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hshibley

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  1. If I’m planning the vacation I pay.
  2. This is not about your xh it’s your children. You need to change your mindset. It’s the kids period.
  3. At your dd age time matters. Put in the time year round to see your dd.
  4. What happens if they ignore congress and strike anyway? So sorry for you and your family as well as others in your situation.
  5. Do you think those comments are real people or bots and posters from troll farms? I see the same thing and can’t believe these are actual people’s opinions.
  6. My understanding is that the separate sick leave bill is unlikely to pass the senate. The lack of sick leave is appalling given the record profits.
  7. If you read online accounts he was beaten to the point where the police weren’t sure if he was alive by the exmilitary person there as well as a drag performer. This is what happens when you feel kinship to the people in danger. Also as a side note to point out how this bar was a source of community. Colorado Springs is the home base for focus on the family. There was an interesting piece on npr today talking about being gay in the town that’s home to focus on the family.
  8. I’m sorry for your loss. Lifting you and your family up to the light.
  9. I wonder how much of it is a social spread component vs how easy it is to keep in contact with people (which for some may be more contact than they want). I remember doing a little internet research on Laura Ingles Wilder and reading about how after they left the big woods for good they never saw their grandparents again. (Not that they wanted to go no contact obviously) It just really struck me how today you’d never lose contact with people/relatives like that unless you really went out of your way to break contact. I wonder how many people today have to go to the extreme of telling someone they are breaking contact with them vs how it could have more naturally happened in the past. Also as a side note keep in mind how many posters here talk about cutting off contact with parents/in-laws they view as being toxic. I think this is not just a phenomenon of the young.
  10. This was my kids experience working at McDonald’s after they turn 18. Many closing shifts getting out sometime between 11 and 12 then opening shifts the following morning between 5 and 6. My dh and I were on a trip last year. We were heading back to our hotel room after breakfast sharing the elevator with a young man who worked in the hotel restaurant. Chatting he mentioned how he had closed the restaurant the night before and was opening the restaurant that morning. This experience seems ubiquitous with service workers now.
  11. There was a piece on NPR about this this summer. The person they were interviewing was pointing out that there was a lot employers could do to hire/keep service employees other than just raising starting wages - a stable schedule, not scheduling employees to close one night and open the next morning, intervening when customers are out of control. When I was in college I worked 2 jobs over the summer. One was only mornings and early afternoons. The other was evenings at a grocery store. Now you can’t do that. Unless you are a high schooler protected by labor laws, you need to be available for all shifts the store is open.
  12. I think it’s important to remember that depending on where you live your rights vary greatly. (I realize you live in Australia and I do not know your labor laws). I live in an at will state (similar to right to work states) there are very few worker protections and you can be fired easily.
  13. 4 of my kids have worked at McDonald’s as teens. They’ve had drinks thrown at them, been cussed out by customers, etc. It’s not character building. It’s abusive, but that’s the reality of working service jobs in the U S today. It’s nothing like working a service job in the 80’s when I was a teen.
  14. Our worst experience with this was elementary school. My youngest dd went to ps K-1 it was all disjointed worksheets and independent learning using online programs. She’s not a natural at math and really struggled. She’s been homeschooled since covid and we’ve been plugging along with Rod and Staff just fine. I think for a nonmathy kid using just one resource-an incremental textbook is just easier than a mishmash of resources.
  15. Here there’s no room in the budget for textbooks. My kids have had classes where the teacher has created their own curriculum with all the resources from scratch. They’ve also had classes (mostly AP) where teachers have themselves bought a selection of used textbooks on line so the kids can have a textbook to use as reference at home. As a society we’ve decided not to fully fund the classroom. Yes you can argue that we spend $XX per student but when you look at what actually gets to your child’s classroom/teacher it’s just not enough and not a priority in our country. You can fail test in my kids public school.
  16. There are all kinds of people at a Tri. Walking the run is fine. Just check the time cutoff for the race to be sure you’ll make it in the allotted time. If you’re planning for next fall try working up to a run/walk - you run or jog a certain time say for minutes then walk a certain time say 1 minute. I did a sprint 700 yard open water swim, 15 mile bike and 5k run. It was a good distance to start.
  17. Good for you. I didn’t run or weigh train until I turned 50. Since then multiple half marathons,1 full marathon (I’m training for my second), and 1 triathlon. I belong to a running group where loads of us are in our 50s+. One woman in our group is 70+ and just completed a half Ironman. Enjoy your journey.
  18. Probably because there’s nothing to consider until they make an offer
  19. Also the zoning codes from the 80’s requiring minimum 1 acre house lots.
  20. Yeah the RV or shed in back would be illegal here. I know crappy apartments are part of life. I’ve never known anyone who lives completely without plumbing. There was an example earlier in the thread about a family living in a dwelling to save money where they were urinating in a drain due to lack of a toilet. I find that shocking.
  21. Is it even legal to have a residence with no indoor plumbing and running water? I can’t imagine it being an acceptable residence and pass zoning. A communal bathroom in a rooming house I could see but you still have water and plumbing.
  22. No I’m saying work with her lawyer and courts to ban her husband
  23. Maybe she shouldn’t be the one providing supervision. If his family can be trusted work something out there. Also as much as she’s involved in his family it may be time to start finding her own support network and start having some separation from his family. This is a difficult situation and doesn’t seem to be trending in a good direction.
  24. This. Think about the amount of yelling and the body language that would be required before school officers would interfere. She needs to protect herself and her kids.
  25. Yes. You can then have the scores sent to college last for admissions
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