Is It Ok to Watch Scary Movies With a Baby
Aid! I Lookout Horror Movies With My 7-Month-Old. Is That Bad?
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Q. Am I raising a May queen? I am a horror fan. I besides have a seven-month-quondam daughter, who often sits in my lap while I watch horror movies. At what age can she comprehend what she is seeing, and when should I stop watching horror films and gory content in her presence? I don't want her to abound upwards thinking it's normal to capture men in conduct suits … or exercise I?
A: Parents of young children, please feel free to chime in! My totally nonprofessional guess would be sometime betwixt the showtime and second years, or whatever age toddlers outset wanting to watch Television and movies. But doctors and child care professionals have a pretty skillful sense of the stages of childhood development, so I think there's probably a pretty straightforward answer here. (And you want her to exist able to choose when she wants to watch scary stuff when she's a lot older, if only because you don't desire to accept to deal with nightmares that wake yous both up at midnight.)
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Q. Does Jillian Michaels win if I lose weight? I am fat. Despite this, I'm in mostly good health (only a little articulation and muscle pain), and for the first time since I was young, I love my torso! I've always been a big woman—now I'm merely a little bigger. I've been joining some fat-positive and fat-liberation movements, because, you know, nosotros deserve to have rights and be a part of life! But lately, my human foot has been hurting, and even though I am on adept terms with my torso, I'1000 noticing certain physical pains that I don't retrieve having when I weighed even just 100 pounds less. I think I would like to first trying to lose weight once again (just without the fad diets, while exercising reasonably), just until I get comfortable.
Just … Jillian Michaels recently said some fatphobic thing about the vocaliser Lizzo, and it puts into perspective once more how vile people tin exist to fatty people and all the same get away with it. (Afterwards all,The Biggest Loser is back AGAIN.) Am I betraying a worthy crusade by losing weight? I love my fat self, but I want to exist comfy once more. I know my body is my own, and I can be fat-positive as a fat person or as a thin person. I'm not even talking about getting sparse, just losing some weight, merely I feel like a fraud for even thinking most it. Should I terminate following my fat-positive peers and accept a step back while I'm losing weight? Am I a fraud?
A: It'due south a hard position to feel yourself to be in, I think, when you concur yourself responsible for the awful things so many people say virtually fat people, as if you tin can personally either stem that tide by remaining at some particular weight forever or betray the cause and permit downwardly fatty people everywhere past pursuing a moderate nutrition-and-do routine. I'd encourage you to talk to your doctor, if y'all oasis't already (while also realizing plenty of doctors de-prioritize their fat patients' wellness concerns), to find out what other curt- and medium-term options you lot take for treating your articulation pain so you're not just grimacing and bearing the hurting correct now. Even if you do lose weight, if yous're pursuing a safe and non-crash diet, you're unlikely to lose 100 pounds in less than a year—you deserve to seek out constructive pain direction strategies in the meantime. That is, I think, the key aspect of fat positivity you should apply here: not that you owe it to anyone else to stay a particular size, but that regardless of your size, and regardless of the pace of any weight loss or gain you may feel over the course of a lifetime, you deserve an opportunity to treat your pain, seek medical attention, and be met with respect. (In that location may be other factors at play that don't have anything to do with your weight, and it will be important to investigate all the possibilities and so you don't overlook an important cause of your pain.) That doesn't hateful you accept to abandon the goals of fatty liberation or end following the piece of work of fat-positive people; if nothing else, I hope you can stop putting then much pressure level on yourself to embody either perfect self-acceptance on the i mitt or idealized quick-but-moderate weight loss on the other.
Q. Motility in: My daughter is getting a divorce. She has been making noises about moving in with me. I have a pocket-sized condo. I love my daughter and my grandson simply I know that if they move in, they will never motion out. I volition be raising my grandson until he graduates. My girl has ever taken the easy road. She e'er had to be bribed to exercise her chores. She quit every sport or activity she tried as soon as information technology got hard. She quit college to marry a rich human (whom my married man and I never liked) and be a stay-at-home mom. She needed a nanny to accomplish this. I honey her, but I know her. I still have the dog she got rid of in higher because information technology was too much of a "hassle." I lost my married man last twelvemonth after a long illness. I am burned out on beingness a caretaker. How do I talk with my daughter and support her while keeping her from returning to the nest?
A: Don't permit her movement in with you. The good news is that she cannot move in with you confronting your will. If she "makes noise" most wanting to motility in with you lot, tell her clearly that won't exist possible and that she'll need to brand other arrangements. If y'all're worried about your own resolve, ask some of your friends for solidarity and back up; if she tries to manipulate you lot or threaten yous by claiming that you're hurting your grandson, take an exit strategy and so you tin can end the conversation. If you have a history of giving in to your daughter against your own better judgment because she's good at wearing you downwardly, exercise walking away from conversations that accept become endlessly repetitive or unproductive. Become more comfortable with your daughter'southward discomfort.
