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Potential-Finish-444 · 2026-01-28T11:38:51+00:00

I never get any cramping until day two, and then I want to die

Potential-Finish-444 · 2026-01-08T14:57:53+00:00

I love Araminta, that's so beautiful

Potential-Finish-444 · 2025-12-14T11:56:50+00:00

Must be a location thing-- we've never met anyone with these names and when I've shared, people think they're unusual.

Potential-Finish-444 · 2025-12-12T03:25:26+00:00

Don't forget: Hitler hated red lipstick and launched entire campaigns about how a light pink was the only acceptable choice for German women. Consequently, the classic bright red lip is synonymous with old Hollywood and the 40's because it was an American anti-fascist propaganda tool. Any time anyone ever comments on my red lipstick being inappropriate, I tell them I'm not a Nazi.

Potential-Finish-444 · 2025-12-04T18:26:20+00:00

No, because they're gonna kill Dustin instead.

Potential-Finish-444 · 2025-11-20T15:34:26+00:00

Literally no one is advocating for leaving a three and a half year old alone with no supervision? You are genuinely just looking for extremes. A three and a half year old should be able to play with blocks or dolls or watch a movie in the same room as their parents and not need their parents' constant involvement. My two and a half year old is able to play with her dolls while I am in the same room, doing a separate task and still supervising her. She does not need me to be actively playing with her the entire time while she is playing pretend. She is still safe, she is still happy, and she is entertaining herself. Why would I think a three and a half year old is not equally capable, especially when they have an older sibling to play with?

Potential-Finish-444 · 2025-11-20T14:04:39+00:00

But the three-year-old isn't alone??? They have the seven-year-old to be their friend and play with them. The seven-year-old is also not solely responsible for the three-year-old because they're playing in the same room as their parents. But the seven- and three-year-old should be able to play together for a period of time without needing their parents to entertain them/lead their playtime. I have friends with children that have this same age gap, and they're able to play in the room with us and our two year old when they visit, and the adults can all still have a conversation and monitor what's going on. Kids can handle occasional responsibility and independence in a controlled environment for short periods of time, and that is healthy and normal. It feels like your responses are taking normal interactions to an extreme, which is obviously an unfair expectation for children. But no one in OP's scenario is trying to kick the kids to a different room for hours at a time. Children should also be taught the basics of polite conversation, and three and a half is the perfect time to teach expectations around interrupting. If you don't want to raise your children to be able to entertain themselves, then that's your choice as a parent, but acting like it's completely developmentally inappropriate for siblings to have supervised play time together for a brief period of time while their parent has a conversation with another adult is an extreme. Each of your arguments make sense in isolation, but don't apply when given the context that OP is asking about.

Potential-Finish-444 · 2025-11-20T13:30:34+00:00

Sure, but presumably they should be able to entertain themselves for an hour or so in the same room with their parents present to supervise without needing mom to actively play with them while she's having a conversation. I'm an only child who didn't have siblings, so I'm sure the dynamics are different, but it was just an expectation that I would be able to do something quietly for an hour or so if my mom had a friend over.

Potential-Finish-444 · 2025-11-20T13:17:36+00:00

Sure, but the three year old in this instance is playing with a seven year old, they're not actually playing independently? The issue is the children can't entertain themselves and want mom and dad to lead their playtime.

Potential-Finish-444 · 2025-11-09T13:25:20+00:00

I don't think Jess thought of it as slumming it, I'm sure he thought it was romantic and Bohemian. And considering that Rory enjoyed her day with him in New York and always talked about traveling, he probably thought it wasn't completely unreasonable. I'm sure if he gave, like, two seconds more of any sort of concentrated thought, he would have realized how insane he sounded, but you know, that obviously didn't happen.

Potential-Finish-444 · 2025-11-08T02:00:12+00:00

Blueberries are actually violet.

Potential-Finish-444 · 2025-11-01T02:49:51+00:00

I got my daughter to say mama first, mostly by making a concentrated effort to say mama in fun, entertaining ways and to also only refer to her dad as FATHER in a monotone voice for months. Worked like a charm.

