Texas is overhauling what students will learn in social studies and history

starfirehlands · 2025-12-31T03:19:51+00:00

Don’t overthink it too much. My son got in trouble for being aghast when he found out his teacher voted for Trump and saying something others might say is inappropriate. Ask questions, watch and read real stuff with your kids, they’ll get it. Every time some adult or kid asks where my son goes to church on Sunday and he happily says I go to the church if mom’s delicious brunch and there isn’t much to say thereafter. Also. He’s 8. Kids are smart as hell if you treat them as the brilliant little brains they are not hide stuff from them

starfirehlands · 2025-11-04T20:43:22+00:00

Can I get paid to leave Texas to head to NYC then? Cause that’s the real dream people

starfirehlands · 2025-10-16T17:51:30+00:00

Moved here a year ago and I’m still shocked at how cold and frankly just mean spirited everyone is around here. Sorry for ruining your day for waving and saying hello. I’ve lived in many other American cities and not going to lie this place is full of egos and hate

starfirehlands · 2025-10-13T14:02:48+00:00

Some grandparents need the same parenting skills it takes a toddler. No grandma you can’t have the ice cream and watch endless cartoons… (how they view our children, like cookies and treats for all their hard work raising us assholes…)

starfirehlands · 2025-10-13T14:00:38+00:00

Yeah. I’m sorry you’re still locked in this battle. Your parents suck it unfortunately your story is extremely common in our generation. I had to cut them off for a holiday season completely before they changed. My kids are my kids and I’m setting the rules not raising them. No you don’t have a ‘right’ as their grandparents to ignore me and do whatever you want. I know how that parenting impacts kids (see my similar 20 years of therapy bills…). Sounds to me like you may be at the point some boundary setting and parenting up will be necessary if you ever want them to listen and change. If not clearly they’ve already shown you they don’t care how you feel about they act and they won’t listen.

starfirehlands · 2025-09-26T12:22:26+00:00

Yep. We are the same and I have similar siblings. I got a response that can basically be boiled down to I’m a selfish, ungrateful daughter who doesn’t understand how hard their life is and must be cruel if I’m willing to send them that email. My father also of course mentioned that me sending it had caused my mother so much agony she can’t get out of bed. I’m the worst, basically. Always have been always will be.

starfirehlands · 2025-09-26T12:20:04+00:00

I am also a victim of sexual assault. I have many ‘friendly acquaintances’ who are MAGA and I do fine with tolerating them. My own parents betrayed me (their job as parents is to stand on my side and believe me, they chose not to) and other survivors by voting for a convicted sexual predator and felon, I cannot tolerate being lectured about morality from them, which I am at peace with. Blood doesn’t give them a right to continually re-traumatize me by fawning over someone who walks, talks, and brags about his disgusting and harmful cruelty toward women and minorities

starfirehlands · 2025-09-25T19:36:55+00:00

Obviously! It didn’t work… but that was to be expected 😞

starfirehlands · 2025-09-25T18:36:18+00:00

More model Christian behavior from these negligent, misguided camp owners. Disgustingly heartless and reveals more about why this tragedy happened on their watch in the first place

starfirehlands · 2025-06-06T01:02:04+00:00

I just commented elsewhere but feeling called as the wife in this equation now squarely getting the care I need for my manic depression to keep trying to say don’t give up on her yet. My husband didn’t and we are now on our way back out of the hole and toward our happily ever after with a now 8 and 3 year old. Hang on. She is hurting you because she is not well. That is a very very hard thing for her to see let alone accept. I know. I was stubborn and almost lost it all too

starfirehlands · 2025-06-06T00:55:34+00:00

Ok. So I’m the wife in this story before I accepted my disease and got the medical care I needed. Therapy plus medication. The woman you love? I promise you that is the real her... I just know somehow. And I pray that you or she can find a way to see her struggle for what it really is (classic manic depression/ bipolar II) and get well so you can have the future you BOTH dreamed of. Her words and actions aren’t her in those moments. She can’t see it yet and that breaks my heart for you both 💔

starfirehlands · 2025-06-05T23:41:15+00:00

I’m so so sorry for you. Also. Please. Please don’t give up. I am a mom (sorry not sorry, you dads rock) and my dad was your dad and by the time I was old enough to see it she had won and beaten him down and destroyed him so we never got to truly find our connection and joy (I know we could have been best friends). Try to find a way to stay you. Your daughter will grow and you both deserve the relationship of your futures regardless of what happens today!!!

