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My oldest daughter turned 5 last March, right when everything shut down. We had planned to send her to a Spanish immersion school this past fall to start her kindergarten year. But due to our area starting the school year hybrid for all elementary students, and thinking (correctly) that it would turn to full distance learning, and after talking with some family members who are elementary teachers for their opinions, we decided to keep her out of kindergarten and send her next year. I was confident in our decision in August, wavered when I was seeing lots of first-day-of-school pictures being posted, confident when I read people’s struggles with virtual school, but am now wavering again. She has matured so much this year, and I’m so worried we’ve done her a huge disservice by making her possibly the oldest in her class as a 6.5-year-old starting kindergarten. I need some advice on if we should just say what’s done is done and move on, or if next year we should try to skip k
Dear Care and Feeding,
I found out, via a news clip, that my 19-year-old nephew was involved in the Capitol riots. There is video footage of him waving a Confederate flag and trying to break into the building. I am aghast, obviously. I’m a British man, but my older sister moved to the U.S. decades ago and married an evangelical preacher. The sister I knew and loved, who had supported me when I came out as gay in my teens, turned seemingly overnight into a small-minded homophobe. She has visited our mum (a single mother) once a year since the move, and for the sake of my mum I attend a family meal with them, though I refused to stop bringing my husband when my sister and BIL started worrying about my “influence” on their young son. We always got through it by talking about nothing of substance at all no news, no politics, no debate on my human rights, etc. Now, however, I do not want to see them ever again. I had no idea they had gotten this bad.