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    Unhelpful husband

    @rubbles I got extremely brutally honest with mine. It pissed him off so much, but I just did not let it slide and did not try to mollify his feelings or humiliation. I took a very "I don't want to be married to an idiot, so don't fucking act like one" tone. When he "didn't see" a mess? I...
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    Post-Pregnancy Fitness report - 5 months out

    I'm taking a leaf out of @mjb048 's book and posting about fitness from the other side. I'm 5 months out, and hopefully this'll help some of you. Stats pre-pregnancy - 5'6", 180lbs, reasonably fit (running 2x week, gym x1, training with personal trainer x1, sometimes I'd squeeze in an extra...
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    Do bilingual kids feel left out at school?

    @lippy1004 In short, no. The community language will become their dominant language by the time they are in kindergarten or grade 1 and they won't have any issues. You start with a daycare that has at least one staffer that speaks your language and the rest have the community language...
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    Mom of 2 in a cross cultural marriage. Bragging moment to share my journey in Teaching them Arabic (has been a challenge..!)

    @melchizedek99 Funnily enough, I recognized a lot of vocabulary from a book I read a while ago ("Married to a Bedouin"), so it was cool to see it in the videos. I'd do wayfinding (where's the bathroom? where is the library? ) and how to decline something politely.
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    Dual language immersion for kindergartner (wanted spanish, got french)

    @cal_reacher Speaking as a life long french speaker, while I cannot speak spanish (apparently my accent is french AF), I understand a lot of it (especially written spanish) due to the french education. If you keep her exposed, she will pick up on it and have an easier time if she decides to...
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