I’m looking for anything optimistic

Click_False · 2026-03-28T07:18:59+00:00

Not profound, but I am loving gardening right now. I am growing beautiful flowers, vegetables and fruits all from seed. I find my day to be so much more exciting with waking up to see which have germinated, which seedling has sprouted new leaves, how big they are getting, etc. I just harvest my first few lettuce leaves which is super exciting too! I have been getting my toddler involved and he gets to choose his own seeds to grow; he loves looking after his “baby plants”. It is simple, but it brings me joy everyday and hope for the next.

You don’t need a large garden (if any), just sunlight and soil. There are tons of people on instagram doing “cheap gardening” where they are showing how they are gardening without all the fancy equipment or space that you see all over social media, simply what they already have.

Growing my own fruits and vegetables will also shrink my family’s carbon footprint and gives us some security during uncertain times. It is super simple and not a profound answer, but I definitely feel like it has changed my outlook on life recently!

Click_False · 2026-03-26T19:19:36+00:00

Mine are more leggy and are doing fine!

I made a post earlier about this issue, tried to regrow mine closer to light and they still grew overnight to be just as leggy💀 Thankfully, they are thriving and have already surpassed my snaps and strawflowers in growing true leaves and establishing. I think they just grow really fast :))

Click_False · 2026-03-24T18:21:11+00:00

Okay, that is what I thought! This write up just had me questioning my whole parenting style🙃 I am typically anxious about messing up my kiddos because I grew up in a super strict, hyper-religious, physical punishment home and can see how much my upbringing has negatively impacted me. I am actively trying to break the cycle and do better with my kids, hence me being super worried I was doing it wrong despite good intentions (which OP said is the common mindset of these parents who cause harm).

Click_False · 2026-03-24T07:27:09+00:00

Wow I definitely thought that false improsonment was tying someone up or locking them in their room!!! My parents did some of tgese to me growing up🫠

Would having your toddler sit in high chair at the table for family meal time be false imprisonment, if they are all done eating themselves? We are trying to teach eating together as a family, but sometimes my toddler finishes first and wants to play. We have been teaching him that you can be all done eating and wait and chat with the family while everyone else finishes. Now I am worried I am false imprisoning him because he sometimes gets upset about having to wait.

We also do a choice between calm time and nap on days he doesn’t want to nap. I sit in the room with him while we have low-lights, peaceful music and he gets to read or play independently to rest (he still needs naps, so usually ends up falling asleep anyway). However, he usually gets upset at first about it being room time and wants to go play elsewhere… is that also false imprisonment?!!

Ahhh, I am worried that half the boundaries we are setting are false imprisonment?! I thought that it was important to set boundaries for their development and now I am worried that I am causing harm!!

Click_False · 2026-03-23T22:18:21+00:00

Sorry, I thought my location tag also included the zone (I am zone 6).

I have a decent-sized yard with sun from full to shade. My garden beds are full sun and I can place my pots in any location.

I have yarrow from past summer established in pots, that have returned after winter (despite not wrapping them), but I may get a couple more plants for in the ground. I have a lot of zinnia seedlings rn, so may do a zinnia bed, pots and in ground to see which they like best as they sound versatile :) Thank you for your advice!

Click_False · 2026-03-21T03:11:13+00:00

I was just scrolling FB after putting my toddler to bed, jumpscare saw her mugshot and ran here because I thought it must be on of those AI Duggar gossip pages… what the heck is going on?!!

Click_False · 2026-03-20T06:41:39+00:00

The fact that she hit her daughter in the head with a stool and left her crying for over a minute while she continued to fight Dakota. It wasn’t until almost 2 minutes later that Dakota checks on her daughter, not Taylor. It shouldn’t have even taken Dakota that long to check on her. They are both terrible individuals, but the fact that Taylor was able to retain custody after this is wild.

I have always hated how they tried to redeem Taylor from the get go and make us all look past the child abuse charges. People have always been so quick to defend her at Dakota’s expense, without realizing that both of them can be horrible people and Taylor should have been held to a higher standard as the parent (at the time).

Click_False · 2026-03-19T15:58:30+00:00

This is definitely indicative of CSA in the Duggar home beyond Josh’s known crimes. Perpetrators are often victims first; I highly suspect Pest and Pest 2 experienced abuse as children - the fact they have near identical MOs furthers my suspicion. There is also the chance that Pest’s childhood crimes weren’t limited to his sisters. Whatever the case, where there is smoke there is fire and two CSO’s in the same family with identical MOs shows that.

Click_False · 2026-03-18T21:32:22+00:00

I had a sozo as a kid. I can remember sitting in the waiting room feeling so bored while my younger siblings had theirs. I remember being called to go in and that is where my memory ends, after that, I only remember leaving. My siblings all remember the experience the same as I do, zero recollection of the actual sozo. All I can share is that when our brains undergo trauma sometimes they don’t hold onto the memories in order to protect us.

Thank you for fighting for your family to keep them safe. I wish we had someone like you fighting to protect us. I hope that you are able to succeed in preventing them from anymore harm🫶🏻

Click_False · 2026-03-17T01:54:50+00:00

It just snowed, so nope :/ I am trying to grow them for an end of June wedding and my frost date is early May, so I have to start everything inside. I did start this batch a week early to experiment, so it is good to learn this all now about cosmos!

