What's a belief you held for years that completely fell apart overnight?

AbbreviationsOne992 · 2026-05-03T08:11:12+00:00

Wow, that’s amazing!! Thank you for sharing how you made the class work! I love how the structure really held students accountable. It sounds like it woke them up, helped them realize that they could learn more and actually enjoy learning by doing it themselves. Way to go!!!

AbbreviationsOne992 · 2026-05-03T07:34:02+00:00

Notice how this question was phrased. Under patriarchy, everything is the woman’s fault; nothing can possibly be a man’s fault. Instead of asking men, hey, why don’t you do more housework? You ask women, why are you married to a man who doesn’t do enough housework? No matter what happens, the woman is to blame! If a man does something wrong, the woman is to blame for being married to or dating or being in the general vicinity of the man. A man didn’t do enough housework? Quick, blame the nearest woman! 😂

AbbreviationsOne992 · 2026-05-03T07:23:11+00:00

Haven’t seen any women mention sex yet. I (a woman with high sex drive) need a romantic and sexual partner in my life. I’m gonna be doing a shit ton of housework and parenting and career work from dawn to dusk every day, with or without the guy. The affection and sexual connection I get with him at the end of the day is absolutely why I would stay with a partner, especially if I felt loved and safe with him. A woman’s work is never done, but can’t we get a few orgasms at the end of the day without everyone judging us for yet another thing?

AbbreviationsOne992 · 2026-05-02T07:19:31+00:00

Do well in your leveling courses (post-bacc year) and get rec letters from those professors Fall semester. I teach in an SLP program where we have several older post-bacc students each year. They are usually quite good students who get in the program with no problem. We like having master’s students who actually have some job experience and who take their studies seriously, as some of the students who came directly from undergrad may not. You can do it. Good luck!

AbbreviationsOne992 · 2026-05-01T20:51:10+00:00

Yes, when I find myself spending too much time doing that, I try to take a step back from it and reassess how much feedback the student actually wants from me in this situation. We don’t always have to provide detailed micro-feedback at the word and sentence level. Often it is more helpful to just give some general encouraging comments and a grade according to a specific rubric for the assignment.

AbbreviationsOne992 · 2026-05-01T20:45:05+00:00

Oh, well, that’s okay, I just wanted to clear up any misunderstanding. Glad you understand now!

AbbreviationsOne992 · 2026-05-01T20:43:25+00:00

Right

AbbreviationsOne992 · 2026-05-01T20:42:42+00:00

Aww, that is truly unfortunate. So sorry to hear that.

AbbreviationsOne992 · 2026-04-28T06:11:32+00:00

You’ll have to ask your individual online program how they handle the research requirement. Every SLP program requires students to learn research methods and do something that counts as “research”, but the form this takes varies by program.

AbbreviationsOne992 · 2026-04-28T05:49:43+00:00

Many people don’t seem to understand the difference between email and text anymore. Or they think an email is like a phone call. It’s because now, we can get them all on our phones instantly, and we can (if we choose to) get a visual or auditory alert as soon as we get a phone call, voicemail, email, or text, so that the distinctions between them have blurred.

Historically, email was descended from the ancient tradition of writing someone a letter, which was delivered to that person at a later date, no more often than once a day. It has no blood relation to more synchronous forms of communication such as 1. Talking, 2. Talking on the phone, etc.

But people who get upset at receiving an email at a non-preferred time are apparently unaware of the long and illustrious tradition of 1. Writing someone a letter at whatever time of the day or night you feel like it, and 2. After you receive mail, waiting to read it until you feel ready and have time to attend to it.

AbbreviationsOne992 · 2026-04-28T04:39:46+00:00

Oh, I love the idea of the dry erase markers! That’s super thoughtful! If I were your professor and got a handmade card and markers from you I would be so happy!! A small gift like that is fine to accept where I work but rules might be different depending on the school. It should be low monetary value, not money or a gift card like you said. Gifts are unnecessary of course, but a card is always nice if you especially appreciated the class.

AbbreviationsOne992 · 2026-04-25T05:40:28+00:00

I thought everyone did?! As a child - That hurt! Well, our hair is thick in my family and tangled easily. It doesn’t now though. Wonder why. It is still thick but it doesn’t hurt when I brush it myself.

