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  1. sheeplady

    Free Range Parenting?

    That's really sad. I'm sorry for the poor guy. Our school had a lot of bullying, but nothing that extreme. More nasty nasty taunting. Like taunting the girl who returned at 21 to finish school (which I admired) for miscarrying a baby at 18 (why she dropped out). A group of girls used to stuff...
  2. sheeplady

    Free Range Parenting?

    That's horrible Lizzie... was the kid (from the well) OK?
  3. sheeplady

    Free Range Parenting?

    I think this is a good discussion. It's really hard to callibrate struggles, as FadingFast suggested. I have young kids, and there is a tendency to want to protect them. My daughter was being bullied in preschool as the "new kid" in her in home daycare. We seriously considered withdrawing her...
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    Free Range Parenting?

    I think one of the problems in discussing parenting is we all have such different lenses. What is a Challenge to some (such as being cut from a team) represents a totally different Challenge than others have faced (such as watching a parent die). Without having the same set of parameters it...
  5. sheeplady

    How do you feel about(Vintage) fur?

    I still haven't worn my fur collar I bought in 2012, but it's been a long road since then. I'm getting gutsy enough I might wear it. Pinned to I have no idea what. I was given a heavy wool coat with a fur collar. I'm not sure if I'll wear it or not. I like the color of the coat, so I kept it...
  7. sheeplady

    You Realise Christmas Is Approaching When …

    As much as I love love love holidays, they are less special when the decorations go up early. Let each holiday have it's fair share. (Also Halloween is a favorite so don't crowd out Halloween with Christmas stuff.)
  8. sheeplady

    You Know You Live in a Small(ish) Town When...

    Can I dare ask why this is happening so frequently? Are the drivers impaired? Dangerous conditions? Some sort of weird mob initiation?
  9. sheeplady

    You Know You Live in a Small(ish) Town When...

    They closed down main street to take a building down. Everybody leaves your workplace 3 blocks down to watch it... along with half the town. The ice cream truck could have made a killing.
  10. sheeplady

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    When we lived in the neighborhood where my decorations were called tacky, we lived across the street from a huge 1940s house. Easily 4 bedrooms upstairs and a finished basement on a double lot with a two stall garage. Compared to The rest of our houses, which were nominally 3 bedrooms, one bath...
  11. sheeplady

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    If I lived in your town, Lizzie, I'd give them a heart attack. On purpose. I'd buy 15 of those inflatable horrid things. For every holiday. The only outside decorations we've ever done is to put candles in the windows and wreaths on the door. Right now we have pumpkins, but once those come down...
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    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    As a kid, my favorite tree was the swamp tree. It had like 5 branches and I thought it looked really classy with the ornaments hug on it. You could see the lights on the whole tree. I hate the manicured ones where the ornaments stick out. I, at one time, had 5 large trees (artificial) and 4...
  14. sheeplady

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    I love Christmas decorations. Heck I love holiday decorations, of any sort. Bonus points if it's vintage hideous/guady. I grew up in a family that didn't decorate. Well, thats not true. My father was rather lazy and cheap. We grew up on a farm, so every year my mother and I would pick out a...
  15. sheeplady

    Something I Observed Last Night...

    I have collegaues who study security and in major cities, you can be tracked the minute you step outside your private dwelling until you re-enter a private dwelling. That is, of course, using separate networks of cameras. And of course, many people have installed private "nanny cams" and "door...
  16. sheeplady

    Why American Workers Now Dress So Casually

    I have no problems with student drinking. I was certainly not a teetotaler in college (and i actually probably did more drinking in high school). I've also been pretty drunk in my life time. I have no problem with letting off a little steam, even if it was twice a week for students. But...
  17. sheeplady

    Why American Workers Now Dress So Casually

    Drinking on American campuses is an epidemic. That is not an overstatement. I've worked at several colleges where students started drinking Thursday afternoon, would attend Friday classes drunk or hung over, and keep drinking until Monday. As in, keep drinking all weekend- not just evenings...
  19. sheeplady

    Why American Workers Now Dress So Casually

    I've worked for great bosses and poor ones. (The worse boss I ever worked for had slept with a number of his assistants and assumed I'd be, well, next. Not my best job.) Having taught in IT, I'm not surprised by anything coming out of Silicone valley. The culture is toxic.
  20. sheeplady

    Why American Workers Now Dress So Casually

    Heaven forbid managers lower themselves down to the level of the plebs. Tsk, tsk. (That is said tongue in cheek.) One of the important opportunities in a job interview is to see what the potential culture of a job is. I always look at dress, and I dress as (the upper end for the culture) of...
  21. sheeplady

    Democracy

    The university I did my undergrad at made the list in the top 20. My husband is a 3rd generation legacy graduate of it. While I'd be proud if my kid went there (4th generation on my husband's side and all that), I'd never encourage it. I struggled for personal attention. I got a very good...
  22. sheeplady

    Democracy

    The "professors of practice" I think are seen across all of the more "applied" sciences. And i think I've seen research professors at large institutions in every science discipline...
  23. sheeplady

    Democracy

    Our PhD work is funded- you either work for a professor doing research (on a government or occasionally privately funded grant), teach, or are working on tasks provided by an institutional line of funding (funding provided by the university to have a doctoral program). These provide tutition...

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