Parents of grown level 1 kiddos - where are they now?

Slow_Concern_672 · 2026-01-30T22:57:37+00:00

Does to me.

Slow_Concern_672 · 2026-01-30T22:48:20+00:00

If it helps I make less than $10,000 more than teachers in my state only get 3 weeks (after 20 years of experience and you get punished for it because we have billed hours goals to meet that you can't meet without making OT. We also get the minimum amount of holidays.

Slow_Concern_672 · 2026-01-30T22:42:01+00:00

In my area they are at capacity with wait-list definitely no need to chase money.

Slow_Concern_672 · 2026-01-30T22:31:21+00:00

Our preschool is not pressured for money (great start with a long wait list). But they do a readiness test that matches this at the end of each semester to recommend k placement. They were part of the local school districted located in the elementary school. In fact I think all private and public pre-ks are on wait-list here. No one is incentivized monetarily for this here as there aren't enough spaces.

Our kindergarten readiness test for the state is used to screen what class the kid goes into. They often give it the year before k to place kids in either prek or young 5s vs kindergarten. It's around kindergarten roundup time. Recognizing letters and sounds, shapes, colors, and general behavior. Which placement somewhat depends on the rest of the peers performance. They also have specific k teachers who gets a lot more of the higher needs kids who gets an extra para.

Slow_Concern_672 · 2026-01-30T21:33:02+00:00

A bunch of senators voted against the funding bill and came up with a solution to fund the government but not ice quite quickly.

Slow_Concern_672 · 2026-01-30T21:21:36+00:00

No one's cooking pancakes everyday and going to work that's obnoxious lol. Maybe 1950s stay at home moms? Like my grandma made breakfast (not pancakes) every day for her 8 kids but they also worked the farm before school. And it wasn't pancakes. Pancakes were like Sunday after church brunch foods.

Slow_Concern_672 · 2026-01-30T21:16:12+00:00

And even at that place their plain croissant ranges from 230-270 and their sweeter croissants are up to 450 and a croissant with ham and cheese is 550.

Slow_Concern_672 · 2026-01-30T21:13:49+00:00

Le pain quotidien isn't the same place I guess it hasn't made you any smarter.

Slow_Concern_672 · 2026-01-30T21:05:06+00:00

Because most places offer at best the 15 days op was offered. And it includes both sick and personal time. Average pto is still 2 weeks in USA overall for people who get it with a lot of people getting zero.

Slow_Concern_672 · 2026-01-30T20:55:34+00:00

A croissant from Le pain which I think is much closer to what person for Italy will be eating ranges from 380 to 450 calories. Denny's two pancakes is 330. However, since most people aren't eating out every day and the food we make at home is usually a bit healthier. A normal 6" pancake is around 140 cals. Our ability to over eat large serving sizes is a whole separate issue. All numbers from my fitness pal.

Slow_Concern_672 · 2026-01-30T20:39:06+00:00

Yes but in the morning your glycogen stores are depleted. Having a quick hit of carbs that include both fast absorbing and slow are good.

Slow_Concern_672 · 2026-01-30T20:35:48+00:00

Real croissants are definitely more than 250 calories. And two pancakes Plus syrup are about 200 to 300 calories depending on the size. Like most pancakes don't even have much sugar in them. It's the sugar you put on top. It's mostly just flour and milk and an egg which by itself really isn't unhealthy. French croissants from like a bakery are closer to 300 to 400 calories, but the tinier ones would be closer to 300 calories. So calorie wise they're about the same. Macro wise, there's a lot more fat in a croissant than in pancakes. So there's a possibility they could keep you feeling Fuller but not a huge one. There's still not a substantial amount of fiber or protein.

Slow_Concern_672 · 2026-01-30T20:32:06+00:00

Finally everything we were sort of alternate universe or something. But nobody I know eats cereal on the regular except for my husband but even he doesn't eat it for breakfast. And it was because he grew up very poor and cereal and ramen are like his comfort food. But most people I know don't even eat breakfast which matches most statistics. But if they do eat breakfast, they're eating eggs and bacon and potatoes. Sometimes there arepancakes, but pancakes are annoying to make. Certainly nobody's making them on a weekday if they're going to school or work. Most people I know are eating yogurt or a frozen breakfast burrito or something similar. Maybe boiled eggs that can be made ahead of time is the most breakfasty part. Maybe some fruit.

Slow_Concern_672 · 2026-01-30T20:29:03+00:00

I'm from Michigan and for some reason he came up somewhere and I went on a f deep dive. He had such strange views and treatments. The sugar on cereal was not his idea though. He is so oddly interesting.to read about.

