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In some cultures, the person doing the inviting is still expected to pay. At least it is to my understanding. Especially among close friends and family.

There was ONE dad in our parent group that talked about the stress that was registering his child for the camp I mentioned earlier (most of the kids in my son's class go to the same/similar camps each summer). I think he works from home and is probably one of the most active parents in the grade.

I was sent to a camp at a local community college and my mom (why is it ALWAYS MOM??) just had to check off the sessions she was registering me for and the type of camp. So if she was signing me up for theatre camp for the first two weeks of July, she'd check that off. And used the same form for, say, art camp for the second two weeks of July. I don't remember anything about other camps. It was probably the same kind of thing. Music camp was probably more complicated because it was sleepaway.

I would certainly not order steak if the other person is having pasta. I typically get something that is more or less mid-range on the menu. I don't think going over by $1 or $2 is incorrect, however. Especially if you need modifications (e.g. you eat GF, so you're getting the GF option...not that they really should be charging extra for gluten-free!)

I guess my parents didn't register me for sought-after camps because I always got in! This was the 80s and 90s.

Summer camp (well, the sleep away kind) isn’t traditionally an Asian thing (save for a STEM enrichment program at a university), and since I totally plan to send him to one when he’s older, I guess I’m not a TRUE tiger mom!!

Exactly. Kiddo has a friend who is in something after school every day plus weekends. Parents work, sure, and they need their children in something, but costs for activities can be higher than childcare. So why not just do childcare?

Professor Tiger Mom Amy Chua will be at the inauguration, a guest of JD Vance, according to The Free Press. I've never read her book and I don't intend to. At the same time, however, I'm worried that I've unintentionally become a Tiger Mom based on the extra-curricular activities I've enrolled my son in (e.g. piano lessons...the stereotype is that for Asian families, there are only two appropriate primary instruments: piano and violin; swimming, tennis (though if you ask my dad, he'd want him in golf. Most golf camps don't take kids under 8) and STEM camps).

Yep. Many years ago, I tried to get my husband and I seats to Adele. Everything was gone by the time I got to checkout.

Update: Got him in! And no wait list for the ones we wanted this year!! :). But still, why is camp registration so brutal?

I'm having trouble registering my son for camp again!! The registration page is so busy that they won't even let me in!

Ugh...I have to get a breast ultrasound again. Darn those dense boobies! If I didn't have major surgery last year, I'd have a mastectomy and won't have to deal. My genetic condition means I've been going to both mammograms and MRIs since my late 30s. And now, in my 40s, I also have to do breast ultrasounds.

My son recently asked what people ate in jail because we saw a guy get into a fight with security outside of a mall. I didn't know, but my husband looked it up and it sounds like prison food is similar to hospital stuff. Apparently they don't give them citrus or grapes because you can make alcohol with it.

How were men born in the early 1920s drafted for the military if they never had a birth certificate?

That doesn't work for people who don't have the same signature all the time. And younger people don't even know cursive! I kind of like the way we do it up here. And it's generation-proof too.

Without an ID, how do people know you are who you say you are when you're at the polling place? We have to bring proof of address when we vote here, but government ID isn't necessary. You can bring a utility bill and student ID, for example. But if it's a government issued ID, that's all you need. You register to vote when you file your taxes. https://www.elections.ca/content.aspx?section=vot&dir=ids&document=index&lang=e

And I also can’t have grapefruit. Other citruses are fine, just not grapefruit. I’ve also added yuzu (Japanese grapefruit) after checking with my neurologist since it’s more closely related. It kind of sucks since it’s in a lot of sauces in Japanese cuisine.

Anti-seizure meds can mess up one’s liver. I’ve basically stopped drinking any alcohol, save for a few sips at New Year’s Eve and a bit at Seder.

Same with Anderson Cooper. Everyone knew but he didn’t officially come out until what, 2017? 2018?

Wasn’t Tim out by then anyway? I thought everyone knew.

Henry Higgins in Pygmalion/My Fair Lady is a "confirmed bachelor." :D

This was my kid and camp last summer. Because he had bathroom anxiety.

I want to add that we got a taste of what out-of-pocket healthcare costs can be like when my son was born. We had trouble getting him his healthcard because he was carried by a gestational surrogate. And being premature, he was in the NICU for over a week. Total cost was in the thousands when normally it would be covered by the province. Took a few credit cards. We got everything back after we secured his birth certificate (with our names on as parents) and therefore could get his healthcard.

Or it could be chronic heartburn. Or GERD. We ordered rice bowls for dinner on Saturday and he wanted pickles (don't ask) in it. Tummy ache that night and into the next morning. GERD symptoms can also include a chronic cough (which he has...or at least it worsens in colder months).

I was TODAY years old to learn that Ontario schools are funded by grants from taxes and not directly from property taxes like American schools. This doesn't mean that all schools do just as well, however. There are other factors that determine this such as whether kids speak English at home, whether they live in two parent households, education level of parents, etc... More info here: https://peopleforeducation.ca/public-education-in-ontario/how-education-is-funded/