Hot take : Write your goddamn memoir, get your bloody advance. If you’re sick of other people’s memoirs, don’t read them! Pick out something you like and read that instead, instead of complaining about how people shouldn’t write memoirs. If somebody paid me to write a memoir, I’d go for it, even knowing that it’s…
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It’s no more invasive than reporting on/gossiping about other moments these celebs may want to keep private, including births, divorces, etc.
Uh, yeah it is.
I’m happy for him.
Despite the fact that he will see fit to make a docu-series out of it.
I’m in the camp of “teach it, examine it, move on”. Some professors will give a warning before a class that covers topics like rape or domestic violence, but in history at least, that’s just not done — either learn history completely or not at all. Your mass comm or biology major isn’t required to take classes on…
I really don’t understand what the big deal with “trigger warnings” is in regards to classic subjects like history and mythologies. Yes, bad things have happened throughout history and Greek mythology in particular is almost primarily stories about how fucking chronically horny Zeus was and how he went around raping…
Sometimes, if your kid is more rambunctious or needs more looking after, those leashes can help keep them safe. My mom told me that I was pulled back from peril once or twice. The real problem is when parents drag kids around by them.
As someone who was walked around on a “monkey-suit leash” as a kid, it literally does nothing to harm you. In fact it makes everyone’s lives easier by letting your two year old self experience freedom of movement in a way that is safe (especially in crowds) and allows your parent to keep you at a safe distance that…
I used to say that I would never put a child of mine on a leash... until my niece was little. She was a runner. It’s not always practical to have a stroller everywhere, and kids don’t always want to be in them, and it’s harder than you think to hold their hand at every moment (awkward if you’re tall, also). They dash…
I used it. My 3rd child was a “runner”. He hated being in a stroller (and at two he was well able to walk so fuck that) and have you ever tried walking around with your arm above your head all day? Not fun, so I imagine it would suck for him to have to hold my hand waaay up there. So we put a monkey backpack on him,…
My oldest niece who is now 22 was leashed as a kid because she never met a stranger and would wander off. She would bark at people sometimes which made my mom mad because my sister was treating her like a dog. She’s a perfectly “normal” adult.
Good grief I love seeing kids wearing those money backpacks with the long tail-leash. Every time I see one I giggle to myself and quietly say “Hehe, monkey on their back...”
I thought I’d never leash my kid. Until at 3 he developed a thing where he hated holding hands but was too big for a stroller. I didn’t feel safe with him just walking along side of me in Philly and any ask of his hand was met with a big ol’ NOPE. I finally leashed him. Problem solved. Both happy.
I used to be 100% with you but now that I have a young toddler... I kind of get it and not gonna lie, would maybe sorta consider it under certain circumstances. ALL he wants to do is roam. He does not stop to play, does not explore, he just wants to go as far as possible and is quick and silent about it. Now we have…
I never used one. You are over thinking this though. I did put my kids in overalls as toddlers and that’s practically the same thing. You can hold onto them by the straps or catch them by grabbing the straps.
Until your child is more trainable than a dog I think a leash is totally appropriate.
56. Alive because my mother leashed me as a toddler. Never met a stranger. Even Uncle Ernie. *leer*
There was a boy like Josh on the street where I grew up, amidst a bunch of us younger girls. When he was 14 and my friend and I were 7 and 8, he molested her in this fort we’d made out of an old refrigerator box. Having gotten the “bad touch” talk many times at school, we went to his dad and told him. I’ll never…