Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell is on Netflix now! We binged it all this weekend and it was great.

No one is telling them they can’t wear long sleeves

It’s what I wear for kayaking, too. I forgot to pack the leggings when I went to Utah this summer and fried the halves of my legs that weren’t shaded by the kayak.

I didn’t see where anyone said they weren’t allowed to accompany a kid to the gate. But I didn’t have the “all replies” clicked when I posted.

Yeah, that’s probably what happened. I book direct flights because my kids have never been going more than a 2-3 hour flight by themselves, but I have totally heard other stories about kids not getting transferred properly.

I would like to snorfle his headfluff please.

Oh yeah, he also has thyroid problems, which run in dad’s side of the family. So he got hypothyroidism and celiac from dad, and diabetes from his mom’s side. The poor kid.

You check in your unaccompanied minor with an agent and they issue up to two passes for parents or guardians to go through security and escort the child to the gate. Same process to pick one up. We usually fly Alaska and the gate agent will call you to the podium, check your kid in with the flight attendant, and board…

That’s not true, actually. You can get a pass to get through security if you’re escorting / picking up an unaccompanied minor. I do it all the time for my stepson still.

I am cracking up at all the sarcastic middle names I’m getting here.

Right? How was I to know, she’s 19 years old now!

I think it’s partly that and partly that there’s immediate consequences for eating gluten. Like, explosive diarrhea consequences. Whereas with the diabetes, he’s had his blood sugar rocket to ER-visit-levels and still felt fine at the moment. Long-term consequences aren’t something teens are terribly good at…

I also have a ridiculously common name (one that dominated the 70's for girls) and for my mother to regret naming me that, she’d have to admit she was wrong about anything, ever. So pretty sure she’d never admit to regretting it.

Even if a terrorist group or awful popstar came to notoriety with the same name

ooh yeah, I had that experience too. When my dad told the kindergarten teacher I could read, she thought he meant like ... my name and maybe some really basic picture books. I was reading at a 3rd grade level.

This, sadly, is my stepson. I’ve told my husband we need to get him some eating disorder therapy because he cannot seem to stop himself from stealing things he’s not supposed to eat. Like, he’ll eat a bottle of his emergency glucose tablets if he can’t find any candy.

If they don’t have polarized lenses, I ain’t buying em.

They’re in her armpits! It looks so uncomfortable!

I thought the same thing, but she was actually an amazing voice actress. And I probably would never have noticed if she had actually been on screen because I’d be too distracted by how ridiculously gorgeous she is.

My kid was 2 months old, so I really wasn’t doing anything besides watching TV. So, watching the non-stop news coverage of the accident, basically.