cats get something called whisker fatigue, which is overstimulation of their whiskers (which are extremely sensitive). most bowls are too deep and/or narrow to properly accomodate whiskers, which is why they don’t eat food that gets pushed to the side of the bowl.
switch out BOTH your cat’s food and water bowls for something like this - wide, shallow, and stainless steel. stainless steel is very easy to keep clean, lasts a long time, and prevents feline acne (a completely different yet common issue).
Make them sit in their rooms in silent and do their homework alone
Side with the teacher and not get your child’s side of the story
Tell them that their grades are the most important thing they should worry about
INSTEAD:
Ask if they’re having trouble with other students or teachers
Sit down with them and help them with what they don’t understand
Speak calmly instead of yelling
Don’t invade their privacy by looking through their devices
Don’t take away their hobbies as punishment
Never make them feel unsafe or unable to trust you
This has been a message from a struggling high school junior that wishes their own parents actually did this stuff.
Bonus: Don’t look through their freaking backpacks. Chances are they know damn well they have loads of unfinished papers and the stress of knowing is so overwhelming they don’t even wanna look at it.
america has a functioning democracy where one party tries to kill you and the only other party just campaigns around the fact that they aren’t the party that tries to kill you
That was a staggeringly concise and bleakly accurate assessment of US politics, pissvortex.
the most obnoxious part of the holiday season is commercials that try to sound like ‘Twas The Night Before Christmas and have a dinky xylophone playing in the background while the narrator tells you in rhyme to buy a Ford
