pricklipear.bsky.social
spicy meatball, midwestern bog witch, geography lady turned lady in construction, like button enthusiast
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It’s good to do something you love even if you’re not exceptional!
Most importantly, most adults are just normal. The sooner a kid learns to accept that they have value as a person beyond their times or placement, the better adjusted they’ll be for adulthood.
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Even the ones who are sane can get sucked in. Talked w/ a parent last week thinking of pulling their kid bc they’re in the 40th % of their age group. There’s nothing wrong with that kid continuing as long as they’re happy! They can get so much from swimming while not excelling, esp. goal setting.
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I’m the director of my kid’s swim team and I have a list of parents I’d like to send that link to. Every kid I’ve seen burn out has an over-involved parent. Other area teams have banned smart watches at practice and meets because of parents coaching from the stands and we might have to do the same.
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Wishing nothing but the absolute worst for Alex
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I have a family member w/ a language-focused form of FTD and I completely agree. It’s almost like echolalia.
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(Also, take your meds if you need them. This is not an anti-Rx thread. I just happened to not need that particular tool in my tool chest at the present time.)
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That's a huge accomplishment! Been in a similar position before. You rock.
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He played it when I saw him in April but did it after his acoustic break and Old Country Church; interesting if an intentional slow of momentum
The whole setlist felt like a troll of a certain type of fan: www.setlist.fm/setlist/tyle...
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The sound wasn’t that great on club level but I had a counter thing to lean on and I’m still a mess today. Balcony is my fave at the Armory.
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What she’ll be able to get is also looking rough, even if she can handle to cost. Majority of residential FF&E is imported.
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Bobson Dugnut, I appreciate your optimism because things are not looking great for the construction industry
I'm in residential remodeling and have lost the entirety of my project queue. Not a single lead and it's the busiest time of year
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I'll be there too! I hope I get to bump into you!
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Wild Kratts encouraged her to embrace her love for studying animals. We incorporated STEM concepts from a handful of their shows when we did our own experiments and projects during the pandemic. It was the one source for screen time during her childhood that didn't make me want to move off-grid!
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I have an only, but a family member has three and what’s worked for his family is an across the board limit. All three kids get the same budget of screen time. Parents don’t micromanage each app, it’s just a set _____ minutes per day for each kid and then the phones shut off.
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Its just wild after the flop sweat of the Biden admin trying to tell people that if you just look at real wage growth and yadda yadda and the Trumpies are just like 'fuck your xmas gifts'
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It was so hot in the garden today. Is “hot weather yard work hangover” a thing? It should be a thing
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I need to be better about this, honestly. Make an effort daily. Channel my grandma. Record the small joys. Because losing the ability to find the small joys lets the dillholes in charge win.
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I love ThredUp so much - I’m slowly turning my closet into something that fits better for my body/coloring/age, and ThredUp has been my go-to
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I went to an OB/GYN on the Menopause Society of N.AM list and she prescribed me on other symptoms that were primarily mood, sleep, and some other weird small ones (have an IUD and don’t get periods so I had no clue where I was at)
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(Which wasn't our goal as parents - she just really loved books from the beginning and did it on her own.)
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That repetition is how my daughter learned how to read! We thought she'd just memorized a handful of books but she used the words she did know to start figuring out the ones she didn't. Repetition is supposed to reduce cognitive load when encountering new words.
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I still pull out the seasonal picture books (like Snowmen at Night, Katy and the Big Snow) and put them in a basket under the coffee table even though my kid is 13. They're such a delight to page through! You're never too old to read through a picture book.
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Being armed helps *me* feel like less of a target, which is helpful! But I’m not sure it extends beyond that.
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Who is “these people” though? If it’s a govt agency, good luck. If it’s the gun nut MAGA chuds in my town who love to hate anyone left of MTG, then yeah. That’s why the tariffs are necessary. Losing money will do more to take the wind out of their sails than hating trans people will inflate them
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these people will not rule us forever, and they can barely keep it together right now, there are more of us than there are of them, and if you're going to give up and stare into the void instead of baring your teeth and telling them to go fuck themselves, you're going to lose everything that matters
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Same: bsky.app/profile/stef...
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I have 1,000 sq ft of vegetable garden and even if I did super intensive planting, canned as much as I could, and had a proper root cellar, my food stash would be gone within a couple of months with a family of three.
Living off the land sucks, actually!
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You can take your tradwife, no-regulation, romanticizing the 1920s, eating rutabagas in February because nothing else is left in the root cellar-ass life and shove it because I am not interested.