This was a great read. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

I feel seen

Oh Ihad exactly the same reaction. Same on DDG

Ha, ha, yes. Unfortunately it has been reinforced many times.

Always my goal but…

Oh my. I’m not going to be able to forget this. The guilt. The guilt.

To make matters worse she didn’t even like zucchini but picked it because it was the easiest vegetable she could think of to draw. She wanted to be sure the teacher and her new classmates could recognize it.

When we moved to England with small children my daughter came home from school upset because the assignment was to draw your favorite vegetable and label it. The teacher had never heard of a zucchini.

Maker spaces connected to every public library with sewing machines, power tools, 3D printers, laminators and a staffed child’s play area parents could use while making.

I feel your pain. May I present a life saving manual which somehow followed us not just from my husband childhood home but as we have moved from state to state and across oceans. Will he ever be a life guard again? No. Can we get rid of this book? Also apparently no.