I've crammed ours in washers and dryers I probably shouldn't have (tight fit) and over time the filling has gotten lumpy and uneven, making them not exactly as warm as they're supposed to be. Just for a what NOT to do!

I doubt I'd have called the police either. In that category of "just because you can, doesn't mean you should."

If the guy is capable of peeing standing up, he could probably manage to more discreetly pee in a container in his vehicle. So there's that to weigh in considering how reasonable it was. There is almost certainly a strict rule against asking to use the loo at private residences. I've had to pee in public on a roadside (and recently got to supervise DS doing a # 2 on a roadside ?), but that's usually when it's miles and miles and miles to the next rest area/gas station and there's absolutely no. way. to. hold. it.

That was a gracious way to handle it. He probably could have reported him to the police, and in some places the driver would be prosecuted for kidnapping.

Well, in my state, what you describe would be enough for a misdemeanor public indecency charge. Three such within a certain time span can result in being placed on the sex offender registry. In my opinion, such an eventuality is an extreme and egregious departure from what such registries are intended for, and I would not willingly place someone on that path by reporting them, either to the police or their employer, for such a trivial thing. I probably would call him on it to his face, and ask if he at least had some hand sanitizer in his truck, and warn him of the above. If he then opened up a can of jerkface at me, I might report him, but I'd rather warn someone they're being stupid, then narc on them off the bat.

I would not have done anything to un-enroll, since you had no justifiable burden to do that since you didn't enroll her in the first place. I'd have let the school know, once, that they had made an error, and ignored it thereafter. As long as you are following whatever rules for homeschooling in your state, no way would a truancy charge stick.

I would find some way of gifting them a book or getting other good info into their hands re: Babywise. Certainly the advice you've already given them was good. The quoted above, btw, is crap. Trans guys tend to be pretty masculine in our thinking to begin with. Testosterone does make one more likely to want to punch a wall and less likely to cry at the drop of a hat, because of the way hormones regulate emotional responses--not emotions themselves, but, the physical responses to them. I for one got more nurturing because I was less depressed. Plenty of dads are capable of being nurturing. There is nothing about manhood that prevents it other than taught behaviors--which gay men tend to be quiet aware of, ime. The only practical difference their maleness really imposes on their parenting is that there's no breastfeeding. Personally, it would be a learning curve for me to figure out how to deal with babies without that particular tool. Certainly, holding them is just as crucial when bottle feeding, though--#1 advice I'd have for them is to hold those babies as much as they can, and to have the cribs/bassinets in their room rather than hiring a night nurse. To quote Conan: "Time enough to sleep in the grave." Being able to parent at night can be crucial for bonding when new parents go back to work full time. But even if it's with a night nurse or nanny, they should be encouraging those babies being held. Being bonded to multiple caregivers is fine, as long as they get plenty of human contact. And for that there's no substitute for holding the baby!

The pool should have a clear, written policy for how to handle infractions, which should be uniformly followed by all the lifeguards. I would ask management what the policy is and insist it be followed with J, and describe in detail what you saw, including which lifeguards if you know names. Then watch like a hawk next time and demand immediate action if they continue to mishandle the situation, up to and including a partial refund for you if you have to leave because of this kid's behavior.

Actually, most of my debt is from law school, not my bachelor's. Neither my DH nor I went over federal loan limits as undergrads. And student debt is not crippling if you take advantage of income based repayment plans and have a plan for how to pay it off--in my case, through a Federal Loan Forgiveness Program. The problems with student debt in the U.S. are structural, and should not dictate individual decisions about education--though I do think taking a semester off would be preferable to tanking it by missing too much class at the beginning of the semester. The parents cannot be financially involved "without their consent." I would not expect to have to foot the bill for the kid's costs of living during the semester off, but I also wouldn't expect such a semester to completely tank transfer plans, etc. Nothing in the OP's post suggested some major source of financial aid was at risk by going off timetable.

As someone who graduated from college at 29, having started before graduating high school, then not pursuing it after high school until after a military stint, then taking a year off in the middle for an interstate move and baby, and whose spouse went back to school in his mid-30's when the recession killed his career as a chef...I simply do not buy that there is ever just this ONE chance right after high school for someone to go to and get through college. Yes, they have to grow up and support themselves, but that doesn't put college forever out of reach. Going back is possible, even without endless disposable income, scholarships, and time. My DH got not one lick of help from our parents for college, and I got very little. We did get a leg up from Uncle Sam with the G.I. Bill. I would advise the OP's daughter to take the semester off and go help her friend, if she was my kid. If classes haven't started yet, dropping likely involves a full refund as well as a need to return any financial aid money already disbursed, but still...in the long run, she can go back in the spring. School is important, but not the only important thing in life.

Clothes is an area where I'm a big believer in letting kids do as they please, within the budget and externally imposed dress codes.

Barring specific instructions or anything in the will requiring liquidating assets for someone's benefit (in which case consulting that person would be reasonable), I would probably offer them to any family and/or friends, then include whatever's left in an estate sale.

Toss it! You could do a poll.

I personally care more about the well documented health risks to the people and communities who work to grow my food than I do about the not well documented, possibly scaremongering, reports of scant traces in food and their theoretical possible effects. I also think individual consumer choices are not likely to make anything like as much impact as good environmental regulations and other means of public pressure on agribusiness to continue to move towards more sustainable and healthy practices.

OMG that would explain so much about my dad!

My dad keeps getting closer to this. On my last visit we got in an argument because he insisted California had passed a law that high school students had to become fluent in Spanish to graduate. I looked it up on Snopes and he called Snopes fake news. He insisted he'd seen it on the evening news, but honestly the only place I found it online was Infowars and Snopes (the latter refuting it). When I managed to get him off talking about politics, he kept going on and on about how much he didn't like the hot tub in his back yard. It's like he gets an idea stuck in his craw and will. not. let. go. I'd suspect dementia but he's always been like this--lousy filters inbound and no filter whatsoever outbound.

This could change drastically in either direction from this year depending on how the politics plays out.

DD is starting public high school on Monday. She went to Orientation yesterday and there were no supply lists given out, which means they are waiting on that until the first day of school...meaning DD won't have any supplies until the 2nd week of school other than a notebook and a planner. Grr. I wanted to take her shopping THIS weekend. I did figure out that DD's district charges "convenience fees" for adding money to lunch accounts online. School lunches are expensive enough without this added hassle! So, I will be sending cash or checks with her to school to pay for lunches. DS's district (elementary and high school are separate districts here) doesn't charge the convenience fees, so I have his account set up to automatically add a week's worth of lunch money when it hits the low balance point ($5 I think).

I had 2 out, then 1, then the last one a few months ago, so I didn't get that "all for at once" experience. The one I got out in the spring was a very easy recovery. It'll likely be easier if they've erupted than if they have to cut into the gum to get to them. She probably won't need soft foods more than a couple of days, though, so I wouldn't worry too much about getting creative with it; a couple of days subsisting on ice cream and jello or whatever else is easy and she likes won't do any harm. The biggest thing is no straws/sucking --which makes things like milkshakes better with a spoon.

They do make locks for french doors. Or, you can get your point across with a hair scrunchy or bungee cord.

This was our strategy, except we kept the cleaning stuff up high rather than behind a lock.

Yes. We aren't homeschooling. It's only started to dawn on me that I can relax a little bit!

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Schedule it when your DH is home.

We still rent. I refuse to buy a house until DH is done with his education so we can be reasonably sure of where we are settling down...though I would as soon live somewhere tiny and urban or rural and travel more, while DH wants to put down roots in a roomy home in the 'burbs, so that's an issue as well. I loathe the suburbs.