If we can't pay, they'll take the furniture! (35:16) ~ Richard Vobes [ Kimberley Isherwood, from Public Child Protection Wales, is fighting to preserve parental rights for families across the UK from removal by the government. ]

As a parent, though, I’ve discovered that there’s a fine line between omission and deception. A big part of raising children who are competent, independent, and confident in wild places is teaching them to assess risk and effort based on their own barometers. This will help them develop an internal dialogue that works for them, whether as the sweet-talking cheerleader or the tough-talking truth sayer. They can’t manage their own expectations and output if you’re always narrating the story for them. Sooner or later, you have to get out of their way.

IkeConn · 2022-04-04T01:53:53+00:00

We get our 2.5 year old grand daughter to do things by saying she is too little. She doesn't like that very much.

IkeConn · 2022-03-18T22:50:51+00:00

If my rural Georgia home town's only hospital pulled that shit the First Baptist Church would burn it down assisted by the police and fire department.

iamonlyoneman · 2022-03-10T19:13:50+00:00

‘The boys in the group chat talked about my figure and how lucky he was to be able to sleep with me. I felt sick knowing I’d spent time with them all, completely unaware that they knew how I looked naked.

‘It made me feel worthless, like I was nothing but a piece of meat to them, or him.’

Many such cases.

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