Information technology may as well help to recall through ways y'all are willing to offer your support to her, whether through helping her update her résumé, offering child care while she'south coming together with her divorce lawyer, finding support groups for unmarried parents, etc. None of these involve saying, "Come on home—stay forever." You lot don't take to cull between either letting her walk all over y'all or consigning her to a lifetime apart. There are plenty of options in between.
Q. My friend gave me a painting: A few weeks ago, I went to hang out with a friend of mine and we had dinner and chatted for most of the evening. While at their business firm, I noticed that they'd been working on a painting of two cats dressed up in military regalia (akin to one of those joke Renaissance-manner pet paintings that you can purchase online). They were making this painting for some other friend, and I politely complimented their work before moving the conversation elsewhere.
Yesterday, out of the blue, I received a photo from this friend of a brand-new canvas with a painting of my own true cat wearing Kylo Ren'south costume fromStar Wars with a First Club symbol in the background. Prudie, I detest this painting. I hate that it'south my cat. I hate that it'southward the Start Order, the Star Wars analogue to Nazis. I hate that in the near futurity this painting volition exist in my possession. I hate everything nigh it. I wish I had never seen it.
I have absolutely no idea where this friend would take idea that this was a gift I wanted, since my compliment of their commencement painting was strictly along the lines of: "It looks dainty. I bet your other friend will similar it." I am positive that I did not express a desire for a painting for myself, let lonely i of my own true cat. Since this friend has revealed themselves to be the kind of person to personally paint a custom Renaissance-style cat portrait and gift it to me at the mildest hint of polite interest, I'm worried that they are also the type of person to comment if I don't hang the painting where they tin can see it the next fourth dimension they visit.
What do I exercise? I would rather quit my chore and move across the country and assume a new identity than hang this painting anywhere in my house, permit lone in my living room or a common area. I as dread the idea of having this friend face me about non hanging up the painting.
A: I don't know why you would wait for your friend to "confront" you nigh non hanging upward this painting when y'all could only say this: "I appreciate that you thought of me, but I'm actually not comfortable having my cat fatigued in a Beginning Order compatible, even as a joke. I'g non able to accept this." Nip this in the bud. You lot have every correct to object to a painting you did non solicit, and your friend needs to be able to accept that with good grace.
Q. He wants our sexual activity record, only he just had a baby with another woman: Several years ago, my friend with benefits of three years ended our "with benefits" because he was starting to get serious with someone else. We kept in impact nominally over the past two years, always at his initiation over Instagram DM, simply we have non physically seen each other. Around the holidays, his now-fiancé sent me a annotation asking, essentially, if I was the other woman. I told her the truth of our past relationship but that I took any conversation since every bit his endeavor to be coincidental friends but. Yesterday, he reached out again, asking me to send him the sex activity tape we made. Something felt off. I did some snooping on his fiancé's Instagram, and information technology turns out they only had a baby (and are very much still together). I told him off, we've not spoken since, and I take no want to speak to him once again. Simply exercise I owe it to the fiancé to let her know? I'thousand inclined not to say anything, but what sort of social contract is there about this? For what it'south worth, neither of them is in my social circumvolve and I live in a major metropolis where we'll likely never meet each other.
A: Go on the video, block him on Instagram, and wash your hands of this virtually-certainly-doomed relationship.
Q. In the locker room: I am a trans man. I beloved to swim, just I quit for a few years because men's locker rooms don't accept private areas and I couldn't figure out how to shower and apparel comfortably. Recently, I joined a YMCA considering they have "family changing rooms"—private, with a shower, bench, and bathroom. Perfect! Problem: I go "looks" and attitude from families with picayune kids while nosotros all wait for our turn to get into one of the vi individual rooms—they fill when information technology'south busy. They are all wondering what this guy is doing, standing there waiting. Do I say something to management? Possibly they could designate these rooms "family/gender neutral"? I would have to "come up out" every bit trans, which isn't a trouble per se—I am an activist in other contexts. Or should I simply go to the men's room and permit information technology all (non) hang out since information technology's 2020? I need the exercise and don't desire to stop swimming. What'due south your advice?
A: Certainly I recollect request management to designate one of the changing rooms as "family unit/gender neutral" is a good option. I've seen that exact phrase at a number of airports, and so I know information technology's not without precedent. In the concurrently, if yous desire to utilise the men's room, I think you absolutely tin. Without making too wide a generalization, ordinarily everyone in a men'due south changing room is trying to get in and out pretty chop-chop without making eye contact with anyone else. But yous've mentioned that yous've establish it uncomfortable in the past, so don't experience like you have to just because you lot've gotten a few quizzical looks from busy parents. Information technology's a shared space, with a lot of competing interests; you're entitled to modify in private, and if a handful of strangers want to wonder why y'all're waiting, let them wonder.
