@CCPISASSH0E When my youngest went to a new MS I helped set up the day of the big garden party. All of the moms talked and talked, and no one discussed what they were wearing that night. My people! ❤️
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Vonnegan
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Vonnegan
@vonnegan
New Yorker by birth, Texan by the grace of God. My motto: life is mostly a cheese delivery system.
Texas, USA Katılım Temmuz 2020
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Today I am required to attend a high school cheer squad mom/daughter pool party. The moms are currently discussing their plans in the GroupMe, which include wearing sundresses and not swimming so they can chat inside. I plan on wearing my Metallica tour shirt and doing a cannonball at some point
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@ProfRobAnderson At the very least you should have to take a basic accounting/finance class to graduate. You should be able to read a balance sheet, calculate interest, etc. Make it a 1 hour class pass/fail.
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I have taught law school for a long time and one of the main things I have learned is there should be a math section on the LSAT.
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@0Beanie05923291 @MrsGoresDiary Alternatively, never coming out of it. We used to talk my mom into letting us eat meals inside our room-sized tent during the summer.
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@MrsGoresDiary Building a fort with every blanket in the house, then never setting foot inside of it.😂
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I said no to screens today and taught my kids one of our games from the 80’s instead.
“Go upstairs. Dump out all the Matchbox cars. Then take turns picking your favorites to build your team. Then line them all up in a row.”
“Then what?” they asked.
“I don’t know. That’s the fun part!”
They ran up there and did it and I didn’t see them for an hour. I heard them, though! 🤪 So they must have figured out the next part of the game!
Any other class games I should teach them?? 😂
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My mom once said in the most fatuous way possible “oh, I’m just so happy God protected you from all the bad effects of your father leaving.” Like his absence hadn’t mattered, like I wasn’t this husk of a young woman who needed so much help - and she could see none of it because she was glad he’d gone. Such an unreal narcissist!
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I remember my mother once scolding me for crying over my father's abandonment. To her, he was just an annoying ex. "Why do you care so much?" she asked, frustrated. "You don't need him. You've never needed him. He can't do anything for you. Why do you care?" And even as a teenager I knew that for her, a father was inconsequential, because she had one. She was baked in the comfort of a two-parent home and assumed that peace was just the baseline for everyone. She was selfish then, just as these men are now. They'll tell their heartbroken children "You don't need her. You never needed her" because they likely had their moms and assume, like mine, their peace about that is the baseline for everyone. And their children will never be able to turn to them for comfort because for these men and others like them, parenthood is about them, not their children.
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Didn't their mothers mean anything to them?
It's a different level of cruelty when you really consider what it means to intentionally create children to be raised motherless. 😥
Jordan Wood@JordanWood
Our family is growing ♥️ Ella’s going to be a big sister later this year! We can’t wait to become dads to our first baby boy.
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@Eric_Erins @mattyglesias Go for a day on the way to somewhere nice, like Saratoga, the Adirondacks - anywhere actually pretty. Also, June thru mid-October only.
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@mattyglesias I actually really want to visit Albany and Troy. They look cool
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Big news for Albany, NY if this catches on.
hope hopes hoping@hopes_revenge
inventing the concept of a “reverse vacation” where you go somewhere worst than where you live to lock in .
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@Empty_America At some point you stop having these conversations with people. It’s not even about the schools themselves. I’ve tried before to explain that Cornell runs extension farms all over NY and gotten looks like “NY has farms?” I give up folks.
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Seems like the main reason for a Western kid to attend a lesser Ivy or eastern top 20 school is if they desire to permanently relocate to the E. Coast.
Of course they can be very cheap for low-mid income, but you are looking at a lot of flights and travel.
Vonnegan@vonnegan
@Empty_America Conversation I’ve had several times in TX: explain NY (where I’m from) doesn’t have an A&M equivalent so they have Cornell do that stuff for them. Wait 10 seconds … you know, the Ivy League school - Cornell. All I’ve ever gotten is stared at.
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@Empty_America Conversation I’ve had several times in TX: explain NY (where I’m from) doesn’t have an A&M equivalent so they have Cornell do that stuff for them. Wait 10 seconds … you know, the Ivy League school - Cornell. All I’ve ever gotten is stared at.
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In the West, most people other than academics would assume that "University of Pennsylvania" is a state school much like University of Arizona, but in Pennsylvania.
J. Respectful Clark@JReubenCIark
Not just AZ, it's the whole west. Professionals from the east coast who move west will knowingly name drop their preftigious liberal arts college that none of us have heard of. Meanwhile everyone else at the table went to some directional state school and no one cares.
