Thank you! TS is definitely on my agenda for the weekend too. I’ve always wanted to visit Australia…maybe one day. 
Have a great day!
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Just come home from my first meeting. And it was not a scary as I thought. I enjoyed it very much and will be going again tomorrow. Thankfull it wasn’t a speaking meeting lol I’m not to good with words. Especially these days I just have alot of tears to get through right now.
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- Seriously aggravated with how everything school related is done all online for my kids now. You have to use three different apps to check grades, study/complete homework and another for random resources. There is also another app called “Remind” that teachers can use to send you messages, reminders and links for whatever they are working on that week… every time I get this reminder (usually the night before something is due) I get a text, an email and a notification from the app. But if you have a question you can’t just hit reply. You have to call or email the teacher separately and hope they get back to you in time, so your kid has enough time to study, complete the assignment, etc. Sometimes the apps are glitchy or my internet slow. Sometimes I’ll receive screenshots of what my child it to study for a friggin test.
Gone are daily folders, monthly agendas, paper progress reports, report cards and study guides. Every teacher has a twitter account you’re encouraged to follow, the school has a FB page and every graduate year has their own FB page. If you don’t know how they teach math nowadays and you’re unable to help your kid there’s an app for that too…
I’m about to cut my Internet, break my printer, laptop and smart phone and tell them to send everything via PAPER delivered via FOLDER via BACKPACK. They can call me on my home phone or write me a note for any type of communication. I only have two kids and we haven’t even started middle school yet. Ughhhh. Add this to the thread on “Why we Drink” 
FML.
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Ludo m8 there are some striking similarities between the two of us I have realised after reading your post. I too didn’t really fit in at school or feel life I belonged. I also have some social anxiety you yours sounds a little worse. I hate speaking in front of people but I have been sharing at the NA meetings this last couple of months. It helped to settle me to volunteer to read a bit of the opening material that gets read out at the start of the meeting. As you are trainee from a piece of paper it’s easy and makes you more comfortable for when you do a share.
So back when I was in school around the age of 13 I was introduced to weed which have me something that aided me to be able to socialise with other people and make who I believed were friends. My drug use spiralled from there. 
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You’ll have a blast, I hear vermont is beautiful too! This is @SinceIAwoke’s territory if I’m not mistaken, I bet he would confirm
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@SteppingStones YES!!! Oh my gosh…the emails and texts are relentless. My oldest graduated this past may so I only have one now in middle school and it’s overwhelming. Thankfully her teachers are super responsive to emails and are fantastic at communicating. But all the electronic notifications, apps, emails and texts can make ya want a drink!!
@Jennie79 I’m SO glad you went the meeting!!! Way to go! That actually gives me a little push to try one this weekend. And let the tears flow friend. They are part of the healing. Hugs!
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I just found that reading those couple of paragraphs from the trading material lowered my anxiety ready for when I shared. You get used to it mate.
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YES! And with every app has a weird password requirement: 20- 50 characters long, has to include at least one upper or one lower case letter and two special characters. These need to be updated every 6 weeks and can’t match the last 5 passwords… 
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That sounds obnoxious. I got annoyed just thinking about it. Is it required to opt in to all that bullshit?
Why does everything HAVE to be through an app/notification system? As if we don’t look at our phones enough, right? I also feel like this could promote an unhealthy environment for kids, being micromanaged on their schoolwork (not saying thats you, I just see the potential for it).
School was just fine for me with notebooks, paper, and fibbing to my Mom about being done with my assignments.
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She booked it a while ago, but if I recall correctly, about 30 mins outside of Burlington? Don’t have the town name handy at the moment. Rural area, modern cabin.
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The teachers can check when you (parent or child- bc you can’t share the same login info) last logged in and can see how long you/they were on each thread, link, etc. My oldest said yesterday his Math/Science/Social Studies teacher was upset with the class, bc she could see that a large majority of the student had not studied. It also rained a lot yesterday and my power went out twice, sooo… Some don’t have the luxury of owning a smart device or laptop, so they encourage you to come up to the school and use theirs as needed.
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Too. Fucking. Much. That’s so overboard.
Also just read your comment about the password requirements. Absurd! You’d think you were protecting Fort Knox, not a single-page essay on Ponce de León.
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Nice! Sounds like it could be near where I lived…which was 30 minutes outside of BTV. Happy to share any info if needed or wanted!
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Beautiful picture!!! I could frame this, Forreal!
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I’m with you there! That was part of my phobia of deleting FB. Everyone communicates through it. Out school doesn’t mail announcements for anything. They don’t email parents. They are all assuming that you are plugged in all the time. Even in a super rural community. Dumb.
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73 part deux.
I deleted my FB. After saving some precious photos of my son, of course. Like, not just deactivation…full on deletion. Done. I waste too much time on it. I justified it as a news source but it is just another time sink that is leading to fantasy and middle circle behavior. It leads to strife between my family and I.
Going to the gym. Have a good afternoon, all!
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Great! That sounds good. Well done! 
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Mitch, I did the same thing back in May. Although I just disabled it. I thought I’d miss it.
However, it has been AWESOME. Wish I had done it sooner. I can’t even fathom bringing it back. When I think about facebook now, the whole idea of it seems so strange to me. I’ve thoroughly enjoyed having people not know where I am, what I’m doing. It’s been liberating and empowering to have some kind of privacy back.
Enjoy it, buddy!
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