I had my kid assuming that schools would continue to be physical places

"You just can't stand spending time with your kids, admit it" -- people reacting to parents who expressed anything short of unbridled joy at getting to spend 24/7 with their kids and only their kids for months on end

"It's your job as a parent to question and if you don't like the answer, go somewhere else and keep going until you're satisfied" -- response to a "does my child really need this dental work?" post on FB

Second opinions may be good but holy hell we're in trouble if this is the prevailing wisdom

Ah yes— people get very upset when they can’t store their car wherever they want to for as long as they want to

Wisconsin did not even adopt 8.4(d)

If you are an introvert and you have to be at a Thing you don't want to be at, you can recharge by going home after the Thing.

If you're an extrovert and like going to the Things but are stuck at home, you can't recharge from all the isolation. There's nowhere to go.

I loathe voluntary WFH (for me, everyone else can do what they want) so being basically forced into it for a year was awful. And when I complained I got "now you know how introverts feel most of the time when we're forced to be out in the world!"

And no! That's not it! 1/2

I have a business trip to LA at the end of May and this time I'm just flying out of ORD.

And also I will go out of my way to avoid connecting at DFW now. If I'm going to have to deal with a chaotic airport I'd rather it be Charlotte.

I ended up having to rebook the next morning to ORD, as there was nothing guaranteed to MKE for a day or two. I decided I'd rather have a guaranteed flight and then take the coach bus than take my chances on standby.

If you can rebook an hour or two later, it’s mostly fine (it’s basically no different from a normal delay) but once I missed my connection at DFW due to late takeoff at LAX and then a jetbridge malfunction, and that was it for the night.

I did not know there was a parking situation in downtown Eau Claire

I spent some quality time along the riverwalk

When I was there a couple of months ago I wandered around the grounds for a bit but didn't pay for anything (or buy any merch). The history was interesting enough. Also it was 75 degrees and sunny in February and I'm from Milwaukee.

My little bit of Milwaukee sacrilege: had Beans & Barley opened now instead of in 1973, 75% of the people mourning its loss would think it was mid at best

What's your little bit of hometown sacrilege?

Oh both pages were there (the second was right next to the first) but I just took a picture of the one

Also why is this not laminated? You would think procedures for this sort of thing would be laminated.

Instructions for cleanup of diarrhea and vomit event, on letterhead for Racine County Department of public health

I get the need to have these instructions, but why are they hanging at eye level in a restaurant bathroom?

I am also short (and slightly strangely proportioned), but saw some midis that will probably hit decently

I...do not hate a lot of what's there

I will bookmark this for a future need

But then again someone would put Roe v Wade on it and make it fade into Dobbs or something which would also be eew

Eew

I could see this working if it were an overturned cases mug (where hot liquid made the bad cases disappear)

Why does a person who have hair on his head have more hair than a person who has hairs on his head?

My stepkid is now 23 and never needed to be home overnight alone here as a teen. I think his mom left him alone for a couple of days at 16-17. He had some health challenges that would have made that difficult before that.

Yeah we didn't either (no real reason to) until my kid was 9 and gave us a well-reasoned presentation on why he should not have to go to the after school program and could instead latchkey

Yeah we have neighbors a few doors down (teacher, disability-retired cop, a bunch of older kids) who my kid knows well and who are already part of the safety plan.

I think 15 would be fine on his own, but he would be tempted to have friends over and they all become dumber in one another's presence.

My kid started to bus home alone and arrive about 20 minutes before one of us got home at age 9 (though we kept that quiet). Covid interrupted that and he didn't return to in-person school until age 11.

GenX has a reputation for being feral but my parents were pretty present

This is interesting. I went away to college at 17 but hadn't spent a night alone at *my home* until after that (but definitely spent the night at Heather's house when her mom wasn't there).

My kid is 15 and has spent ample time home alone but I don't think he's quite there yet for overnight.

At what age would you let your child stay home alone overnight?

How old were you when you first did so?

I’m so sorry. I lost a close friend in 2020 to pancreatic cancer. He left a 12-year-old daughter. His was not operable so he would not have been eligible for this trial, but it is infuriating that we have the opportunity to keep more moms and dads and friends around longer and we are turning away.