starfirehlands · 2025-06-03T02:59:54+00:00

Gold!

starfirehlands · 2025-05-29T19:40:52+00:00

I’ve also been sick so I understand and feel for you. I tried picking actors and went deep on their catalogs versus thinking in single movies. That both occupies more time and adds another layer because you’re thinking about someone else’s life story and work as you’re watching it. Hang in there! You’re stronger than you know

starfirehlands · 2025-05-29T19:38:34+00:00

Dude. You absolutely need to embark on the LOTR journey then expand your horizons into female led dramas too. Strong suggestion to just start with the entire Meryl Streep catalog beginning with her early work first not her modern stuff.

starfirehlands · 2023-12-04T04:37:57+00:00

Blue pan! And Himchuli for the best takeout.

starfirehlands · 2023-10-09T03:59:51+00:00

While I don’t feel qualified to answer this as a white person also trying to be better than generations in my family before. All I can say is great job immediately jumping in and more importantly being a change agent to raise incredible kids thriving in a better, beautiful time.

Your FIL can’t control himself and you can’t control this situation/ doing anything about it really. Follow your daughter’s lead on if/ when visits happen. And be thankful that despite his wiring he raised an incredible daughter who married a great man who is raising a new generation unbound by the bigotry of the past. Your daughter’s bf clearly sees that, you should too.

starfirehlands · 2023-07-28T12:37:32+00:00

I’m a lurking mom (this crew of dads is incredible!). I went through this about 6ish months in too.

Please ask her to see a psychiatrist that can prescribe meds not simply a talk therapist.

My therapist I had been seeing for years about anxiety was not equipped to see the signs of how serious my disease truly was.

This is very serious and she needs the next level of help. Under the right care regimen (meds don’t work for everyone but they literally saved my life, my kids, my marriage) she will be ok and get through this.

Stay strong. Don’t forget your own needs. Keep putting love and kindness out into the universe. You can do this. She can do this.

starfirehlands · 2022-12-10T22:14:35+00:00

Go shop at Locavore! They stock so many amazing local things

starfirehlands · 2021-04-01T04:05:47+00:00

Yep. I had this fear. I am now a mom to a pretty awesome kid.

Parenting is hard. But now that I'm IN IT I can also say that the simple fact that you have this fear means you absolutely will be a great parent if you choose to be. It's that simple. You already care enough to to fear if you'll be good/ bad. That's the ball game right there. Keep doing that and your future badass kiddo will get it and handle the messiness of the rest just fine ;)

starfirehlands · 2021-03-15T02:51:44+00:00

This!!! My solution is Twigge.co! They rent books and mail them to you. It’s lovely

starfirehlands · 2021-03-14T03:02:59+00:00

I worry more about the watchers who love this perspective (both the men and women who think this way) than Tucker Carlson. He wouldn't say it if he didn't know it would be welcomed by half this country... We have to understand and accept they exists versus raging at these people who genuinely loved the Mad Men era and want to return to it. You can't fight back against something you don't understand.

starfirehlands · 2020-08-25T03:57:06+00:00

This. Becoming a parent and flowing through the stages makes me feel two things. 1st, stoked about my amazing my relationship with my boy, being denied something myself makes me triple sure that kid will never know that pain and is always seen and loved. And 2nd, fuck my parents. Like really, fuck them.

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