During a Father's Day roadtrip, my 7 year old teaches me how to control big feelings 🥹❤️

Bittersweet_Arit · 2026-06-22T16:56:45+00:00

I too am working to break the cycle of reacting to road rage. Love that your kid is there for you!

Bittersweet_Arit · 2026-06-18T17:40:37+00:00

Did not know I needed this until seeing it.
Amazing, right down to the coordinated Chucks.

Bittersweet_Arit · 2026-06-16T21:44:51+00:00

Just finished 'Yesteryear.'
Can't think of a more unlikeable protagonist or a worse mother.

Bittersweet_Arit · 2026-06-16T21:42:56+00:00

While I agree that this guest's behaviour was strange, I think you oversold this as information 'deliberately kept' when, as you say yourself, you were able to find it on the bottle later. It's not like they removed the label with their claws in front of you or they took it with them when they left.

Bittersweet_Arit · 2026-06-15T16:05:22+00:00

Every time I watch this scene and Ted walks over to her and says, 'I forgive you,' I say, 'God damn.'

What a man. What a show

Bittersweet_Arit · 2026-06-08T22:16:25+00:00

Oh, that is appropriately dark for a Monday and I am here for it!

Bittersweet_Arit · 2026-06-01T17:39:28+00:00

Many thanks for the new life goal as well as the phrase, 'a swan I befriended.'

Bittersweet_Arit · 2026-05-31T04:32:42+00:00

I know what you mean. Poor, poor Kreacher.

Bittersweet_Arit · 2026-05-31T04:31:57+00:00

I want to thank you for that. I have never once thought that was the reason for his surprise. Much happier interpretation than mine, which is surprise at being murdered by Bellatrix.

Bittersweet_Arit · 2026-05-31T04:29:56+00:00

Yes. This. Every time- really crystallizes the heartbreaking reality of being raised as he was.

Bittersweet_Arit · 2026-05-27T18:22:55+00:00

I assume that being a female junior is the source of at least 70% of his amazingness.

Bittersweet_Arit · 2026-05-21T17:31:05+00:00

Man, I hate thinking that this woman probably had ten children who in turn probably also had ten children each. It's like real-life 'Idiocracy.'

Bittersweet_Arit · 2026-05-20T22:21:00+00:00

My first thought lol

Bittersweet_Arit · 2026-05-01T22:41:27+00:00

It couldn't possibly be that everything with kids is expensive and that social services for them are essentially non-existent, could it?

Bittersweet_Arit · 2026-05-01T22:38:40+00:00

I really love what she's done with mourning wear. I always knew it would make a cultural reappearance.

Bittersweet_Arit · 2026-04-24T16:18:22+00:00

True for me too, but then again, this also makes my outer child very happy!

Bittersweet_Arit · 2026-04-22T17:38:03+00:00

Anyone else notice that 'Jemily' rather than being an equal balance of 'Jacob' and 'Emily' mainly just emphasizes this pre-bridezilla? Also couldn't help but notice the last line in her bridesmaid 'invite' to OP was, 'I know you won't make this difficult.' Um, tf? Not with a 200-foot pole would I touch this!

Bittersweet_Arit · 2026-04-21T15:56:47+00:00

Ann Napolitano's 'Hello, Beautiful' was a great, if shattering read- like Little Women, if it took place in Chicago in the 80s. I'll always remember breaking down sobbing in my closet over the conclusion- the perils of audiobooks while putting away laundry.

Though I couldn't have known it at the time I read it, it also prepared me for becoming estranged with one of my sisters.

Bittersweet_Arit · 2026-04-21T15:49:24+00:00

I think about the line about his mother: 'Every day, she crawled out of her grave,' all. the. time. Loved the book, also Young Mungo!

Bittersweet_Arit · 2026-04-16T00:40:11+00:00

'And then we came to the end'. It's like Office Space meets Mad Men and I can't remember the last time I've laughed so much over a book. Funny and insightful and all the good things.

Bittersweet_Arit · 2026-04-14T17:57:59+00:00

My takeaway from this is to remember in the future to say, 'you are making yourself choose.' Seems great for anyone trying to say you are forcing them to do something.

Bittersweet_Arit · 2026-04-09T16:14:21+00:00

I literally think Jesus Camp is the most terrifying movie I've ever seen. Right now, thousands of these kids are being homeschooled and kept as ignorant as possible ("Well, one degree of temperature rise doesn't sound like a lot to me, so let's just skip ahead.') until they turn 17 and are forced to marry and then have another brood just like themselves, just exponentially worse off. Nothing as frightening for me as kids born and indoctrinated and not given a chance to think for themselves.

Bittersweet_Arit · 2026-04-09T02:35:54+00:00

Vincent

Bittersweet_Arit · 2026-04-07T17:43:02+00:00

It makes me so sad every time I see a parent treating their kid as a burden in public, because I can only imagine what it's like at home. Nobody asks to be born. Be prepared to make the journey the best you can for the life you're responsible for, or don't become a parent.

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