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Dollyboy's avatar

I’m thankful for being unjabbed!

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Amy Sukwan's avatar

Me too! I should have mentioned that!

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Wharf Rat's avatar

I'm thankful for you and others like you !

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Amy Sukwan's avatar

I'm thankful for readers and so many supportive comments!

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nymusicdaily's avatar

thankful for YOU Amy. i aspire to your level of craft. when i get my book out you are the first one i'm hitting up for a blurb. not for the fame but the cred.

don't worry about your younger girl - it's all developmental - one-size-fits-all education is just as crazy as one-size-fits-all medicine. she'll be fine because she has you. i got my arithmetic up to speed when my mom would send me to the store with a $20 bill and expected me to get the best deal on cream style corn and canned milk (this was before the age of helicopter parenting). the real world is the best school anywhere.

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Jo Ann's avatar

I am thankful for my family, especially since my 5 children are now adults and we still have good relationships. I feel like this parenting thing was not in vain, even though it was challenging. We homeschooled and I am grateful for that.

And of course, I am grateful for you and people like you Amy. It takes courage to go against the majority. God bless you and yours.

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Amy Sukwan's avatar

I've been homeschooling my younger girl it is a challenge. She's been going meltdown crazy for two weeks about long multiplication, like say 48 times 7. She's in fourth grade. I'm working on it! God Bless! Thank you for the gratitude and the comment

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KW NORTON's avatar

Thank you for sharing. No photos but we also had chicken, cranberry sauce and a new one - mashed parsnips. My husbands inspiration and home cooking.

To difficult years and journeys!

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Amy Sukwan's avatar

Amen! And hat tip. Happy Thanksgiving!

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jacquelyn sauriol's avatar

I am grateful for my obstinant defiant disorder, and for warm clothes made of wool. And I am grateful for the life I have led up to this point, mistakes (many), triumphs (few), and all the rest. For those who died, or have been injured, I know every day that I get to wake up, make tea, and read some REAL news of the world from it's actual populace, people who can still think. Grateful for those slave owning misogynist founding fathers and mothers who decided to form their own country with it's own constitution and government. A small chance for change.

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Jo Ann's avatar

Oh another thing I tried was have someone else show them. My husband, another homeschooling mom. Sometimes there is that one explanation that clicks.

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Jo Ann's avatar

My kids were good until they reached long division! Oh, the tears! Mostly mine.I remember bribing my second one to even TRY. What I did with the younger three was said, you know what, we will come back to this in a little while. Sometimes six months makes a big difference. Make sure she knows her timetables back and forth., because then she can focus on the mechanics of a longer problem without struggling to remember her facts.

Hang in there. It's okay to focus on other types of math for a while. Mine liked bar charts, graphs, and things like that. Go figure.

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Philip Inman's avatar

I'm sure you know Tony Heller, Jo Nova on climate. I hear about these people that supposedly think like I do, but I've never seen one in the flesh. Maybe a little. I mean think a little like me. But I'm seeing the internet people are slowly becoming more realistic. I mean the great reset wasn't planned and orchestrated on a world wide scale without it being worked through a cohesive force of leadership that are steeped in these evil deeds. Like 500 years of honing blackmail and bribery to an art. In Europe. Gaining control of media, banks and money. Many national governments. Corporations Stuff like that. There is only one group capable of all this so that only the willingly ignorant don't know who it is..

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Nicholas Creed's avatar

Nice uplifting piece.

I am grateful for my health, my small circle of awake friends, this wonderful new community I've been privileged to tap into here on substack, connecting with you, Amy, Ben Bartee, and other dissidents.

Most of all, I am grateful to be on the right side of history, when the few stood against the many. We will win!

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Unapologetically Me's avatar

Thanks for posting on Sage's stack.

I follow the reports of these fellows who lived for years in China, understand the language, and have many friends there still.

https://youtu.be/vPRDLqggwQU

"I might only have one match but I can make an explosion".

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