I think it must vary a lot from place to place. I lived in Southern Louisiana until recently, and it’s still common there to see kids out by themselves, walking from place to place, playing in the street, or riding bikes around the neighborhood with friends. No one seems to have a problem with it.

“Do as I say, not as I do,” was a common saying in my family, also. It sounds like she wanted you to be an adult while she still felt like a child. I think some parents never grew up.

I think she had undiagnosed mental issues, tbh.

Yeah, I realized as an adult that most grown men actually aren’t interested in kids.

Even with small businesses, the owner’s personal funds and the company’s funds are supposed to be separate. You can get in big trouble for treating them as interchangeable. If the “company” is just you, it’s probably fine, but once you’re big enough to be employing other people, it’s a bad practice. I’ve seen friends face legal trouble because of it. And I don’t see anything tankie about acknowledging that, once you start employing other people, those people are part of the company. The value and utility of the company come from them as much as from the owner–or more, in many cases. That’s literally why a company would want to employ multiple people.

Thanks.

I really wonder where they got this from! Strangely enough, when I was a teen and actually starting to get inappropriate attention from men, she would never believe that it happened.

Buying and cooking your own food. Reading the nutritional info on labels.

I grew up thinking it was normal for grown men to be attracted to little girls. My mother had a habit of pointing out random men who just happened to be around and telling me they were staring at me/thinking about how beautiful I was/in love with my/trying to look up my skirt. The way she talked about it made it seem like it was a common, acceptable thing.

This looks like the kind of meals my grandparents ate every day.

The money companies use to fund projects comes from the value of employees’ labor. It would be unusual, at least in the US, for an owner/CEO to be funding company projects out of their own pocket. The company’s money comes from the employees’ efforts.

Different people have different experiences for lots of reasons. Like I used to have constant problems with Windows that took days to fix, and some people never had any problems. It depends on your hardware, software, settings, what you’re doing with it…with every OS.

So cute. So yellow.

Mine loves to reminisce, but she also claims to not remember actions that make her look bad, or she claims they never happened and I’m lying because of my “insecurity.” But I think her preemptive “oh, but you were a child!” suggests that she actually does remember these things. If she didn’t remember her actions, she wouldn’t be trying to make me doubt my own memories of them decades after I stopped arguing with her and just distanced myself.

Yes, I think there’s a lot of truth to that, sadly.

Wow, I didn’t know that Ben Norton left. I always enjoyed his work. It sounds like there’s been a lot of drama there over the last couple of years. That’s a shame.

I didn’t feel like it ever got old, as a kid. I used to love riding down hills with my friends, with our feet off the pedals to see how fast we could go. Or we’d just ride aimlessly until we’d see some old building to explore, or an animal to try to catch, or a tree to climb, or an interesting person to talk to. I don’t think I started feeling like we needed to be going “somewhere” until I was a teen. People aren’t as nice about groups of teens riding around randomly.

I haven’t used Lightroom, so I can’t comment on how similar they are either. But there are enough good options that hopefully anyone switching can find one that meets their needs. :)

Riding bikes was a fun activity. The point wasn’t to go somewhere.

I actually got in trouble at work once because the manager believed I was being nice to people to trick them into liking me by making them think I was a good person when, according to him, I actually wasn’t. I had to sit there in a meeting and explain to him that being nice to people you like and with whom you want a good relationship is normal human social interaction.