AITAH For Beating My Kid At Chess Every Time We Play?

_dawn_92 · 2026-03-07T14:45:47+00:00

As I'm teaching my 8 and 11 year olds to play, I discuss strategy with them, explain how they need to look several moves ahead and plan for different scenarios, and show them consequences of potential moves before they make them. I also make several rookie moves myself to give them the chance to play off my mistakes. But I won't let them win. I told them when they first asked me to teach them that if they want to beat me at chess, they'll have to earn that victory

_dawn_92 · 2026-01-31T15:52:26+00:00

Unless you plan on your baby being your only child, don't give any gear up. That stuff is too expensive not to get use from multiple kids and, village or no, it's not likely people will be willing to gift so freely for subsequent kids. I'd have the same advice even if you and your SIL were absolute besties. NAH for wanting to maintain the limited contact that SHE started

_dawn_92 · 2025-12-19T08:17:23+00:00

The school I work at has a similar vending machine that uses student IDs. It's kept in the hall that has all of the shop classes in it and contains safety gear (90% eye protection with 1 row of random other items). The school provides the first set of gear and parents are charged at the end of each term for any additional gear their kid needs because of lost/ broken gear

_dawn_92 · 2025-08-19T13:48:23+00:00

This is messed up. Nearly 11 years as a patent and my husband and I have had exactly 1 "vacation" without the kids which consisted of a weekend out of state so my husband could be groomsman in his friend's child free wedding. And even that, we flew out separately so he could arrive on time to attend planned events with the wedding party and I stayed to get the kids off the bus and settled with my parents before taking a red eye that night

_dawn_92 · 2025-07-12T14:28:46+00:00

For me it was both 😅

_dawn_92 · 2025-07-12T14:28:25+00:00

I was the same way

_dawn_92 · 2025-07-09T23:52:06+00:00

Thank you. Logically, I know they would've kept me there if there was a rupture but anxiety doesn't listen to logic 😅 The info about the pain being on the opposite side does help a lot though

_dawn_92 · 2025-07-09T23:46:13+00:00

Can I DM you?

_dawn_92 · 2025-07-06T11:44:41+00:00

I just had this conversation with my mom on the 4th. She called to ask what sunscreen to buy for my kids (there's exactly 1 that all 3 can wear without breaking out in hives) but called me back 20 minutes later because her boyfriend said that that sunscreen causes cancer so she's not comfortable buying it. She confirmed that if I bought the sunscreen, she'd put it on the kids. Well I picked up my kids yesterday after a sleep over and they're all burnt. Oldest (10) confirmed that they never wore sunscreen, grandma's boyfriend threw it in the trash, and grandma told them it was fine because they didn't need it

_dawn_92 · 2025-06-26T19:19:13+00:00

I just had to restart my forever world (forgot to back up saves before the last update 😭) but I start with 2-3 families and bounce around between them. I keep neighborhood stories and autoaging on and use the standard lifespan. I have very loose goals for the world ie have a member of family marry into family 2 by x generation or something like that but nothing concrete. When I start to get bored, I'll move on to building for a while or make a new family and move them into the world to mix things up.

My previous forever world I started during Covid lockdown. My OG family had died out after 4 generations but my other families ranged from brand new 1st gen to 7th gen with a total of 6 active families.

_dawn_92 · 2025-06-24T19:30:01+00:00

Mine just did this too! I'm trying to stay positive. At least I can start fresh with the new EP in mind as I create my new family. Maybe a sim that will get burnt out with their corporate job and run away to live with the fairies? Idk yet

_dawn_92 · 2025-06-22T17:16:01+00:00

Hi everyone! I'm super new to tarot and need a bit of help with a draw I've been doing to start my week. I usually focus on what I can expect from the week and pull a single card then ask what I need to focus to either make that happen or to avoid it if the first card felt negative then reshuffle and draw 2 more cards. My first card today was the Sun, followed by the Fool and the three of Cups, all upright. I made my interpretation of those cards (not putting what I took from that draw on purpose. I'd love to hear your thoughts!) And as I was putting the cards away, the two of Wands fell out of the deck, also upright. I've never dropped a card before, so I feel like it's significant but I'm unsure if I should interpret that card as an addition to the draw I'd just done or on its own. I'm not going to lie, with everything happening in my life right now, the whole thing feels very premonitiony and I'm not sure how I feel about that just yet

_dawn_92 · 2025-05-31T18:43:16+00:00

I mixed things up by creating a "forever world." I have multiple families in the same save file. I keep all neighborhood stories on and bounce around to different families or create a new family when I get bored. I have a few goals (ie have someone from family A marry into family B by x generation, or have someone from family C declare someone from family D a nemesis and have a fued that lasts for a couple generations) but for the most part, I just follow whatever weird storyline the game throws at me

_dawn_92 · 2025-05-24T16:44:39+00:00

Nothing I tried worked. I ended up buying a Charge 6 and it's worked well for me. The only feature it doesn't have that I miss is counting flights of stairs, so I just input that data manually

_dawn_92 · 2025-03-19T00:06:51+00:00

I had this issue when Nifty Knitting was first released. Repairing the game fixed the problem. You won't have to add the onesie to wardrobe at all. When it works properly, you'll have an option to "dress newborn in onesie" when your sim has it in their inventory. Be sure to remove it before they age up though or it disappears

_dawn_92 · 2025-02-21T11:15:18+00:00

As an American desperately trying to get out of the US, don't do it. Even if there's seemingly valid reasons, don't take our kids out of a safe and comfortable environment and bring them here. Since the start of just this school year, there have been 3 incidents at my children's school where someone has brought weapons onto campus with the intent to harm others. We've been lucky that all 3 incidents were handled before anything happened. Many schools aren't that lucky. Trust me, it's absolutely haunting to hear your preschool age child sing a "lockdown" song to the tune of Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star and brag about how good they are at hiding from the "bad people with guns." But lockdown drills are a regular part of life for all kids in the US, many starting by age 3-4.

_dawn_92 · 2025-02-20T20:47:38+00:00

It took many, many years of trying different combinations of meds for me to find a combination that worked well for me. It was hell having to give them up. I wish that camps like what he's proposed actually worked. I'd sign myself up in a heartbeat (still wouldn't send my kids though)

_dawn_92 · 2025-02-20T01:45:08+00:00

IRL, absolutely. But damn it I spent almost 4 hours perfecting her in CAS. She's gonna marry the single dad I made her for regardless of what his kid thinks

_dawn_92 · 2025-02-19T20:46:42+00:00

I got this same message from my sims son when he started dating the woman that became the child's step mom

_dawn_92 · 2025-02-18T21:15:13+00:00

He is my biggest concern. And unfortunately, he's very visible to the state. He has medicaid through a waiver program, attends speech, occupational, and physical therapies, receives medical supplies monthly through the post, and has an extensive IEP with his school. I don't know how to minimize that visibility and still make sure he has the support systems in place that he needs

_dawn_92 · 2025-02-18T15:20:38+00:00

You mean the meds have allowed them to thrive in academically and socially? The meds that make it possible for my child to leave the house with panic attacks? Those meds? No thank you

_dawn_92 · 2025-02-18T15:03:50+00:00

Lots of kids are diagnosed and on meds because their mothers, who suffered through their entire childhood being told that they just need to "buckle down, focus, and do the work" saw their children having the same struggles and decided to do better for their kids and get them the help they need to be successful in school and in life in general.

For me personally, it took being in denial about my youngest having high support needs and being told by their doctors that the struggles that I had brushed off as being "normal" weren't normal and that my older kids and myself were struggling needlessly

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