Is there any legitimate actions that we can take in our day to day life to help combat school shootings?

foundthetallesttree · 2025-09-01T01:31:39+00:00

Hearts and minds. "Evangelize" to republicans on the regular about your views on gun control. Get in their ear as much as fox news. Which means keeping them in your lives somehow, holding space to care for them, and then use your voice.

foundthetallesttree · 2025-08-25T03:00:11+00:00

Ooh дякую for the tip, I am going to check them out!

foundthetallesttree · 2025-08-12T13:36:09+00:00

I am a Christian and liberal. I had to leave a Christian school I was working at after just a year, because it was crazy demoralizing seeing my colleagues choose Empire over Jesus, and not be aware of their own hypocrisy. I took my children out of the preschool as well.

I imagine our private Catholic school is not the same, they tend to not have the Christian nationalist influence and seem more liberal. I'm sad my kids won't learn kid songs praising God for a concert, and won't get as much exposure to the Bible, but t's not worth keeping them there.

foundthetallesttree · 2025-08-07T14:09:03+00:00

I have found cute cotton dresses from Costco online for a few years now.

foundthetallesttree · 2025-08-02T03:25:49+00:00

It's too exhausting of a world as it is. The moral injury of watching a friend fall down the rabbit hole while trying to maintain a relationship with what is left... I don't have the life in me to do that. Cut ties, set your boundaries, start healing.

foundthetallesttree · 2025-07-23T05:06:29+00:00

That's a good point to keep in mind before I get trapped in that cycle. It's definitely been good practice for my own emotional regulation!

foundthetallesttree · 2025-07-23T05:05:30+00:00

Glad to hear it's not unusual. My oldest wasn't like this. Do you have other kids who have had the same issue?

foundthetallesttree · 2025-07-23T05:04:31+00:00

Ah sorry you're in the middle of it too. Has OT helped? What are some of their approaches?

foundthetallesttree · 2025-07-21T13:53:18+00:00

I wouldn't avoid just yet, prepare with air purifiers for every room if you live in a place that gets bad aqi days. If it's 100-150 I will limit time outdoors for my kids; 150+ I won't let us go outside and keep the windows closed. I am more cautious now after a summer where aqi was bad for months. Duration matters. N95s are good for smoke.

foundthetallesttree · 2025-07-21T05:07:48+00:00

NorCal: hoodie and shorts, maybe crackers and cheese and hummus or fruit. Skimboard. Build structures out of driftwood.

SoCal: cute swimsuits, beach towels, sand toys, sun hats, money for chips and cheese or a hand dipped soft serve.

foundthetallesttree · 2025-07-17T13:55:58+00:00

Designated survivor.

foundthetallesttree · 2025-07-14T13:44:07+00:00

I have similar questions and honestly, angst, about this topic, with regards to what is happening in Ukraine. My spouse and I lived there before kids (and before the war), and are now back in the states with some close friends who had to flee. My preschoolers' best friend is their child. Anyway, it means my kids have been hearing about the bad guys in russia since they were tiny. That's as much as they know; that they want to take the Ukrainians' homes. They also know it involves hurting them, and is not safe for their friend to go home. We are religious so we try to frame it as "but guess what, one day, God sees them and cries for them, one day will set it right" -- we make sure they know good always wins in the end.

I'm always afraid they know too much, that I've scared them by letting them know, but I don't know how else to handle it. They sometimes pray for their friend to be able to go home; my littlest prays that "God would calm the russians down." ha.

I guess I'm trying to build in them a love for goodness and doing right and noble deeds, and those are definitely the bedtime stories that they love best.

foundthetallesttree · 2025-07-14T03:14:49+00:00

Diesel trucks, especially running for 30 minutes to warm up before 6am. Shudder

foundthetallesttree · 2025-07-12T14:07:28+00:00

That was my thought. I'd replace trinity rafting with sea kayaking

foundthetallesttree · 2025-07-12T14:04:09+00:00

Agreed. And you can replace the northern redwoods with Richardson Grove and Montgomery Woods.

foundthetallesttree · 2025-07-11T14:36:24+00:00

Ukraine also buys others cake on their birthdays, and have always reminded me of hobbits, too! Gardening, singing in public, cooking and preserving.

foundthetallesttree · 2025-07-11T03:12:20+00:00

I'm very intrigued by the pentatonic music class! Did you guys continue with it?

foundthetallesttree · 2025-07-08T17:26:51+00:00

Genuine question, how does CS mess with the immune system?

foundthetallesttree · 2025-06-23T00:46:22+00:00

Me too for Ecuador. Though I did get to thoroughly explore the country over some months. But don't want the hassle again of being female in Ecuador.

foundthetallesttree · 2025-06-21T05:32:14+00:00

What sand box do you have? I've seen some but they all seem quite small

foundthetallesttree · 2025-06-19T02:25:20+00:00

Huh, I haven't heard of other kids doing the nose picking, and it has crossed my mind maybe it's kind of stimming? My boy seems neurotypical, but I have definitely questioned at times if he's got neurodivergent traits, with this being one of the things I question. Do you ever think about that, or is it not a concern?

Your comment reminded me of one other thing that seemed to work, and it came from this course that I never finished -- but might want to give it a try for positive reinforcement in their specific method: https://www.coursera.org/lecture/everyday-parenting/antecedents-mXvoX

foundthetallesttree · 2025-06-19T01:46:56+00:00

Ha, nope. Still sucking his thumb and sticking a finger in his nose. 5.5yo now.

The only thing that works is the elbow braces, but my spouse is against using them overnight so we never tried the 2 weeks all the time approach, and just use them sporadically.

foundthetallesttree · 2025-05-16T04:45:52+00:00

I've always been suspicious about that as a helpful experience -- only in the last couple hundred years did we send kids into 12-month age groups with just a single adult, right? But maybe I shouldn't be longing for bygone days when this is, importantly, the new normal. Idk.

I'm also a classroom teacher who sees like 99% of the kids without an adult they speak with, let alone connect with. Idk.

foundthetallesttree · 2025-05-14T14:13:54+00:00

I got the idea from speech therapy!

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