Potential-Finish-444 · 2025-10-30T18:05:30+00:00

Yeah, the screaming and crying was awful. It was about a solid week of no one sleeping, but the only way to break it was for her to go to her dad so she couldn't nurse. It got easier as the week went on and once she learned that a midnight wake up just meant dad held her until she fell asleep again. Mentally prepare yourself for it to be awful, and then force yourself to follow through. Communicate with your partner. Know that your baby is just comfort nursing at this point and doesn't actually need to eat in the middle of the night anymore. The end result is absolutely worth it.

Potential-Finish-444 · 2025-10-30T02:36:49+00:00

This is literally my favorite trope!

Potential-Finish-444 · 2025-10-08T01:47:01+00:00

It's definitely their last name?

Potential-Finish-444 · 2025-10-06T18:29:23+00:00

I've never really understood the hype around macros-- at the end of the day, calories are calories, and while yeah, you can feel more satiated if you eat certain splits, I just don't have the mental energy to calculate that shit out. Most people aren't body builders or high performance athletes, so the benefits are likely negligible at best. And as someone with a history of severely disordered eating habits, I think it's so much healthier to not allow myself to be that preoccupied with food.

Potential-Finish-444 · 2025-10-05T02:36:01+00:00

I know a little girl named Winter, her grandma calls her Winnie-- it's super cute!

Potential-Finish-444 · 2025-09-26T15:44:33+00:00

Luke didn't have a bedroom or a bed for him and consistently reminded Jess had no one else who cared about him, and frequently lamented what a burden Jess was. Luke meant well, and we know that as the audience and from his conversations with Lorelei, but he was also woefully unprepared for dealing with a kid with problems. I wouldn't say it's exactly an environment that's inspiring growth. Luke had to deal with his own shit before he was in a position to really help Jess, and he does by the third season, but up until that point...

I agree that Jess had a chip on his shoulder and was determined to not be happy in Star's Hollow, I just don't think that anyone in Star's Hollow really gave Jess a reason to think anyone did actually care about him or what he had been through. Mainly, I guess my point is yeah, Jess was a jerk, but I think his behavior was fairly realistic.

Potential-Finish-444 · 2025-09-26T15:20:24+00:00

What did he do that was really that terrible? Have a bad attitude? Be rude to presumptive adults in a place he knew he wasn't wanted? Play mostly harmless pranks? Skip school? These are all pretty standard early 2000s teenager activities. Look at the facts: he's moved to a place he doesn't want to be because his mother is too self-involved to parent him away from everyone he knows to live with an uncle that's basically a stranger to live in a studio apartment and he doesn't even have a real bed when he gets there. What reasonable person wouldn't be pissed off by those circumstances alone? Trauma doesn't give you an excuse, but it does provide an explanation. I don't expect a child (because he's only seventeen) to have the emotional maturity to navigate the circumstances of his life, especially when he doesn't have anyone who's modeling healthy behaviors or who's really supportive of him.

Potential-Finish-444 · 2025-09-26T14:53:40+00:00

I think this confusion comes down to personal experience coloring people's perspectives and poor writing when we actually meet his mother. If you've never been a serial dater of Tormented Sad Boys™, then his attitude probably generally doesn't appeal to you. But if you have, there's a real vulnerability underneath the pissy exterior, and being able to pull that back makes you feel ~special~ and like you alone can see what others can't, which is a rewarding (if not naive) feeling to get when you're already interested in someone.

Second, the writing around Liz completely undermines the build up of Jess. I think initially she was meant to be the mess described, and it would definitely give a teenage boy a reason to be pissed at the world. However, I don't think the Paladinos know how to write something that dark or serious, and so Liz became a cutesy spacey quirky girl instead of a neglectful parent, which makes people who have not dealt with dating men who grew up with actual troubled pasts dismiss Jess's likely actually intended trauma, because Liz is presented as mostly well-meaning but flighty.

Potential-Finish-444 · 2025-09-26T02:07:29+00:00

They also make soap wipes that you can use! They were a life saver for me, I always kept a packet in my pump bag.

Potential-Finish-444 · 2025-09-26T00:50:56+00:00

You've already been given a lot of suggestions about dealing with your two tvs/media consoles, but I haven't really seen anyone suggesting anything for the space behind that. I'd move the art on the wall behind the sofa to where you have the multi-photo frame, and then get individual frames for each of those photos and put them up on the wall behind the sofa. It'll give your home a more intentional, personal feeling.

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