Very different.

So good to see you! Thanks for the update, and I’m glad things are looking up with your DH.

If they’d offered tooth whitening or braces that would be trying to change her. If she broke her arm would you not want her to have it set because she’s perfect just the way she is?

Homemade pop tarts? *ducks*

When I was five years old I got marked down on the kindergarten readiness test because I had never been taught to skip. 34 years later my mom made sure to teach my kids to skip because she still remembered. I don’t remember it actually happening, I just remember it as a funny family story. So @MercyA, teach your grandkids to blow up balloons and all will be well.

We’re not there yet, but I expect to support our kids through college, so if one chose not to go to college we still wouldn’t charge rent until they were at least four years out of high school.

I like the donut-style clips the best. Other types don’t stand up to the kicking and twisting sleepers in my family.

If your family needs the money, keep the job until you find a new one. But before giving them another chance, remember that this happened because they weren’t able to find someone to hire for the front desk position. Their solution was to post the more desirable job and slide you into the one they couldn’t get anyone to apply for. Even if they want to move you back off the desk, what is their strategy to find someone to hire, and what will make that search successful? Either they don’t have a strategy, and are just planning to leave you on the desk, or they do, in which case why didn’t they use it this time?

I think you need to go to your boss and/or her boss and ask how they would like you to handle the situation. That will not reflect badly on your fitness to manage a team, because if you were her manager you would have stronger options, like sitting down with her and saying “this is what I need to see by x date in order to keep you in this job.” Basically this is a situation that needs active manager-ing, and since you are not her manager you need to hand it off to the person who is.

Lawyer. Lawyer lawyer lawyer lawyer lawyer. Don’t agree to anything, including meditation, without getting advice from your lawyer.

I’ve long thought that “assumed M/F at birth” would be better terminology than “assigned.”

She didn’t ask OP to turn out her pockets. She asked her to give back whatever it was she had taken. How would people here handle it if you had a guest you did not know and a friend who you do know told you the new guest had stolen something? It’s going to be awkward no matter what, and she probably could have phrased it more diplomatically if she’d had longer to think about it. I still wouldn’t encourage the friendship though. That bridge is burned.

He should absolutely not suggest anything related to a potential diagnoses. And he should not mention discussing the employee with his wife. He can say things directly related to job performance and suggest strategies to address them.

This.

I played frequently with my (then) boyfriend’s family in high school, but haven’t played since. I don’t recall it being hard to pick up, so I’m guessing learning by playing with people who already know is a good way to learn.

I drop my kindle all the time and it’s fine. Plain case, no screen protector. (I read myself to sleep. Pretty much every morning it’s either on the floor or I’m lying on it.)

It would be a pain to keep track of your place in multiple sections, but if he’s got a separate book/document that tells him which chapters to read each day then using the table of contents to get to each place isn’t so bad. Dawn, you’ll want to make sure that the ebook Bible has a good table of contents. That might rule out some of the free ones. And maybe put reminder instructions in his reading plan — tap the top right corner to bring up the menu, then tap “Go To” and select the book and chapter. If he’s already familiar with touch screens and expandable/collapsible menus (tap “Genesis” to expand the list of chapters) then he can probably do it. If those would be totally new concepts then you probably should go with the multi-volume paper copies.

Yes. The paperwhite is awesome. It’s front lit so it has a built in reading light while still being easy on the eyes and having the “feel” of reading from a page not a screen.

Combo anti-fungal antibiotic. The same thing we used on bad diaper rashes. 🙂 The mask can abrade your skin and if you have a healthy population of normal skin fauna they can get in where they aren’t supposed to be (so says my doctor).

Nah, “If I won a billion dollars” is a game with no rules. If you like to do detailed planning of how you would manage it that’s just as valid as listing vacation sites or researching private rail cars or whatever else people imagine.

If a relative gave me an extremely generous gift but it came along with a statement about how they wouldn’t give me any more because people need purpose and they’d just won a billion dollars . . . well out of gratitude for the extremely generous gift I’d try not to laugh behind their back but it would be hard. How noble of you to bear the moral hazard of unearned wealth to spare others from it!

A Natural History of Dragons and it’s sequels are recommended for grade 7 and up. We found them delightful.

It might be a difference in numbering. Some districts count everything pre-quadratics as Algebra 1, basic quadratics as Algebra 2, and post-geometry algebra as Algebra 3. Others do everything pre-geo as Algebra 1 (Or Intro to A and A 1, if they split it into two classes) and post-geometry Algebra as Alg 2. My two neighboring districts are different . . . Algebra 2 in the one is Algebra 3 in the other.

There are a class of people that have publicists and branding experts from the time they are toddlers: people whose families are already rich and/or famous. Maybe this mom is a narcissist pushing an agenda on her daughter. We don’t know. Maybe she’s just trying to grab advantages for her kid in a somewhat different way than some of us would. Networking and getting noticed are a big advantage. As are things like legacy admissions and family connections. Where do you draw the line at what’s just smart to take advantages of the resources you have available and what’s inappropriate? Is it wrong to reach for advantages rather than being born with them?

Yes! Research that used to involve a trip to Europe and weeks or months traveling to different libraries can now** be done in an afternoon in your own office/classroom/home. On a smaller scale, I teach college students and every semester I marvel at journals stored in online databases. You don’t have to go to the library or even some other library because yours doesn’t subscribe to a particular journal or doesn’t keep archives going back long enough. A basic freshman research paper is different than when I was an undergrad. **edited to add a caveat on “now.” More can be done now. Even more will be able to be done as more and more documents are digitized. And probably there will be more photoshop fraud, so double-checking actual documents will still be a thing.