And don’t take it for a hangover. It’s damaging to your liver.

He’s a dentist, not a pandemic survivor.

That’s what the highlighter tool on an iPhone looks like but this isn’t an iPhone text interface.

Magui Ansuz is her name.

The bot has been here since I started visiting the site and that was 5 years ago, it was just tuned a little better so it wasn’t so obvious.

Well if he doesn’t make money then the site shuts down.

Poor J back there doing his best.

Stuck up and spoiled is what she was.

Hellen Keller was like that, she also refused to look you in the eye.

Incorrect. Lots of authority figures are lazy and won’t learn how to truly commit to teaching discipline without violence. “A smack on the butt” isn’t really what the discussion is about, however. That’s not spanking.

Here’s on they don’t tell you about: you are driving with the kid and have to piss like crazy. You pull up to a gas station and..? You can’t leave them in the car. You have to get them unbuckled and take them inside with you. Now you either have to hold the kid and your hog at the same time or risk having to cut off midstream when they make a bee-line for the dirty plunger.

Yup. I’m just describing your half. If your partner works then they’ve had just as long of a day as you and will expect you to split the responsibility once you are home: one cooks, the other is with the child (as an example). If they are stay-at-home they have been counting the minutes until you get back so you can take the kid for a while so they can do everything that popped up that day but they couldn’t get to. It’s Saturday, someone has to go shopping and the kid needs to go to whatever. Oh, and don’t forget their next well-visit is Tuesday and this is the one where they check the hearing. Do you think you could take them?

If you are just looking to do some blogging I would recommend Medium or Steem. Both are quite easy on formatting and there’s no setup like Wordpress.

I should also mention that other hole? It’s got its own problems going on during pregnancy.

I didn’t say you had to quit your job but you will get calls. You will have to leave early, etc. When you get home it will not be plop on the couch and have a beer before dinner. No more sleeping in on weekends. It’s not complex to have a child but it is relentless

If you’re in a relationship and you get her pregnant are you planning to go the better part of the year without sex? There’s no need to “go gentle” until the last couple of months and that’s more about a comfy position than depth of penetration.

Yes. Hours. If you think that having children doesn’t mean a commitment of most of your day-to-day life, including time when you are at work, you are going to be in for a shock. When you have a kid you don’t have time anymore, they have time, your agenda is secondary.

If they want to act out you let them. They will burn themselves out while you watch calmly. Then just keep going like it never happened delivering whatever the promised consequence was. I assure you if you do that for the small and medium situations the large ones tend to never materialize. If you get frustrated or angry or lash out, you lose. They were more committed to getting you to react than you were to getting them to behave.

I was prepared to sit there for hours. As I said, the most committed wins. Children have an underdeveloped sense of time so every minute for you is like 10 for them. I have used this with nephews who were known for their out of control behavior with great success. It’s not just time out. It’s demonstrating that you will always do what you say when you say you want them to act a certain way and you are willing to stop everything else in your life to get it. Combine them with making them feel like a peer (as much as is appropriate) when they behave and the effect is galvanizing.

Then let me tell you about something I did that will explain why hitting is never necessary. When my kids were little I used “time out” as a corrective consequence. Many people scoff at it because they don’t know how to make it effective. Instead of putting them on the stairs and going about my normal business I put them in the stairs and then put a chair in front of them and sat in it and focused on them. If they took their hands off their knees or spoke I would stop them instantly. It only had to do it about three times (45min total) before an eyebrow raise was enough to correct them. Kids understand that the most committed get their way. Take the time to make the kids avoid the consequence not the parent. Don’t be lazy and just hit.