This feels like the natural choice doesn’t it?

My youngest and I have been on our own since she was 8 months old. She’s now 11. She has two older siblings and 4 nieces and nephews. She went to spend last summer with her sister and family and asked to stay through the next summer. That was July 16th 2023. Hardest decision I’ve made yet. But I couldn’t find a reason to say no that wasn’t selfish or self serving. She needed this time. Her mother hasn’t been in her life and her 27 year old sister is the “mother figure” she clung to.

She will be home in a few weeks.

It’s the moments like these I miss the most. Watching them in real-time discover themselves.

Anyway, y’all just take every fucking chance you get to sit still in moments like these. Enjoy them.

I think my 11 year old was the most surprising.

Do any of them know what the >word “liberal” actually means?

No. Most barely know what a “word” is.

Listen. Listen and make sure they know you hear them. Actively engage in thier interests. Be honest. Just don’t bullshit them. Daughters know. Mine are 27 and 11 and those are my biggest missteps along the way.

Oh, also be wrong. Be wrong and accountable. And learn.

Campfire smoke definitely has toxic ex vibes.

like a heart-shot elk bounding off into the bushes

This person has some stories, I bet! 😅

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I too experienced the “get off my lawn” moment recently. I am also “newly old”. Is the Lemmy federation reaching other universes in the multiverse now, and we can see our “others” posts?

I bet it’s just the weed. or coincidence.