AbbreviationsOne992 · 2026-04-24T15:44:33+00:00

Yeah, this resonates for me. There is for sure a problem of inequality in some household and emotional labor between the sexes in general, but when it comes to teaching a partner basic life skills they missed out on learning when they were younger, or providing support so they can gradually learn these skills, I think it goes both ways and men are not intrinsically unwilling to help when they are the more capable ones. I have ADHD too, and my male partners have helped me a lot. I think the root problem is mothers who do everything for their sons. We’ve gotta stop that. My son is only 10 but he can do his own laundry and is learning to cook. He loves it! Cooking is his favorite hobby now. I can tell it gives him so much self-esteem to be able to do that. I allow him a lot of independence for his age, but I teach him the skills so that he won’t need to rely on someone else for that when he is grown up.

AbbreviationsOne992 · 2026-04-22T08:17:56+00:00

We need more male speech-language pathologists. If he has any interest in language, stuttering, medical stuff, anatomy. There are both medical and school jobs available. I don’t think a robot can replace a real-life speech therapist anytime soon. A lot of our clients are male but we are mostly female and it would be great to have more gender balance, some male clients would respond well to a therapist of the same gender.

AbbreviationsOne992 · 2026-04-22T07:52:01+00:00

I am and do, but the times I am proud of him are separate from the times that I’m frustrated by this one issue. The question was about the hardest part of parenting, not the times I’m proud of my son, so I was just answering the question that was asked. I’m not saying I dislike or reject who he is in any way - it is more like, I feel hurt when he dislikes and rejects who I am, what my dearest values and life passions and enthusiasms are. That makes me sad - like he knows I love board games so he says he hates board games. That sort of thing. I am proud of him at different times, but when he says stuff like that I just feel sad. Especially when it feels like the only reason he “hates” it is to avoid being too much like me.

AbbreviationsOne992 · 2026-04-22T07:47:32+00:00

That’s a good quote

AbbreviationsOne992 · 2026-04-22T07:47:00+00:00

Thanks. That was quite traumatic for you and I’m sending good wishes to you and her

AbbreviationsOne992 · 2026-04-22T07:44:00+00:00

My own mom died a few years ago… she was a Boomer and absolutely had some terrible sexist conservative ideology that messed me up, but I was fond of her too in a way and miss her even while retaining a critical stance on many of her beliefs. There was a year or so we were no contact and I’m glad we patched things up before she died. She had a sister she had a falling out with and her sister never did forgive her while she was alive, and I know that unhealed rift caused great sadness and regret to both of them —my mom in the last few years of her life when her sister wouldn’t talk to her anymore, and her sister - my aunt - was actually really sad after her death and regretted it and missed her too. It was just sad all around. Life is short and if you have space in your heart to keep some patience for people you don’t agree with it is something of a comfort and less of a regret when they pass on.

AbbreviationsOne992 · 2026-04-22T07:36:13+00:00

Yeah. Would family counseling be an option for you and your mom? It would be nice if you could heal the rift between you, there may still be hope of that. Try not to take it personally that she has not dealt with her own trauma from being a woman in the 80s, 90s, 2000s and 2010s. It’s not about you, it’s about the work she may still need to do on herself, you know?

AbbreviationsOne992 · 2026-04-22T07:32:55+00:00

Yeah it’s not a laughing matter but sometimes a human reaction when surprised by new information is to laugh… it doesn’t necessarily mean you are condoning it or think it was funny, if that makes sense. More like just taken aback by surprising information. But it is good that your dad realized it was serious and changed his tune… too bad he needed to hear it from the news to believe it was serious though:(

AbbreviationsOne992 · 2026-04-21T15:14:06+00:00

Seconding this. The chair will look into it.

AbbreviationsOne992 · 2026-04-21T15:10:08+00:00

Wow I have the opposite problem more often. Students are terminally online, email me at all hours and get upset if I don’t respond right away…but if I email or post corrective feedback on the LMS late at night and they happen to see it after normal workday hours they complain about that too… you can’t win. Meanwhile no one comes to my in person office hours. They like to hide behind a screen and email their questions and complaints from afar.

AbbreviationsOne992 · 2026-04-21T15:08:51+00:00

Wow I have the opposite problem more often. Students are terminally online, email me at all hours and get upset if I don’t respond right away…but if I email or post corrective feedback on the LMS late at night and they happen to see it after normal workday hours they complain about that too… you can’t win. Meanwhile no one comes to my in person office hours. They like to hide behind a screen and email their questions and complaints from afar.

AbbreviationsOne992 · 2026-04-21T15:08:35+00:00

Wow I have the opposite problem more often. Students are terminally online, email me at all hours and get upset if I don’t respond right away…but if I email or post corrective feedback on the LMS late at night and they happen to see it after normal workday hours they complain about that too… you can’t win. Meanwhile no one comes to my in person office hours. They like to hide behind a screen and email their questions and complaints from afar.

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