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To be clear it is NOT my child posting these videos but she is showing me what this child is posting and reposting. As an adult seeing a kid post about depression and self harm I feel like I need to contact the parent, however, I do not know her and have never met her. This is more of a school friend or friend of a friend to my child and they are not that close. I do have the mom’s phone number from a past group chat but I’m not sure how to approach the topic as an essential stranger and want to tread lightly about such a sensitive topic.

Should I reach out to mom myself, the school, a friend that knows her mom better than I to have that conversation?

I move my hours up by 30 minutes every summer because finding summer camps that run past 5:00 in my area is practically impossible.

I had slightly more leeway last year because camp was closer to the office but this year I have 0 wiggle room. My boss always tells me it’s fine because he just says yes to everything I ask him and he’s technically the only person I need to get approval from BUT he’s also holed up in an office on the other side of the building and has no idea what goes on on a day to day basis.

It doesn’t matter what I say someone is always shoving work in my face at the last minute. This is time sensitive stuff that needs to be done same day. There are other people capable of doing said work although probably not at the same efficiency and speed. I have such a hard time passing the buck to someone else or just saying no and letting them figure it out so this is probably my fault but damn.

My ex did nothing, not a damn thing around the house and demanded me to do it all. If I didn’t there was hell to pay. If he even had an inkling that I was relaxing he would be demanding something of me despite him spending 95% of his life glued to the couch.

Now that I left (I’ve been gone for a couple years now) I can’t seem to get the motivation to clean. Shared spaces are clean but my own personal space like my room or car, forget it. It’s like now that I can be messy I am just a slob. Am I alone in this? I don’t want to be a slob forever but there is something cathartic about just making a mess and leaving it there. I don’t feel like it’s depression though. I’m actually in a good place in every other aspect.

How are you managing mornings? It’s a complete and utter shit show. Every. Single. Day.

Most of the day we get on fine and then everything goes to shit again around 7 pm which is fine because we have the extra time to manage that we don’t have in the morning. But the mornings are killing us.

I know it’s within the lower “normal” range. We just left urgent care and after 3 breathing treatments and a steroid my 12 y/o was at 95. They told us we were good to go but then as we’re walking out the doctor asks if I was sure we were comfortable leaving and now I’m second guessing because she asked.

I have an FRO in place and have for ~3.5 years. The order states that we are to have communication through a parenting app only about the children. That is being followed, however, every few days I am being asked about seeing the children despite him only being ordered a 1 hr facetime call 2x per week.

If I do not respond or give him the same response that I always do which is I am not comfortable facilitating anything but supervised visitation at this time (he was offered supervised visits by the court but has refused them) he starts in on 1 of 3 rants:

1- how immature it is going to look when he takes it back to court and the judge sees that I refuse to coparent with him
2- he immediately starts in on how he is going to go file a motion for refusing to communicate with him despite following exactly what the order says which is FT 2x per week for 1 hour.
3- that I am blocking him from having a relationship with his kids and I am a tyrant, etc.

I just am curious at what point this goes from roughly following the order to ok I am now being harassed.

My kids teacher frequently tells them she doesn’t get paid enough to deal with their nonsense. I know it’s common knowledge (and I agree) that teachers do not get paid enough for everything they deal with. She’s a newer teacher and making on the lower end for our district (~80k) which compared to other areas is not a bad salary but that’s not really the point. She’s constantly discouraging any kid who says they want to be a teacher telling them not to do it, they don’t make money, etc. It’s certainly NOT a job that I could do and it definitely takes a special kind of person to be a good teacher but this just rubs me the wrong way (among other issues).