I hate wearing jackets, coats, long sleeves in general, so I am sympathetic with your kids. I dress the same whether it's 100F or 45F : long pants, short sleeves. colder than 45 F, I'll reluctantly go for long sleeves or maybe still short sleeves + a jacket, because it may be cold outside but it'll be hot inside (in buildings, on trains + buses) and I'll be inside more than outside, plus once I'm outside for like 10 minutes I'll be hot and sweaty even if it's freezing outside.
my boy is like me but my girls are not.
― L'assie (Euler), Saturday, 2 November 2019 12:42 (four years ago) link
I judge the writer of this letter. They can fuck right off.https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/nov/16/a-letter-to-our-neighbours-with-a-baby
― Madchen, Saturday, 16 November 2019 08:20 (four years ago) link
Haha, as a doting parent i wholeheartedly concur. Not certain how I would have responded back when I was a single child free antinatalist but I don't think I'd have been much more sympathetic. Why didn't they move their bedroom?
― The Pingularity (ledge), Saturday, 16 November 2019 08:55 (four years ago) link
depends on the house doesn't it. all of our rooms share a wall with at least one neighbour. ofc everyone should be as considerate as possible but if you don't want to hear other people buy a detached house in the middle of nowhere
― thomasintrouble, Saturday, 16 November 2019 09:02 (four years ago) link
seething with hatred at your neighbours for three years but doing nothing to mitigate the problem and not saying anything to them = real england
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 16 November 2019 09:03 (four years ago) link
some of the parents of my daughter's friends let them stay home from school "just because." which i was never allowed to do and none of my friends were allowed to do. you should at least have to learn how to fake being sick imo. then you're developing a skill.
― na (NA), Tuesday, 3 December 2019 18:32 (four years ago) link
but it is annoying because we don't let our daughter miss school without a good reason so she whines about how her friends can take days off and she can't
one of the families, the mom has weird work hours so i think some of the "just because" days are so she can have time with the kid, which i understand. the other family that does it just spoils the hell out of their kid and so i judge their parenting
― na (NA), Tuesday, 3 December 2019 18:34 (four years ago) link
We get the attendance committee on our asses every year and we only keep our kids home when they are actually sick. Don't know how these scofflaws get away with it.
― ☮ (peace, man), Tuesday, 3 December 2019 18:57 (four years ago) link
yeah you would get booted out of your spot at school if you tried this in SF
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 3 December 2019 19:02 (four years ago) link
schools in CA have their budgets approved based on student attendance!
My mum used to let me take a couple days off a year. She would have been beyond pissed if i had faked sick tho.
Honestly, I don't see a problem with it. One of my kids is very introverted and shes in middle school. I can see how being around that many people in a social setting exhausts her. Its all over her face. If she asks for the rare day off I'm inclined to say yes.
― Right column Leftist (sunny successor), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 22:24 (four years ago) link
Here's where I judge my own parenting:
I realized a couple of months ago that my children DON'T KNOW HOW TO CROSS A STREET. They're 10 and 13. WTF.
― Right column Leftist (sunny successor), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 22:25 (four years ago) link