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A former educator makes a compelling case for parents labeling their kid's school supplies.
Yep, we are already back to having all things back-to-school on our brains. Time flies, doesn’t it? As parents are prepping their school supply list, one heated topic is bound to come up—whether or not to label those supplies.
Some parents might want to get their kiddo special, personalized, perhaps even higher-end items, especially if said kiddo is picky or has a special interest. However, many teachers argue that it makes for an uneven playing field, and therefore request that everything be part of a shared, communal pot.
What’s more, educators warn that it teaches children to be selfish.
Obviously there are pros and cons to each method, and therefore no one can fully agree on the matter…thus fueling what seems to be an endless war between some teachers and parents.
But former educator Tionna’s argument in favor of parents writing their kid’s name on school supplies ticks both those boxes—making a child feel special and building a bond with fellow students in a really satisfying way.
“As a former educator, I’d highly recommend writing your kid’s name on school supplies,” she says in her video. “That way when the teacher goes to the community closet, we can all know where it came from. And I can read it and say, ‘Look everyone, this came from Johnny. Johnny got us this new bottle of hand sanitizer. Everyone say thank you, Johnny.’”
“And then Johnny feels appreciated,” she continued. “He knows what it feels like to contribute to a community that he’s a part of. Now his friends get to say thank you. Thank you for contributing to our community. What a great friend. Everybody wins.”
The video already has nearly 600,000 views and the vast majority of 4,000+ comments agreed with the idea:
“This is the best take on this topic that I’ve seen yet.”
“This is great middle ground of all the videos I’ve seen.”
“I’ve noticed a theme in life and it’s that we’ve lost a sense of community while demanding to be part of one.”
And of course, fellow teachers rallied to approve of Tionna’s message—many speaking from their own experience.
“My class LOVED when we celebrated them for new tissues, soap, or sanitizer!”
“I used to put a small sign on the tissue boxes ‘Donated by _____ Thank you!’ The kids LOVED seeing their names.”
“And for the families who cannot contribute, I write their name on one of the items that I’m providing.”
“Literally. Actually the kids love to share.”
Gosh, that last point. While we can probably name many times when kids aren't naturally inclined to share, research shows they truly do have a propensity for cooperation and acting fairly with one another. Imagine what might happen is we actually foster these inherent skills.
What skills do we really want to teach our kids? Photo credit: Canva
Bottom line, this can be a great solution that helps individual kids feel special, while teaching them the power of nurturing their fellow classmates.
Boomers and Gen Xers discuss the things they don't miss from the 1980s and 1990s.
Nostalgia is all about remembering how things were in the "gold old days." But sometimes, upon further reflection, some things really sucked in the past despite how rosy our colored glasses made them look. Boomers and Gen Xers are reminiscing on the things they really don't miss from the 1980s and 1990s.
Over on Reddit, member pizzagamer35 posed the question to Boomers and Gen Xers: "What is something you do NOT miss from the 80s-90s?"
Boomers and Gen Xers had plenty of throwback experiences and products they are happy to never come across again. These are 30 of the most nostalgic responses from Boomers and Gen Xers about things they don't miss about the 80s and 90s.
