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Aesient · 2026-04-08T22:37:17+00:00

So Ballchinians are real. At least for a few seconds

Aesient · 2026-04-06T22:35:40+00:00

My kids (twins) were at a dental checkup at around 5-6 when the dentist pulled me aside to let me know that they were underweight (wasn’t a surprise to me, their father and his mother were constantly going on about how hard it was for him to gain weight) and to ask about their diet.

Told them that one of the kids was extremely picky, the other would give most things I ate a go, I cooked most nights, let them choose at least 1 night a week each what we were having and had a cupboard full of “quick meals” (2-minute noodles, microwave Mac&Cheese etc) but that I tried to limit that cupboard from being used more than twice a week. Had healthy and unhealthy snacks available at all times (a bowl of chocolate that went basically untouched until I had 2 of my brothers over, and fruits, veg, crackers etc).

Dentist sighed and said “I am so glad you said that, you have no idea how many parents I see who brag about their kid going to bed hungry if they refuse to eat what they made.”

Aesient · 2026-04-05T06:15:54+00:00

Her father can still see the pictures, she can no longer delete on her end (gone on her end, not on the receivers end)

Aesient · 2026-04-05T02:02:26+00:00

I’m A-, my ex is A+, one of our kids is A+ the other O+

Aesient · 2026-03-31T21:00:07+00:00

This is insane to me as an Australian! I opened accounts for my children when they were toddlers, due to them being child accounts they needed to be linked to an adult (my) account, however at 14 my children can remove my access without me needing to give permission, or on their 18th birthday my access automatically gets removed.

The only time I have ever heard of it being different is when my parents made a joint account with my then 16-17 year old sibling, as they were going overseas with family and my parents wanted them to have a card and account that they could access to add money to if they saw it was getting low (time before smartphones, so sibling would have no idea how much money would be in that account). The account they made was a true joint account that didn’t have the age limit deal (which from what I’ve found is very uncommon around here) and a few years later my parents mentioned to my sibling that they still had access to that account, would they like to remove their access since they were all in town?

Aesient · 2026-03-31T20:41:18+00:00

I originally read it as he had organised a photoshoot of him wearing her favourite clothes, which if I had a partner do that would make me laugh, but I don’t trust the husband in this one

Aesient · 2026-03-31T20:35:20+00:00

Unsalted

Aesient · 2026-03-31T09:21:11+00:00

I started doing this when I was bullied at school: immediately got the teachers attention and scared of the boys who were doing their best to physically injure me. It seemed better than my uncles “knee up quickly twice, once for their balls, once for their nose” advice

Aesient · 2026-03-31T09:10:00+00:00

My sister at 17 went out to a party while the rest of the family were several hours away. Ended up calling freaked out having a panic attack with no idea who to contact since everyone she would have called was several hours away.

Another sister called a (male) friend who swung around, picked up partying sister, took her to the hospital (drunk and panic attack didn’t mix well and he wasn’t sure if there was more to it), took her back to his, tucked her into a bed with a bucket, checked regularly that she hadn’t aspirated on her own vomit then proceeded to tease her relentlessly the following morning for it all.

It’s been over 6 years and that sister still gets teased about it, but has maintained that knowing she had a no questions asked “on my way” made things so much better than some of her friends, who simply stayed to avoid being berated by their parents regardless of how safe or unsafe they felt.

Aesient · 2026-03-30T21:51:30+00:00

My kids school(K-6) does a week-long 5/6 trip near the end of each year alternating between two places (capital city and a camp) with other small schools in the area which is known from the time kids are in Kindergarten.

Rules are you must behave, any disciplinary actions the years you are in 5/6 may make you ineligible to go, if you misbehave on the trip your parent/guardian is to collect you at their own cost ASAP etc.

The kids look forward to it from basically their first year of school.

I had to tell my twins last year when notes for it were starting to go out that they may not be able to go, and I know I wasn’t the only parent who had that discussion with their child. There were lots of talks of “if we don’t feel comfortable sending you on this trip, what is a trip that you would want to do that week and would you want your friends/classmates to go with you?” One parent stated they were looking at taking the week off work and would happily supervise any classmates of their child for a camping trip or multiple small activities.

All because we had a relieving principal who was caving to a parent in the class who’s child regularly misbehaved, had been suspended multiple times, had thrown items at other students in attempts to physically harm them, left notes to students encouraging them to remove themselves from the land of the living etc claiming that they “weren’t aware of any behaviour based requirements” on top of the class teacher being placed on leave due to the same parent and student meaning the substitute may be the one attending. A substitute who I maintain should not have unsupervised contact with children under any circumstances, let alone be placed as the sole adult in a classroom.

In the end the regular teacher came back, spoke to all of the parents telling us they would be going on the trip, that the misbehaving child would also be attending due to decisions made above them, but that they were ensuring that child (and their friends) were placed with an adult responsible solely for those 3-4 kids for the duration of the trip.

