Year: 2024
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Don’t Look Now
There can be a fine line to walk between “really honest” and “don’t scare the new person” when going over how things currently work.
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Know Your Audience
On the plus side, my kids’ hearing has been fine so far. Which means they have been tuning me out with a mental rather than physical filter.
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Snack SNAFU
Another time during the summer another mom was thinking about how nice it would be if the snack parent brought popsicles! …then as the game ended she realized that she was the snack parent.
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Hold On To Your Sanity
Every baby is different, so the “newborn experience” isn’t as equally harrowing for everybody. Parents with challenging babies love hearing how great that time was for someone else.
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Especially Rejected
Always a risk that pushing your kids to be “polite” is going to backfire spectacularly.
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Wait, Wait, How Many?
It’s easy to get the number of unread emails under 10, the real trick is keeping it there …and not just by deleting everything as it comes in.
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How To Make Partner
It would be nice to take credit for coming up with this joke, but I really didn’t add anything.
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Never Speak of This
In retrospect having take-your-kid-to-work-day scheduled during the school year only makes it that much cooler: you also get to skip school!
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Situational Volume
They can definitely be loud, the challenge is getting it to happen at the appropriate times…
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Less Terrible
Inspired by an exchange that happened some years back. Surely we’ve percent-by-percented our way to better meetings by now, right?