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SKL last won the day on December 18 2023

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  1. Still behind on work. Several client emergencies + 3 client calls today (so far). Ugh. Crank crank crank. My kid signed up to work tomorrow's election ... but she decided at 4pm today that she's not going. She says it's because she just found out that she has a math test on Wednesday. Granted, working the polls is a super long day - no time to study for sure. But I'm skeptical of her motives. She's off recreational screens until at least Wednesday night. 😕
  2. I had heard this years ago. I was looking forward to it, LOL. I'm not to the point where leg hair doesn't grow at all, but there seems to be a lot less of it than when I was younger. Yay! (I don't shave daily and am glad that I can wear shorts without having much of a shaving routine.)
  3. I remember my mom saying this some years ago. She used to always do the taxes and the other financial stuff (bill paying, etc.). She knew that wasn't going to be good if she was suddenly not able to do it. At some point, she handed the taxes off to me, not him, LOL. However, he does review the returns and ask and answer questions. I think that if one's taxes are not super complicated, it should be enough to just keep everything together in a place where everyone knows to look should they need to step in. Most things don't change a lot from year to year.
  4. As another poster described, it isn't necessarily easier if you have your dh work with you on it. What about switching off each year? You do the even number years, he does the odd numbered years.
  5. I get the tax stress though. People always forget to save / bring important documents. Then they wait until the last possible day to bring me their shoebox or whatever. Then they expect me to get them a refund (preferably of all the tax they paid in, if not more). And if something goes wrong, like, they forgot to give me one of their 1099s so we didn't pay tax on it, that's my problem. 😛 Not that I'm getting paid or anything. 😛 I have to put myself in a certain (happy, chirpy, nothing bothers me) mode when I do other people's taxes. 😛
  6. I always did mine by hand, until someone asked me to help them with their home business. Then I started using TurboTax for myself and various people I was helping. That was probably about 25 years ago. I stopped doing my own taxes when there were too many streams of K1 income flowing to me. At that point, it's easier to have the taxes done by the guy who's doing the entities' taxes. I still do other people's taxes as a favor, and for them, I still use TurboTax. Right now I'm down to only 2 tax return bundles per year. 😛
  7. As for accountability, there's plenty to go around. Yes, it's on parents if they gave their kids too many screens too early, didn't make them move, didn't provide them with age-appropriate mental and social challenges. Yes, some of it is on schools, and some of it is on the broader community. But once a kid is 13 or so, some of it is definitely on the teen, and certainly by college age, it's time to take full responsibility to at least do one's personal best. I dare my kid to try to spout some crap about "I can't keep up in college because CO2." Bring it on, chickie. 😛
  8. I never said air quality doesn't affect cognitive ability, energy, etc. I said I don't buy that it's currently worsening to the point where we can't expect young people to think any more. Air quality for US kids - indoor and outdoor - has improved a lot over the years we've had public education. Besides that, some of the smartest young people in the world come from countries where their best air quality, indoor or out, is worse than some of our worst in the US. They've lived like that since birth, 24/7/365, and yet, they are still brilliant. I also never said anything about water. Water quality in the US depends a lot on the plumbing, particularly how old it is. The US banned lead plumbing for new structures in 1986. I don't know what the progress is on getting rid of the pre-1986 plumbing in schools, but please don't tell me that lead in school water is increasing and making today's kids stupider than last generation's kids. (And if lead in the school water was the problem, well, today's kids should be geniuses, considering how they shut down all the water fountains in 2020 and started making the kids buy bottled water in school.)
  9. I'm not buying this. Previous generations breathed poorly vented smoke from wood or coal fires all day. City kids had much worse pollution until recent years. Not to mention the commonness of indoor smoking, even in schools. More and more schools are air conditioned today, but even those that aren't can't be as bad as what average families had to breathe 24/7 for long time periods.
  10. Hi guys, happy Saturday! Last week flew by! 3/15 was a deadline for a number of items, so I'm glad we're past that. Now we have about 1.5 weeks to finish probably the biggest work deadline of 2024. And then the 3/31 deadlines right after that. Who else is looking forward to April?? Today my kid received her decision for the selective college she applied to. It gives me great relief to say that she didn't get in, and she seems reasonably OK about it. Now I can stop worrying about what I'd do if she got in, LOL. I can't see paying 5x as much as her "second choice," but there were external pressures that I won't get into. I'm just glad we can move on. We can start positively planning for our real life 2024-25 school year. For today, I have a couple of specific work goals as far as my "boss" is concerned. I also have about 50 other things I really want/need to accomplish, which I won't mention out loud, because I don't want to drag additional people into these things. It just gives me a headache when we discuss how many things I have on my to-do list. Then the headache makes my work harder. So hopefully I can maintain a healthy, positive focus, crank out some good work, and end the day without too much stress.
  11. I finished the 40 day forgiving challenge book. It was OK. Not life changing for me, by any stretch, but I think I learned a couple new things. I was slowly working through the book about having impossible conversations. I put that on temporary hold for the following. I finally got a chance to start American Eclipse. I would love to finish it before April 8 (total eclipse day). It's a fun and easy read so far, but I have so many mega deadlines this month, I will make slow progress.
  12. If we knew the full consequences of our decisions, a lot of us would have never made the best decisions of our lives. So, it's common, normal, and probably good that young people can't predict their futures.
  13. As long as there are no unusual dangers he isn't ready to deal with, yes. I started letting my kids stay home for such short periods around 7-8yo. As others have said, you might not want him cooking on the stove or letting friends in, but with a few basic rules, he should be fine. Rather than expect him to do school work at that time, I might move things around so he could maybe watch a show in the morning and move some school lessons later on that day.
  14. If my kids decide to have kids, I'm cool with "granny."
  15. The shooter drills for wee kids are controversial for a reason. When Sandy Hook happened, my kids were 5/6yo in 1st grade. I didn't plan on telling them about it, because I didn't want them to be afraid of a shooter busting into their classroom. But the school decided to tell all the kids, and they even painted a memorial on the wall of the cafeteria, and each child (from preschool to 8th grade) had to participate in this mural (hand prints of paint making a a tree), which afaik is still on that wall to remind the kids every day. It felt wrong to me, and I've since read that physical memorials statistically make trauma effects last longer. Teachers whom I respect do believe the ALICE drills are good, so maybe they are. Maybe there isn't a better solution. (Or maybe we just haven't found it yet.) I do think it's unfortunate to have to tell very young kids that someone might come in and decide to hurt everyone. But it's true that this isn't really such a new thing. Unfortunate doesn't mean wrong. [What felt right to me for my wee kids was to teach them about real things, but real things that were far away / long ago. We used a lot of books and movies that touched on hard topics, and we'd discuss them in what I considered an age-appropriate way. And obviously, when anything bad hit close to home, we'd discuss that. The plan was to eventually bring them into whatever information exposure I was getting. But at age 13, with the Covid shutdown, I gradually gave them full access to whatever they wanted on the internet (excluding "adult" content). We'd talk about world events, but maybe not as much as might be ideal.]
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