@CartoonsHateHer Well I have gargantuam yams and I don't see this at ALL
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Strong Mother
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Strong Mother
@strongfemchar
Catholic mother, author, and twin. Check out my shop, where I design mostly Catholic and saint-related tshirts, magnets, and stickers.
Katılım Şubat 2015
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Noticing this thing where anything about having small boobs (ads for bras for small breasts, clothing tips for small breasts) is immediately responded to with "LMAO, Well, I have gargantuan yams and don't relate to this at ALL."
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>there isn’t a single good argument against eating with your hands
the humble Diarrheal Diseases Death Rate Map:
sid 🌹🔆🇨🇦@lilbabygandhi
There hasn’t been a single good argument against eating with your hands other than “it looks weird” or “it’s the wrong type of food to eat with your hands”
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@ThymeToBeBorn That's the part that gets me. Like surely they saw domesticated animals breeding more than the average person does today, right? Or maybe the fact she didn't start getting pregnant before they started being intimate?
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Especially among people who I assume would have observed the process in animals but perhaps we take for granted inherited knowledge.
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My grandmother was a rural nurse in the 1940s in Vermont and men would bring their wives in labor without a clue between man and wife as to what was going on (my wife is dying, help!) and this represents a level of ignorance I didn't know was possible.
Strong Mother@strongfemchar
@UpTambourine @ThymeToBeBorn Ikr?? That one always gets me. Like stay off of her if you really don't want more kids?? Like they knew enough to know that pregnancies can't happen without certain activities. Like planting a garden and getting angry when seedlings start coming up.
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@CuriousBunnie12 Yeah, that's my feeling. Important to share stuff like 'a lot of bed sharing deaths are on a couch or easy chair, don't use those!' , extremely unhelpful and cruel to say 'Your cousin was probably just a fat stupid drug addict unlike me'
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infinite love for bed-sharing moms who are like “I’m aware of the risk and I minimize it as much as possible but this is necessary for my family”
infinite hatred to the bed-sharing moms who are like “if you don’t do this your baby hates you and nothing bad can happen to me ever”
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@shagbark_hick I've known of two families in which 'homeschool' was just educational neglect. In both cases, they were already single moms who couldn't seem to find the time to make sure their 12 yr old could do basic addition, whether in public school or 'homeschooling.'
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Look, pro-homeschooling people are piling on this guy but he's not wrong at all.
I know of families who are straight-up failing to teach their children beyond a 2nd-grade education. Like 16-year-old kids who don't know what the Capital of the US is, have never heard of Toronto, and could not perform a basic algebra problem.
While it's true that there are many excellent homeschooling families whose instruction far exceeds that of any public school, the fact is that the American system of "school your kids however you want" does also yield a lot of severely stunted kids who get stuck playing "catch-up" for the rest of their lives.
My wife was homeschooled, we might homeschool, I'm not averse to the practice per se, but it's a fact that there's a whole world of multi-generational homeschoolers who are not and will not rise above a 2nd or 3rd grade education level by their own volition.
Should the state intervene in these cases? I dunno, the answer to the question is not as "easy" as many make it out to be. The idea of barely getting through 'Mary Had a Little Lamb' at the age of 16 should be appalling, and it IS happening in some American homeschooler families.
Just Jim@JimsTweets
Do Homeschool kids just like, not have to take tests or exams or get grades? How does the government know if the child is actually getting an education and not just like, being neglected
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@UpTambourine @ThymeToBeBorn 'I only want to do the sowing as much as I want without all these effing zucchini plants showing up!! Stupid garden!! This is not my fault!'
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@UpTambourine @ThymeToBeBorn Ikr?? That one always gets me. Like stay off of her if you really don't want more kids?? Like they knew enough to know that pregnancies can't happen without certain activities. Like planting a garden and getting angry when seedlings start coming up.
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I believe there is more understanding and compassion for women with large families than ever before in history, because old writings are full of disdain for families with poor "moral hygiene," including even husbands being enraged that wives keep getting pregnant.
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@BiblicalBeauty My friend had a stillbirth which was truly only preventable by chance (umbilical cord flaw that was invisible to ultrasound) and then during my pregnancy my little brother died suddenly. Had to face the fact I wasn't in control and couldn't prevent death by sheer will.
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@BiblicalBeauty I think for a lot of young women it's their first brush with real mortality, and so they try to control it. I definitely had some crazy first time mom stuff, but this wasn't one of them because I had been confronted with my lack of control over mortality already.
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This is insane.
What are parents teaching their daughters that so many are growing up believing that they get to take control of the universe once they have a baby???
domestic grace@holyhomemaking
my friend wants everyone who meets her baby to get the tdap vax but I’m only 21 weeks pregnant and didnt want to get it at all. any risk even minor of preterm birth, miscarriage, or iugr is not worth it to me. how do I decline without blowing up our already tenuous friendship?
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@sboutelle21 @ineedanothernap The wife generally facilitates Father's day celebrations; it doesn't seem illogical to me that a husband would do the same in his own way on Mother's day.
