Without getting too deep into it (because one slip can become misinterpretation) that’s ideal, but not reality - especially with what’s popping up now. IMO it isn’t even about who kids are around, its how their parents treat and discuss people who are different - that leads to the kids behavior. I grew up in a…

Yeah I personally was super fortunate in that regards, I grew up around 90% my race and my culture, I stood out for other reasons that were more personality driven, it wasn’t until puberty kicked in, and I started going to other places outside of my area - that reality started to bare fangs.

::Agreed:: though being mixed presents other issues, and is actually my biggest regret about moving away from where we were in MD - down to NC. We could go eat somewhere and see multiple families with parents of different ethnic backgrounds, sure I’d get the side eye for having a white wife in certain locales, but I…

Yeah I get heartburn whenever I see kids say/do things like that, kids aren’t born with that in their heart, its learned from home. for the nice faces that adults can put on in public, seeing kids acts this way, lets you see what’s really going on in the hearts of the adults.

It’s important though to follow things through the right way, another poster/commentor mentioned documentation and escalation - they are right, you do NEED to go through those channels, handle things as close to the right way as possible. I just understand - as a kid who was bullied (big but a teddy bear) - with a…

The one thing I HOPE comes out of some of this is a unification OF minorities. Where my son is growing up, we have a very small black population, maybe 5% or so. We have a larger Hispanic population - I’d “guess” 10%. I havne’t seen any native americans here. Asians/Pacific Islanders are maybe 5% in total. If…

*sips coffee*

One last thing, to understand, babies and puppies and kittens are all pretty much synonymous - that first year of ownership - expect to put out a lot in visits. It will start off every week, then every other week, then once a month, etc as its spaces out, but you will have way more trips just for checks-ups than you…

^—- Black Guy

So Education. Good. I get very...frustrated. with tech in schools s they often get stuff by popularity and not value. Watching one of my wife’s school focus on getting a ton of new iPads, when they could double their tablets by getting cheaper Android based tablets was frustrating, and for something like your…

Yeah, but even at that, professionals are usually professional at one or two things. You are better off (as a Landlord) offering discounts on a per item basis (for repairs), then wholely. So if something happens, no matter what the tenant needs to discuss the matter with you, if its something you have confidence they…

I REALLY need to make this investment...I don’t smoke, never have...but this is a growing industry...

^—Landlord
This is ... not ideal from that Landlord side of things. Not conceptually, but in practice. We had a tenant who sometimes took it on himself to do maintenance (repairs really) then try to push the cost onto us without talking with us - so he would get things worked on that were already under warranty with…

Its not him, its the people that have me wanting to not be at work right now. I look at each co-worker now, and if my frustartions of being a minority didn’t make me tense before, I feel as skittish as a cat now, knowing that one of every 2 people I meet, hold something against me or what I represent. As if my fear…

The difference though, that solid portion of republicans voting against Trump, are going to vote for Hillary. Those democrats who are anti-Hillary aren’t voting for Donald though and are going to end up tossing their votes at the Green party (know a large number of them myself).

I just can’t call it in the long run. …

Before I was a parent, I got irritated at parents who got upset about cookie monster - “If they feel that strongly about it they need to watch Sesame Street WITH their kids”. Now as a father of two, 1 -5 and the other 1.5, my view point is a little different (I understand why now), but the “idea” hasn’t changed too…

In GENERAL - not just goal related, the more senses you can wrap up in something, the more real it is. Writing down goals means its not just in your head, its in your eyes, its tactile. It’s reinforcement - you need to memorize something, write it a bunch of times. In this situation, need to keep yourself on the…

That looks terrific as a lego family man, gives me some ideas...

As a mobile music producer, this falls in line with items that even without owning, I conceptually endorse. I keep a power strip on the side of my bag, but as I work to reduce the foot print (currently my gaming laptop - i.e. huge laptop, and Push 1.0, sometimes my NI S2, and not to mention other goodies I may bring…

I got bummed honestly as after a while the “good” for Gold games, I’d already have. Don’t get me wrong though, it is a good deal, I’ve just personally found that I treated the games like “Steam sales” and would get excited, download it, and then never play it, only to delete it a few months later for the next one.