriages, and well-being a generation later — even though the grandchildren weren't yet born when the divorce happened. digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewconten…
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Eclectic Catholic
Eclectic Catholic@EclectiCatholic·
@LizWolfeReason It's definitely going to be a growing issue but it's already been happening quite a bit; "sandwich generation" isn't new. But yeah caregiving crisis is going to be a growing story w no end in sight.
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Liz Wolfe
Liz Wolfe@LizWolfeReason·
The elder care + childcare bind is going to be THE story of the next 5-10 years. Already starting. When your parents had you at 35-40, and you had your kids at 40, the convergence of everyone needing you all at once is going to be very tough—women hardest hit.
Katie Notopoulos@katienotopoulos

Millennial/Gen X daughters are facing massive economic disadvantages because of the expectation they’ll be responsible for eldercare, even if there’s other siblings or it’s their in-laws. Anecdotally, this feels true and wholly depressing

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Eclectic Catholic
Eclectic Catholic@EclectiCatholic·
@TheStalwart Poor ability to model other people's experiences in action. Very common issue with hard leftists.
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Joe Weisenthal
Joe Weisenthal@TheStalwart·
One thing I did not realize until having kids in NYC public schools is how much variable auxiliary fundraising occurs at each specific location. So even if you divide the tax pie in a perfectly egalitarian manner, schools with wealthier parents will still end up with more.
Matthew Zeitlin@MattZeitlin

guy who beats the "you're a leftist but you send your kid to a private school" rap by moving to an affluent suburb and sending their kids to their local public school

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@SeanTrende @MotherGrundy @ChristianityOn @herandrews @grok @marcportermagee @TheWatchdogDBQ @TPCarney