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Raising Future Adults
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Raising Future Adults is a personal blog at raisingfutureadults.blogspot.com about culture. Since 2017, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 38 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-31, and you can follow it by feed.
By A Homeschooling Mom of 2xE Kids
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I've idealistically written useful information on multiple websites for years and years. People have gushed at me about the wonderfulness of my writing and how it enhances their life, but they mostly don't want to pay me. Even before the ad blocker wars tanked online advertising generally, the HN crowd used ad blockers more aggressively than most other traffic to my sites. People on HN also routinely post some means…
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on “Advertising as a source of dissatisfaction: cross-national evidence”Submitted The Hand Licking Incident as a story · 641 points
HN discussionWell, I have, in fact, finally written the post I've been working on of late. Hopefully, this is a new beginning and I will be more consistent henceforth. https://raisingfutureadults.blogspot.com/2020/04/the-beginni...
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on “Exceptionally gifted children: long-term outcomes of acceleration (2006) [pdf]”Submitted Crazy Conclusions in Early Childhood as a story · 147 points
HN discussionSome gifted kids are especially bad about having strong views about things like justice and morality and equality. It's part of why I'm on parenting blog number three, which isn't exactly catching fire. My stories about raising my sons and my views on such were seemingly popular, at least with a vocal minority, on an email list that was basically a support group for parents of gifted kids (which is why I originally…
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on “Exceptionally gifted children: long-term outcomes of acceleration (2006) [pdf]”- Mz · 2017-04-21
Submitted The Dripping Sarcasm Voice as a story · 14 points
HN discussion I'm a writer. Some of my writing hits the front page of HN. This piece did fairly well on the front page in terms of both karma count and discussion: https://raisingfutureadults.blogspot.com/2019/01/the-hand-li... It also got copied and reblogged, sometimes legitimately with my permission and sometimes not. For me, it is the first hit if you google the expression "the hand licking incident." It seems plenty of peopl…
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on “The internet is increasingly a low-trust society”Submitted I think the kids are mostly alright. It's the world that changed as a story · 4 points
HN discussionhttps://raisingfutureadults.blogspot.com/2021/11/the-ladder....
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on “The dangerous playgrounds of 1900s through vintage photographs”Submitted Social and Emotional Issues in Gifted Youth as a story · 3 points
HN discussionA. I'm medically handicapped. A lot of that is simply out of reach for me. B. My writing is good enough to sometimes make the front page of HN. It still doesn't pay, not because I'm doing anything wrong, but because the world expects content for free. Most YouTube channels, etc, also don't really support their creators. Plus you are de facto asking me to abandon something I've spent years getting good at in order to…
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on “Don't donate canned goods to food banks (2017)”Submitted Memory Lane as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI have no idea if that was intended as snark. But: Sometimes doing nothing is the best answer. Sometimes, it takes enormous wisdom and personal restraint to act on that fact by doing nothing. It's why sayings like "The only way to win is not to play" are popular. (Entire blog post about that right here: https://raisingfutureadults.blogspot.com/2019/01/the-hand-li... )
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on “U.S. Supreme Court keeps ruling barring prosecution for sleeping in public”Submitted I Hate the Giving Tree as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThank you. It's especially crazy making because my writing sometimes spends time on the front page of HN, but I'm still talked at like a leech who is trying to "panhandle the internet," a thing someone (on a different forum, not here) literally accused me of for trying to monetize my websites while homeless. Like if you are poor enough, working for a living is not allowable and your work can't have value and you are…
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on “The Euthanasia That Wasn’t”Submitted Come get mom if they disrespect your “no” as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI was a homeschooling parent and had a role in a TAG/parenting/education organization to support that role. My feedback on very difficult kids, some of whom had been failed by multiple experts, was pretty popular, enough so that I de facto got "referrals," though I had no real formal credentials and charged no money. Parents would just talk to friends and say "Go talk to her" basically. In many cases, these were Twi…
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on “Should Mental Disorders Have Names?”Submitted The beginnings of so-called discipline as a story · 3 points
HN discussionMy parents bought a house when I was three. When I was 18, my father asked me how to turn on the oven in this house we had lived in for 15 years. My dad was very old fashioned and never learned to cook. My oldest son found cooking scarily intimidating, though he did eventually learn to cook. My mother is German and she cooked up a storm, plus sewed and knitted and crocheted. I'm actually one of the least domestic la…
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on “Texas Power Prices Briefly Surpass $9k Amid Scorching Heat”Submitted On: Labels as a story · 2 points
HN discussionAny number of things can trip one up if they haven't been identified, so aren't being proactively managed. It could be as simple as "I have allergies and I don't know it, so I can't connect the dots that when I do X, I am exposed to something I am mildly allergic to and then I accomplish a whole fat lot of nothing." The problem, of course, is that I find the majority of things I do fall into that latter camp where I…
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on “You don’t want a child prodigy”Submitted Enlightened Self Interest as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSomeone on HN once left a comment that made it really clear why it is better to "let x guilty men go free than incarcerate one innocent man." A big part of their point: if you put an innocent man in prison, you are still letting a guilty man go free. The real killer is still out there. And you aren't even looking for him because you have announced "case closed." So this is similar to part of the problem with low val…
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on “Medical Reversals”Submitted What do I mean when I say writing about parenting is writing about morality? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionReplying to my own comment so the individual saying "Bravo!" can delete their comment if they so desire (you can ask the mods to delete it if you missed the window to self delete). This is absolutely not intended to be personal about them in specific. For the record, because there is no shortage of people worrying about my fee-fees, I don't need pats on the head or a sticker for the back of my hand like a 5 year old…
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on “Online Hipaa Training for Early Stage Employees”Submitted Challenging Children as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Legless Lizard as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted “Today would be a good day to finally become an abused child” as a story · 2 points
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Submitted Actual Reality vs. The Lies the World Tells You as a story · 2 points
HN discussion - Mz · 2017-05-23
Submitted Don't Worry About Trying to Prove You Are a Smarty Pants as a story · 2 points
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