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Everyone in New England enjoying their MDW plans like it’s not 38°, gusting 30 mph, and raining sideways. 😅🇺🇸
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@AquariusTexan @realEstateTrent I was so glad when my oldest wanted to switch from TX baseball to another sport! It’s insane here.
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I grew up in NM CT, and played in the Youth Softball League for years. You should be able to find a league for your son. Maybe it's TX, but I had to pull my son from Little League years ago because it was too competitive. He just wanted to play for fun and learn the game (he was about the same age as your son at the time).
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My son loves playing little league baseball in New York City, but the league’s temporarily relocating for the summer - so he can’t play again until the fall.
Where are they going?
The Hamptons.
I am not kidding.
StripMallGuy@realEstateTrent
Ok so this just happened. Me: “Are you excited to go upstate for Memorial Day weekend?” 6-year-old: “Dad, all my friends are going to The Hamptons.” And so it begins.
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@ItsMattsLaw You can tell those socks from me that I know they ran away on purpose and we have moved on just fine without them. So there. 😂
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I don’t know where I am currently but the socks you lost in the dryer are here
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If that addict on your street were your own son, what would you do? That is the defining question that guides my 5 step plan to fix the homelessness problem in LA. We *must* end this evil racket of corrupt politicians and NGOs who profit off the misery of these poor souls. They launder money and feed them more drugs, so they can keep their customers locked in this hell on our streets. We have a moral obligation from God to help them and make our city safe and clean for everyone. Karen Bass and Nithya Raman have forsaken this city. Time for real leadership. Time for real compassion.
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What is the best pilot/first episode of any tv series of all time?
I'll go first:
Game of Thrones, Season 1 Ep 1
"Winter is Coming"
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Some of you weren’t latchkey kids and it shows. I was cooking my own dinner in junior high.
Deva Hazarika@devahaz
Some reasons why cooking is overwhelming for many: -To cook each cuisine requires different base set of spices, staples, etc -Popular recipes often include obscure, expensive ingredients -Purchasing exact item amts often not possible -Utilizing rest of perishable food challenging
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@dandarling @tweetmattingly True, but this isn’t about what people can study. It’s about what they can borrow money for. Those are 2 completely different things. Pay for your philosophy degree with your own money, or double major in finance. That’s what smart, responsible students were already doing.
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The most troubling thing about this policy is that it conceives education as merely a means to an end—lucrative careers. That is important. But at its best, education is more than a mere credential. It is formation for all of life.
Ed Stetzer@edstetzer
The Big Beautiful Bill is pretty ugly for bible colleges, Christian universities, and seminaries. Christian Colleges Call New Federal Regulation an ‘Existential Threat’ -@EmilyBelz A proposed policy would label college programs “failing”—and block federal student loans—if graduates don’t out-earn peers without the degree. buff.ly/GYLhU8N
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@TheMiddleborne And it will run forever! You’ll be driving it for 10 years minimum. What a deal!
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We ate our weight in frozen pizza in grad school and no one died. It was fine. Eggs, sandwiches, all that stuff.
We’re empty nesters now and we still have days where we eat cold cuts out of the fridge for dinner because it’s late and we’re tired. Every meal doesn’t have to be awesome.
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As our HS headmaster once said “a tired puppy is a happy puppy.”
Keeping your kid busy and focused can keep them out of all kinds of trouble. And kids learn a ton from good team sports: prioritizing something other than their own needs/wants, working toward a common goal, delayed gratification, etc.
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i am now interested in reading a full blown defense of expensive youth sports. i feel like there's too much desire among readers-of-magazines types to see travel sports taken down a notch, but clearly they fill some need for some people
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It’s hard but it’s worth it. Although you do need to pick your times - for example, I could never have dealt with the boys cooking breakfast on a school morning. I hate mornings, so do they - it would have been counterproductive to them learning anything at all. Instead they cooked on weekends, evenings - and now they are wonderful cooks as adults.
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It’s embarrassing to admit that for me, the most annoying part of raising kids is: if I want my kids to be curious & independent, then I need to say yes enthusiastically when they ask if they can make eggs and I know I’m about to have the most annoying 15 minutes in human history
O.W. Root@owroot
Our older kids (6, 4) get their breakfasts ready just about every morning. It takes about 4 times as long as it should, there is probably more mess than there should be, but they do a pretty decent job, it gives us one less thing to do (even if unfortunate spills might occur), and it teaches them something they need to know. I think this is what a lot of parenting amounts to.
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