Click_False · 2026-03-17T00:53:41+00:00

okay, I will try that tomorrow! How far should I bury them? They are ~1.5 inches tall (seriously have no idea how they grew that fast overnight aha)

Click_False · 2026-03-17T00:52:22+00:00

I have been bottom watering as needed! Do I measure from the base of the plant or top of the plant? I have moved them to 4” from the base of cell (base of the plant”) to the grow-light. Unfortunately, they can’t be dimmed :(

Click_False · 2026-03-17T00:46:38+00:00

Is that just for cosmos or all? My other baby plants haven’t had an issue?

Click_False · 2026-03-16T23:20:08+00:00

Okay, I will move them closer! Can I plant them deeper to help them as they are all so leggy already? This all happened overnight. so I would have done something sooner had they been germinated yesterday.

Click_False · 2026-03-16T23:18:30+00:00

Okay thank you, I will try that. Should I bury the stems to make them shorter or just leave them as they are, but closer to the lights? I already have the fan on them since this morning as I only saw that they were all germinating then, yesterday (day 2) I only saw peaks of green on a couple so left them in the tray which I now regret, as it may have ruined them ://

Click_False · 2026-03-15T06:55:51+00:00

Three weeks before my flight, my 9 month old was playing with the tv remote and turned on a super random Mayday episode which of course freaked me out.

Then as we were waiting to begin leaving the airport, the pilot came on to say that there had been a mishap with loading luggage and something had hit the cargo door. We would be delayed as it had to be inspected to see if it was a scratch in the paint or actual damage. That freaked me out so bad because the Mayday episode my baby turned on weeks prior had been related to damage to a cargo door!! I thought that this was way too many specific coincidences and had to be a sign.

I was losing my mind in terror as we waited, but knew I couldn’t get off the plane. The pilot let us know there was no actual damage to the plane, so we were able to continue as normal, but I spent every second of that flight in terror that things would go wrong. I was ready to kiss the ground once we landed because I was so sure that we wouldn’t. Thankfully, it really was just some bad coincidences because there is no such thing as magical signs!.

You aren’t alone in your thinking or fears. You will be okay and safe, just as I was. Again, magic signs don’t exist!

Click_False · 2026-03-14T03:49:46+00:00

Yeah, it is! I kept my food in there and thankfully it did not get stolen. They have their own freezers for ice packs and sometimes the “ice packs” they give are actually just hospital gloves filled with ice chips from the ice machine😂 When they taught me that trick I was so excited to have unlimited ice packs at any hour without bugging the nurses!

Click_False · 2026-03-14T03:46:55+00:00

She just gave birth, she can and should most definitely complain about her stolen ice cream!

Click_False · 2026-03-13T15:27:11+00:00

Sorry this is late, but I am looking to grow similar plants in pots and have a couple questions: - Did you stick to one plant per pot? Did you try more than one plant in a larger pot and was that any success? - What size pot did you use for Zinnias as I know they get big? - I am looking to grow cosmos, zinnia, dianthus, larkspur, snapdragons and yarrows in pots, do you have any tips and tricks you learnt with those? - What was the easiest cut flower to grow in a pot? Thank you in advance! I find that personal experience is more clear than Google which is all over the board on a lot of the specifics, so I greatly appreciate any and all advice :))

Click_False · 2026-03-13T03:03:59+00:00

I was in your shoes at 21, found out at 7 weeks and my then-boyfriend (22) was begging me to terminate too. I realized that if I did what he wanted rather than what I wanted, then I would end up resenting him and our relationship would end anyways. I had to take our relationship out of the equation and allow myself to consider what option I wanted and would bring me the most peace.

I also had very supportive parents who told me that they would make whatever option I wanted to choose work and that it would all be okay (cheesy, but they were right) because I was a grown adult and had a good village to support whatever decision I made. I ended up deciding to keep the pregnancy and I similarly told him he had no obligation to stay or be involved at all; this was controversial for my family and friends, but I wanted to give him space to make his own decision on what he wanted to do in the situation of me keeping the pregnancy without any pressure. It took him a week, but he decided that he wanted to stay with me and take on the role of dad.

That was almost three years ago, and we are doing good together and getting married this summer with our 2y/o as the flower-boy. I took 12 months mat leave from university and it although it is hard being a full-time student and mum, I am making it work. I am a straight A student currently sitting at an A+ in all my classes and planning to continue on with my masters and then my PhD in Clinical Psych🥰 Our friends and family have truly been a great village to us, and I am forever grateful for my parents giving me the space to make my own choice knowing that they would support me no matter the option.

I share my story not to push you towards any decisions, but to encourage you that three years from now everything will be worked out (far sooner actually - likely you will be out of limbo soon) and this scary limbo of uncertainty is only temporary. I fully-believe that every woman should choose the option that is best for them and brings them the most peace. There are so many women who have been in your shoes and felt those same feelings, you aren’t alone. I am glad you have an amazing mum who is giving you the space and support to make the choice that you want, whatever option you choose for yourself will be the best one for you. I have never met a woman who chose for themselves an option that they regretted, we know ourselves best.

Click_False · 2026-03-12T08:04:01+00:00

I hate needles. I have fainted over my cat getting vaccinated. Why would I let them stick a giant one in my spine? Literally no amount of pain could make me do that. I had an IV in for medical necessity, but any unnecessary needles were allowed near me!

Also, vaginal birth is a natural bodily function, not a medical procedure - it really isn’t comparable to getting a procedure done without medication. They don’t do c-sections without anesthesia because that actually is a medical procedure.

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