Q. Tin I ask guys to not text me irksome, everyday stuff? I merely recently got back on dating apps after nearly 7 years. I oasis't been in a relationship for 10 years. I'thousand at a bit of a crossroads in my life and might be moving in the next six months, then I'm not looking for anything besides serious. Ideally, I'd like something casual but monogamous. The one thing I've realized I absolutely hate in relationships is bland chitchat. With the advent of the telephone, this makes banal texting very mutual. Then far I've met some people online who seem to like regular chitchat. I know some girls would impale for a guy who messages them every day to ask how they are and what they did, but I only hate it. Is it OK to ask guys not to text me unless information technology'southward something actually practical or actually interesting? Is that the correct style to phrase it? I don't want to come off high-maintenance (although I'm starting to think that maybe I am). I but want a really easy relationship to transition dorsum into the dating earth.
A: I wish I could promise you a really easy relationship with regard to transitioning back into dating! But I think it's the kind of matter where you lot tin can either choose to communicate your (possibly) high-maintenance needs clearly and upfront to potential dates, or have a really laid-dorsum, low-processing early dating stage—only probably not both. You lot can well-nigh hands, I think, put something in your profile (or mention it actually early into messaging if your apps don't include lengthy profiles) that you actually dislike small talk and prefer to salve text for arranging your next dates. Only you volition take to put up with at least a little chip of "I saw something that made me call up of y'all" or "I had a crazy day at work today" if your dates notice the occasional bout of modest talk meaningful or helpful when it comes to building trust and intimacy. Then y'all can certainly cutting down on a lot of information technology, I recollect, simply you can't adopt a 100 percent no-small-talk across-the-board policy because there are more interests than only yours at play.
That said, maybe you do want to take a really hard line and just agree out for the guys who are totally thrilled non to text about bland stuff in between dates. If you're cool with cut a lot of crust over this, you lot can absolutely hold the line here.
Q. Re: Am I raising a May queen? Studies are all over the map on this one. I've opted to avoid information technology for my kids. Honestly, I don't think it matters until they start asking, around ages ii to 3, at which point I'd learn to get-go lovingPaw Patrol.
A: Thank you so much for this. The answers I've received from readers are also all over the map! One reader wrote that "kids can be affected by content when they're six months old." Someone else said no screens for the start three years of the kid'south life is the best way to go. Another advised the letter writer to enquire their pediatrician, which is probably the best route to take hither.
Q. Re: Am I raising a May queen? I don't know the psychology of when a kid tin can cover what they're seeing, but from working with kids in libraries, I have observed that kids younger than almost 7 to 8 retain and regurgitate data in a truly chaotic way. Kids always selection upward on more than than yous think they practise, whether something is from a movie or from a grown-up discussion y'all thought they wouldn't understand. Even if your child turns out to exist a huge horror buff and tin can handle anything, if you're concerned about her spouting scary or inappropriate factoids about her favorite movies and scenes to other kiddos (or judgy adults), you might find that a child 6 and younger has a hard time grasping what is "OK" to share, when it is "OK" to practice so, and with whom information technology is "OK" to share information technology.
A: I think that's a good point. Kids are sometimes naturally fatigued to the bloodthirsty and macabre in ways adults really don't need to encourage. The other day a friend of mine's 3-year-onetime staged a puppet show that included the line "Drink the queen's sweet claret," and that child doesn't fifty-fifty watch TV, and so …
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Q. My married man retired young and does nothing but goof off all solar day : My husband achieved professional success and wealth early in life. His work involved long hours and lots of stress, and by his 30s he decided that he wanted out. His accumulated wealth could easily back up our lifestyle indefinitely, and then he retired about 18 months ago, soon after the birth of our first kid. He has not found annihilation to do in that time! We accept an splendid nanny twoscore hours a week, and outside those hours my husband is an extremely involved father. We dissever the domestic duties roughly l-50, as before, only now I am the only one working and he says he shouldn't be "penalized" by having extra domestic responsibilities. So he spends the week dicking around (gym, squash, books, movies, etc.). Information technology's making me crazy with resentment, specially when I come home from a hard day at work. He tells me I should merely quit if I don't like it, and that I shouldn't worry about being dependent considering he's fix a trust fund for me and our son. But I also think it sets a bad example for our son to see a father who doesn't accept some productive purpose in life. My husband disagrees and says he will exist "an excellent corrective to the productionist propaganda schools inflict on kids to make them the unquestioning worker bees the economy demands." He says he doesn't care if our son grows up to work hard and that work is a sad necessity and information technology is simply "false consciousness" to think otherwise. I'm tired of this devolving into a sociological debate! How tin can we resolve this? Read what Prudie had to say.
Source: https://slate.com/human-interest/2020/01/dear-prudence-babies-watching-tv-exposure-screen-time-advice.html
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