Homeschooling is one of those things that everyone has a strong opinion about. As a public schooler for life, I can’t speak to the experience of kids who were never in a traditional school environment, but I know for certain that I would’ve hated it. I love being around people, and I get kind of …
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23 Memes That’ll Make You Relive Middle School Whether You Want to or Not
Middle school was an era. Not necessarily a good one, but definitely a memorable one. It was the time of cringe-worthy fashion choices (gauchos, anyone?), aggressively side-parted hair, and math problems with absolutely unhinged premises (like Jim buying 150 pounds of fruit and needing to divide them into piles of seven). And if you weren’t …
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Mom complains to school that her 13-year-old son comments on his well-endowed teacher’s body, accuses her of not following the dress code: ‘I’m just a curvy girl and I physically cannot hide it’
I can’t imagine how frustrating it must be for a teacher to be constantly bragged with inane complaints from parents. I’m always wary of moms and dads who never assume that their kid might be the one in the wrong or are even just in need of a teachable moment that a teacher can’t provide. …
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Mother bans playdates after 12-year-old refuses to include her 4-year-old sister, gets called out for her lazy parenting: ‘Mom just wants big sister to babysit’
My sister and I have a pretty tiny age gap. We are solid two years and four months apart in age, and that meant we spent a lot of time playing together as kids. Often, her friends were my friends, and my friends were her friends, too. We had neighbor kid friends who were also …
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‘An epidemic of 9-13 year old girls shopping at Sephora’: Older gens bemoan loss of ‘tween culture’
I remember being a tween so vividly I almost feel like I’m still one. It’s perhaps the most formative time in our lives– when we grow out of kid stuff and start to figure out what kind of teen/adult we’re going to be. During that time, I started to listen to music that wasn’t my …
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Teacher Asks 6th Graders How They’d Handle a Room Full of Inattentive Students, Hilarity Ensues
These tweens would waste no time
Teacher Bravely Asks 6th Graders How They’d Handle a Room Full of Inattentive Students, Hilarity Ensues
These tweens would waste no time
Teacher Bravely Asks 6th Graders How They Would Handle a Room Full of Students Who Weren’t Listening, Hilarity Ensues
These tweens would waste no time