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Is this an AI review that pivots — two sentences further on — to asking the author for a loan?

Roughly 5% of kids will learn to read well this way, through a language-rich environment and little / no direct instruction. Great for them! But most kids will need some degree of explicit instruction to read well and not founder.

Threads is a hellscape.

For a split second as Bluesky was loading, it showed me this post as if it were written by Joyce Carol Oates. Which seemed … maybe even plausible!

I love you. So much. (Not in a creepy way. In a “Came for the funny teacher videos, stayed for the revolution” way.)

You just couldn’t help Almost doing something important and then becoming a laughingstock, could you? While all of us pay the price. Just infuriating and embarrassing.

@tkingfisher.com is this where Easton is headed next??

I’m so sorry. Your engagement and commitment to your students is so evident. But all the teachers I know are feeling … tired.

Enjoy your 48 radishes and no milk. (The store was out. Of milk.)

Stumbling home in the dark, ready for bed — only to discover it’s 5:30 and I need to make dinner and drive a kid to swim team!

I grew up on turnip greens, not collards, but I’ll happily take either one prepared well. And yes, add hot sauce and they’ll cure anything.

Putting up the Christmas tree just to survive Standard Time…

I’ve seen the (clearly ludicrous!) argument that the cream is somehow providing a barrier that protects the scone from the jam. As if we don’t Want the jam infiltrating the little nooks and crannies while the cream piles atop in glorious dollops!

Big Candy Bars Have No Place on Halloween They ruin the “fun” of the fun-size treat.

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No, your parents' first cousins' children are your second cousins. Your parents' first cousins are you first-cousins-once-removed. Lol... So, um, yeah, there are reasons to prefer a simple catch-all for older relatives and close friends!

I remember my parents trying to correct what they saw as a similar misunderstanding. Obviously your daughter and I are / were right. It’s not our fault no one else can spell.

That’s kind of phenomenal. Just thinking about it is going to give me little fleeting grins for the rest of the day.

When my children were young, I was so insistent that we stay in our own (very quiet) neighborhood to TorT and not go to the ones swarming with outsiders. I knew my kids might be the only ones visiting most of our neighbors and for some it clearly made their week (or more.)

We have gotten very little use out of strollers in the first year with each of our kids. More in the second…

How is that real?! HOW???

This IS the Bad Place.

Truly horrific.

Currently my reels suggestions are almost exclusively comprised of that guy who eats like a president for the day. Thank goodness. (Today I watched the Abraham Lincoln video and now I feel like an irredeemable glutton.)

Cover of The Crane Husband by Kelly Barnhill, featuring a female face largely formed of various kinds of feathers

I love the Tiffany Aching stories. And Indira Varma has become my all-time favorite reader…

11yo and I are reading Emma together right now, and I stop approximately every other page to explain WHY THIS IS HILARIOUS. ... It's a little tedious, but it's an investment in her future giggles. (And some now. Because ... it's hilarious.)

What a heartbreaking story as a mom. What a thing to carry forever, that your fear directly lead to your child’s suffering and death.

The baby in this story was too young to be vaccinated.

I'd take my toddlers to look at the fish, but then some young person would be there scooping out all the (many, many) dead ones and... Yeah, maybe not all that magical after all.

I watched the video and was like “Oh, yeah, cool, I remember the wall of aquariums! My kids wanted to watch the fish, but mostly they were all dead at our Walmart…”

I knew she was brilliant, but listening to her as an audiobook reader raised my respect to a whole new level. Her interpretation of some of the old familiar lines in The Secret Garden just blew me away. Stunning.