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If someone is giving you a ride, be ready before the person arrives to pick you up.
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I'm the father, but my wife had two miscarriages in a row. In the mean time, many friends had babies. We would always get comments like "when are you going to have kids?" Or, "it's so easy, we got pregnant the first month we stopped birth control". Thankfully we now have a healthy baby boy, but I learned never to question young couples (or anyone for that matter). You never know if people are having difficulties or what they are going through.
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Not while I was pregnant, but our son was only a few months old when I started getting asked, "so when are you having baby number two?" People would react so strangely when either my husband or I would say we weren't having anymore kids... Either we'd get, "but you have to give him [our son] a little brother!" or they'd be dismissive, "oh you'll have another one eventually, just give it time." The worst was when people I didn't even know that well (or at all) would demand to know why not. It's not a conversation I really wanted to have with complete strangers, I didn't want to have to tell them I almost died to have the child we do have, and would be putting my life at a huge risk if we tried to have a second. Besides, that's not something you should go around asking people anyways... for all they know I could have had multiple miscarriages and our son was a miracle IVF baby (that's not what happened, but for all they knew, it could have been.) A conversation like that could have been very upsetting for a couple struggling with fertility issues, and it's definitely too personal to discuss with someone you barely know.
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Beauty Pageants. I have no problem with them it's just that the age these parents make their kids enter and the s**t they do to try to win like doping them up on sugar and energy drinks. Using spray tans and makeup on kids that are sometimes 1-2 years old! And in the end they extort their child for little to no monetary gain. I've seen parents neglect their other kids in favor of the pagent queen. And in the end you get a spoiled brat that throws a hissy fit and is disrespectful. But who cares, you spent 15k to win 5k and you're on TLC
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Unschooling. I agree that kids should have some sort of say in what they learn - if your kid is really interested in, say, bugs, then by god you take them to every bug museum you can find and buy them all the bug books - BUT kids should have a basic curriculum whether they're interested in it or not. I get that most kids don't like math, or history, or the "boring" classes, but I strongly disagree with the unschooling attitude of "my kid does not want to learn it, so I won't make them."
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This is silly, but in 2003 I visited Germany and was absolutely blown away that the escalators didn't start moving until you approached them (like automatic sliding doors). In America they're always just going. I thought it was genius.
"Although Many Are Ignored (Especially In The Third World), There Are Good Artists Everywhere." -Kumi Samuel. Ghana
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If someone is giving you a ride, be ready before the person arrives to pick you up.Most-Inappropriate-Thing-Asked-Pregnant-Women
Not while I was pregnant, but our son was only a few months old when I started getting asked, "so when are you having baby number two?" People would react so strangely when either my husband or I would say we weren't having anymore kids... Either we'd get, "but you have to give him [our son] a little brother!" or they'd be dismissive, "oh you'll have another one eventually, just give it time." The worst was when people I didn't even know that well (or at all) would demand to know why not. It's not a conversation I really wanted to have with complete strangers, I didn't want to have to tell them I almost died to have the child we do have, and would be putting my life at a huge risk if we tried to have a second. Besides, that's not something you should go around asking people anyways... for all they know I could have had multiple miscarriages and our son was a miracle IVF baby (that's not what happened, but for all they knew, it could have been.) A conversation like that could have been very upsetting for a couple struggling with fertility issues, and it's definitely too personal to discuss with someone you barely know.Most-Inappropriate-Thing-Asked-Pregnant-Women
I'm the father, but my wife had two miscarriages in a row. In the mean time, many friends had babies. We would always get comments like "when are you going to have kids?" Or, "it's so easy, we got pregnant the first month we stopped birth control". Thankfully we now have a healthy baby boy, but I learned never to question young couples (or anyone for that matter). You never know if people are having difficulties or what they are going through.This Panda hasn't followed anyone yet
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