Got into crypto December 2017, which was a high back then, and then everything dropped 50%. But just held on. And so even though I've made a nice chunk of change since then, I'll still hang on and wait for it to happen again.
I did the corona investathon as well. I'm not sure I have any of the same holdings I did then.
I think of it all as gambling, and I treat it as such. I have an $800 limit, because if I lose $800 it doesn't hurt too bad, but if it goes up 1000% (looking at you BMR, you sweet sweet whatever you are), then you make a bunch. So just gambling.
Then there's the retirement vehicles. Booioorrrrriiiiinnnnnggggg
I posted before seeing yours here but it really comports with what I believe to be good parenting, and you also gave some good rationale, such as regressions and change of school. Young children absolutely respond in drastic fashion to big changes, sometimes good and sometimes bad.
And societal norms are huge too. I always joke that there's no pressure quite like peer pressure, and that a child who's maybe a little delayed in their maturity will have a fire put under them when they see themselves getting left behind by their peers. I had my kids in daycare from six months, because I fully believe that being surrounded by members of your cohort is hugely important in development. On the first day of public preschool, you can tell which kids had some form of daycare prior and which kids spent the last three or four years with mom, dad, or a grandparent.
I would say average age to be finished is before 4, so three. You can start whenever you like, but starting is sure as shit not finishing. My daughter was 2 and just slipped the switch. My son was more of a gradual change. Kids let you know what they're ready for, and I'm not one to force things. I watch parents and kids pull their hair out forcing things because of X, Y, and Z, but I don't see the point in stressing everyone out. And it all got done, everyone's happy. I will stress them out in a few years, when they're older.
My school district, starting this year, began including children down to age 3 for preschool. Prior, age 4 was the cutoff (by late September or October, can't recall), and now it's just a calendar year younger. Some of those three-year-olds are not potty trained. Prior to this year, it was mandatory that incoming students needed to be potty trained. I'd say three is the age where average kids begin potty training. My daughter started at two; my son was late three into four. Both went to preschool potty trained.
All this being said, I didn't see ages specifically mentioned in the article. I'm curious if UK school districts are offering similar grants for younger kids. Because that's what it was here in NJ: school got more money from the state to take younger kids.
Because it's a feature, not a bug, right? I left Facebook because it made me not like people, made me angry, sad. All those things made me interact with it more, I had far more negative things to say than positive.
My old man was a fan of Yes, and so when they went on tour sometime around maybe 2003, I don't recall specifically, Rick Wakeman came back to play keys for the tour, and it was a real treat.
Not an airplane fact, but when I took classes for driving ambulances (CEVO), they always cited 35mph as the speed where an ambulance can hydroplane on some amount of water that I cannot recall. Something with surface tension. I'm not a scientist.
I just made Serious Eats All-American Beef Stew earlier today, and they call for anchovies (which I had none, so I substituted fish sauce) as the umami bomb. But even for folks who get grossed out by little fish, it gets blended with chicken stock, tomato paste, Worcestershire sauce, and soy sauce (and gelatin), to create the base. Fish sauce has become a staple in my house for certain recipes, it's great.
We gave my cat a bath one time he came home and absolutely reeked, dunno if skunk, or if he got peed on by some predator making an example of him or what. Absolute ammonia nasty smell, terrible. He seemed completely unfazed by it because he's an idiot, maybe he's even a fetishist, I dunno, but he needed to get bathed. We got special shampoo and all that.
And despite looking like the cat in the picture on the left, he didn't look anything like the cat in the picture on the right.
I have this idea for a dystopian story where we've figured out aging and can keep people alive forever, but it's only done so that people can continue to work in order to pay off their debts, and only once you've done so are you allowed to die. And the people who administer the anti-aging treatment are also the ones who hold the notes on your debt. I'll get around to writing it one day. I'm sure it'll just be a copy of Running Man or something.
If I run for a full hour it's about 800 calories, which gets me like six oreos and a glass of whole milk, which is all I want! Eat well all day, exercise, and snack at night. Just gotta run 8 miles.
I don't want to mess around with punctuation. It's the same with height. Six foot? Great! 1.91 meters? What even is that!
Let's remember where we are here everyone.