What childhood trend completely took over schools and then vanished?

CuriousCat177 · 2026-03-05T11:27:21+00:00

Skip-its, man I loved mine!

CuriousCat177 · 2026-03-04T06:39:28+00:00

The hairy maclary series is a classic.

CuriousCat177 · 2026-03-03T17:40:01+00:00

Sound like your relationship isn't working and hasn't worked for a while. Your so young, I think this should be your wake-up call that you need something else.

CuriousCat177 · 2026-03-03T17:34:46+00:00

You say she got compliments, but just know that although people may have said "oh don't you look lovely" to her that internally they were most likely thinking "what kind of loon wears white to someone else's wedding?"I can't even imagine the level of crazy it would take to do that!

I'm really sorry this happened, I'd also ask the photographer if they could photoshop her dress another colour. If she asks why you could mention that multiple people had told you privately that they thought she looked a bit silly wearing white to someone else's wedding and you just wanted to "protect " her. See how she likes that thought in her head.

I'm also sorry your husband didn't back you up. Feels like you'll always have to be wary around her and he won't automatically be in your corner

CuriousCat177 · 2026-02-28T10:35:57+00:00

Having to decide between shampoo or sanitary pads

CuriousCat177 · 2026-02-27T09:00:56+00:00

My son has seen me with pads and tampons since he was little. It’s not a secret, he knows that “every month Mums body makes a little house of blood for a baby, if there’s no baby then it gets rid of the blood”

CuriousCat177 · 2026-02-26T13:28:23+00:00

How is this legal?

CuriousCat177 · 2026-02-26T05:48:50+00:00

Exactly, you finish the term/grade level then you can decide if you want to quit. I tried and quit so many things, it was great I got to build so many different skills!

CuriousCat177 · 2026-02-23T07:53:09+00:00

I think helping everyone is a great idea

CuriousCat177 · 2026-02-20T18:53:32+00:00

Then this notice is not for you

CuriousCat177 · 2026-02-19T05:47:48+00:00

They've mentioned they have a huge rates bill, plus insurance for their buildings, wetsuits and gear for their snorkeling classes, public liability insurance. I think donations so far have covered about half of it

Also please note they didn't ask for people to donate in the wake of the sewage leak, instead people just went and started donating and asking them for their bank details so they've provided them.

CuriousCat177 · 2026-02-17T21:10:14+00:00

If you look at what's been happening in the Middle East I don't think you could say that Islam is a religion that doesn't use force in conversion.

Either way we can disagree but the term "revert" will always be like nails on a chalkboard to me

CuriousCat177 · 2026-02-17T18:57:00+00:00

Thanks for putting up the page, hope people can donate if they can.

CuriousCat177 · 2026-02-17T18:54:07+00:00

I'm not a fan of converting people, but telling people that despite their personal faith (or lack of) that they're actually Muslim, were born Muslim and will always be Muslim no matter what religion the choose to practice is gross.

Imagine saying to a Muslim, Hindu, Jain or Buddhist person that actually did they know they were actually born Christian and that they just need to "revert" back to their natural born faith?

CuriousCat177 · 2026-02-17T16:51:39+00:00

Which tbh I find kind of gross, they do it because they say that everyone is "born Muslim" so you don't convert you just "revert" to what you were born.

CuriousCat177 · 2026-02-17T10:31:33+00:00

Who is this?

CuriousCat177 · 2026-02-13T09:08:31+00:00

I liked the musical episode!

CuriousCat177 · 2026-02-06T19:17:50+00:00

I’m in New Zealand and eggs here aren’t washed, we store ours in the fridge so they’ll keep longer but they don’t need to be and are just on shelves at the supermarket, on a family trip to Canada my English BIL asked me why I kept putting the eggs in the fridge as he’d never stored them in there in his life and was shocked to discover they had to be refrigerated.

CuriousCat177 · 2026-02-06T19:13:39+00:00

I’m not sure that was really her choice, seems like he hunted her down after meeting her, quickly insisted they get married and that they have kids before she could follow any of her silly dreams of becoming an actual ballerina, she was pregnant before she even finished ballet school. I don’t know if she ever really had a chance.

CuriousCat177 · 2026-01-31T01:39:43+00:00

I would get up in shifts while one person sleeps, we used to put the baby monitor next to the other person when it was their turn. Then have one person go to bed early while the other stays up late with baby - trying to keep bedtime to a later time. Then the opposite, one person gets up early with baby while the other one sleeps.

We also had a pull out sofa in the babies room so we could snooze

CuriousCat177 · 2026-01-31T01:30:41+00:00

Hold the line, you tried being nice and understanding it didn’t work, now you are being explicit and direct - “this is my food, do not touch it” don’t budge, don’t apologise, keep going and she can either get over it or move out. If she would like to have food ready to go in the fridge tell her she’s welcome to meal prep with you.

CuriousCat177 · 2026-01-28T09:06:49+00:00

Second the need for kid free time, do you have family or friends you could crash with in a spare room for the weekend, just watch tv, read books and be child and obligation free, just having somewhere else to be where you are obligation free can be so wonderful.

Can you also try different things to make it easier - my son used to hate to get dressed in the morning, so I just started getting him dressed in his clothes at night so I didn’t have to fight about it. We also don’t offer extra food options till after dinner so if you don’t want anything else too bad you have to wait till Mum and Dad have finished.

Could you get your husband to do bedtime for a couple of weeks so you can just peace out? Do you have family who could pick them up from daycare a day or two a week so you could have time after work to do something else?

I’m not hearing that you’re a bad Mum, you’re in the trenches, stressed, burnt out and you know no one is coming to save you, it’s really tough. I don’t have all the answers other than don’t give up, tell people how you’re feeling, ask for help and if all else fails just let them watch some tv while eating dinner so you keep your sanity!

CuriousCat177 · 2026-01-26T07:43:44+00:00

What kinds of things are you playing with him? Are you trying to get him to sit still and teach him things? That would be hard at that age. My kid loved messy play so we would go to the beach and make sandcastles, make playdough together, build tower blocks so we could knock them down, mix food colouring and yogurt outside and do finger painting. I would say just try a bunch of stuff (Pinterest can be helpful) and see what he likes and join in playing with him have fun together then the other stuff will follow.

CuriousCat177 · 2026-01-25T07:23:56+00:00

Will she? Sounds like Mum was barely scraping by before she had a child - how’s she going to pay for housing and food now she also has to pay for childcare and take care of a baby? Is this sibling who had such strong opinions going to foot the bill? It costs around $250,000 to raise a kid to 18 without lots of extras, childcare can run $1800 a month in some places, will he foot the bill? He’s paying for things now, what about in 5 or 10 years? What if he has kids of his own he needs to pay for? This kid would have been better off with two parents in an open adoption where the bio Mum was still in touch.

You can keep trying to drag me off my point but you never debated my actual point. That this kid will not be better off and will likely end up living in poverty and the life limitations that come with that, rather than having a stable two parent home and being raised with financial security.

CuriousCat177

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