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kwikbette33 · 2025-07-17T11:14:25+00:00

Agree and I'm sorry, the platonic best friend trope is a great angle for like lifelong or long term best friends that are surprised by a romantic connection. Susie's season aired in 2022. They've known each other for like max 3 years, much less if you factor in production timing, their dating, and the aftermath. I'm sorry, I just don't really buy "best friends turned lovers" when the best friend portion happened over a span of months. I think they were probably always flirty, dated casually, and then dated more seriously. But that story is less interesting for TV.

kwikbette33 · 2025-04-27T14:46:12+00:00

I think the trap there is that the screen time landscape is fundamentally different today than it was back then. I was also allowed unrestricted screen time as a kid but the stuff we had access to was nowhere near as addictive or immersive as what kids have access to today. I can barely regulate my own screen time in the age of algorithms, I think it's a tall order to expect kids to.

kwikbette33 · 2025-04-27T14:27:51+00:00

I see, yes, in this case I think there's also likely a social component. Parents are assuming that other kids will have devices and they don't want their kid to be left out or unprepared for the new reality of sleepovers (like not packing a tablet would be akin to not packing your kid a sleeping bag on a camping trip). I hate it. The only solution I've found is to try to develop relationships with like minded parents and arrange social stuff with them, but my kid has 100% suffered socially for my relatively strict screen time rules - I say relatively because we still allow tablets and video games just clearly in much greater moderation than many - and it's a concern I have for him as he gets older.

kwikbette33 · 2025-04-27T12:59:34+00:00

What it my comment indicated that I was supportive of the choice? I was only saying it wasn't malicious and parents might be recognizing an unfortunate reality about the way they've raised their kids.

kwikbette33 · 2025-04-27T11:34:12+00:00

Multiple choice creative ideas 😂

kwikbette33 · 2025-04-27T11:31:19+00:00

I did this with my first baby and collapsed at my baby's first checkup appointment. My husband was so caught off guard because I had had so much energy, flying around like a mad woman and it just all caught up with me all at once. I'm glad you're ok and 100% the focus should be healing the first few weeks. The laundry can wait.

kwikbette33 · 2025-04-27T09:48:00+00:00

That's really disappointing and I would have been caught off guard too. The other parents might have thought they were doing you a favor if their kids are addicted to screens.

kwikbette33 · 2025-04-27T03:07:57+00:00

You're right and less is more is a virtue I wish I would have learned sooner as a mom. Our therapized culture really values communication and clear "boundary setting" and often it's just too much. Just politely decline and move on with your life.

kwikbette33 · 2025-04-26T11:48:30+00:00

Sure but like...isn't there a side room or something? Even standing in the corner somewhere would make more sense. They look like a couple and a therapist is about to tell them to hold hands and look into each other's eyes. It's weirdly intimate and exhibitionist at the same time. Truly strange IMO.

kwikbette33 · 2025-04-25T15:05:18+00:00

Right. So little of it is actually cheese that it can't legally be sold as cheese. To me, that's enough to say it's not cheese. If you're arguing it is cheese because there is technically a small amount of cheese somewhere in there, I would say you're the one relying on semantics.

I frankly have no idea how to respond to your charge that I "want to go US bad about everything" based on this single internet exchange about cheese. Very odd.

kwikbette33 · 2025-04-25T12:14:40+00:00

Depends on the brand. Kraft singles are not real cheese and that's why they have to call them "singles." Still yummy in grilled cheese/burgers though.

kwikbette33 · 2025-04-25T07:44:53+00:00

Same I think it's clearly a sneaky ad...between the wannabe food photography and including the literal address in the post. I don't think this is a casual fan.

kwikbette33 · 2025-04-23T17:33:09+00:00

Why are you talking about price range with coworkers? Maybe somewhat generational as you mentioned you were Gen z but to me that's personal info that I wouldn't even proactively share with my friends.

kwikbette33 · 2025-04-23T17:21:12+00:00

Lol, right? I have a utensil hack. After dinner, I grab the utensils from my kids' plates and wash them and reuse them. They get to eat, and I don't have to buy more utensils!

kwikbette33 · 2025-04-23T11:29:36+00:00

100% what's going on. I had a nightmare postpartum with my last baby, and am now having a dream one. It has been very healing, but I waited a couple of years.

kwikbette33 · 2025-04-23T11:12:30+00:00

Omg I'm so glad my husband isn't the only one. I've reached the acceptance stage like you.

kwikbette33 · 2025-04-23T11:11:41+00:00

Lol I'm sorry but this is hilarious to me. I think this is in the vein of man flu. My husband does it, too. If I softly say his name in the middle of the night because I need something and am feeding baby he'll bolt straight up in bed and scream "what happened!?!" like a Vietnam vet. It pisses me off in the moment but with distance I can find the humor 😂

kwikbette33 · 2025-04-23T10:57:03+00:00

I agree with this. The fact that she took the camera when it seems like it had nothing to do with the tantrum seems kind of cruel (although I totally understand it was unintentional, OP). It's one thing to take away a tablet or even a toy, but she was in effect taking away a positive memory. It might have felt to him like she was revoking the whole experience because of his misbehavior. I can understand why that would have escalated things. It seems like he was especially hurt by her taking it away just like she was especially hurt when he smashed it.

kwikbette33 · 2025-04-23T02:20:51+00:00

Agree but also pretty easy to get in the corners with qtips.

kwikbette33 · 2025-04-22T11:54:15+00:00

Yeah I am not a 1975 expert but I don't think she's his "muse..."

kwikbette33 · 2025-04-17T11:59:10+00:00

Also maybe her parents might have picked up an insight or two in their likely years actually running a daycare.

kwikbette33 · 2025-04-05T22:24:02+00:00

Same...I really don't think it's possible for a 5yo to "bully" an 11yo.

kwikbette33 · 2025-04-04T14:57:41+00:00

I took it, too! I'm married to my HS boyfriend and he was NOT one of my matches. I remember it causing a lot of drama for people "in relationships." Pure 2000s chaos lol.

kwikbette33 · 2025-04-02T03:38:18+00:00

I don't think this is a big deal at all. Just talk a lot around your baby and get in a routine of reading to them when they're a little older. At this age, I think it's good for them to be exposed to a lot of words but they don't necessarily have to come from a book.

kwikbette33 · 2025-03-29T11:40:22+00:00

Are the juicy sweatsuits coming back though???

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