Women will pay 😪

Yes, yes, yes. This should be #1 of things that must stop.

It also doesn't appear to be just about celebrity status. It's how much money you have and can afford to throw at a campaign. So the "average Joe" who actually might make a bloody good leader is unlikely to ever be in the runnings.

TIL about the word promposal.

Roll on the lawsuits from grown up kids

It absolutely infuriates me to see these, "its a prank bro". No it isn't, it's harassment.

I agree, just drink and shut up :)

I would argue that we have already reached that point as significant portions of humanity are just stupid to realise what is happening and what needs to be done. We needed action 30 years ago. My son is 14 and what world is he going to experience, his kids, their kids? It deeply saddens me.

Social media has its place. I use it to keep in touch with friends and family who are all now 5000 miles away since I moved to Spain. I also use it to keep track of goings on and available services in my area here where I moved. What I DON'T use it for is a daily ego boost or "influencer" platform. It's all in how you view social media. For me it's a tool.

This!!

But.... straws 😢 I know some people won't be happy with this. I don't like excessive use of plastic either and try to avoid it. But paper straws are just gross, there's no other way for me to describe it. I need a better alternative :/

Agree no one gives a hoot. Like Jim Gaffigan said, 'I have more pics of my kids than my dad ever looked at me.'

"And we have the ability to add or remove it from the collection at our leisure, so hopefully you want it when we do."

They want everyone to know that they have a small PP.

It is allready prooving to be a mayor health problem. More and more of the ingredients are being banned because they are screwing up your lungs.

I hate how there are blue vs red states. A friend of mine had to move because her parents wanted to live in a red state. It was a rude awakening. We really aren't United after all.

And on people who are already lovely (does smh mean shaking my head, if so, smh)

I caught COVID a month or so ago. Even though I am testing negative, I still have a permanent splitting headache and cough. I have been told it could take about 6 weeks before these symptoms go away. Yes I am vaccinated and boosted

I have so many stupid little trinkets around my house. Sometimes my inner minimalist wants to trash them to make cleaning easier, but then the room looks so naked.

It was so nice back in the days when your friends and family couldn't follow you to work and visa versa

Ugh, yes. Can't we just let others be? If they're happy and they're not hurting anyone, why do people have to take offense?

…or maybe to help their own self esteem or confidence? Not everyone is social media obsessed. My husband has two because he was really uncomfortable with issues he’s had since youth. And yet, he he doesn’t have an account on a single social media site, go figure. 🙄

(edit: moved this from a reply to a comment) @Anna Banana, my wife works in IT security and I work at a place that studies this stuff. It is a bigger deal than you are articulating. It is telling when the professionals who work in network security keep as much of their life offline as possible. 15 years ago, when a company contact balked at including his work email in a registration because of what he knew from his time in the NSA, I thought he was just overreacting. Now, I understand.

When I was a kid, I’m 60 now, I yearned for a life where I could be someone else. Now, with the internet, I can see how dangerous that would have been. I feel so sorry for people who’s persona is created entirely by what they can cultivate, manipulate, and then present to the world as who they are.

Oh, don't worry, in 20 years time we are looking at $120,000 sneakers.

I believe that homework is just a failure of the educational system. Kids already spend 40h in school. They should have minimal homework or none. Imagine if most adult people needed to work 40h plus every evening and part of the weekends for free. Unpaid overtime is a problem in adults but nobody realises that thats what the schools are forcing on children as well

My 6 year old prep has nightly reading, and specific words to write and read four times a week. I hate it. We get emailed if we don’t fill in the reading diary. We both work five days a week, In the evenings I want to spend time with my kid, read to her, feed her and she needs to play! I just cross out days in the diary and write ‘incidental learning’ meaning she went to the beach that day 😉

I'm somewhere in between as a parent. I'm very much a pick your battles type of parent - some things are important and others you let slide for a home environment that isn't hell on earth. As for homework I don't force my kids to do it, my oldest son has adhd, my youngest is definitely the same, it's like having a clone of the oldest which is weird as different dads who are nothing alike so definitely from my side of the family. But homework became the bane of my existence, the tantrums, meltdowns, tears etc weren't worth it - then I had his teacher saying getting him to do a small task wasn't a big deal - I tore that woman a new one, which was long awaited as she taught me in primary school as was the never wrong, wouldn't budge type of teacher, even when she clearly was wrong.

Homework is preparing kids to take work home with them, and not get paid for that either.

strong people make good times - good times make weak people - weak people make hard times and hard times make strong people. Guess where we are right now :-D

Most homework is a ruse to make parents feel like the school is actually making an extra effort to educate the kids. In reality there have been a few times it has backfired and a whole class misunderstood the instructions or looked up misleading information. It is very hard to unteach children something they have spent all weekend convinced they were doing right. The best thing for young children to do at home is read!

Let kids be kids but guide them to grow. You have to be shown the right way, told what's not right and stopped from doing bad stuff. Kids push at boundaries - that's normal. We must create the boundaries they push - that's healthy. You can tell them no and tell them off without screaming in their faces. Sometimes a raised voice (not the same thing) is needed to convey urgency or seriousness of the problem. This is how I was raised. I was raised by very forward thinking 'Silent Generation' parents and am Generation X..

Parenting trends change constantly and it always has. The more we learn about behavior and the human brain, chemistry and biology we get better. It's more about parents using common sense. Not saying no is clearly a bad idea, I don't care what people think.

The gentle parenting comes from the fear of being criticized and judged by society, or even getting in trouble for being too harsh. Kids definitely have the upper hand these days, especially because of social media. They can present only a piece on the full picture and they are believed over the parent who presents the full story.

The strictest, meanest most belligerent, and unfair teacher I ever had was the nun I had in first grade. And even she didn't assign homework.

I never did homework and never pushed my kids to do it!

My mom claimed I was potty trained by two. I WATCHED my little bro get potty trained by two. Why are these kids learning basic body functions so late?

Homework is mostly to keep parents happy that their children are working. Most teachers don’t want it and would only use it to revise or finish work.

can we just let kids learn by playing in the neighborhood? Too much homework, even over the summer. Every afternoon is scheduled: sports, band, dance. We do a huge disservice when kids don't learn how to have down time to play, draw, build forts. Get them off the video games and social media and have them socially interact.

Lawnmover Parents. The wife of my boss does this to their son. He gets done everything by her. And he should become the future boss. I am like nah. I am out of there, don't wanna see that s**t show. Thanks.

I had homework in kindergarten, I was supposed to go to bed at 7:00, I would end up going to bed at 9:00. Because I couldn't get all of the math homework done. half of the kids in our grade we're still potty training, and are still having accidents in their pants. We don't need 2 hours worth of homework. I'm way older now, and I don't even get homework unless I don't finish something in class. It's the same way with all the upper grades as well, and most likely you won't have anything in college, unless you're studying for a test. I don't understand giving 5-year-old homework.

Where gentle parenting goes wrong is the not telling kids no. Kids need boundaries so they know how to function. You can tell your kid no and punish them without crushing them. My hubby and I parent better than our parents but our kids still hear no, still endure punishments. But they are treated like human beings and get a say in things like their education and what they want to wear and things like that. You have to find the balance. A kid is NOT supposed to be in charge. They don't have the experience yet.

CRT!! Pushing issues on children to change genders!!

To be fair for most of our history most humans have been extremely uneducated. But yeah its not something good

If you really have to name your kid after a fictional character....make sure that character's arc is already over so you don't have any surprises.