I honestly want speed cameras everywhere so if you're speeding you *will* get a ticket. No way to game the system, an appeal process you can use if it was a safety issue like avoiding a careless driver.

No it was the Graco everyone is recommending, not a Chicco. Fit in a 2-door Golf just fine and I bet could fit two across.

For this one who was in the 99th percentile for height at birth I went with a Clek (pre-tariff) for the higher height and weight limits, plus fitting well in a small car.

Oh I've actually done this in a 2-door Golf! I believe it was just a normal Chicco seat. But for two of them (and with one of them tall) you might need to be a little more specialized. For my Leaf and my kid who is going to be tall I went a little spendy.

Yep

My youngest is also in the age of chomp.

My first ended up breastfeeding for quite a long time due to feeding issues and also had (unrelated) dental problems, so I have been chomped with metal teeth.

Goblet squats are so good and so awful at the same time. I gotta get back to my kettlebell workouts, I'm starting to walk carefully so I don't twist an ankle again and it's silly.

Oh yeah, I definitely get it. My teen's chromosome disorder is possibly due to water contamination in Tucson because no one told me to use a filter, and they also briefly had high lead levels because an old house I'd been assured was safe was *not.* It's hard to separate those worries out sometimes.

One of the pediatricians at our practice wore a shirt that said Vaccines cause adults. I knew we were in safe hands

Our family has been through losing a baby, and then through having a newborn with a serious infection. I would do literally anything to avoid having to go through either of those events again. Devastation and terror outweighs feeling sad because your baby is crying over getting a shot

I have to assume that a lot of these parents have never had to be genuinely afraid for their children’s lives, because that is something that changes you on a fundamental level. And that’s just not a state of affairs that was possible any time before vaccines, when HALF of kids didn’t grow up

Good luck to you with all that, and in case you ever need it, apparently one of the hospitals has a needle phobia program for kids, which we didn't hear about until teen was over the age for it. They can only get shots under sedation so we try to line vaccines up with any serious tests or surgeries.

Pine sounds kinda awesome honestly

That's the America I know and love. Hell yeah, we all look different and we all love to pet a baby lamb and eat chocolate chip cookies and corn dogs in the sun.

My grammar book made me cry, so I hid it and my mom was way too busy working five (!) part-time jobs, so I got away with it. I then read a book on philology and eventually got a linguistics degree.

I'd stil hide the grammar book if someone tried to make
me do that type of grammar.