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@sboutelle21 @ineedanothernap I think we both owe it to each other to make the celebrations on our respective days when the kids are babies, and then to direct the children as needed as they become old enough. But I am thinking of modest celebrations, not an all out extravaganza.
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The reason this is complicated is bc a large swath of boomer moms still want to be celebrated & have the day revolve around them.
Ashley Fitzgerald@RizomaSchool
genuinely, answer me like i am autistic is this a holiday for mothers with small kids or grandmothers or what? am I supposed to relax and be celebrated today as a mom of small kids? Or should I spend the day showering my mom and grandmother with gifts and attention?
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@sboutelle21 @ineedanothernap His mom wanted him to celebrate me since our child was an infant and couldn't do it himself. Sets an example for the kids as they get big enough to do it themselves. They need some direction when they're not babies but still young, you see.
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@strongfemchar @ineedanothernap Nothing wrong with his mom not wanting to celebrate. It's when someone's wife gets ridiculously upset that her husband didn't go all out when her kids are babies.
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@sboutelle21 @ineedanothernap That's what my husband said our first mother's day. His mom told him absolutely not lol
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@ineedanothernap It's mothers day- you celebrate YOUR mother. If your kids are young- maybe your husband can help them get you something or whatever, but it's not your husband's job to celebrate you because you aren't his mother.
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@tallsnail Yup ours sleep like rocks and often put themselves to bed if they're tired. Our older three range from 2-7 and bedtime is pretty easy for them. Zero anxiety and generally no misery around bedtime with them.
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my oldest son: coslept as an infant, mix of cosleeping and solo sleep starting around 8-9 months, but mostly cosleeping through his second year
now at 2.5y he sleeps through the night EVERY NIGHT in his own bed. fully walks himself through the bedtime routine, tells me "you can turn off the light and leave now"
sorry to even engage with this. but the irony of being like "omg the crunchy moms are fearmongering about damaging attachment by sleep training" and then turning around and saying this is quite rich
RFH🦎👁🗨🪐🌘 ⬛️ (Doctor)@hollowearthterf
So many of these crunchy practices are setting up kids for years of misery and anxiety surrounding bedtime. At six months baby should be sleeping in their own crib, doesn’t mean they have to be in their own room. They will wake far less often and be much more confident sleepers
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@NeoInstigator @verygoodsaar @bumbadum14 Yes, you can find complaints about drunken wetnurses from ancient times. The biggest difference is we shame *drinking* at all and they focused on *drunkenness*.
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@strongfemchar @verygoodsaar @bumbadum14 The campaign against mothers drinking while caring for infants extends further than even our great grandparents. But the same problem existed then as the conversation going on now “well *I* would never do that”, “That would never happen to me!”
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Can recent moms explain to me why you can’t have a basket like contraption in the bed so you can still co-sleep without accidentally smushing your child?
Is this a thing? Like there has to be a happy medium here
Eigen@faintlimits
My dad’s cousin killed her baby because she co slept with him. Woke up to a dead child bleeding out of his nose. But yeah co sleep bc it’s so trad and cute and feminine xoxoxo
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@NeoInstigator @verygoodsaar @bumbadum14 Super dependent on time and place. 1700s France, for instance, had a large portion of people hiring wetnurses, including the middle and lower (but not lowest) classes. In addition, the foundling homes were desperate to hire wetnurses.
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@strongfemchar @verygoodsaar @bumbadum14 As for wet nursing, it could be argued that being able to hire a full time wetnurse was reserved for the wealthy, I don’t doubt that poorer women often helped each other out but not to the degree the aristocracy was able to have 24/7 help.
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@NeoInstigator @verygoodsaar @bumbadum14 Tbf though a lot of overlaying was done by wetnurses as well, which is a factor we don't have today. Also highly linked to drinking, which people didn't prohibit during pregnancy and nursing in general.
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@verygoodsaar @bumbadum14 Women slept with their babies for thousands of years and their odds of survival were so abysmal compared to now. It was called “overlaying” and there were devices invented as far back as the 1500’s to prevent women from rolling over on their babies.
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@MattisRedacted I think both are true and the previous pope did wrong in granting the French king his annulment for obvious political reasons.
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Genuine question for the Roman Catholics regarding Henry VIII’s divorce.
Which of these two scenarios is more likely:
The Pope genuinely saw a difference between Henry VIII asking to marry his brother’s widow and then asking to annul the marriage, as opposed to Louis XII asking to annul his marriage and then asking to marry his brother’s widow?
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The Pope already had an army of 20,000 men led by Catherine of Aragon’s nephew prancing around the Papal States, and he didn’t want to do anything to make the situation worse?
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charles photographed with two sitting us presidents 56 years apart and he’s younger than both of them
Adrian Hilton@Adrian_Hilton
The Oval Office has changed a bit since 1970.
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@LadyNimby Video games were how I dissociated from it when I was younger.
Highly recommend getting busy with a project, like gardening or organizing or something. Hard exercise and stretching usually helps me.
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How are we dealing with fairly bad multi-day anxiety that is not narcotics, alcohol, SSRIs, or something that puts you straight to sleep
Been on the verge of throwing up since Saturday, my brain can’t take it
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