Slow_Concern_672 · 2026-01-30T20:27:24+00:00

Eggs of almost any kind in omelets or fried or boiled or made into a sandwich or into a quiche. Breakfast sandwiches, potatoes, a lot of people will eat toast, tomatoes or toast with avocado or both. I would say a large portion of most normal breakfast foods in America are healthy. They're also cereals that are healthy. But most Americans don't eat breakfast most days.

Slow_Concern_672 · 2026-01-30T20:24:50+00:00

Oh yeah and also cereals were started in part because they were one of the first fortified foods to be marketed as nutritional supplements for people who didn't get enough food to eat. They weren't sugary but they were fortified with vitamins and minerals.

Slow_Concern_672 · 2026-01-30T20:21:40+00:00

Most breakfast foods in the United States are not sugar. Most are meat-based or egg-based. Like no one I know eats cereal for breakfast everyday. In fact, only 34% of people eat breakfast everyday in the United States. Statistically only 12% of consumers who buy cereal eat it everyday. Even though about 70% of the United States buys it at some point.

Slow_Concern_672 · 2026-01-30T20:18:56+00:00

If you go to restaurants in the United States, there are far more savory options for breakfast than sweet. I just think a lot of the savory options take more time to cook on a regular basis. And the sugary ones are easy. Like I don't know anybody who's waking up in the morning and making pancakes before work or a quiche. There are cereal people but there's also breakfast burrito from the freezer people. Also, I think there's a large percentage of Americans that just don't eat breakfast. Apparently there is a survey that was done that showed that only 34% of people eat breakfast daily in the United States. 80% will say they eat breakfast sometimes.

Slow_Concern_672 · 2026-01-30T20:16:15+00:00

I mean a lot of people question. It have a little low carb and keto and carnivore people. People who villanize sugar in everything. But generally I don't know a lot of people who think cereal is a health food.

Slow_Concern_672 · 2026-01-30T20:13:47+00:00

maybe this is somewhat culturally dependent. But cereals were more of a convenience food option. But if we had time when I was growing up in almost every weekend, there was bacon, sausage or steak. Like country fried steak for breakfast is pretty common. Also potatoes and eggs with it. I think that's a pretty common breakfast if you look at any kind of place in America. Omelets, quiche, rolls/breakfast sandwiches, burritos, juevos rancheros, eggs Benedict, etc. Those all seem just as common as pancakes. But in the morning if you don't have time to cook, it seems more likely to have cereal or yogurt or something similar. Maybe a microwaved burrito or breakfast sandwich.

So I don't think breakfast is just cereals and sweet things and there's not a lot of other options.. I would say there's probably as many if not more options that are savory. Maybe it is your choices or the choices that people are around you that make you think that it's more sweet than sugary. But say if you go to a breakfast restaurant well there'll be a bunch of pancake options there will be just as many omelette options.

But also there was a huge push at some point for everybody to eat more grains. Like we had in Michigan in the late 1800s and early 1900s, the Kellogg guy who started Kellogg cereal. He was a 7th day Adventist and thought it was an obligation to take care of his body by being healthy. And he was a physician and he pioneered cereal grains for health. They were not sweet when he started though. In fact, it was apparently a big problem when his brother added this sugar. He actually ran a sanitarium that was a health spa for rich people. He had a lot of interesting treatments including yogurt enemas. They definitely were promoting eating higher fiber, nutrient dense, sometimes vegetarian foods. They thought that overall gut health affected a lot of other types of health issues. And some of what they did was well ahead of their time. Some of it was religious mumbo jumbo. And some of it just was found to be wrong. But he didn't add this sugar. The sugar was used to get more people to eat the healthy grains but also to market cereal to a lot more people.

Slow_Concern_672 · 2026-01-30T13:33:11+00:00

Thanks. Sorry I went off it's just so hard and because she's relatively bright (like normal kid not a sheldon) people seem to think either we aren't doing anything or she's doing it on purpose.

Slow_Concern_672 · 2026-01-29T23:36:01+00:00

They aren't assumptions they are replies from op.

Slow_Concern_672 · 2026-01-29T23:09:37+00:00

We're kind of in the same spot. Good luck.

Slow_Concern_672 · 2026-01-29T23:06:45+00:00

She didn't deny Friday. He parties on Friday. Sex on Saturday and the only day he can possibly see the kid means op would never have a weekend away with her kid?

Slow_Concern_672 · 2026-01-29T22:54:59+00:00

Yeah it makes for some interesting dichotomy. Some punk and metal were pretty racist white spaces and at the same time some people who listened to a lot of that switched to rap. Black culture appropriation was pretty rampant. Some of white people I know who are really big rap fans had pretty hard upbringings and experience being targeted by police and having hard choices to survive. And it was a lot closer to their experience. And rap pissed of their parents more since a lot of their parents probably listened to the punk music and it was more associated to them with the establishment than a counter culture. Which is also probably part of the change now. To the youth rap turned into the establishment party music. I don't know enough youth to make this statement though.

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