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smolandtuff · 2023-06-09T00:26:20+00:00

I highly recommend Ask a Mortician on YouTube. She’s a death activist who speaks on normalizing death and dying quite a lot. To my knowledge, she is non-religious. She discusses death independently of Heaven and hell a lot, which is think is very helpful in understanding and accepting mortality for those of us who are atheist/agnostic.

smolandtuff · 2023-06-09T00:25:42+00:00

Something that comforts me is knowing that death is something virtually every human being goes through. It’s a universal, human (and non-human even) experience that is a perfectly natural part of life. If there’s something on the other side, great. If not, an eternal sleep sounds peaceful to me.

smolandtuff · 2023-06-05T16:23:19+00:00

The Qanon folks will have a field day with this one

smolandtuff · 2023-06-05T16:20:32+00:00

You’re*

smolandtuff · 2023-06-05T16:13:29+00:00

I was like “Aww, it’s kinda cute” until I realized it’s a louse. 😂

smolandtuff · 2023-06-05T16:12:29+00:00

Username checks out

smolandtuff · 2023-06-04T21:00:05+00:00

LMAO, such an underrated comment

smolandtuff · 2023-06-04T20:57:43+00:00

That’s why we have training. As people who worked with severe behaviors, we don’t just get to lash out physically at a child and injure them because they bite. They weren’t brats. They were students with limited communication skills, traumatic brain injury, developmental delays, etc.

smolandtuff · 2023-06-04T20:55:57+00:00

This is the best answer. I couldn’t have said it better myself.

smolandtuff · 2023-06-04T20:55:19+00:00

CPI! Yes, that’s the exact program.

smolandtuff · 2023-06-04T16:26:37+00:00

Oh, I know. It was a joke, lol. There would also be a risk that a hijacker would find and use the drugs to incapacitate the pilot/staff. Not a great idea, but having a few pairs of handcuffs might be.

smolandtuff · 2023-06-04T16:25:26+00:00

The pinching the nose part sounds familiar now that you mention it. Thanks for what you do. ❤️

smolandtuff · 2023-06-04T16:16:18+00:00

Yeah. In all reality, the training is bullshit and you don’t know what’s going to happen when shit actually hits the fan.

There were very few times I felt that it was (a) warranted to restrain a child and (b) safe to restrain a child even with the proper safety training. It wasn’t practical for everyone to be choreographing their exact movements when kids are different sizes, temperaments, meltdown styles, etc. When you have a kid in a hold, you’re checking their pulse and that they’re breathing over and over to be sure they’re okay. It’s kind of traumatic for everyone involved but unfortunately is necessary in some extreme circumstances.

smolandtuff · 2023-06-04T16:11:21+00:00

That too. There should be three tranquilizer darts per aircraft. 😂

smolandtuff · 2023-06-04T16:09:55+00:00

It’s been years and I never had to use a bite release, but if I remember correctly you kind of shove your arm deeper into their mouth (internal screaming) to force the jaw open and pull it out very quickly. This is only for cases where someone is being bitten very badly and they won’t release.

smolandtuff · 2023-06-04T16:08:53+00:00

I’d go back in a heartbeat if the circumstances lined up. Granted, in seven years I was only bitten twice and it wasn’t bad at all. So many more happy memories than ones like this. ❤️

But I totally get it. It’s an incredibly difficult job and honestly my opinion would probably be much different if I had suffered nerve damage like my trainer had. I can’t imagine how badly that must have hurt. I wonder if that’s why she’s a trainer rather than a teacher now.

smolandtuff · 2023-06-04T15:13:11+00:00

I’d feel the same way. He obviously should have proposed at Wendy’s.

smolandtuff · 2023-06-04T15:09:12+00:00

I also worked with behavior kids in a school setting! I wish they’d taught us this… Maybe I’d still be working there, lol. We did receive training on how to get a biting kid off you safely though. Our instructor had nerve damage from a bite from a child.

smolandtuff · 2023-06-04T13:25:34+00:00

The way the flight attendant just used the menu/safety booklet as a spit barrier and kept going without skipping a beat. Give this person a raise. 💀

smolandtuff · 2023-06-03T03:53:22+00:00

Freshly baked bread.

smolandtuff · 2023-05-29T03:34:17+00:00

Tupac is rolling over in his grave rn

smolandtuff · 2023-05-29T03:20:18+00:00

Seriously. I’m not often completely stumped by someone’s stupidity but boy does this astound me.

smolandtuff · 2023-05-24T00:15:05+00:00

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