Hey! In The Midst Of All This, Spreading This Information Could Potentially Save LOTS Of Folks Out There

Oh wow as someone who exclusively uses these charts now I feel intelligent! 

dots are slip stitch

circles are chains

pluses (+) are single crochets

upper case t’s (T) are half-double crochets 

uppercase t’s with a center line are double crochets 

uppercase t’s with two center lines are triple/treble crochets 

Here’s a PDF with more but those are the ones that I see most often!  Hope this helps!!!

https://mycrochetpattern.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Printable-crochet-symbols.pdf 

Fellow fibernators, I need HALP!!!

This is a portion of a chart on a pattern I purchased, only realizing after the fact that the instructions are chart-only, not written. I am a written pattern girl to the core. The pattern has a key, of course, but I am nonetheless flummoxed.

The long arcs between the stitches - what ARE they meant to represent?! They aren’t in the key at all. Are they some sort of regular symbol for charted patterns that I don’t know because I’m chart-dumb?

What my parents would always do for me is they’d let me pick the dinner vegetable.  Instead of making a salad or cooking a vegetable that I wouldn’t eat, they’d cut up a pepper or cucumber or put some carrots in a bowl, and they’d let me pick.  And it worked.  I’d always eat it. 

Tips for respecting children’s spaces, competence, and general existence from a preschool teacher:

Listen to them

Ask them, “Do you want to say hi to your auntie/grandma/cousin/dad/whatevs” (Hint: they will be honest and this can result in a simple hello or a hug or a silly “No!” depending how comfortable they feel)

If they don’t want to hug you realize it’s not that they don’t love you it’s that they don’t know you/don’t feel like hugging.

Just like every other person who doesn’t want a hug

In the event that you need to move a child EXPLAIN TO THEM WHY and WHAT YOU ARE DOING don’t just move them like PROPS they are CHILDREN and NOT props

For instance, “I’m going to move your chair over so we have room at the table for everyone!”

Or  “Sorry there was a person running by I didn’t want you to get smushed so I had to pick you up!”

Remind them that they are people not objects using your actions

Asking children to do something they don’t want to do but NEED to do often doesn’t work, instead give them a choice, “Do you want to eat bok choy or yams?”

NOT “Do you want to eat your vegetables?”

“Do you want to brush your teeth in the bathroom or the kitchen”

This exercises their ever-growing free will and is especially useful during TERRIFIC TWOS okay TERRIFIC not TERRIBLE they’re TERRIFIC

Children will copy you, MODEL FOR THEM

Being over enthusiastic IS beneficial for them understanding emotional and social competence

“I hung this picture uneven, that makes me sad, hmmm! Oh goodie, I found my mistake! Now I can fix it, I’ll feel much happier when I’ve fixed it!”

You think it sounds ridic yeah well hearing you do that children around you just learned to not get so discouraged by their mistakes and that it’s okay to try to fix them

ADULTS CAN APOLOGIZE TO CHILDREN

You make a mistake that hurt a child, APOLOGIZE and show them how to do it properly and genuinely

Realize children are fully competent and are capable of making meanings from YOUR implications about race, culture, gender, ability, sexuality, EVERYTHING

Many three year olds know what the N-word is, what gay means, can identify which children are visably disabled, and YOUR REACTIONS of their answers of questions about their culture

Children like to talk about themselves so do not ever dismiss what they say about themselves as illegitimate just because it sounds silly or unlikely sometimes it’s true

Stop talking about how you hate children, just leave them alone if you don’t understand them you don’t have to be complete jerks to PEOPLE you’ve never met

I will post more and if people have question PLS ASK ME I WOULD LOVE TO ANSWER WHAT I KNOW

There was the Italian plague of 1629 to 1631, which isn’t really 1620, but it’s rather close.  This is also called the Great Plague of Milan, and it killed over a hundred thousand people.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1629%E2%80%931631_Italian_plague https://www.historychannel.com.au/articles/16000-venetians-die-of-plague-this-month/

There was the Great Plague of Marseille in 1720 to 1722.  It was the last significant European outbreak of the bubonic plague.  Over a hundred thousand people died here as well.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Plague_of_Marseille

From 1817 to 1824, there was the first Asiatic cholera pandemic.  Hundreds of thousands of people died.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1817%E2%80%931824_cholera_pandemic

I can’t find any consensus on what these people are talking about for the 1920s outbreak.  It could be the Spanish Influenza, which went from 1918 to 1920 and killed between 20 million and 50 million people.  https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-i/1918-flu-pandemic  There also was the 1924 Los Angeles pneumonic plague outbreak which killed 30 people.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1924_Los_Angeles_pneumonic_plague_outbreak  

https://philnews.ph/2020/01/23/1720-plague-1820-cholera-outbreak-1920-bubonic-plague-whats-next/ something that talks about this as a whole.  

And yes, I know that Wikipedia isn’t a great source, but I don’t want to go into much more depth with this.

i’ve stopped trash talking comic sans after learning the font is actually one of the only dyslexia-friendly fonts that come standard with most computers and i advocate for others doing the same

THE CHILD IS INNOCENT 

Heres the thing you gotta understand about statistics. 

“Increases your chances by 80%” does not mean “there is now an 80% chance”. 

If your chances were previously 10%, your chances are now 18%, not 90%. 

if your chances were roughly 1%, they’re now just slightly less than 2%. 

thats how that works. 

The fires from 3 months ago are still burning and the recent air quality has gone back to unhealthy again. I can't believe it's still going... I'm so tired of this.

This is the last of my 6 part series based on the biggest wildfire in CA that turned our sky red. Don't let these paintings become a constant reality as climate change worsens. Tomorrow is election day in the US, if you haven't voted already, go vote! Vote for a future that our children can breathe in.