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if i hang out with one of my buddies it's true detective. but if i hang out with two of them it's challengers. but if another one turns up we get to be ninja turtles

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a love that is devotional. a love that only has eyes for you. a love that is consistent. a love that is always sure about you. a love that never stops pursuing you.

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i miss when singers didn't have to be the most beautiful person you had ever seen

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It is a very fine line to walk. Yes my child should trust me to respect their privacy, but when children are young they are not equipped to deal with endless access to all information and people on social media. It quickly becomes a dangerous place so yes, children need monitoring while they are still learning expectations.

I teach fourth grade and I am truly fearful for a lot of my students, because I know their internet and phones usage is not being monitored and they are exposed to very dangerous things. Students tell me things like "I'm talking to this guy from Washington" or "my TikTok account has 6000 followers but they are all old guys haha!" I will not expound on these particular situations but know that they grow more and more uncomfortable.

Though I continue to notify parents, it is mostly unhelpful. I am not a parent so all I can say is try and find a balance. Monitor but do not invade.

"Should parents read their daughter's texts or monitor her online activity for bad language and inappropriate content?"

Earlier today, I served as the “young woman’s voice” in a panel of local experts at a Girl Scouts speaking event. One question for the panel was something to the effect of, “Should parents read their daughter’s texts or monitor her online activity for bad language and inappropriate content?”

I was surprised when the first panelist answered the question as if it were about cyberbullying. The adult audience nodded sagely as she spoke about the importance of protecting children online.

I reached for the microphone next. I said, “As far as reading your child’s texts or logging into their social media profiles, I would say 99.9% of the time, do not do that.”

Looks of total shock answered me. I actually saw heads jerk back in surprise. Even some of my fellow panelists blinked.

Everyone stared as I explained that going behind a child’s back in such a way severs the bond of trust with the parent. When I said, “This is the most effective way to ensure that your child never tells you anything,” it was like I’d delivered a revelation.

It’s easy to talk about the disconnect between the old and the young, but I don’t think I’d ever been so slapped in the face by the reality of it. It was clear that for most of the parents I spoke to, the idea of such actions as a violation had never occurred to them at all.

It alarms me how quickly adults forget that children are people.

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Chappell Roan at Firefly Distillery in Charleston, SC on 5/20/24

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remember when you used to be able to play snake with the… hold on what’s it called

hmm. don’t think i’ll be calling it that. anyways i was gonna say remember when you could play snake with the buffering circle on youtube but. now i have other concerns

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children existing in public spaces is genuinely like. necessary for the continuation of society. it doesnt have to be your kids you dont have to volunteer at a daycare or whatever but you need to be able to tolerate the presence of someone who is learning how to exist as a human and interact with people

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they diagnosed me with i love you and it’s incurable

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An overgrown light pole in Poland

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I’m so glad they invented laying on a man’s chest

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There are ten trillion pictures of flowering trees to the point where they sometimes seem trite and overdone. But then you see a tree in full flower and go holy shit this rules and I've gotta show this to everyone so they can experience the same magic and wonder and there are ten trillion and one pictures of flowering trees

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that being said i do think jensen ackles is gay in a way that matters and warrants discourteous speculation

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it’s because you’re always romancing that damn vampire