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Libby Brittain
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Libby Brittain
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Just as you said from the start: Children and art.
Seattle, WA/Whidbey Island, WA Katılım Ocak 2009
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@LeahLibresco FYI - Just happened to have emailed them this morning because they're out of stock in almost every color/size, and I got an automatic reply that the co-founder/husband died this year. :( Suspect that may be why they aren't more on top of inventory currently.
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I am once again sharing the Good News about Ride Safer vests in lieu of car seats when traveling with kids two and up.
Legal, safe, and you can jam it into the outside pocket of your suitcase.
amzn.to/417erHo
Elliot Haspel@ehaspel
Well I am now thankfully past car-seat age on my kiddos, but I always found that lugging car seats around was a major hassle on top of everything else that goes into family trips, but maybe my game was just lacking! Nonetheless, I think a modest flat fee would be way more reasonable.
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Luxury beliefs are ideas and opinions that confer status on the upper class while inflicting costs on the lower classes.
Jake Woolf@jakewoolf
Wear vintage Armani, vote Mamdani
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@educatedandfree @NateJoseph19 Who created/originated Mad Minute? I can find some random materials when I search but no explanation of the concept, etc.
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@NateJoseph19 My advanced 6th grader loves his daily Mad Minute warm-up.
Make math competitive (though they only compete against themselves which makes sense when not everyone is similar in skill) and low-stakes, and everybody both has fun and gets better over time.
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Why is the Math Education industry obsessed with weird warm up activities. Can you list all the math concepts in this picture? Can you spot the difference? Can you guess the number of dots? What if instead of spending this time on quirky warm ups, we just taught Math?
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If you extent this perspective to everything, which I do, it becomes one of the most powerful arguments for having children. The best way to mark time is by the pace of rapid actualization of the human potential.
neature vs norture@chionogirl
You mark time with months and seasons. I mark time by pulling out the high chair for another baby to start solids.
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Watch for yourself what “affordable housing” or “housing first” looks like in Seattle. Rosa hasn’t slept in her apartment in over a year and instead lives on the streets where we met. She invited me into her home to see why she doesn’t sleep there. DESC a 100M NPO keeps building more and more housing projects without first investing in the need for supportive services they claim to offer (and on your tax paying dollar). 👇🏼Rosa is educating voters and I hope you listen to her. @HUDgov
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Private schools with big endowments will pick up the slack with scholarships if Mamdani really shuts down magnet schools like Stuyvesant. But then this is just part of pattern of 2010s-20s left pushing core state functions into private sector in order to “feel good” about public sector which has been cleansed of any activities where difficult decisions ever have to be made.
Parallel w defunding public police depts and implicitly having this function performed by private security.
FischerKing@FischerKing64
So in addition to driving high-earners out of the city, bringing back crime - Mamdani wants to condemn intelligent children in NYC to mediocrity.
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The other day, I was looking online for a hula hoop for our toddler, and nearly all of them were marketed to adults for fitness, Burning Man-esque performances, etc. Extended adolescence is everywhere.
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I am begging people to have kids. wsj.com/real-estate/lu…
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Right???? People see these price tags and they just simply do not realize what gobsmacking sums we spend on old people.
The average worker (+their employer) paid $15-20,000 last year to provide subsidies and healthcare to retirees, valued at about $20-$50k/yr per retiree.
But we surely couldn't do $10k/year for a kid! That would be craaaaazy!
Ben Podgursky@bpodgursky
It's frustrating that collapsing birthrates are treated as unfixable when the reality is that we could largely fix it if we treated it like treat healthcare — a problem, but something we can spend real money to fix. We spend ~$150,000 per cancer patient. Why less for a child?
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All the people complaining that this graph shows that rich people use daycare more and so poor people must also want to use daycare more but *can't afford* it should consider the following:
Rich people use opera more. If we made it totally free to everyone, would poor people go to the opera more often? How much more?
That is an incredibly simplistic example, and the conversation around childcare is much more complex. The point is that you can't understand it without getting deep into the weeds on preferences, including lots of knotty questions like....if we subsidized external childcare and childcare at home at the same amount, what would people pick? Etc., etc., etc.
You can't look at @PTBwrites graph as indicating all that much about either preferences or policy solutions: rather it's an invitation to get curious about a fact our chattering class seems not to recognize: many, many poor and middle class people in our country do not use paid childcare for very young kids. You start asking questions as to why, and once you understand why, you can start talking about what to do about it.
Patrick T. Brown@PTBwrites
(pssst, the majority of families with children under 5 do not use paid child care)
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At least 5 toys with batteries that we have been gifted, including the Munchkin Mozart Magic Cube and the tummy time crab, have ended up in the donation pile. Accept them graciously, dispose of them ruthlessly. Your kid can simply have a different favorite toy.
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If you don't have kids yet and dread this kind of thing, I want you to know you can go a very, very long time as a new parent having zero toys with batteries in your house. (Two years and counting for us.)
Julia Gulia@JuliaJuliagulia
I’m sorry to say this but someone gave us this teapot as a gift years ago and it has been every single child’s favorite toy ever since
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@danshipper Makes the traditional order of salad > pasta > meat > dessert make a lot more sense!
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It’s so silly that the order of the food you eat matters for digestion.
Like why hasn’t my stomach heard of the commutative property.
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Thrilled to be reunited with Quinten again. Top consumer traction you ever witness & accelerating. They are hiring
Quinten Farmer@quintendf
Four months ago we launched Tolan, our first AI companion. Today, Wired's @willknight wrote about our progress since launch: 3 million downloads, a $12M run rate, and a $20M Series A led by @rabois / Khosla Ventures.
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Sharing the three most important user reviews of all: Quinten has built Tolan while remaining an excellent husband to me and becoming an excellent father to the much-hyped two under two. Go, Dada, go.
Quinten Farmer@quintendf
Four months ago we launched Tolan, our first AI companion. Today, Wired's @willknight wrote about our progress since launch: 3 million downloads, a $12M run rate, and a $20M Series A led by @rabois / Khosla Ventures.
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In retrospect, I should have just started having kids younger.
gabe@allgarbled
As a person without kids, one of the most common things I hear new-ish parents say is that in retrospect they should have just started having kids younger
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@webdevMason That includes the logistics of maintaining a higher supply and of pumping adequately higher amounts. I have found I have a limited amount of parenting-related executive function, and breastmilk starts to take up too much of it for me around the 6 month mark.
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@webdevMason I EBF or pumped for both babies until 6 months, when I transitioned to 100% formula over the course of 1-2 weeks. My experience has been that their oz per day needs ramp so much right around that point, that all the logistical cons ~suddenly outweigh the pros.
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