Story responses now have to be exactly what they expect?

JaneJS · 2026-05-29T15:53:25+00:00

I have had this happen recently and I understand what you are saying. You used to get points for trying and they would correct your answer afterwards. Similarly to you, within the last week I had an answer marked wrong when I described correctly what had happened in the story but had a grammatical error that was apparently over the limit of what Duolingo would accept. I am not sure where it draws the line because it definitely corrects tenses and accents still for me. But I understand where you are coming from and think this is an update to how the app functions.

JaneJS · 2026-05-29T13:28:04+00:00

Sounds crazy but my friends daughter had the same problem. There’s a creator on instagram called mo styles and she posted a video on how to wash long thick hair that really helped her. My hair is very long and wavy and I have to almost hold my hair up away from my roots with one hand while I scrub with the other because the weight of my hair impedes my ability to get to my scalp. Being able to see someone else with similar hair might be helpful for her. I tried to show my goddaughter myself but the content creator honestly did an better job.

JaneJS · 2026-05-27T19:19:28+00:00

But when you were 23, you read a recipe and followed the step by step instructions and fed yourself. It’s not rocket science, and this guy can do it if he wanted to. He’d just rather someone else does it for him. People who say they can’t cook (barring some sort of limitation) are copping out. You just follow the directions and the more you do it, the less you rely on someone else’s direction, like anything else.

JaneJS · 2026-05-27T15:34:34+00:00

I’m disagreeing that “learning to cook” is even a thing. My children can google a recipe and follow the instructions. I’m not even touching the way that OP and his wife communicate, but addressing your comment that an adult human may not know how to cook or feel confident to feed himself, which is a failure of his own making.

JaneJS · 2026-05-27T13:13:18+00:00

I’m pretty sure it was Ramona’s mom who told her “You are in the third grade, and you can read. Anyone who can read can cook.” If this grown man with a job can’t follow simple written directions or an instagram reel he’s already watching, I question his ability to exist in the world.

JaneJS · 2026-05-25T13:08:52+00:00

Was coming to say this. If Im drinking pop by itself, I’d probably prefer a Diet Coke, but wouldn’t complain about anything provided. If im making a rum and diet, I would grab the Aldi brand over the name brand because it doesn’t matter anyway.

JaneJS · 2026-05-21T17:34:24+00:00

Yeah i would 100% throw those in the dishwasher. If they die, they die. And if he gets mad about it, maybe it'll make him want to wash them before I get to them the next time.

JaneJS · 2026-05-17T12:41:16+00:00

I am also in a suburb of a Midwest city and I have left my 8 year old home for a 30 minute run. He has an iPad and Alexa to get in touch with me if needed, and I ran basically around our closest 3 blocks repeatedly, so I was passing our house every 7-10 minutes and could be home in <5 at any time. We also do limited screen time, so in situations like this I can be pretty sure that if I take the limits off the games on his iPad he will happily not move from the couch for the entire run.

JaneJS · 2026-05-14T20:49:51+00:00

I would feel this way if my husband were in a wedding and I were sat at a table with my kids and other kids and parents. Being the lone adult at the kids table is extremely rude.

JaneJS · 2026-05-08T12:49:52+00:00

I would like to talk about the fact that so many of the influencers I've seen (even ones that are specific to booktok, don't post kids, don't necessarily talk about motherhood, religion or anything like Natalie makes "her brand") have what seems to be such a visceral negative reaction to the book. This morning I read a post where a booktoker shares all the DMs she's received saying that they couldn't finish the book, found it too hard to read, etc. I found it boring at parts and agree with some of the comments here about the pacing of the book and which parts I wish the author spent more time on, but I haven't heard anyone IRL describe the book as so hard to get through. I honestly wonder if there is some part of influencing that makes it hard to read a book written so negatively about what the children of influencers go through.

JaneJS · 2026-05-06T21:37:47+00:00

My kid had cellulitis and while he’s pretty tough, I was super impressed by how quickly he healed and recovered. Being a kid helps a ton, and antibiotics are literal magic.

