If you are uncomfortable with your SO encountering a stripper BC YOU FEAR THAT HE OR SHE WILL SLEEP WITH HER then there are issues. 1. good people do not accidentally sleep with a stripper (or anyone else) 2. rational emotionally healthy women who are with good people do not worry that their so will sleep with a stripper (or anyone else)

Look on your state's DOE site. Its different everywhere.

I feel like crimson mom is being almost personally attacked here and I think it is really insane how much moral high ground some people claim. strip clubs are not really porn. they are not exactly brothels. they are not akin to adultery even if you think they are bc of a verse in the bible. When your husband or boyfriend visits a strip club for a bachelor party you don't have to walk into a women's clinic and demand STD testing. For example. I find them seedy and distasteful and agree that most often they are not filled with women who are exercising their sexual or personal agency. They generally are not places of female empowerment. The women are generally not "employees" which means they are denied the labor rights and protections employees enjoy. I have nothing good to say about such clubs. But some of the statements made here sound so unbelievably harsh and judgmental that I can not even with the tone of moral superiority and prudery. I think most men and a good number of women I know (upper middle class, educated people) how been to one, but I have not and do not plan to.

I like the smell of amazing grace et al and the fun shower gels but I do not use a lot of the other type of products

Every woman should have her own money, period. There is no reason to hide it if the marriage is loving. It should not be a bank account if the marriage is abusive. It should be cash and hidden well. Maybe a trusted friend would hold it for you. Or put it under your mattress. Or in an old boot in the closet.

I burn and my mom died of malignant melanoma. I do not want to let it all hang out so my ideal suit would be a chlorine proof bra, a skirted bottom, and a rash guard. Bc I look nicest in V necks I would like the rash guard to have a V neck or a zipper. My dd wears bikinis. She is 11 and they are usually hand me downs. I have quit shaving my legs. I imagine this is as shocking to some people as fat girls in bikinis.

I admit I have developed a new game. Spot the people playing Pokemon Go. We were thinking we could throw mini marshmallows at them to "catch them".

My eldest downloaded it and since he is on my apple ID (WHY? YOU ARE 19! GET YOUR OWN!) it appeared on my 11 yr olds iPhone. So I encouraged her to check it out. I love when 19 and 11 have something in common. The last thing happened to be minecraft funny enough.

I tried MFP a couple years ago and failed to lose even while exercising. I started WW in March and I am down 21 lbs. I am a slow loser but it is steady and I feel NO deprivation. Almost immediately I noticed a major decrease in acid reflux. I have gone from taking prilosec or the like daily and carrying zantac in my purse to never needing it. I have also quit having a serious sweating problem. I feel so powerful. I did not lose any weight in June thanks to 2 birthdays, a graduation and 2 weeks of ministry at church (eating what was provided by parishioners). However, with massive stress, not gaining was a win. So all this to say that after 5 months of WW I am still enamored.

My oldest is not mathy. He graduated high school with the regular diploma and no alg 2.

Happened to me in a 82 benz with a couple of kids in it ca 2000-2001. I coasted into a parking lot and threw it into park and yanked the parking break I guess, bc we did not die.

Very fond of my kia van- sedona. Have had 6 highschool boys comfortably stowed in the back no problem.

You can dignify it however you want, but a working knowledge of bio is a worthy goal and blowing it off is a serious misstep. An SAT subject study guide is one measurement but hardly the be all end all.

I'm love my charming kids as much as the next girl but they do frequently make me laugh. My tween once cut her own hair and told me she rolled onto scissors in her bed. I would give this request to skip bio about the same degree of serious thought.

I tell my kids all the time that they are my favorite. But I tell them all that frequently and usually it is which ever kid is helping me do a chore I would prefer to avoid. LOL

Bio is essential, period. Its fundamental to understanding our world and I would laugh at my delightful little student and ignore him if he suggested he should skip it bc he did not want to take it. Much like if my small child suggested he did not want to sleep. And I am an english major.

two miscarriages is not really medically concerning. I do not think this indicates any need for specialists or anything out of the ordinary. But prayers for you as you make a decision for your family.

i would not allow TAL to influence my decision. That episode was a nightmare.

I was an exchange student in a home with small kids. 1. preserve his privacy. Kids are sneaky. watch them and dont let them go thru all his things. LOL (yeah it happened) 2. hook him up with a local team/ high school clinics or something for sport. Take him to practices etc, Give opportunities away from the kids. 3. definitely hit funky tourist places unique to your area! cheesy is fine!

I think resiliency is what matters and to be resilient, one needs to recover. https://hbr.org/2016/06/resilience-is-about-how-you-recharge-not-how-you-endure

I saw someone doing it at the pool recently. They look so dumb. Not all those vaping liquids have nicotine in them. Anyway I imagine the law will catch up.

I am not reading the whole thread but your kids need better supervision. They are not destructive.

I don't really understand what you are saying here. We on the board are not the only demographic out there? I am not self supporting. Once I divorce I will require all the state services I can get my hands on. I am 40 and I have not worked consistently my whole life. Not only am I incapable of being self supporting, I also have a giant IQ (which impresses no one including me, outside of this board) I can't decide if I am ordinary in any demographic. Gritty? not much. Resilient? I sure as sh*t hope so. The point being you seem to think people here are a lot more "special" than they are. And ordinary is not an individual characteristic but has a meaning... average. The average US citizen struggles but is self sufficient. Until medical debt or some other catastrophe.

http://markmanson.net/being-average This will probably offend some- language used tends to be coarse. But I think he makes good points. At the same time, I am not sure why we are conflating "ordinary" with an inability to provide for basic needs, bc that seems to me to be a bizarre interpretation of ordinary. Rather, ordinary would be a teacher married to an insurance salesman perhaps. Or a govt employee married to a construction engineer. I find this discussion to be confused...

This is reductive. If you think the poor lack grit I believe you have not spent time with them. "Ordinary people" struggle to eat pay rent etc every day for reasons which have ZERO to do with grit, talent, and even work ethic.