Notebook Thoughts from Someone Who Bought Too Many Notebooks.
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Alice π²ππ²π retweeted
every playdate and bbq and birthday and field trip is the result of many days of invisibly planning and gathering supplies and coordinatingβ¦ itβs looks like just sitting around on your phone or endlessly shopping until it turns into a party π
Alice π²ππ²π retweeted
Right. Only women care about proper care/handling of their tools. Feel free to go out to the garage and use that stuff any which way.
How to understand the difference between men and women:
Him: Where are the scissors?
Her: You can't use those, they're for cloth.
>>time passes<<
Her: WHY ARE YOU TRIMMING YOUR BEARD WITH YOUR POCKET KNIFE?!?!?!?
Him: You hid the scissors.
In other words, women care about intended use, while men only care if they get the job done.
H/T to @kittyniciaian who did not in any way inspire this entirely fictional anecdote that in no way happened three minutes ago
Alice π²ππ²π retweeted
your daughter is statistically more likely to be assaulted by her father than a random nurse but go off i guess
I took my 11 year old to her checkup this morning and the nurse asked me to step out of the room for a moment. I politely declined and she said, "It's just for a moment." And I told her, "No thank you, given all the stories about children being abused my husband and I decided to never leave our children alone with anyone, even medical providers. Anything you need to do or say you can do with me in the room." She looked all miffed and just left, no idea what her plan was but she didn't feel the need to continue it with me present and that makes me even more suspicious?? When she left my daughter thanked me for not leaving, she's already shy about the doctor, her eyes got so wide when the lady asked me to leave.
Alice π²ππ²π retweeted
There is no more "working class" in the sense of a class of functional workers who accept earning far less than the middle class, and thus provide services that feel affordable to the middle class.
Your plumber wants and will have all the same stuff that *you* have. Or More.
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Alice π²ππ²π retweeted
My even hotter take is 99% of "inconveniences" around having kids are just society making things difficult to access for families rather than inherent issues with kids.
Car seats until 12 and "5 seater vehicles" not fitting 3 car seats in the back are great examples of this.
Alice π²ππ²π retweeted
It happened when the predictable outcome of every attempt at air travel became a night spent on the cold floor of an airport thanks to endless delays. You want me to wear a suit to the airport, treat me like a human and leave the hell on time.
Alice π²ππ²π retweeted
If you're only doing 5 minutes of housecleaning or cooking a day, your house is dirty and unorganized, and you're feeding your kids trash.
Alice π²ππ²π retweeted
There are two kinds of poverty: absolute and relative
Elon is right that we can solve absolute poverty. In fact, we largely already have, especially in the developed world.
Relative poverty is about envy. Itβs a spiritual rather than economic problem and will always be with us.
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Alice π²ππ²π retweeted
Iβm tired of hearing to put our kids in trade school while high paying, educated jobs are going to foreign workers.
Alice π²ππ²π retweeted
"You can't just take random unemployed people and have them make missiles!"
We took unskilled, uneducated housewives and put them in factories to make tanks, bombs, planes etc
There is NO job we *need* any migrants for. None.
π¨ JUST IN: Laura Ingraham PRESSES President Trump on restricting H-1B visas
"H-1B visa thing won't be a big priority for you? If you wanna raise wages for Americans, you can't flood the country with THOUSANDS of foreign workers."
TRUMP: You have to bring in talent.
"We have plenty of talented people here."
TRUMP: You don't have CERTAIN talents. People have to learn. You can't take people off the unemployment line and say, "go make missiles."
"How did we do it before?"
TRUMP: I'll give you an example. In Georgia, we raided [Hyundai for] illegal immigrants. They had people from South Korea. Very dangerous job. They had 500-600 people. Early stages to make batteries, to teach people how to do it. Well, they wanted to kick them out of the country. You NEED them. You can't bring in $10B for a plant, take people off the unemployment line, and start making missiles. It doesn't work that way.
Alice π²ππ²π retweeted
If you cannot find a woman to have children with, nature is telling you that you should not be a parent. If you cannot handle the simple task of winning a woman who will live with you, bear your children, and be a wife and mother, you are not ready to be a good father.
You are certainly not fit to play both father and mother.
Get a dog instead, if you can care for one.
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Alice π²ππ²π retweeted
It looks like a filling meal, even if it's scant on vegetables and produce. How much money did you leave for Mama to pay bills, buy food etc.? Don't expect steak on a Hamburger Helper budget.
Alice π²ππ²π retweeted
it's actually mysterious how many smart people don't realize the hard part is *becoming* a partner worthy of finding, not shopping for one
Alice π²ππ²π retweeted
Begging everyone to stop depriving children of their most basic and primal needs of having a mother and a father. Your desire for children is real but it doesnβt trump their most basic needs. Donβt purposefully do that to an innocent person.
I suspect I'm one of the two guys Romy is talking about. Regardless, she's describing my situation.
I'm giving myself about another year of searching for a partner, but will then pursue single fatherhood.
I'm still hopeful it won't be necessary, but in the end I can't allow myself to miss out on raising children. Even having gone this long without them is an agony.
Alice π²ππ²π retweeted
The correct answer is: SOCIAL TIME. A few hours a day playing with other kids. Thats the one thing you canβt fix later, and also guaranteed to help them in life (unlike say, piano).
There really is no second place. Chill about everything else until your child socializes well.
OK, letβs put on our striver parent hats for a second. I have a four-year-old. Iβm not neurotic about getting such a young kid involved in a bunch of different stuff, but what things have the highest return for early involvement? What should I be thinking about? Any specific athletics? Piano? I probably donβt care enough about academics to focus on math or anything like that. Iβm trying to think of things that will get a big bang for the effort required, things that will pay dividends over the course of his entire life by having started very early.
Alice π²ππ²π retweeted
For decades, American Workers have been forced to train their foreign worker replacementsβall because companies abused the H-1B program.
Enough is enough.
Under @POTUSβ leadership, Project Firewall is bringing this to an end and ensuring Americans come FIRST.
Alice π²ππ²π retweeted
Recently, during my IEP meetings I've been asking parents direct questions about their child's screen time, sleep schedule, and if they have family dinners together. I then provide the data on the harms and benefits.
Is this appropriate of me to ask or is it outside my role?
Alice π²ππ²π retweeted
The decline of the boarding house between 1950 and now is a topic that deserves more attention. If you wanted to move cities then, you could get a cheap room, breakfast and dinner for a few months more or less anywhere easily, and itβs much harder now and Iβm not sure why.
Alice π²ππ²π retweeted
STFU. I've been on the road covering multiple cities all over the country by plane, car, and an upcoming train ride. To say the US has "nothing" when it comes to transportation is stupid. You train-tards lost me five years ago when the state shut down my city and the only escape my family and I had was our car.
