After reading this article, I realize that I had somniphobia when I was younger. It got so bad that I decided to redefine sleep. I convinced myself that IF I am in bed AND I have my eyes closed then THEREFORE I am asleep. It seems silly, but it really helped. I could convince myself that I was getting more sleep, and…

TIL it’s illegal to throw away human poop in the garbage, which, as a parent, gave me pause. 

Absolutely happening! In my area in almost all of the school districts you could pick if your child was going to go online-only straight from the beginning of the school year or “hybrid” which means that depending upon the number of cases, your kid would be in school or online a certain number of days per week. The…

It’s happening! It’s happened in the comments section here on several pandemic back-to-school related posts, ha. I’ve personally experienced it more online than in person, but I’ve definitely gotten a few IRL side-eyes, too. Both for being too “lax” AND for being too “uptight,” which is interesting to me.

As the parent who is home full time with the kids while working full time (my wife works in healthcare outside the home every day), my goals for myself and suggestions for other are as follows:

It’s very much looking like surface transmission is not a major factor in this virus’ spread. This would explain why masks appear to be working in this case when they’ve historically failed to make an observable difference on influenza and why children, usually living disease-generators, don’t appear all that capable…

I find that I benefit from the opposite of trying to “clear your mind” - examining what I’m thinking and why and whether those thoughts are even worth paying attention to has done me more good than my failed meditation attempts. I also have found that doing exercises that require me to do a lot of focusing and…

Totally a meditation! There’s a form that is “walking meditation”— that’s actually what labyrinth gardens are for. Running, cycling, swimming and weight lifting are all moving meditations. And of course yoga is all designed to be a moving meditation.

Speaking of exercise, I feel like the best way for some people to go about mindfulness is to engage in some kind of activity that inherently requires it. Idk what the research says on doing other activities “meditatively” versus doing standalone meditation. But when I’m squatting for example, I’m both very in the…

Thanks David, I was wondering how I could get rid of that but didn’t bother to check the settings. I have multiple accounts in my Gmail app and only the main one had the option.

Well. Now I know what I’ll be doing with my kids for the next hour or so. 

It was four paragraphs long. He’d have had to make all the way it to the link then read the sentence after it to know they mention that directly.

This. I was trying to explain to my husband just how awful the flu really is because he skips out on getting vaccinated every year and this year it’ll be much more important to get vaccinated. When I told him the numbers for global flu deaths per year, his takeaway was “So, Covid isn’t that much deadlier than the…

Not misleading at all. The chart lists deaths this year to 6/25/2020. The approximately 100,000 deaths attributed to influenza falls in line with WHO estimates of average flu deaths per year. Remember that flu deaths this year are probably lower than average because people are taking precautions against Covid-19 that…

It will be interesting, albeit morbidly, to see what this does to fatality rates of other diseases given how COVID disproportionately kills those with pre-existing medical conditions. I wouldn’t be surprised if we see an uptick in suicide deaths either.

I think this chart does a great job visualizing how horrific the fatality rates are and we’re sadly nowhere near the end.

That’s an old thought, but was found to be ineffective. 

I will give it a try!

As I read this, all I can think is ME TOO !

And empty all water buckets in the garden, empty all things containing still water in which they can lay their eggs.