brother coped so hard he changed the world

14yo son and his best friend (black) are dressing up for Halloween as cop and detainee, the kids are alright😃

I'm disagreeable, defiant as a child/teen, and I can certainly curate a good grudge But in time I learned that I either immediately solve the conflict OR distance myself/cut ties. But never allow having an enemy, because - I KID YOU NOT - my skin, my hair, my waist will suffer

17yo daughter, now in college, was homeschooled before that. Besides advancing academically, she picked up soft skills that make her ridiculously competent at running family life. E.g. she somehow put us all on a schedule to visit grandparents so that they get a visit every day😂

My (older, E European) cleaning lady who wears beautiful aprons and headwear, whose late husband was a poet, asked abt my 14yo son “Does our sweet boy smoke cigarettes?I have some good ones for him” Her model of teen boy is _smoking cigarettes, taking girls on motorcycle rides_

Literally my family

Every few months we have a family drill of all of us meeting at an out of town location on a single emergency signal from one of us, no phones How is your family weird?

On camera, when he first held our youngest and first son, newly born - my husband was heard saying, emotional: “we’re gonna play wrestle so much you and me” My son is 14, they spar in the living room all the time and go to BJJ practice together 3x/week🥹❤️

my autistic daughter, upon hearing our neighbour referring to her ex-husband as "my ex": "She's so cool the way she refers to him as X"

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Mom (under 18) and dad went out drinking past curfew while at boarding school (both kicked out of school), father in law was mother in law’s teacher (32, 18), my husband hit on me while I was selling something to his girlfriend Happily married: 50, 40, respectively 20yrs later

I'm confronted often with the dilemma of standing up to a bully when I'm not directly affected, but the asshole is taking advantage of the agreeableness of people in my circle Being the one disagreeable person I can do it but also feel the nice people learn to stop enabling them

I’m sorry but as soon as my baby girl started college I see all my young adults students like this🥹

This worked, by the way. My son’s math teacher responded with openness for my proposal, so I was able to start a polite dialogue - and from it some actual changes in the classroom and in the feedback she gives to my son’s math work W