The Commentary, inside: What teenagers need from parents When they flare up? A wide berth.
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Commentary
Wednesday, July 16, 2019
What teenagers need from parents
When they flare up?
A wide berth.
Problem with parenthood is the aspect of on-the-job training.
Good parents are eternally vigilant that their children ‘do the right thing.’
That vigilance is often asphyxiating to our children.
Flare-ups.
My daughter owns the classic.
We’re arguing over the use of the car on a particular night.
She threatens that she’s going to make sure she gets into the car before I do and drive off.
“Don’t do that,” me.
She, hand on hip thrust at me in defiance, “What are you going to do, punish me?”
I didn’t.
She didn’t.
It blew past.
Flare ups blow past.
Permit them to.
Their life expectancy is shorter than a burning match.
Unless we extend the match’s life by feeding it flammable material.
Parents need more confidence that they are doing a good job.
Typically, we are.
That confidence will empower us with the understanding that a teen’s rebellious moment is not the battle to end all battles.
A must-win event.
It’s not.
Wide berth.
When they flare.
What teenagers need from parents.
The next days look like hot but ongoing threats of rain for a while to come.
This is where people start complaining.
Not me.
Except for A/C which has several times in the past made me sick.
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Tracking Postings – Tracking Time
Wednesday, July 17, 2019
Our 467th consecutive posting, committed to 5,000.
After 467 posts we’re at the 9.34 percentile of our commitment, that commitment a different way of marking the passage of time.
Posting always done by 6.00am the day of, but usually by 6pm of the night before.
On this day Boston will enjoy warm temperatures, with a high of 88* and a feels-like of 93* with a risk of thundershowers.
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Dinner
Wednesday, July 17, 2019
Monday was a sushi dinner.
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Chuckle of the Day:
Wednesday, July 17, 2019
Five years after graduation, two high school friends meet for a drink.
During the course of the conversation, one asks how the other’s marriage was working out.
“Well, my husband and I are no longer together.”
“So sorry. What happened?”
"Well, could you live with a person who smokes weed, drinks, has no job and is always cursing?"
"No! Of course not.”
"Well he couldn't either!"
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Wednesday, July 17, 2019
This from Kali L:
Also us young people get lonely too- I discovered the feeling on my long walk last night and I got curious about it- my curiosity didn't yield any answers and by the end of the walk I stopped at my cousins house and she had me try kale from her garden and suddenly all was well. Never underestimate the gift you give by connecting people on your blog and through teaching them to cook. You provide the space for people to become at their own time. What a legacy-
so much love,
Kali
Web Meister Responds: A happy thought for me. Thank you, love.
Today’s Thumbnail
Wednesday, July 17, 2019
An S-II stage hoisted onto the A-2 test stand at the Mississippi Test Facility
NASA - Great Images in NASA Description
Launching from Launch Pad 39A at Florida's Kennedy Space Center, the five Rocketdyne F-1 engines of the rocket's S-IC first stage can be seen arrayed in a quincunx, with a fixed center engine and four outer engines that gimballed for steering.
The Saturn V SA-506 carrying Apollo 11, the first crewed lunar landing mission, on July 16, 1969, at 13:32 UTC.
Launching from Launch Pad 39A at Florida's Kennedy Space Center, the five Rocketdyne F-1 engines of the rocket's S-IC first stage can be seen arrayed in a quincunx, with a fixed center engine and four outer engines that gimballed for steering.
A multistage liquid-fuel expendable launcher, the Saturn V was designed under the direction of Wernher von Braun at the Marshall Space Flight Center.
It was the largest production model of the Saturn family, with a height of 111 m (363 ft), although larger models were theorized.
The super heavy-lift launch vehicle consisted of liquid-propellant rockets in three stages, the first of which had a total mass at launch of 2.3 million kilograms (5.1 million pounds), consisting mostly of its RP-1 fuel and liquid oxygen.
As well as launching Apollo missions, the Saturn V also launched the Skylab space station. Thirteen rockets were launched from 1967 to 1973, with an almost perfect launch record – Apollo 6 and Apollo 13 did lose engines, but the onboard computers were able to compensate.
No other operational launch vehicle has ever surpassed the Saturn V in height, weight, total impulse, or payload capability.
The closest contenders were the US Space Shuttle and the Soviet Energia.
I saved a copy of the letter asking NASA to let me fly up as an observer.
I believe I would cheer up the astronauts.
They’d be happy to stay longer.
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Good Morning on this Wednesday, the seventeenth day of July, 2019
Our lead picture is a Saturn V rocket launching the Apollo 11 moon mission.
Our commentary speaks to teen flareups.
We posted a Boston weather report, the ticking calendar, and the growing number of posts as calendar markers.
We posted a letter from Kali L and a chuckle.
Our dinner was sushi and our Thumbnail dealt with the Saturn V rocket.
And now? Gotta go.
Che vuoi? Le pocketbook?
See you soon.
Your love.