I wouldn’t mind if they made the days/week shorter, in favor of having a longer school year. While understanding schools would need proper, working AC in their buildings, the disruption of summer is real, especially for students with extra needs.

Thats how I was too. I cant sleep anywhere but a bed, but when my son was nursing? I fell asleep anywhere, a chair, the car, on a blanket in the park. If that baby was sleeping, I was too, as much as I could anyway, but sometimes it wasn’t up to me! I’d just fall asleep standing haha

Thank you for saying this. You’re absolutely right. I posted this with fear in my heart this morning.

Thank you to you and everyone here for helping me keep strong.

It doesn’t matter if he’s the one being taken away or not, he could still witness it, I could still traumatize him. He could try and fight one of the officers, because my son has no sense of fear and an inflated sense of justice often. These are his friends and classmates.

Trump is tageting the neighboring town for having a trans athlete. Last week, my town was pointed out for being a sanctuary city. Compiling fear.

Trauma doesn’t make a person stronger. Trauma doesn’t guarantee radicalization.

Thank you for pointing this out to this commenter.

Love it, thank you.

Im so glad there was a place to vent my worries today. Y’all are awesome.

Yeah, after the initial shock this morning it’s easy to understand this is fear mongering. My state is fighting it.

We are long standing Americans, we are at minimum fourth gen, to basically English settlers depending at what grandparent you look at- but it’s still terrifying.

These are his friends, his classmates, mostly puerto rican… but… no one should live in fear.

Me too. We shouldn’t have to live like this. No one should live in fear, yet so many do across the earth. We gotta support eachother now more than ever

I agree no younger than 13.

Knowing my son, it wont be until highschool for us, at the earliest. A middle school boy showed my son how to look up naughty words on Spotify/the internet. So, big nope from me.

We do limited supervised access only for educational purposes. The internet is a tool, and my child dont need that in his pocket.

I/we have never felt social pressure to get him a phone. He’s today 12. He makes friends everywhere he goes. Right now in this life stage I have a focus on teaching internet safety, how marketing works, and how to spot reputable/non reputable resources.

You don’t have to own a phone to learn how to use it properly. I didn’t own my own computer as I learned to use one as a kid.

Supervised access exists, and parents are responsible for teaching internet safety to children.

Your college experience is a you thing. My much younger BIL did his first year at college this year, and thanked his parents for not letting him have a lot of screen time growing up because he can see the addiction in the people around him.