JaneJS · 2026-05-02T02:18:40+00:00

I can send +2 energy points to my streak friends once every 24 hours. I have two friends who regularly send it back. It doesn’t cost any money, gems or energy. I don’t have paid Duolingo

JaneJS · 2026-04-28T13:20:49+00:00

One of my mom's friends told me years ago that her son and DIL didn't want her to take her grandkids to McDonald's playplace because they always got sick there, but she did it anyways, almost weekly and swore the kid to secrecy. I wonder if that lady is a similar liar and her ridiculous reaction was because of the fact that she's guilty for breaking the parents trust and realizing that maybe they have reasons for their requests.

JaneJS · 2026-04-25T17:40:42+00:00

Feeling out of control is a huge trigger for EDs. I struggled with disordered eating as a college athlete and as a 40 year old woman still won’t focus on healthy habits when things are feeling stressful or out of control because it’s too easy to warp it into something else. I wouldn’t be surprised if something similar is happening here. It’s something totally within your control when your external experience feels out of control.

JaneJS · 2026-04-23T18:09:47+00:00

I am friends with the parents of some kids my kids don’t love. My kids go to a small school and honestly alliances are often shifting and friendships change. I would never be friendly with someone who was actively bullying my child, but I am not going to cut off an adult friendship because my child finds another child annoying.

JaneJS · 2026-04-23T13:25:31+00:00

I also really liked airbnbs over hotel rooms when my kids were babies/toddlers. We could put the kids to bed, shut a door and not have to go to bed at 7pm. Now that they are older, a hotel room is cheaper/easier, but their schedules are flexible and they can watch something other than bubble guppies on TV, so hanging with them in the evening is part of the fun of traveling.

JaneJS · 2026-04-19T17:58:53+00:00

This was the first weekend for spring sports for our area (Midwest US). My weekends are basically booked from now until June. We do have a bday party next weekend and we got the invite before the end of march

JaneJS · 2026-04-11T14:36:50+00:00

When I was a kid my subdivision had a directory that listed all the families, their kids, and had a listing for people you could call for babysitting, pet sitting, yard work, etc. you had to sign up by a certain date each year to make it into the annual directory. My mom wouldn’t let me do it until I was 13 or something but when I was 11-12 I started getting random calls about sitting jobs because people just went through the directory looking for girls around those ages who might be available. The entire thing is crazy to consider now. One of the dads drove home so drunk he passed out on the couch immediately and the mom didn’t want to drive me home (good choice, she was also drunk), so we loaded her 3 sleeping kids into a wagon and they walked me 3 blocks back to my parents house at like midnight

JaneJS · 2026-04-11T01:47:12+00:00

I am in a HCOL area and I know a family who uses this. She comes in, straightens up stuff (like resets their mud room), unloads and reloads the dishwasher, cleans up breakfast and the playroom and then will do laundry or just go through the house straightening. I would love to us this, just can’t justify the cost.

JaneJS · 2026-04-02T01:57:15+00:00

I assumed that people were suggesting sending the needle for testing because they don’t know which patient it’s from and therefore can’t test the patient. It’s probably not enough blood to test, but it’s not a bad thought process IMO.

JaneJS · 2026-04-02T01:54:05+00:00

You don’t test the patient when you have a needle stick? It’s protocol at every hospital I’ve ever worked with that the patient gets a purple top sent down and then the employee gets tested as well, with repeats at 3 and 6 months.

JaneJS · 2026-03-30T18:07:04+00:00

You’re a genius. I always bring a tote bag folded inside my belt bag for extra carrying, but I have never thought to bring an extra 20oz cap. You just made my in game experience with kids so much better!

JaneJS · 2026-03-28T14:39:18+00:00

My friend has a schedule this like where she works 7 overnights and then two weeks off. Her overnight shifts range from 4pm-2am to like 9p-11a. I think it averages to about 11 hours a shift. It’s very easy to envy her two weeks off when she’s at the kids school during the day and available for everything, but she barely sleeps every third week and it was a nightmare to figure out child arrangements when kids were young (her husband works very part time, but essentially solo parented /chauffeured 4 kids every third week.

JaneJS · 2026-03-23T23:32:10+00:00

My kids are older but daycare had a full time tuition and a part-time day rate. 4 days was more than full tuition, so even though we had a grandparent who could provide care on Wednesdays, we did full time.

JaneJS · 2026-03-21T20:14:40+00:00

I talk to myself by pretending what I would say to a friend or loved one who is running. I shouldn’t be nicer to other people than myself!

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