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- Tue Aug 08, 2023 10:43 am
- Forum: Philosophy and Lifestyle Questions
- Topic: How do you raise kids with wisdom?
- Replies: 36
- Views: 8576
Re: How do you raise kids with wisdom?
A few years ago I've listened to an episode of the BBCs "The infinite monkey cage", which stuck in my brain ever since. It's called "The teenage brain" and the researcher states that we should parent the other way round as society does now - lots more freedom when the kids are sm...
- Sun Jun 11, 2023 12:29 am
- Forum: ERE Community
- Topic: IQ Test
- Replies: 160
- Views: 413182
Re: IQ Test
High IQ is heritable, and runs in families like mine (my 4th sister is also very high IQ, my 3rd sister is above average IQ, very socially popular jock type, or as she has expressed it with great good humor "In any normal family, I would be the smart one." ) Haha, I can relate to that! Wh...
- Fri May 26, 2023 8:08 am
- Forum: Mastermind Groups
- Topic: Ecology- MMG
- Replies: 177
- Views: 35942
Re: Ecology- MMG
Today I had listeners as I practiced my tin whistle, by our creek. Two field hares were sitting next to me and listened briefly. I spend a lot of time at his creek and have watched many birds, but hares have never come this close before. One hare was really sitting just under 3 meters next to me. I ...
- Wed May 24, 2023 6:14 am
- Forum: Technical Skills & Tools Questions
- Topic: ERE tips to maintain a youthful appearance
- Replies: 44
- Views: 5044
Re: ERE tips to maintain a youthful appearance
Yes, I can attest to the wonders of hyaluronic acid. I recently purchased a face cream (a relatively inexpensive organic store brand of a German drugstore chain) with hyaluronic acid and I was amazed how my (as of yet very light) wrinkles simply vanished after first use. I did not know that there ar...
- Sat May 20, 2023 6:15 am
- Forum: Emergent Renaissance Ecology
- Topic: Personality typing by brainscan
- Replies: 60
- Views: 25244
Re: Personality typing by brainscan
@axelHeyst and @jacob have already very eloquently stated many of my feelings regarding MBTI. My brain runs mostly on pattern recognition, so naturally MBTI is highly appealing to me. Is it really “dehumanizing” to sort people into 16 different categories? 16 is a lot of variation, IMO. I would also...
- Fri May 19, 2023 4:22 pm
- Forum: ERE Journals
- Topic: Llorona's Log, Take II
- Replies: 65
- Views: 9852
Re: Llorona's Log, Take II
Another voice for normalising going NC. I haven't seen or spoken to my mother in 4,5 years. Luckily (no irony, I really mean that) my parents are divorced and I've still got my dad, brother and stepmom. I can relate to feeling defective or broken, but in the end I've told myself firmly that I am abl...
- Fri May 12, 2023 1:07 am
- Forum: Health and Food Questions
- Topic: Homeotelic Fitness Activities
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1496
Re: Homeotelic Fitness Activities
Consider joining a classic rock band, as a member or a Roadie, if you are not musical. Lugging flight cases and amps around is a great workout, not to mention energetic performances. That's obviously a little facetious, but not entirely. My hobbies keep me strong (said rock band and horseback riding...
- Thu Jan 05, 2023 2:26 pm
- Forum: ERE Journals
- Topic: Shaz's journal
- Replies: 130
- Views: 21281
Re: Shaz's journal
I finally managed to read through your journal - another horsewoman, how neat! Your plan of permanently travelling with the horses sounds to equal parts wonderful and terrifying :) Here in Germany this would not be feasible I guess, because everything is pretty densely populated. 25 years ago people...
- Tue Jan 03, 2023 3:06 am
- Forum: ERE Journals
- Topic: GreenMonsta Journal
- Replies: 72
- Views: 8814
Re: GreenMonsta Journal
Is it maybe an effect of successful marketing and advertisement that only a new or newish car is viewed as "safe"? Or is it the fact that cars in the us are so unnecessary huge that driving a smaller car feels unsafe (because those ubiquitous trucks will flatten you in an accident?). Our s...
- Tue Jan 03, 2023 2:49 am
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: Philippines or Thailand or S. U.S. border
- Replies: 40
- Views: 7923
Re: Philippines or Thailand or S. U.S. border
@henry, that's a very transactional way of looking at it. Step parents and step children often deal with jealously issues, because families get re-arranged, people get "replaced" - at least it often feels that way. Calling someone a "bonus mum" or a "bonus sister" makes...
