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  • Cricket81Cricket81 member
    VASC said:

    @Steamboat1679‌ What about health insurance for your LO? My LO doesn't go to daycare, but her health insurance premiums are by far the biggest expense related to her care over diapers and clothes.

    And dear lord, if you have to take LO to the ER, the cost is crazy! We have insurance, but it's got a crazy high deductible apparently. I'm trying to help DH figure out a better plan now that LO is here.
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  • tiffletons518tiffletons518 member
    araziza said:
    This one is inspired by the GIF @Sympkin‌ just posted. Mulan > Frozen. I still enjoyed Frozen.
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  • BC&LMBC&LM member
    wren1212 said:
    Most days, I get a lot of fulfillment out of my job, but I would never define "success" by how far I made it up the food chain or how many hours I work. 

    For my UO -- I hate morning talk radio.  I don't know how people can start off their day listening to it (dulcet tones of NPR excepted).  It all sounds like Crazy Ira and the Douche to me.
    I really like morning talk radio, but I had to click love it anyway for the Crazy Ira and the Douche reference.
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  • CoffeeBeanFiend91CoffeeBeanFiend91 member
    I know this will probably get me in hot water but I really don't understand why grown adults get hype on teen fiction books and the movies that come from them. I can understand if you read the books in highschool and years later the movie came out so you want to see it. But if you go out and get books on an 8th graders yearly reading list I'm going to judge.
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  • Cricket81Cricket81 member
    Steamboat1679 said:

    Cricket81 said:

    VASC said:

    @Steamboat1679‌ What about health insurance for your LO? My LO doesn't go to daycare, but her health insurance premiums are by far the biggest expense related to her care over diapers and clothes.

    And dear lord, if you have to take LO to the ER, the cost is crazy! We have insurance, but it's got a crazy high deductible apparently. I'm trying to help DH figure out a better plan now that LO is here.
    Don't go to the ER! Go to urgent care or your PCP. The ER is so expensive and high utilization will cause your premium and deductibles to go up! I know it can't be helped sometimes, but it is insanely expensive.
    Yeah, we had an issue on a holiday weekend and were told to go by our pedi. I plan to avoid it as much as possible.
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    CoffeeBeanFiend91 said:
    I know this will probably get me in hot water but I really don't understand why grown adults get hype on teen fiction books and the movies that come from them. I can understand if you read the books in highschool and years later the movie came out so you want to see it. But if you go out and get books on an 8th graders yearly reading list I'm going to judge.
    As a high school teacher, I try to read some of the teen books so that I am in touch with what my kids read, but I am certainly not a fan girl.  (I do love Harry Potter, though, but not in a creepy, overly enthusiastic way.)
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  • CoffeeBeanFiend91CoffeeBeanFiend91 member
    @BC&LM that's understandable.

    I posted this after having a discussion with a good friend of mine who is an English teacher. She shared a study with me that says a huge reason why Americas literacy levels are getting poorer is that people are reading books that are too young for them. Like people in highschool or older are getting into hunger games but even if the content is "older" it's actually written at a 5th grade level.
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  • TheTamedShrewTheTamedShrew member
    Sympkin said:
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     Just take pictures with your own camera. Candid, everyday shots, are so much more special IMO than contrived, staged photo shoots with all the frilly outfits and stuff. I just don't get it.
    But I take the contrived, staged photos with the frilly outfits with my own camera!  :P
    That's all I'm sayin! Just as long as you're not paying an arm and a leg for someone else to do it. 
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  • itsStackieitsStackie member
    flerlgirl said:
    calikat80 said:
    I equate a southern accent with not being smart. I know there are smart southerners but I have difficulty separating my "dumb" character voice for "southern" character voice in my head. Sorry southerners, I've been northeast for too long now! (I do have two very good southern friends who are smart ladies but I can't help but make fun of their drawl!)
    Well, bless your ignorant little heart. 
    I read this with a southern accent. I can't help it.
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  • numbersgirl08numbersgirl08 member
    winesconstantly said:

    @numbersgirl08 I definitely did not mean to imply that family was not first for all of us, or that it was one or the other. Sorry if I offended you at all - it was not my intention to imply anything negative about working moms. My poorly stated UO was supposed to express a thought train more along the lines of my complete lack of career ambition. And I guess it might have made a better FFFC.

    I get it. Might have jumped too quickly to the defensive on that one :)
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  • kelly422kelly422 member
    edited March 2014
    @CL8badB said:
    What is "no accent"? Everyone has an accent.

    I don't think I have an accent.  The "Colorado accent" is nonexistent! :)

    ETA: When I lived in Wisconsin for 4 years, I definitely picked up on that accent a little bit, but I lost it VERY quickly after moving back!

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  • CoffeeBeanFiend91CoffeeBeanFiend91 member
    You can read whatever you want. It's the hype that bothers me. I'll side eye that as much as I'll side eye a grown man who obsesses over my little pony.
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  • DaisyDuck40DaisyDuck40 member
    Frozen- Still really don't like it (could only handle watching it once a year maybe?) My fiancé loved it.... He loved it more than "Tangled" and I'm sorry but I f'ing love "Tangled"! It's one of my favorite movies ever... so it makes me mad that he liked "Frozen" more lol.

    Southern Accents- I lived in Chicago for pretty much the first 16 years of my life and then we moved to sort of small town in Arkansas (where I lived for like 4 years). I met a few people who did fit "the southern stereotype" but I have met way more who don't! Some of the smartest people I've met I met in the south.

    My own unpopular opinion....I got nothing.

