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  1. I would hit the double like button. Congratulations to you both!
  2. Yes, and I also would put strict parental controls on the phone. These days plenty of dangers are brought to us via the Internet.
  3. In my family of origin and my own kids we use Grandmother and Grandfather for maternal side and Grandma/Grandpa for paternal so I will be Grandmother. Can't wait!
  4. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/03/18/have-the-liberal-arts-gone-conservative I love your quotes.
  5. That is odd. Editing to say the RN was focused but also fully directing everyone else.
  6. It was Air Canada and they didn't have an ambu bag, just a tank and mask. The RN was doing super fast compressions with no puffs, just mask oxygen, which seems to prove the modern protocol of slipping in rescue breaths but focusing on compressions. That, plus probably lots of prayers...
  7. I hear that, thank you. I actually think she is a bit less traumatized than had she not participated. Having diabetes gives her a fair amount of worry about responders not knowing how to work with it. She wears a bracelet with insulin pump CGM and glucagon written on it. The patient today was not wearing a bracelet and his wife froze for a minute, so I hope he gets one now. Dd was quite disturbed by the movie Knives Out and the plot with someone getting an accidental overdose of otherwise benign medication., too close to home for an insulin-dependent diabetic. I once did CPR on someone who had had an aneurysm which we of course didn't know at the time but he was dead by the time he hit the floor. That was kinda horrible until the ER doc called me weeks later to tell me that it was an aneurysm.
  8. This is good advice but also having a moms-only dedicated group to share about homeschooling can be great. Think of it as professional development and continuing ed. I loved Park days but it's a lot of multi tasking to interact with kiddos and have anything like a serious conversation with moms. I only had a mom's group for a year but it was super helpful.
  9. They had the pads on and were about to shock him when he got a pulse. Incredible effort of the RN! Dd said she could hear his rib break. When he came to and they asked him if he knew where he was etc he said wow my chest hurts and she said I'm sorry but i broke your ribs!
  10. Dd was on a flight this morning when a man two rows up collapsed. His wife called for medical help and an RN and a WFR responded, got him on oxygen, lost his pulse, started giving chest compressions. RN asks the wife if he has any medical issues and wife says no, but Type 1 diabetic dd asks directly "does he have diabetes?" and wife says yes. So dd checks his glucose while he's seizing and getting chest compressions, she already has the app on her phone that converts it to metric (she's flying from Canada) then stood by with her glucagon at the ready. He received a half hour of chest compressions then revived, which is an actual miracle. The plane diverted to a different city and dd said they cleared the airport then came in super hot, faster than she's ever landed before. EMTs came for him and he was talking and aware. I'm proud of my girl's small part in the situation! The RN was an actual hero for directing the terrified flight attendants and giving chest compressions for so long.
  11. There are signs like this on a trail near me, which include a helpful graphic of a person falling from a cliff. People are still climbing it in flip flops. I think there is a certain humanity to risk taking in the natural world, but learning to mitigate risk is the most human of activities.
  12. I'm sorry, the autocorrect said dad but of course I meant dear son.
  13. I'm so sorry that happened to your ds, Kassia. How traumatic.
  14. Three miles walking plus a video. Cannot wait to go home and hike!
  15. See the fundie baby voice thread, we've moved on to discussing the linen-festooned tradwives and their sad beige children.
  16. Laughing out loud across the Pacific.
  17. I go "incognito" when I look up my objectionables...
  18. Sending warm thoughts and holding your family in the Light.
  19. I knew one friend who decorated like this when her kids were young and she homeschooled for awhile. Gray walls, white floors, pale blue carpet. It was very pretty but also felt very cold and performative though she wasn't vlogging. I always worried my full color kids would ruin or stain something at her house when we visited.
  20. I completely agree. Thanks for the book rec. Regarding the performative element, yesterday I was harboring dark thoughts about the future for these families when the pendulum swings or some new form of marketing takes off, will their marriages take the strain? Or will there arise a new online trend of #formertrads with indignant, tell-all memoirs? Or when their children reach adulthood and start attending the "I was a sad beige baby with everything to live for" support groups?
  21. More walking and videos, which feels good. Something is better than nothing.
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