Little kids often don’t eat until they’re full, lots of kids might sit down eat four bites of food say I’m done, run off to go do something less boring then in half an hour be in tears they’re so hungry, at least this was my youngest child and she’s definitely not alone. It’s about knowing how much your child has eaten that day and how active they are with balancing their body’s need for fuel and their hunger drive. My son played tag football when he was 8, he would not eat enough on his own, get low blood sugar and feel very sick, I wasn’t teaching him to overeat, I was teaching him to consider his lifestyle and choose healthy food options to make sure he could do things he wanted.

Kids aren’t like adults, they do need guidance on basically everything. Forcing your kid to be in the clean plate club for every meal no matter what is a far cry from encouraging a child to appropriately fuel their body.

Somewhere in the middle

Only if your legs are short!

To me having the bar be some outside goal seems so strange? So if a person is disabled and can’t “earn a living” or have the ability to navigate “the things needed for day to day life” whatever that means since it’s different for everyone, remains a child? To me this is a very dangerous way of defining adulthood and anyone denied the opportunity to earn money/gain skills is subjugated to being a child? Historically speaking this would make nearly all women children until the 1970s. Adulthood is a mindset

What about all the adults without jobs or parents whose labor primarily stays in the home? I think a stay at home parent with no income is still an adult.

I think it’s when you decide it, plenty of children walking around in grown bodies paying bills but also letting the whims of the world carry them with their current never taking a stand and steering their own lives. To be an adult is both a choice to be free from undue influence but also to be fully responsible for your own actions.

Explaining I’m actually not rushing that’s really the number I’m reading and I’m seeing it wrong seems to be something people who don’t experience this cannot understand. You see the number, you read the number, you know the number! If only it were so easy! Thankfully my brain doesn’t do it for letters, only numbers

That’s the weird part, I’m pretty sure he does

That’s why it would be so weird if it kissed you like a person instead

Western Washington this week ohhhh weeee

It think it’s important to plant this seed early, I would always joke about how the dogs are here “for a good time not for a long time” when my kids were growing up, it also encouraged them to live in the moment with our pets. Speak openly about the dog aging like you might to an adult peer, that way your child learns these scary thoughts are safe to have and you share them too so they can come to you for comfort. Obviously this is age appropriate advice little kids don’t need that last part.

I’d need more context to give you a real answer but personally:

Do it like any “we need to talk” adult talks, keep it simple explain what happened, give age appropriate details, and tell them it’s ok to cry/be mad/be sad for a long time, etc. encourage them to express their feelings in that moment and then in recovery share with them when something reminded you of the pet or things related to the pet, it seems counter intuitive but they are having these same thoughts and feelings and by saying them out loud you’re saying it’s ok to feel this and we can grieve together.

Hope this helps

Butter chicken is pretty! At least from my local favorite place it is, we don’t have that weird neon red stuff the UK (and other places?) has

Yeah I didn’t discover Indian food until my 30s and I think a lot of curries are actually beautiful?? Like a deep mustard yellow with melty red or orange flecks and tiny colorful spots all suspended in sauce? It’s like liquid art. Sure not all curries are beautiful but I think most look appetizing at the very least

The day I have to give some billionaire creep my biometrics to go to a show is the same day I decide I’m never going to a show again

My son is 22 in a few weeks. He is allowed to make his own life choices and I try to never tell him what to do but be more of a guide. We sat down and I TOLD him if the draft happens again go to prison before you go to war. He immediately agreed this was already his stance. We talked about a friend of mine who’s parents fled Nazi Germany (to work on the manhattan project no less, he’s a cool person to know) and how their family members who stayed behind and chose to just be “good Germans” by going along with it absolutely regretted it, how it tore apart families, just really emphasizing that from his family’s experience being the “good German” was a terrible and irreversible mistake. Don’t serve, don’t help, love your countrymen and build communities.

I had the unfortunate experience of being extremely anti-war in the US right after 9/11, the amount of “so you support the terrorists??” In my life at that time was way too many. I always answered that “no, I support the troops by not voting to send them into unnecessary foreign wars” which of course they were appalled by, because of course it was necessary!!!

It feels a lot like that again. Except this time it seems most people understand this war is unnecessary

I am an American, I also read it so I can answer you.

The military is feeding the troops, just very poorly and quite frankly this should be a huge scandal. People are also sending food via care packages to their family members but military zip codes across the region were “closed indefinitely” so there’s no where to deliver to. The air spaces are closed because the region is at war. In the paragraph directly after the part about airspace:

“Interruptions and delays in mail service have been a part of every American conflict since the Revolutionary War,” he told the outlet. “Communications and supply networks that work well during peacetime are invariably disrupted during wartime."

It’s a supply lines during wartime thing

If we can’t even feed our troops or keep the most basic function of our government open as opposed to just disrupted, the US is founded on our post office practically! it’s a very bad sign for us being able to keep supply lines open for a war.

I can’t help but wonder how many of those troops voted for Trump considering the military still leans quite right, it has to be many. My heart goes out to the rest who chose to be there due to circumstances of their lives giving them no better options.