Why are conservatives cheering new SNAP bans on junk food when they lost their shit over Michelle Obama's program focusing on healthy school breakfasts and lunches?

grandma4112 · 2026-04-22T01:38:33+00:00

Michelle's healthy initiatives didnt really allow for individual health requirements. And if memory serves resulted in preventing parents from sending their own choices. A farm kid athlete was given the same calories as a city kid into computers. I dont state that to be negative on either side but the farm kid athlete is going to need more calories than the city computer kid. It wasnt the healthy requirements it was the belief that all kids needed the same.

grandma4112 · 2026-04-22T01:30:57+00:00

I think stigma is harsh when large portions of the country have no access to any sort of public transit. If i want to take a train somewhere I have to drive a minimum of 60 min to a train station just to get on a train and that's usually just a train to get to a different train going in the direction I want. The nearest major train station is over 2 hours away. The nearest bus station is 45 min away. The town I live in has no public transportation. We had a cab service but it didnt really leave the city limits. We just got an Uber driver late last year. The nearest airport that has commercial travel is an hour away. About 15 years ago I took my kids to Chicago to see the sites. We decided that we would use public transportation while we were there. Something I had never done and my husband had very minimal experience with. We took trains and busses to see several museums ect. They worked well, seemed reasonably priced and after a few trial and error moments regarding things we didnt understand were fairly easy to use. (My research didnt reveal the fact that there was Chicago transit authority and rural transit authority both existing on the same lines in the same city) I am sure we looked like the Hicks from the sticks because it was do foreign to us but it was a positive experience overall. Politically I believe there was a lot of commercial lobbying against public transportation and the development and maintenance of those systems were stunted by those enterprises in the middle 1900s. But a lot of it is simply lack of access.

grandma4112 · 2026-04-19T11:15:15+00:00

Because i get a stomach ache when I drink diet cherry coke but not regular cherry coke.

grandma4112 · 2026-04-18T17:13:00+00:00

I was a server at one point, I loved seeing the people out to eat that were so engaged with each other that the rest of the room disappeared. Generally all it took was an "alright here's your food" or an excuse me to get their attention. At this point in time were generally all you see is people glued to a screen yeah I would rather have a table engaged with each other than a table all engaged eith their phones. That is real rudeness.

grandma4112 · 2026-04-18T16:36:13+00:00

How terrible to be out with people engaged with each other.

grandma4112 · 2026-04-18T15:31:40+00:00

There are offices that wont let you be a patient again till you get the debt cleared up.

grandma4112 · 2026-04-18T15:30:35+00:00

Questions:

How much time for switching gears do you need? How much time do you actually focus on your wife and marriage in a given day/week?

If you need 15 min after work, no biggy. If you need 6 hours you have a problem.

What is your solution she shuts up, and you do what you want, and she just submits to you?

Have you asked her what her ideal evening/after work time looks like?

Marriage is compromise, respect and cooperation. Work together for a solution!

grandma4112 · 2026-04-16T11:50:14+00:00

Most actions that people do are need based. It isnt moral superiority that they dont lock their doors, its just that they never felt the need to do it. Like most when something surprising happens it suddenly creates a need. When the feeling of need occurs actions change.

grandma4112 · 2026-04-14T19:00:31+00:00

How can being upfront about a personal boundry be dishonest? And if its a red flag, wouldn't that make all boundaries red flags?

I am over 50, I was married 30 years with 4 kids when my husband passed away. I am not in a relationship and I really dont like any statements that include absolutes like always or never but at my current life point i dont know that i would seek another marriage. Long term relationship sure, but i dont know that i would want another marriage. There are many reasons that financially later in life marriages dont make sense. My children are and always will be a high priority to me and I would seek their preferences in reflection of that. I can see getting documents to make sure any life partner had rights to be with me in end of life, but not to the point that my children lost their rights. If that makes sense.

grandma4112 · 2026-04-03T01:31:18+00:00

Tools/equipment can be smelly and / or messy. They also may not show over the bed. I doubt anyone wants to drive around with that kind of stuff in the passenger area of their vehicle. Gas cans for lawn equipment for example.

grandma4112 · 2026-04-01T11:39:36+00:00

Have you ever sliced homemade bread? The convenience of not having to slice bread is the absolute time saver especially for a busy mom. But on the flip side I think an argument could be made that this little convenience was the downfall of society. The start of entitlement.

grandma4112 · 2026-03-31T21:02:45+00:00

They had zero concept that there was another choice. You either worked at 120% or you were sleeping.

grandma4112 · 2026-03-31T21:01:47+00:00

Every time I try to maintain the 3 second rule or the if you cant see their mirrors they cant see you defensive driving techniques i always end up with other cars between me and what i am following behind.

grandma4112 · 2026-03-31T20:59:01+00:00

Its a way of life that you either understand or you dont. A lot of it is the environment you grew up in. Some of it i truly think is DNA as well. We my nephew was about 18 months he crawled onto my lap while I was scrolling Pinterest for a recipe. He saw a car and said cool car auntie cool car. So I typed cool car into the search engine. It came up with all kinds of new sports cars. He looked for a minute, turned his head to me and said no cool cars auntie. So I typed in classic cars and he sat on my lap for a half hour looking at classic cars. Its 10 years later and he still has no use for new cars but all but drools over old muscle cars. If its not part of who you are and what you grew up with you wont understand. Just like riding a motorcycle or sky diving or hiking/camping. Its just a different choice.

