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Cake day: July 8th, 2025

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  • It was also the case when it was one on one with of her teachers/coaches. I’m sure someone will jump in with “it was something you did” but seriously I have no issues with teaching other kids, she just didn’t want to learn from me or her mom.

    Maybe she resented us for making her clean up her room and do other chores or something.






  • I taught some cousin’s kids how to swim. I tried to teach my daughter to swim but she refused to listen. Enrolled her in swimming classes where the teacher said and did the exact same things and she went on about how they showed her the exact same things and it worked. Literally the same things with the same amount of patience. Repeat this pattern for her first 17 years of life on various stuff, it just had to come from someone else.

    She finally started listening to me this year about stuff! Yay! I didn’t change anything, she just finally decided that maybe I do know what I’m talking about.


  • Make sure to have weather appropriate clothing and get outside even when it is cold. Anything short of sleet/ice/blizzard is perfectly fine for the average mobile person getting out for at least a short walk outside as long as they are dressed appropriately and there aren’t massive drifts.

    If mobility is an issue then getting out when it is cold, but not dangerously slick, is still a good idea.

    One thing most people don’t know is that cold weather gear needs to match the weather and the level of effort being made. Walking in wind requires a lot more insulation and wind protection than shoveling snow without wind because effort heats up and sweating is dangerous when it is cold. Keeping dry is critical, both from external moisture and from sweat!


  • It isn’t though, which is why conservation groups that hunt are a net positive in practice. The members also tend to discourage poaching, push harder for maintaining ecosystems, and other stuff beyond what funding can do on its own because the individuals who tend to be involved have ofher forms of influence and power.

    It sucks that this is how the world works, but in this specific case it works.