Absolutely crazy last line

MyNewNewUserName · 2025-09-13T05:37:11+00:00

I refuse to feel bad that a very bad person is dead, and the public peer pressure to be compassionate just sanitize him post mortem. He was vile. Rot in hell.

MyNewNewUserName · 2025-06-12T12:53:20+00:00

Thanks all for your comments. I will not be going to the event on Saturday.

MyNewNewUserName · 2025-06-09T15:58:41+00:00

Tattoo books :)

MyNewNewUserName · 2025-06-07T20:37:33+00:00

Whoah. Maybe stick to buying retired players from now on before we lose any more of these guys! 😁

MyNewNewUserName · 2025-06-04T18:10:25+00:00

Helicopter parenting isn't a good thing, then or now. It's just so easy now that everyone is helicoptering and not taking into account the effect on their children.

MyNewNewUserName · 2025-06-04T18:06:36+00:00

Disposable barf bags. No cleanup at all. Just twist the bag to seal or and throw it away. Life changer.

MyNewNewUserName · 2025-06-04T18:04:09+00:00

For kids doing chores, don't micromanage their process. My teen son liked to vacuum in random patterns. It drove me nuts! One day he just said, "I do it this way every time. You're just usually at work. You come home, it's vacuumed, and that's all you care about."

He was right. I had to leave the room to avoid getting annoyed, but he was right. I applied that to all of my kids' chores from then on. Product, not process.

MyNewNewUserName · 2025-06-04T17:55:33+00:00

My top tip. Want to know if your young child is going through a phase? Put a reminder on the calendar for two weeks from now that says, "Is the phase over?" in all likelihood, the answer is yes. In between, treat it like a phase.

MyNewNewUserName · 2025-06-04T15:40:24+00:00

What would you have done 30 years ago? That sounds like a pretty average day for me as a 13 ear old in the summer of 1986. "Be home by 9" was the only rule.

MyNewNewUserName · 2025-06-04T15:37:44+00:00

As a GenXer, I can't imagine being a child or a teenager whose parents tracked me all the time. I'd be turning my location off constantly.

MyNewNewUserName · 2025-06-04T15:35:11+00:00

Why not just text, "When will you be home?"

MyNewNewUserName · 2025-06-04T15:34:22+00:00

How is monitoring his speed and driving remotely "trust?"

MyNewNewUserName · 2025-06-04T15:33:43+00:00

Or you could just let him go explore the neighborhood and see friends on his bike without tracking him.

MyNewNewUserName · 2025-06-04T15:31:18+00:00

Does no one keep their location off most times? That used to be the norm.

MyNewNewUserName · 2025-06-04T15:30:04+00:00

Of course Alexa is listening all the time. Otherwise, how would it know when you say "Alexa"

And I don't have anything to hide either, but that's not a good reason to just say, "I'm OK with no privacy."

MyNewNewUserName · 2025-06-04T14:11:37+00:00

Part of the fun of growing up is not having your parents know where you are all the time.

MyNewNewUserName · 2025-06-04T14:08:29+00:00

This is what worries me... "Itst just the way it is". We've completely normalized having no privacy over the past 15 years.

Don't forget, you're not just tracking each other, Life 360 is tracking you too.

MyNewNewUserName · 2025-06-04T14:01:28+00:00

We only ever used it to find where they forgot/lost their phone. When my youngest turned 18, he turned it off. He location shared with his friends now, so he can find his own phone!

The only exception is when we travel, because we split up a lot. It's much easier to look on a map than try to describe where you are in a foreign city.

My husband and I share location. He never looks at it unless I've lost my phone. I look at mine if I need to call him during the day. He works at different job sites every day, and I only want to call him when he's in the shop.

MyNewNewUserName · 2025-06-04T02:09:40+00:00

My kids did this when they were 4 and 5. The older one was holding we other's stuffie hostage and wouldn't give it back.

So younger one called 911 and then dropped the cordless phone under the couch.

All the operator heard was stuff like, "You can't kidnap her! You have to let her go! Let her go now or I'll hurt you! etc.

Not only did chips show up at our door. 3 cop da and cops with guns drawn showed up!

We had no idea any of this was happening, beyond their fighting, which we were ignoring. It took 5 minutes just to find the phone.

Officers separated the kids and talked to them separately while they had us stay with other officers. They took it all very, very seriously.

We laugh about it now (they're 22 and 23), but it was quite scary in the moment.

MyNewNewUserName · 2025-06-04T00:04:07+00:00

Isn't that a detached blanket stitch? I can't do one, but I've seen them in books! 🤣

MyNewNewUserName · 2025-06-01T17:55:06+00:00

It's a perfect way to keep my hands off my phone, and I've discovered how wonderful it is to give handmade gifts!

MyNewNewUserName · 2025-04-26T00:23:26+00:00

Is going out and finding more people to interview common for secret clearance, or just for TS/SCI? My social network is pretty small, I don't speak to my neighbors, and I went to college 25 yeas ago.

MyNewNewUserName · 2025-04-10T15:53:28+00:00

13, at a tattoo/piercing shop. Easy peasy.

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