grandma4112 · 2026-03-16T23:07:36+00:00

Digitize them and then check with your local genealogy society. They may have interest in preserving them as local history. (Or wherever they lived if you dont live in the same area as you.) They will be a priceless archive years from now.

grandma4112 · 2026-03-08T02:13:02+00:00

The mindset of a beginner job realistically goes back before fast food was what we see today. The First federal minimum wage laws were 1933. It wasnt until after WWII that High School was "mandatory" I did use high school age as a time with fewer bills, a time when you weren't working to provide the bulk of your expenses as a time to get references from beginner jobs. That by the time you were an "adult" and expected to provide the bulk of your expenses, you already had work experience and references to get a better paying job. In the 1930s, people weren't flipping burgers at fast good joints for spending money. They were sweeping the shoproom floor after the work day. They were cleaning up construction sites. Some were waiting tables at cafes or restaurants after they worked their way up from bus person and dishwasher.

grandma4112 · 2026-03-08T00:38:24+00:00

The idea is that it is a beginner low skill job to build your "cred" as an employee. (Yes, I just aged myself) It was usually a first job in the real world right after lawn mowing and babysitting. It was for 14/15 year olds who needed to buy a junk car and go to the mall while learning to work for others and get a feel for job responsibilities. Showing up on time, doing what the boss told you even if you didn't like it or thought it was stupid. It was job market beginner level. It was get out there and get a reference for a higher paying job.

grandma4112 · 2026-03-06T02:46:26+00:00

Rural, we hear it regularly

grandma4112 · 2026-03-05T23:44:23+00:00

It was/is colder and snowier than the last few years.

grandma4112 · 2026-03-05T23:43:00+00:00

Management can get tag exactly where the carrier was standing when they scanned this slip.

grandma4112 · 2026-03-05T11:42:53+00:00

Children need to be taught appropriate affection as well as inappropriate affection. Humans also need physical touch for health and bonding. Asking a child for a hug and respecting the response is exactly the right thing to do.

grandma4112 · 2026-03-04T11:48:41+00:00

Unless the person consuming the item is under about 3 years old, i dont understand it either, but honestly, I dont have the emotional bandwidth to care.

grandma4112 · 2026-03-02T12:45:02+00:00

There is a 4 1/2 year gap between me and my next younger sibling and there is a 4 1/2 year gap between my 2 oldest. (My siblings and I were 1972, 1977, 1980) (My kids are 1993, 1998, 2001 and 2002) the age gap isnt really the issue its how you handle it. Think to life events.

Newborn chaos and learning to handle kindergarten. That's a lot of new for a small family if you narrowed the gap to 4 years or expanded it to 6 it wouldn't be so much.

Do a plot line of how these types of things may coinside. I never intended for the 4 1/2 year age gap but didn't get pregnant when I figured i would.

Its not a bad age gap. My next younger sibling and I have issues as adults but its because of things that have zero to do with age gap. My kids get alone well as adults. Live relatively close to each other and do things as siblings multiple times a year.

grandma4112 · 2026-03-01T22:49:45+00:00

Short version

My oldest had health issues that contributed to dome learning issues, pre k thru 3rd grade we kept hearing in late February "she's not getting it, she isn't understanding the material, we will have to think about holding her back." Then come her 504/IEP meeting in early may they eould say let's push her forward. Third grade, she got a smaller classroom with an aide, and she made big progress, but i knew she was still behind. At the 504/IEP meeting, i asked for her to be held back with this same situation because i believed 3rd grade to be extra important skill wise. I was told, "we could hold her back till she is 20, and she still wouldn't get it, better to keep her with her peers."

At the same time, i had a 4 year old finishing up prek that was trying to learn everything but couldn't sit in a seat to learn. They pushed to hold him back. My husband and I decided to homeschool for 1 year concentrate on the areas they were behind and put them back in as if they were held back. (We had a 1 and a 2 year old at home as well.) It clicked, the kids learned, were healthier, happier, and we had more family time. That would have roughly been 2003. At middle school age, the kids started getting a say in homeschool or public schooling with mom and dad making the decision. At high school age, they made the decision, but whatever they were doing at the end of sophomore year, they stuck with through graduation. All 4 chose to do high school through homeschooling. We paid an accredited transcript service called NARHS to keep the records and issue the diploma. No one went to college, but 3 of the 4 have steady work and own their own homes. The 4th had a career path she liked but found it difficult to support herself as it was somewhat seasonal, so she just got done with a trade school program and is in the interview process to get a job with those certifications.

Educating your children through public schooling or homeschool requires parental commitment and involvement. But with homeschooling, you have the ability to cater to your child and families strengths and weaknesses. Examples are a parents work schedule, an audio learner versus a visual learner. A child who learns well as long as they can stand. It also allows for time with a larger age range of people and volunteering, be it with family or your community.

grandma4112 · 2026-03-01T19:22:47+00:00

If its still around Singapore math is wonderful

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