- Sun Jan 01, 2023 4:52 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: Philippines or Thailand or S. U.S. border
- Replies: 40
- Views: 7923
Re: Philippines or Thailand or S. U.S. border
@chenda - exactly. I don't like "step mom" because there's some negative connotations, and she's so much more to me. Total sweetheart, I love her to bits.
But it's very obvious she's not my bio mum, so I adopted that term. It's pretty common in Germany for patchwork families.
But it's very obvious she's not my bio mum, so I adopted that term. It's pretty common in Germany for patchwork families.
- Sun Jan 01, 2023 4:35 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: Philippines or Thailand or S. U.S. border
- Replies: 40
- Views: 7923
Re: Philippines or Thailand or S. U.S. border
My bonus mom is from the Philippines. The last time she needed some official documents in Manila she and my dad had to stand in line for hours at the government agency and pay bribes to officialls to get the documents. Also, she's been back only 3 times in 30 years (money for travelling was never a ...
- Wed Dec 28, 2022 3:49 am
- Forum: Technical Skills & Tools Questions
- Topic: Fixit Log
- Replies: 804
- Views: 209812
Re: Fixit Log
Bedsheets are amongst a selected few things I don't mend (zippers on coats come to mind as well). It's not because of the optics - those could be easily improved by choosing a similar coloured patch, an old soft T-shirt perhaps. The duvet covers it anyways, so it's not really important. But I couldn...
- Tue Dec 27, 2022 4:10 am
- Forum: Philosophy and Lifestyle Questions
- Topic: Deliberately coasting to FI?
- Replies: 84
- Views: 41963
Re: Deliberately coasting to FI?
I'm a lifelong coaster (nearly 43, around 8 years of FT work, the rest PT or "Work-from-home-Mom"). My impression is that it comes down to personality. Coasting comes naturally to people who are predominantly generalists, as compared to specialists. Those two mindsets will make very differ...
- Sun Dec 25, 2022 7:01 am
- Forum: ERE Community
- Topic: Merry Christmas to you all
- Replies: 27
- Views: 9420
Re: Merry Christmas to you all
Frohe Weihnachten, liebes Forum
- Fri Dec 23, 2022 1:58 am
- Forum: ERE Journals
- Topic: Farm life and Semi-ER
- Replies: 200
- Views: 61035
Re: Farm life and Semi-ER
Thank you @shaz and @moretrees for your kind words. In the end it was equal parts grief and relief - he's been obviously very unhappy with his blindness for years, and constantly terrified, but he was relatively healthy otherwise. We often debated if it was cruel to keep him alive when he suffered s...
- Fri Dec 23, 2022 1:42 am
- Forum: ERE Journals
- Topic: mooretrees journal
- Replies: 610
- Views: 138788
Re: mooretrees journal
The situation with your friends took me a few years back, when we had a similar thing on our farm. There is a small flat above our garages and one of the horse owners asked if she could move in there in exchange for helping in the stables. Initially we were very happy but the situation turned compli...
- Wed Dec 21, 2022 3:14 pm
- Forum: ERE Journals
- Topic: Farm life and Semi-ER
- Replies: 200
- Views: 61035
Re: Farm life and Semi-ER
2022 has been a not so great year. A few things that happened, in no particular order. The most intense event was the death of my old horse in August. The end of an era. I’ve met my husband through this horse, and he's been with us for a very long time. His death kicked off a lot of reflection regar...
- Mon Dec 19, 2022 3:37 pm
- Forum: ERE Community
- Topic: Just for fun: What is the oldest thing you own that you use daily?
- Replies: 26
- Views: 6246
Re: Just for fun: What is the oldest thing you own that you use daily?
The bricks of our house are from around 1790, it was torn down and re-build with those bricks sometime in the last century. I almost daily use a fork my grandma owned and used (she was born 1919). Also, a frying pan that I was not new when I was a kid, so it's at least 45 years old. Lots of my kitch...
- Mon Dec 19, 2022 3:15 pm
- Forum: Philosophy and Lifestyle Questions
- Topic: Living apart together (LAT)
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1753
Re: Living apart together (LAT)
I often joke that we would have got divorced a long time ago if not for our 8 acres of land and the ridiculously large house. The main disadvantage I see with living in separate places is cost/redundancy. Keeping up two residences and equipping them with stuff and appliances seems needlessly complic...