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Skipping ahead nearly 800 posts to give another round of Congrats! To Laga!! Saw the news in the Facebook. Very happy for you two.
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IOmeN, in this crazy, whirlwind academic quarter, where I've been coming home exhausted every night, working most weekends... somehow managed to get a nibble of interest in OKcupid. She reached out to me (woot!). We've exchanged a handful of messages. Last night we started texting. Lots of "LOL"s. And then she called. Two hours! It was a great phone conversation. At one point, there was a "how did we get on this topic?" through laughter. To which I responded, "sign of a good conversation. It just meanders all over the place". Anyhow, we have planned to see the new Hunger Games movie on Saturday. Thank goodness I have this weekend off! So... any date~ma would be welcomed.
Have lots of fun on your date, omnis!
Fun on your date Omnis
Definitely NOT date related: Barbara Ehrenreich on Facebook explains her secret to raising great kids:
"People often ask me how I managed to raise two such brilliant, kind, high-achieving kids. The answer is simple: neglect. My daughter could get her own breakfast at age 2; both were doing their own laundry as soon as they were tall enough to get it into the washing machine. I dragged them with me to meetings where they were told to quietly amuse themselves. This is how to do it."
(I will say I really don't like the term "white trash,")
Not piling on, but I feel the same way for the same reasons. Language is tricky bidness!
cereal:
"People often ask me how I managed to raise two such brilliant, kind, high-achieving kids. The answer is simple: neglect."
Yeah, that's how we were raised too.
"People often ask me how I managed to raise two such brilliant, kind, high-achieving kids. The answer is simple: neglect."
Not sure I'd call it "neglect" (to defend my Mom). But yeah, I started cooking at an early age because a) I was hungry, and b) it tasted better than Mom's. And she taught us to do laundry by 6th grade. Because a) she didn't have the time to lug 10 million loads down to the laundry room, and b) who likes doing other peoples laundry??
Custom ViewMaster with pictures from the wedding and honeymoon: fun Christmas gift or corny Christmas gift?
I don't think instilling basic life skills (laundry, cooking, amusing oneself quietly) in children (at an age-appropriate time--no deep fat frying at age 2) is neglect. You're supposed to be raising kids to become adults some day. They don't magically know how to measure out laundry detergent when they turn 18.
I don't think she literally mean't "neglect" when she used the word. She was being funny. Basically what she described was what today are called "free range" kids.
Uh oh, I'm raising my kids all wrong.