Are they perhaps normally naked at home? Just seems extreme

That’s not normal, that’s mad. We go up to 19.5 C when we want to treat ourselves! :)

The library helped out… thankful for librarians!

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It was satire folks, it was a joke.

I spent a couple of minutes staring at the accompanying picture there, pondering “is this Barry Lyndon? Doesn’t look right?”. Also it looks like a small child which confused me further. That aside, I mostly agree. Assuming we haven’t peaked.

They operate in ways I really don’t understand.

It doesn’t get better, I find my teens baking cakes or eating cereal at 1am nowadays…

Just avoid F Marry Kill and you’ll be golden

Me to my teen: “Hope your day was good. Did you go to the lunch meeting? Let me know if you’re eating at Daisy’s or home. Don’t forget your maths.”

Teen 45 mins later “Yh”

Not quite the same I appreciate, but indicative of the risks given their overall approach - really struck me this morning when reading :(

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We went with Calliope for our daughter (from myth rather than pipe organ fame). She’s 14 and still not happy, but she goes solely by Callie and it’s fine

Fair to say, the real treasure was the friends they made along the way?