I’m really pissed at people calling my son a flirt for smiling a lot and developing his emotional/social skills. I’ve noticed friends and family doing this and I want to nip it in the butt without sounding crazy and full of rage. Any advice?
“The documents given to parents sometimes used nebulous language and left key questions open-ended. They stated that the footage would’ve been used to “develop and evaluate AI models for assessing classroom interaction quality,” and that the “video data may be processed using cloud-based AI services.” But they didn’t specify what AI models or what AI companies would be involved.
Thorny questions abounded. What about the parent of a child who didn’t give consent? Would only they be blurred out in the footage? How would that realistically work? The documents only said the researchers would censor faces and names “whenever possible,” but that meant your child was still being filmed.”
This can’t go on forever, right? Every single bill we have has increased in the past year outside of internet service, gas has almost doubled, grocery prices are INSANE! How’s your family doing with it?
If anyone is in the same boat as me (small kid at home, low free time, but a little extra money) Get Out the Vote postcard volunteering is underway. I've found it's a good activity where I can feel productive politically, but still go at my own pace and see to my kiddo's needs. I went through Progressive Turnout Project and they will send you the post-cards for free, just need enough money for the stamps!
Just need to vent - So we’ve agreed to go stay at my parents beach house this weekend (Saturday to Sunday) with celebrating my aunts birthday Sunday - my parents put a bunk bed in a room with a queen bed for my husband and I and our two kids to stay in. My mom just let me know she also invited my uncle and grandma to stay the night. My uncle is hardcore trump - mainly on social media and we’ve had a few disagreements through Facebook posts (nothing crazy- he usually doesn’t come back with much) but always libs / dems vs right sorta thing. I was really looking forward to staying over but now I’m just annoyed. How to get past this?! 😭
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Despite lots of conversations about treating everyone fairly, no matter what they look like and several books about diversity, my 5 year old has said some problematic things to me a couple times recently… “I don’t like black skin and black hair because black is bad”. I think she’s mostly talking about this in terms of her favorite colors but obviously this isn’t great. I’ve worked hard to expose her to as much diversity as I can in books and characters but unfortunately the area we live in isn’t very diverse. I asked her if her friends at school feel the same way and she said no, but I wouldn’t be surprised if she’s hearing it from someone else.
So I’m looking for picture book recommendations that tackle racism in an age appropriate but more direct way so that she understands the weight of what she’s saying.
TIA!
I’m in a lucky position where a family member is gifting me some money to invest. Their idea in gifting was for us to invest it AI stocks because they feel this will have good returns and provide some financial security. Morally, I’m really against AI. I think it poses a threat to the future- environmental decline/ taking jobs from people- and as a mom, I feel obligated to not support things that might harm the world my children live in. My sibling and their family is being given the same gift, but they don’t seem opposed to the investment. The family member gifting this to us thinks that my sibling will see great returns and more financial security for their family while my family will be less secure because of a morality hang up. So, any financially savvy moms here have alternative suggestions of how to invest?
TLDR; being gifted some money to invest in AI, but I’m against AI. What stock alternatives with promising returns do financially savvy moms suggest?
My kids who have been very into Hamilton, just saw the Les Mis film and have caught Revolution fever.
In this political climate, I feel like it’s important for our children to understand that the people still have power and what happens to tyrants when they try to become kings…
Any other ideas for films that are preteen appropriate that convey the same people‘s uprising power?
It’s been almost 13 months that my husband dropped the bombshell that he was completely anti-vax, a week before my due date.
He was worried about adverse reactions and had doubts about some of the ingredients in vaccines.
We came to a compromise to give baby 1-2 vaccines at a time so that we could be sure of a cause if he did have any adverse reactions. Other than a slight fever or diarrhea (especially after the rotavirus doses), he was perfect. Our pediatrician has been wonderful on educating and working with us, and ultimately, baby is completely current on everything.
The goal, for me, was to build trust between my husband and the pediatrician, even if he doesn’t trust Big Pharma, and it worked.
1 month ago, despite being vaccinated, baby caught rotavirus at daycare. It was an awful 3 days of diarrhea and constant laundry. But, it was only 3 days. He never lost his appetite and stayed hydrated and in good spirits. He was just incredibly stinky and gross. Especially after that experience, my husband saw the benefits of getting the vaccine for it. As nasty as it was, it could have been so much worse and could have passed to the rest of our family, and it didn’t.
Over this past year, my husband has also been able to lift the veil off of the anti-vax propaganda and misinformation. He sees it for what it is - a eugenics grift. Maybe it’s the blatant extremism of this current administration that’s opened his eyes? Maybe it’s the way we’ve had to cut off family, including my father, because of their MAGA beliefs? I couldn’t tell you exactly why he’s evolving his ideas about vaccines, but it’s happening.
He’s been the absolute best father to our baby son. He’s loving, attentive, caring, present, and gushes over him every second of the day. It’s been such a joy to witness and be part of. I don’t regret for a second having a baby with him. He’s continued to be an incredible stepfather too to my daughter.
He’s the love of my life, and despite everything happening right now, I’m so glad that he’s the one that’s by my side.
Hey moms! Im looking for children’s books that explain the different religions without being pushy about them? Idk if that makes sense, but basically we aren’t religious and we’re not raising our children in any religion either, but my 6 year old has heard things about jesus and god and heaven/hell from other kids at school or even family members. Im not sure how to explain it all to him in a way that he can understand what religion is and that there are many without him believing that they are true. I’d like for my children to be able to choose wether or not to be in any religion when they are adults and can fully comprehend what goes into them, but now as kids, i don’t see it as something they need to be part of. However, since they are being exposed to religion, i want to use this as a learning experience for them.
Thanks in advance 👍🏽
I've been trying to stay off news lately but we have an election coming up. Curious who we're all voting for? I've seen the "wait until the last minute" to vote but that seems like not a great plan. Would love to get my vote in earlier.
Also not looking for a political debate here. If anyone knows legit progressive groups backing a candidate, would love to know. Thanks!
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