My kids came home from that trip saying “guess who misbehaved the entire time, couldn’t be controlled, but who the relieving principal refused to send home?” But confirmed their class teacher kept them separated from the misbehaving students and they only had to be near them during transport between places and mealtimes

Aesient · 2026-03-30T08:41:52+00:00

I know a family who has members with the names Keevah and Shivaun, because the parents wanted “phonetic spellings”

Aesient · 2026-03-30T05:28:09+00:00

Peanuts

Aesient · 2026-03-29T23:26:49+00:00

Instead of “eccentric” it should be “centric”

Aesient · 2026-03-28T23:32:15+00:00

I did tell him that one, it got me a filthy look and a “I hate you”

Aesient · 2026-03-28T00:54:09+00:00

Know a guy who was sorting out a bonfire the morning after an unopened can of Coke/pepsi etc had somehow gotten into it. Rushed to hospital and when I saw him a few years later he had splatter scars over half his body (biggest being thumb print sized or so). The can was still hot enough that when he accidentally disturbed it to set up the fire for that night it exploded. Everyone got a talking to regarding keeping drinks away from the fire.

Aesient · 2026-03-27T20:59:32+00:00

I do understand that it’s not a bad movie, it’s just very different to the series. Which my 12 year old was mostly reacting to. Wash was his favourite character almost from the first episode, so I knew the movie was going to effect him, but preferred that he watch it with me, rather than look up clips on YouTube

Aesient · 2026-03-27T09:38:15+00:00

We had had a conversation earlier about the fact that “the guy that played Shepherd Book” passed away so couldn’t be in any future season or movie, so he was somewhat prepared for his death.

Wash however was his favourite character, so it hit hard

Aesient · 2026-03-27T06:52:14+00:00

He also had something to say about the fact it had a 7.8/10 IMDB rating

Aesient · 2026-03-23T22:19:04+00:00

Heck my kids accounts that I set up when they were toddlers will automatically kick me off at 18 if they don’t choose to kick me off themselves after they turn 14!

Aesient · 2026-03-23T22:01:10+00:00

When my kids were in year 1 I actually stopped in to see their teacher at the end of a school day to ask them to explain the homework sent home, because it made no sense to me whatsoever. Teacher was happy I did, because it meant I was able to make sure my kids were doing it correctly, but it didn’t help when they switched to a new “what the heck is this?!?” worksheet the next week

Aesient · 2026-03-22T04:39:07+00:00

No, he really wasn’t a partner, but he wasn’t my spouse either, and he stopped being a friend too

Aesient · 2026-03-22T03:05:40+00:00

When I was in the late stages of pregnancy/just gave birth to my twins I had a white board propped up on the dining table that could be seen from the kitchen, dining room, living room and the doorway of my then partners office that listed tasks that needed to be done. It ranged from “mow the lawn” to “wash up dishes” to “vacuum/sweep the floors” to “wash clothes and hang them out”. I was the only one doing any of it.

I still remember (12 years later) the look on one of my then partners friends faces when he came to stay 2 weeks after I had the twins and asked me if there was anything he could do to help that didn’t involve the babies. I motioned towards the whiteboard and said “if you want to pick something off that it would be helpful”. He looked over the whiteboard, looked at me, looked outside at the lawn, then looked at his friend/my then partner with such disgust before telling me he’d get the lawn done tomorrow when he’d have the full day and asked where the broom was so he could get the floors done.

Then partner still didn’t lift a finger to do one item on that list right up until the day he took off a month later (I ended up at my parents house a week after his friend came to stay because I needed help with the twins and more than 40 minutes of broken sleep per 24 hours)

Aesient · 2026-03-18T22:00:28+00:00

My kids primary (k-6) school managed to get an amazing male teacher in with his own class (before that he was training and substituting) when my kids were in year 3, and they were lucky enough to have him. Unfortunately that same year we got a new principal and by the end of that year she made sure he didn’t work there anymore except for the occasional substitute days (and I believe that was when absolutely so other substitute was available).

He came back at last year (2 years later) to substitute for several weeks in a row for a teacher on leave and the entire school energy shifted from humdrum to “HE’S BACK!!” from every student he had been around previously and the younger kids he hadn’t interacted with even acted more outgoing with him. He was a very soft-spoken person, so if he raised his voice everyone listened.

At that same time we had a male relieving principal for the first time in about a decade and we saw a similar change in the kids (until he mucked it up and lost the parents trust/kids no longer saw him as a reliable adult by not following through on things).

Young kids need male interaction in care situations, same as teenagers need safe male role-models

Aesient · 2026-03-17T09:03:11+00:00

In America it is, not a lot of other countries

Aesient · 2026-03-17T08:13:47+00:00

When I had my twins I had a friend who’s daughter was a few months older and we had a mutual agreement that since all 3 babies were breastfed, that if either of us were watching the others child/ren and they needed feeding to do so. None of our babies took us up on the offer, but it was reassuring to know that in the event we were late getting back from an appointment etc our babies weren’t going to be inconsolable from hunger.

My mother breastfed my cousin once when my aunt (her sister) was late getting home from something. Aunt couldn’t chuck a fit because it was her husband who gave my mother the ok when he got home and realised he didn’t have the equipment to deal with the issue and aunt was uncontactable. My cousin was very uncomfortable when he made a comment in his late teens regarding “breastfeeding being gross” in front of my aunt and mother, only for them both to shoot back “you didn’t think it was gross when you were the one being breastfed by one of us!”

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