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It reminds me of car shopping with my 16 year old daughter and the salesman said we've sold 30 million of these cars (or some similar number) and 30 million people can't be wrong. My daughter chimed up with that's ridiculous of course they can. That's the kind of thinking people are up against.

The MIL won again. We'll all be gathered at her house. I'll take the positive of she prefers to have extra people at Thanksgiving so she can always have all her children there. It's the only holiday of the year that is in contention so I'll also take that positive. It's another family member that gets upset. I can smile that I haven't cooked for Thanksgiving in something like 15 years.

I do disagree and while I'm not going to diagnose a child, I will talk about behavior that is televised for the world to see. I see a vast difference between saying this is behavior my 12 year old grandson would find embarrassing and saying, for example, xyz proves the child is on the spectrum or has an attachment disorder, etc. My disagreement is in trying to impose one person's comfort level on other posters. Today I have avoided at least six or eight discussions because of lack of interest or discomfort with the subject. It was not my place to tell the other posters to quit their discussion though. I either skimmed to something else or closed the window. A good question is why is Christine allowing so much questionable filming of Truely as she has for what 3 or more seasons now. Why do some parents think it's OK to have such moments of their children's lives televised?

Would they understand what a tariff is even if they heard Trump wanted them?

Simply passing commentary. I'm weeks behind on TV watching. As I begin to catch up, I'm catching bits of political ads as I FF through commercials. I see Trump saying I will fight for you! I will not cut Medicare! I see Kamala (who I supported) saying words, words, words not punchy sound bites. I prefer the words as having some substance. 30 to 50 per cent of the country only hears and retains the sound bites. That's my simple view on the TV ad portion of the campaign. They also tended to pound home that Kamala increased medicare premiums. That's something she couldn't have influenced even if she'd wanted to do so.

I may have missed it, but I haven't seen a diagnosis of Truely posited. People have commented on behavior seen on TV in the episodes. Episodes where her mother or father were present and they and Truely knew it was being filmed and could quite likely air. If it's seen in an episode, it's hard to ignore what we're being shown and where would we draw a line of not discussing something provided as entertainment by TLC?

There are several options for why the mom doesn't deal. One thing is though only she can make herself change how she deals with the problem. It's so super frustrating to watch. All I can offer is what I call tea and sympathy.

I used to foster unweaned kittens. I had two male and two female cats of my own. The cats who helped raise the foster kitties were the males! They snuggled the babies to keep them warm, they took them to the food dish to learn to eat, they even plopped them in the litter box when it was time.

Would you want to have him in the house if he consumed his usual heavily filled plate with recipes based on beans? I doubt even Beano would help enough.

At the time I was on it, the company gave me an insulated travel case and freezer pack. I also had a spot for a copy of the prescription. We had to watch where we stayed so I'd have fridge with a freezer and also make sure we were back in the room or someone's home at close to the same time every night.

It has to be three pieces rather randomly stuck on at the same time. The black tee and yellow skirt would have been modest enough on their own and possibly not hideous. Sticking an orange and white sundress over it all makes zero sense.

I did Forteo (daily injections) and you do get used to it. It's a teeny tiny needle. I had jelly legs over doing it at first but did get over it. The worst part was traveling with medication that had to be kept chilled. Of course, I did more required travel that one year than I usually do in five. I had no reactions to it after the first three days or so. My bone density did respond very, very well to it. The pills don't work on me so I have to do injections. Right now I'm on Prolia which is twice a year and I do it myself.

Nielsen is still around plus the cable systems and streamers track viewership. That's how they get things like live viewing plus 2 and such.

I'm a couple episodes behind, but Truely's behavior is more in line with what I see in five to seven year olds than 11 to 14 year olds. My 12 year old grandson would rather be crushed under a rock slide than be on video acting like a little kid. Truely is not being age or manners appropriate especially since it's obvious a camera crew is there and this is going to be on TV. She must be extremely attention starved or there's something going on that should be dealt with. I hope Leon pays attention to Meri and has a good relationship that we'll never hear about. It was long passed time for Meri to ditch the alleged "family." Slight change - as long as it's making adequate profit, it will stay on the air. If several shows come along with a better profit margin, it's gone. If it dips below TLC's profit line, wherever that may be these days, it's gone.

For the already owned drawstring pants, tie the drawstring in a bow. When you need to go pull both ends at the same time. It's a quick release move. I live in black yoga pants or black Land's End pants. I don't want to think about how old some of the Land's End pants are.