Your comment seemed to be referring to the immediate relatives of the deceased bringing their young children. I don’t understand your argument about the young children make the experience worse for the other attendees in that instance. If the children’s parents are the immediate relatives of the deceased, and…

I think this is just a cultural thing. I don’t necessarily think going to a funeral (even open casket) is developmentally inappropriate or going to traumatize them. The kid deserves to say goodbye too, assuming it was someone they were close to.

I feel like a pool hall is different in that it is also a place to play pool, and not just a bar. Teenagers or even older elementary age kids are OK there because they can also play pool. In that way it’s really not super different from a more adult-leaning bowling alley, and obviously no one would judge someone for…

Another piece of advice I’ve read about deciding when to choose euthanasia is “better a week too early than an hour too late”. We ended up having the vet come on one of his better days which felt wrong in some ways (since he was cuddling and eating a bit that day), but at the same time, he got to have a good last day.…

Surprised they don’t seem to mention at-home euthanasia as an option at all. I understand this is more expensive than in the vet office due to needing to account for extra time on the vet’s part, and not everyone can afford that. This option also may have been put on hold in a lot of places due to the pandemic. Still,…

I only started using a garlic press once I got a dishwasher. My laziness of not wanting to deal with cleaning the press won out over my laziness of not wanting to chop garlic before I had a dishwasher. Even now, my main use of a garlic press is for when I don’t already have a cutting board and knife out and being…

I don’t really get the “they have the right to their own mind” here. The therapist can’t force the kid to talk about anything they don’t want to? Therapy is not an interrogation. If you have something you want to keep private even from a therapist, you can just not talk about it.

From a purely financial perspective, <$1000 a year (not including all the other costs listed as those are much more optional) for a hobby that takes up hours of time a week doesn’t really seem bad at all?

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This seems like good advice for just trying to eat more vegetables or “plant-based”. But I feel like if you’re trying to eat vegan specifically (not just vegetarian) it can be really hard to find restaurants with decent options. I live in a major city and there still aren’t a ton of vegan options at the places near…

Idk I’m always skeptical of the claim that “most people are getting more protein than they need”. There’s a big difference between the minimum necessary (about 60g according to RDA guidelines) vs. optimal health.

Yeah I’m not a vegan but I acknowledge that being vegan “for the animals” makes sense from an ethical perspective. But going vegan because meat processing plants are bad to their workers (when lots of other parts of the agriculture system are also just as bad to their workers) seems like a strange choice.

Spoiling the kid a bit on the tooth fairy somehow feels way more fun than spoiling them on Christmas or birthday gifts, to me. Maybe it’s the random nature of it. There are also only so many baby teeth, and they fall out over years. So it’s not a huge investment either overall or at any given point, even if you give…

I got a $20 once because I was at a sleepover at an aunt’s house.

I remember once I got a $20 (versus the normal $1 or so I had gotten for other teeth) because my tooth fell out while at a sleepover at my aunt’s house. Assuming they didn’t have any small bills around? Or maybe they just felt like spoiling me, especially since I was the only kid in the extended family for the first 8…

“I have found it beneficial to make sure I ‘get dressed’ when I wake up, but that usually entails the same shirt, bra, and lounge pants every day for a week.”

You’re still wearing a bra these days? Lol.

I mostly have a similar hygiene schedule, although I change my shirt daily most of the time also. Pants and hoodies…

I’ve become more into protective clothing over sunscreen these days. I get that sometimes it’s too hot for that, or you want to be fashionable in a way that requires more exposed skin. But wearing a light long sleeve shirt over a dress, or a rash guard at the beach, just seems way easier than trying to apply sunscreen…

Kids are weird. For every kid that only likes the stereotypical “kid foods” like chicken fingers there is one who is also picky, but who only wants to eat like, radishes or something.

College students are used a lot for any sort of research on healthy non-elderly people mostly out of convenience. Since the research is usually done at a university, you can just put up a flyer, offer a small monetary reward (or even extra credit for intro psych students), and get plenty of participants with minimal…

We have a subscription to a food delivery box, albeit a very different kind (Butcher Box), and we felt very lucky to have it during the early days of the pandemic. This was when we were really trying not to go to the grocery store, and grocery delivery slots were impossible to come by. Not to mention the grocery…