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Despite all the odds and to everyone else's disappointment you're still alive Dewie!
Whoooo fuck yeah! Take that world!
This thing is dying
I shoulda sprung for two-day shipping
when the indigo children come
You gotta do what you gotta do.
Reduce expense, or choose a solution that is less than optimal. Parenting is all about where you're going to compromise and what you're willing to sacrifice.
Or has he relied on geth as a crutch for so long his mod muscles have atrophied?
For a single child, perhaps a little bit. Running a household is really not just sitting on your thumbs waiting for the phone to ring, dude.
It's one of those things that's technically illegal, arguably unethical, and no one cares about unless something goes way wrong.
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I dunno but all I'm saying is I like his shoes...
Cuts down the amount of paid childcare required, less of an income hit than just having one parent unemployed, and both parents get to actually spend time with their kids.
most the people i've seen who effectivly raised themselves did not turn out well...
it's not a trick everyone can pull off, i mean kudos on you for doing it but as you can see from your own brothers not everyone can find their way in life without guidance
He lives on as cheezburger grease in our hearts.
That isn't your fault. Don't approach that as something you failed to do. There's a lot of luck involved in not being homeless more than bootstraps, despite what Republicans would have you believe.
Being homeless isn't a personal failing at all. I'd say "not getting help" is, but only so far as "you really should get help if you need it, don't try to lift a car by yourself." I wouldn't use it as an attack.
thinking about my own upbringing, the only benefit to having mom or dad home all day would be... that they wouldn't have to take the day off if I had to go to the ER again because I split my head open, again, or something
between mornings and 16:00 I didn't really need parents since, I dunno, 8
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22441124
Having a parent always on call and raising yourself is a false dichotomy.
My sister and I would be at home for about two hours after school before my parents got home. During that time we had to 1) make reasonable snack choices, 2) prepare said snack (usually no more difficult than "pour half a can of soda into a glass and open up the packet of fruit snacks"), 3) don't burn the fucking house down. It was no big deal.
Prepare for feels.
Mom all licking a napkin and wiping blood off your cheek while you're trying to raid villages.
I meant housekeeping as part of sitting at home, as in, not off at work or otherwise occupied since the laundry doesn't bitch at you if you leave for a sick kid.
As long as your parents can accommodate emergencies, you're fine, and they really don't happen often enough to make you quit your job? Just have a flexible one?
She really does have a way with story telling. She takes a terrible story and makes it comical while still making you share her experience with her.
The idea of leaving an 8yr old home alone to fend for himself is crazy to me.
Shit, I don't think it's even legal to leave a child home alone before age 13.
Not gonna lie; that's a shitty situation. It happened.
Doesn't change the point we're making; you've gotta focus on the positive. It sounds like stupid self-help tripe, and it kinda is, but sometimes, yeah, you need to stop beating yourself up or you'll keep yourself down. I've never been homeless, thankfully, so while I can't know how bad that shit must have been to go through, my imaginary version of it is pretty terrifying on it's own.
I don't hang in [chat] nearly often enough to know, but I'm guessing you've recovered/are recovering from it, yeah? You're not posting from the streets, right? You've got nowhere to go but up, man!
Seriously, though, talk to a doctor. People (at least in the US) tend to not take mental health very seriously, we've got a stupid "get over it asshole" attitude, which is dumb as fuck when there are ways to get help. Suffering is not noble, and fuck the asshole who perpetrated that.
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Thanks for this, I love hyperboleandahalf. I laughed for about twenty minutes when I read the car trip story.
Before I started college in 2009 I accomplished staying alive, I guess?
and that's literally only because it's hard for a white guy to die of starvation in America, a neighbor took me in in exchange for me handing over my unemployment checks.
basically up to this point I've been a massive burden on society and am only starting to turn that around
I used to be on anti depressants in highschool but they don't just give free meds and therapy to adults as far as I'm aware, and I'm still paying down my denist bill
yeah that might be a disconnect here, since whenever we needed one of the parents to come around they could without problem
You can take time off sometimes. Do it enough and you'll use up your sick days and start losing money. Do it a lot or for a long stretch without planning for the absence first and you might get fired.
I mean... I could not take a week off my job without notice to care for a child with the flu. Someone has to keep all this shit running.
Different culture.
I started staying home by myself at probably 11, but only for school and being sick. Once I was 14 or so I started to elect to stay home instead of going shopping, or out to dinner.
Told my parents to just grab me a pizza and rent me a video game instead of going out with their friends for an hour and a half.
You find an army of undead trapped under Neverwinter, but you end up finding out they're sentient and friendly pacifists. Eventually they convince you to free them and kill the undead hunters who are wrongly persecuting them. After you do, though, they realize that the flesh of the living seems awfully delicious, and maybe, you know, it'd be better if everyone was just undead anyway. Then they wouldn't have to worry about dying, etc.
So then you have to scramble to undo everything you just did and trap them underground forever before they overthrow Neverwinter.
Overdone, or should I go with it?
I've never worked anywhere where, "Hey, my kid is sick/injured/whatever," wasn't a valid excuse to leave work early... but I also have never had a truly shitty job.
And a lot of people here have truly shitty jobs.
It really isn't. If child services found out they would definitely take the kids.
and I was feeling so shitty and I knew I needed to eat something but I couldn't keep anything down
while I was contemplating my fate of dying while watching ricky lake, too weak to change the channel, my dad came by with white bread and coke
which are two things I've never not been able to eat no matter how nauseous
and it saved the day
it's weird, in my white collar office job I could take a week off if I had a good reason (or even just gave enough notice) without a problem
I lost a minimum wage job for being sick one day in 11 months, and then they fought me tooth and nail on the unemployment saying I abandoned my job because I refused to go to the ER so I must not have been that sick
I don't see the problem though when worst case scenario for having a job and taking time off to deal with kid stuff is exactly what you're advocating to do
i mean that's kind of overstating the case i'm making- i'm not saying i 'raised myself'. i had some parental guidance, in that there were adults in my home and they wouldn't be ok with me spending all night on the corner slanging product or turning my house into a rape-torture menagerie. it'd be great to have had some more successful parents who could have instilled things like a love for education, knowledge about careers, propriety, etc
i just mean the everyday stuff- the mechanical things, cooking meals and doing laundry and walking home from school or whatever.
it's possible to have an independent childhood without it being anarchy.
I like it.
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That was me too.. I mean, I was home for a few hours a day every day from age 10 I guess.
I think having someone home to greet our kids has been a positive thing for them.