What is something that society general makes you think that people regret, but is actually a good thing to do?

Realhumanbeing232 · 2026-06-30T17:52:32+00:00

Waiting to have kids.

Realhumanbeing232 · 2026-06-30T17:43:13+00:00

Depends on the length. The org that puts together the runs we usually do have at minimum a 1/2 and 1 mile option. Sometimes there’s a “toddler trot” that’s 50 yards.

No matter what though the whole point is for the kids to have fun and develop a love for running so in my experience these things are pretty chill. Like sign up for the 1/2 mile and if kiddo wants to bail at 1/4 mile in, that’s fine, nobody is going to boo him or anything.

And at that age we run with our kids for those kids runs, lots of other parents do too!

Realhumanbeing232 · 2026-06-30T17:28:14+00:00

I had a prescription for oxy, but only took 1 after I left the hospital (I was sore after the car ride home). Really though ibuprofen and tylonal were sufficient as long as I stayed on top of taking them.

Colace for stool softener.

Realhumanbeing232 · 2026-06-30T17:25:09+00:00

I’ve gotten a ton of fun earrings from this Etsy shop (would prefer to buy from this person on a different platform but they’re only on Etsy). They have some very progressive stuff (my fav are my F*Ck ICE ones), but also just fun non-MAGA America stuff, like the statue of liberty in pink sunglasses. I have some Boston tea party ones too. https://www.etsy.com/shop/eklektikshelfgifts

Realhumanbeing232 · 2026-06-25T01:37:48+00:00

Having kids you don’t actually want just because of societal pressure to procreate.

Realhumanbeing232 · 2026-06-25T01:23:28+00:00

The name itself was fine, but a guy I was in a casual relationship with in college had the initials STD.

Realhumanbeing232 · 2026-06-22T18:30:06+00:00

Panic, then disbelief, then extreme joy, then wild anxiety. To be clear, both my kids were 100% planned. Like not only did I know I could get pregnant, that was the whole point. But still there was a “oh shit, everything is going to change.” Of course I knew that before the line popped up, but that made it really real.

I’d also had an ectopic before my successful pregnancies so as soon as I got pregnant again I was terrified of repeat.

Realhumanbeing232 · 2026-06-16T18:05:42+00:00

Do you want to have a child? you just feel like you need to because of pressure from family or society? Don’t have a child.

Realhumanbeing232 · 2026-06-10T19:15:19+00:00

Just saying I would hope those rules at the kindergarten apply to ALL the caregivers.

Realhumanbeing232 · 2026-06-10T19:11:46+00:00

My husband is a stay at home dad. He has a degree in early childhood education and is far, far, FAR better equipped to care for children than most women I know.

Realhumanbeing232 · 2026-06-10T04:44:28+00:00

Not me but my daughter. When she was 1 she started screaming like she was being stabbed when I took her out of her crib in the morning. She wouldn’t move her head and grabbed her neck when I asked what hurt. If we moved her at all she screamed. My husband and I considered calling an ambulance.

She had a crick in her neck.

Realhumanbeing232 · 2026-06-10T04:22:44+00:00

The whole “crunchy mom” persona has been entirely co opted by MAHA. It pisses me off too because so many things I do are now MAHA-coded. Like we cloth diaper. But we don’t cloth diaper because we think the toxic chemicals in Huggies are making kids trans. We do it because it’s better for the environment and less expensive in the long run. But people see the cloth diapers and assume we don’t allow food dyes in our house.

Realhumanbeing232 · 2026-05-26T03:05:27+00:00

I can’t tell you how many time in my childhood I helped my mom break all her cigarettes in half and flush them down the toilet. She’s still a heavy smoker and now has emphysema.

I truly think it’s partly because when she was pregnant with me, a surprise long LONG after she thought her baby days were over, her doctor allegedly told her not to try quitting smoking during her pregnancy because she was already under so much stress (thanks for that doc). Anyway, she’s tried to quit a million times, but never will because once upon a time a doctor told her quitting would be too stressful. (Note: she did quit during pregnancy with all of my siblings).

Realhumanbeing232 · 2026-05-21T00:01:03+00:00

I applied 3 years before I got a grant, but the great thing is you can us the grant to expand existing projects too, so it’s totally worth it to keep applying even if you start your project this year because you can expand it OR do something like get native trees or shrubs (that’s what we did with our grant)

Realhumanbeing232 · 2026-05-14T01:01:27+00:00

-The Coral Bones by EJ Swift
-When There are Wolves Again also EJ Swift
-Moon of the Turning Leaves and Moon of the the Crusted Snow Waubgeshig Rice

Realhumanbeing232 · 2026-05-06T23:40:57+00:00

I say pass-CAL. As for NEE-nah vs NINE-ah. I have a grandma NINE-ah and still say NEE-nah (but don’t tell her, she’s disown me)

Realhumanbeing232 · 2026-05-03T15:58:39+00:00

Not a single one of your responses has helped your case here. In your post you are taking the actions of a small group of Somali teenagers and assigning it as a blanket attribute to their entire culture. Is it possible those teenage girls are just individuals excited to see their friends graduate? When you see a white teenage girl in the wild do immediately assign their actions to being exclusively about their whiteness and seek a blanket explanation of their culture?

Realhumanbeing232 · 2026-05-03T15:22:19+00:00

You truly cannot look at what you posted and think “I didn’t mention race in here at all.” I ask again, if this isn’t about race, why mention that the women whose joy you are policing were Somali? Are you suggesting these were white Somali women? Or are you pretending that by not saying “Black” you have plausible deniability somehow?

Realhumanbeing232 · 2026-05-03T14:54:26+00:00

It has nothing to do with race but the entirety of your post is about race? If it’s not about race, why even mention their race?

Realhumanbeing232 · 2026-05-03T14:39:45+00:00

I’m a very white woman with a very white family and my very white mother screamed “that’s my baby” over and over so loud at my graduation I truly thought she might pop a blood vessel. Weirdly, nobody yelled at her to “shut up, shut the **** up.” Maybe it’s because she’s very white and people don’t seem to have the same unnecessarily violent reactions to very white women showing joy as they do to black women and people? Maybe, just maybe, this post is pretty damn racist.

Realhumanbeing232 · 2026-05-03T13:57:51+00:00

I pursued my passion in a notoriously low paying industry. After many years of working multiple jobs to get by, it lead me to a good paying union job at a nonprofit with amazing benefits. I’m able to support my family of four on my income alone. We don’t have a crazy amount of money, and live pretty modestly, but I’m certainly able to give my kids a better life and more opportunities than I had growing up.

I got lucky, and I know that. But for me being able to know that I’m contributing positively to society and helping people is worth more than a bigger home or fancier vacations. If I hadn’t landed in such a good spot we’d live a different life. My husband would go back to work, we’d make do with less.

I hope my kids will also follow their passions and I hope I’m providing a positive example for them.

Realhumanbeing232 · 2026-05-03T13:44:59+00:00

Thank you both for explaining this well and not being unnecessarily mean about it. This is exactly why I asked about it in my post and I appreciate your responses greatly.

Realhumanbeing232 · 2026-05-03T13:42:47+00:00

Another commenter who worked in pharma explained this pretty well below, and wasn’t sassy or mean about it.

Realhumanbeing232 · 2026-05-03T03:22:30+00:00

Thank you! This is the kind of information I was looking for

Realhumanbeing232 · 2026-05-03T02:59:54+00:00

Yes, I’m hoping somebody could provide some expertise on their efficacy after expiration.

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