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November 2013 Moms
fitmama418
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U! O!
fitmama418
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Thong underwear is the worst. The only reason I suck it up and wear a pair is if I'm wearing white bottoms or a fitted dress, but I'd rather go commando.
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Rats ARE cute! They make terrible pets, but I think they're adorable.
Give me all the gluten!
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There is a thing as having too much candida or yeast inside your intestinal tract making you sick and cause infections. Best way to fight that is a gluten free diet. But honestly, unless it's like a hardcore illness just eat gluten in moderation
::bring me all the bread and pasta::
2 shame.
Along with that he calls a pacifier a fooler (he pronounces it like fuller)...maybe it is regional. I gave up on that one though cause he fought me on it. As long as we know what the other means I don't care.
Um I would side-eye this too.... Considering that none of those foods are single ingredient, how is she watching for allergic reactions? Not to mention the fact that most of it is "junk" food.
Although, I normally try not to judge lest I be judged for my own choices. Hell, I'm getting flack from my mom because I'm "feeding my baby inappropriately" since I chose to give her a banana instead of only cereal for the first 3 months. In most cases I feel like it is the formula vs. breast debate all over again on how parents chose to feed their kids. But, that being said, I'm not sure pizza is a good first food.
Also remote control for life!
As far as food fads, I think it is dumb when people post pictures of food no matter what. I will give them credit for trying to eat healthier. Any diet or lifestyle change is hard but at least they making an effort to better their lives.
I call it a fooler sometimes as well. I'm just not a fan of binkie or bink.
LOL - how's life up there on your high horse?
Pizza is not an appropriate food for a 5 month old, but seriously, if you wanted to raise concern to your family, being pretentious about the food you choose to give your child isn't the way to go about it.
Pizza is not an appropriate food for a 5 month old, but seriously, if you wanted to raise concern to your family, being pretentious about the food you choose to give your child isn't the way to go about it.
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Sorry I didn't mean to sound pretentionous. It just really upsets me that she is setting my nephew up for poor health later on. I didn't post anything because I do not want to come off as pretentious or judgey. We have a very strange relationship and I have no way of even addressing the issue with her even though they are family. It's a really complicated situation.
I try not to judge, because lord knows I'm going to end up with the worlds pickiest toddler given how my husband used to eat. I know there's a difference between an infant and a toddler, but I still don't want to throw that kind of karma out there.
Edited to add: also sorry your family situation is complicated.
I agree that college isn't for everybody and that pushing everyone to feel like they have to obtain at least a 4-year degree bastardizes blue collar jobs.
Phia and any future children have or will have savings that we will start for them and add to throughout their lives. Once they are 17, they get to make the decision on what to do with that money as long as it goes towards either education or another wise investment (ie: a car, keep it in savings until they're older, move it to a different type of account, etc). Ideally, we'd love our kids to get academic and/or athletic scholarships to get the best of both words (have their own little nest egg and get an education...if that's what they want). But, DH and I do not want to take out parent loans if college is NOT what they want to do or if they haven't demonstrated that academics are important to them. Why send a kid to college if they hate school and have no clue what they want to do with their lives? Waste of money. After high school the options are: college, trade school, go right to work if the trade is already established, join the military.
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Agree 100%
That's what my husband did. He spent 6 thousand on a trade school education and makes more a year than most. As long as my child graduates high school and does SOMETHING I'll be more than satisfied! Job, college or trade school. Can't be useless. We are saving for his future but if he wants to spend 6 thousand on trade school and has left over money then it's a down payment on a car or a house or living expenses.
Edit add that my husbands company is short 100 welders right now. The trades are definitely desperate for employees.
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Post-secondary ed should also not be a "privilege" given that the vast majority of jobs cannot be done with a HS diploma. I tend to think it should be covered 100% by the federal government through a 4-year degree or the completion of a trade program, like most European countries do. Eliminate the ability for for-profit colleges and loan companies/banks to prey on students (particularly those that are from disadvantaged backgrounds, as the case tends to be) and open the doors to all students to get a quality degree in one fell swoop. Added bonus: pumping billions of dollars in revenue back in to the economy bc millions of 20-40 year olds won't be saddled with so much debt that they aren't buying houses, having families, or buying stuff.
A little more than a decade after H's graduation from Berkeley the cost of attendance is about 4 times what it was then. Assuming A was accepted there today and took 4 years to complete his studies we would be looking at $120,000 for a degree from a public university (including room and board, books, etc). That's a cost that DH and I, both working at fairly high-paying white collar jobs, would struggle to manage.
Here's my UO...stems from something I witnessed during lunch today. People that walk up/down moving escalators...maybe it's because this powerwalker lady made the little old guy with the cane try to walk to get out of her way, but it annoyed me. Plus, I'm such a klutz, I'd probably trip and fall if I tried it.
In some parts of the world it is difficult, if not impossible, for girls to attend school. Do we just shrug our shoulders and say, okay, that's cool if that's the way you want to do things? Eff that! We encourage them to adopt the view that all members of society are entitled to a certain level of education and put protections in place to offer that. If we agree every citizen has the right to vote (which is sometimes revoked for felons) then we want that citizenry to be functionally literate at the very least.
They. Are. Desserts. Stop eating them for breakfast.