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  • BC&LMBC&LM member
    TheTamedShrew said:
    I don't really understand spending upwards of $200 on photo shoots of your LO every 3 months. I can understand a newborn photo shoot, but that's it.  Just take pictures with your own camera. Candid, everyday shots, are so much more special IMO than contrived, staged photo shoots with all the frilly outfits and stuff. I just don't get it.
    Disagree.  My camera is not all that great, so I love having someone with a DSLR take them.  LO changed so much in the first year that I love having photos done every three months.  I don't spend $200, though.  Our photographer is less than that.  After one year, I might just do twice a year photos.
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  • BunnyLove416BunnyLove416 member
    Nix55 said:
    I think people who say you need to put your child down to sleep by X time and if that means you don't get to see them at all during the week then you'll just have to make it up on the weekends are seriously out of touch with reality. (brought to you by a facebook friend's parenting rant)
    Actually poster, you aren't giving all the details. The FB poster was concerned because her child's sleeping patterns were off which is why she was asking if she should put her down earlier. The baby's current bedtime is 9:30. Absolutely, she should put the baby down earlier even if that means she won't get to see her LO during the week. It is about what the child needs, not what the mom wants.
    @Nix55 First, I don't know what you're talking about, I'm not part of the FB group, the FB person I referenced is part of my personal friend list. 

    The person I was referencing, and other people I've seen on the Bump, facebook, etc, were more of the 'your kid needs to be in bed by 6p (an example bedtime), no matter what and tough titties if that makes your life hard.' This is the attitude that makes me insane. Bedtimes vary, what's right for my kid might not be right for yours and there's no reality where my kid is getting into bed at 6p because he's not even home from our commute by 6p.

    But all that aside working and having a kid is hard (duh) and saying 'too bad, guess you can just see your kid on the weekend) with no compassion is awful. Maybe that does end up being the right solution but tossing it at someone with a 'sucks to be you' attitude is terrible and gets me stabby every time. 
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  • nikel13nikel13 member
    CL8badB said:
    What is "no accent"? Everyone has an accent.
    @CL8badB Actually, I was watching "How the States were made" and they said that national TV broadcasters and such have no accents and train that way.  They do it so that they are understood and such.  It was really enlightening.

    By the way, I have a thick hick accent when I have been home in western Kansas for a while.  I am completely intelligent and hold a Masters degree.  It's not how you say it, but what you say.
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  • kelly422kelly422 member
    @mcbush said:
    Oh maybe this is unpopular?

    Cell phone usage in doctors office is incredibly rude. I don't want to hear it. I don't want to know you're on it. If you're talking - take it outside. If you're texting back and forth, turn the sound off. I don't care if you're the only patient in the waiting area, the nurses and doctors are trying to work and they can HEAR YOU! (As this "nurse" bumps from her work computer...)
    OMG this is one of my biggest pet peeves.  I would say at least 3-4 times a day, I am seeing a kid and his/her parent is sitting in the chair in my exam room TEXTING nonstop.  They don't even pay attention to my questions.  It's so incredibly rude!  I was thinking about putting a sign up asking them to not use cell phones!
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  • needanustartneedanustart member
    Ok so my first statement was way too broad and doesn't really fit what I was trying to say. Thinking about it in reverse for me makes more sense in that, I have never met someone southern and heard them and said, "they sound dumb." Ever. I've never just met someone and judged them like that (and I get that's what my post sounded like). But, when I have children's book and am reading different characters they all have accents. And for some reason every time I get a "bumbling" character I read it in that hick southern accent (not like a Scarlett Ohara drawl). I'm from New York and I read all asshole characters like they are New Yorkers if it makes southerners feel any better. Like the dump truck and the limo in Little Blue truck are both from Queens.

    Oh and the nice guys always sound Canadian tttwalters.

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  • ASmallWonderASmallWonder member
    I honestly and truly don't give a crap what someone thinks of how I feed my kid and whether the wording they use intentionally or unintentionally implies a judgement.  If someone wants to come at me with a direct judgement, bring it :-p

    Flying directly in the face of not giving a shit about THAT, (and this is way more of a FFFC than a UO), I feel intense judgement as a working mother by my SIL who does all she can to avoid daycare for her kids (to her and their detriment).  My nephew is speech delayed and is approaching preschool age.  There's a program that's two days, two hours each and they chose that one over the two day five hour a day option because she feels that's "too long" for him to be there.
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  • numbersgirl08numbersgirl08 member
    @CL8badB‌ I'm with you on everyone has an accent. If you go to England or Australia I'm pretty sure they'd say even our TV reporters who train to have no accent have an American accent.
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    Steamboat1679 said: @elmoali‌ is this the same one that crashes her car asleep at the wheel? This would be the one!  And I know her decisions and actions are in no way about me but what I "hear" in her actions is "Daycare is SO horrible that I would rather work myself nearly to literal death than subject my kids to that."
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  • WasNotWasWasNotWas member
    elmoali said:
    I honestly and truly don't give a crap what someone thinks of how I feed my kid and whether the wording they use intentionally or unintentionally implies a judgement.  If someone wants to come at me with a direct judgement, bring it :-p

    Flying directly in the face of not giving a shit about THAT, (and this is way more of a FFFC than a UO), I feel intense judgement as a working mother by my SIL who does all she can to avoid daycare for her kids (to her and their detriment).  My nephew is speech delayed and is approaching preschool age.  There's a program that's two days, two hours each and they chose that one over the two day five hour a day option because she feels that's "too long" for him to be there.
    THIS IS MY NEIGHBOR!! Both her kids are within weeks of my kids ages (that was a difficult sentence). And neither are anywhere near as developed as mine. Like, noticeable so...but she has actually said the words that "she cares more about her kids" than I do because she stays home with them...
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