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"Long distance phone bill." —gohdnuorg
"Having to wait until after 7pm or whatever so you could call your long distance friends because it was free after that." —raz0rbl4d3
"Answering the landline and having no idea who's calling. Just raw, unfiltered anxiety." —Fit-Interview-3886
"Smoking or non smoking and still be in the smoking section." —Less-Lengthiness4863
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"Using those Noxzema pads to burn and dry out my pimply face. It had a smell, too." —poizon_elff
"Waiting for JPGs to load one line at a time." —timmayd
"Those hair ties with the two giant plastic beads on them that EVERY mom used to tie up their daughter's hair in pigtails. God forbid she lose her grip on one while she was already ripping your soul out through your scalp." —Honey-Badger-90
"Third degree burns from metallic seat belt fasteners." —JLMTIK88
"Not being able to use the internet if someone needed the phone line to be free." —Joshawott27
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"Satanic panic." —Historical_Spot_4051
"Buying a CD and realizing all the songs suck, except for one, maybe two." —11B-E5
"Batteries and flashlight bulbs. Holy crap they were crap. I still remember seeing the little LED light on our shitty car radio and asking dad what kind of light that tiny dot was. He told me it was a diode and diodes kinda 'last forever'. I immediately wondered why the hell we weren't developing that tech." —snoozieboi
"Shoulder pads." —Thin_Apartment_8076
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"Ordering pizza by calling the restaurant and yelling your order to a guy in a noisy kitchen. Missing an episode of your favorite TV show (or forgetting to tape it if you had a VCR) and not being able to see it until summer reruns, or maybe never." —Imaginary-List-4945
"Terrible contact lenses." —MandatoryMatchmaker
"To contribute something small: manual computer defragmentation. It took several hours and you couldn't do anything else." —rena-vee
"Pay Phones that gave you limited talk time." —Aggravating-Iron9804
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"Gym class. Boys were expected to know how to play sports. My dad taught me how to fix tractors and cut firewood, but he didn't teach me sports because no one ever taught him. The gym teacher didn't teach us sh*t. When we f*cked up or didn't know what to do, the jocks would laugh and the teacher would join in the fun." —Fluffy-Cupcake9943
"The 'heroin chic' body type." —Heartbreak_Star
"Aqua net=hair that absolutely did not move! And you could see little hairspray bubbles 😔🫠😂😂." — IAmTheBlackStar1979
"Having to rewind VHS tapes like it was a part-time job." -—Repulsive_Corgi_6187
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"Waiting by the radio for your song to play so you can record it on tape." —mycrml
"Serial killers. They just can't exist at the same level anymore. Plus we got all the lead out of stuff. So now people are 100% normal. 100%." —PrimeNumbersby2
"Manual roll up/down windows in cars." —Human-Average-2222
"Carpeted bathrooms. someone shared a bunch of pictures of them on some nostalgia account and i could smell the pictures through my phone 🤢." —GoblinHeart1334
"Busy signal on the phone." —crjconsulting
A woman's iconic, $50,000 puzzle solve on 'Wheel of Fortune' is going viral.
Still talking about your great Wordle guess from the other day? You might want to take a seat and watch how a truly great puzzle solver does it.
Listen, while we all love a hilarious Wheel of Fortune fail, watching an epic win can be just as entertaining. And that’s exactly what recently happened on The Wheel when a contestant named Traci Demus-Gamble made a winning puzzle solve so out-of-nowhere that it made host Ryan Seacrest jokingly check her for a hidden earpiece.
In a clip posted to the show’s YouTube account Friday, Jan. 17, Demus-Gamble waved to her husband who was standing on the sidelines before going up to the stage for her next challenge: guess a four-word “phrase.”
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Demus-Gamble wasn’t off to a great start, as only two of her given letters (“T” and “E”) made it to the board. And the odds didn’t improve much after Demus-Gamble, admittedly “nervous,” gave the letters “M,” “C,” “D,” and “O” and only two of those letters showed up once on the board.
“Again, not too much more, but who knows, you’ve had a lot of good luck tonight,” Seacrest said. “Maybe it’ll strike you.”
Demus-Gamble had almost nothing to go off of. No category, no lucky words that were already filled in.
Then, all in under ten seconds (more like in 1.5 seconds), Demus-Gamble correctly guessed, “They go way back” like it was nothing. She was right, to the amazement of everyone watching.
Watch the incredible moment below:
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"How in the world did you solve that last one?" Seacrest asked.
"I just dug deep, I dug deep," Demus-Gamble said.
Yeah, you dug real deep," Seacrest replied. "Congratulations, great, great work."
The clip racked up hundreds of thousands of views on YouTube, where commenters couldn't believe their eyes:
“Now THAT was an amazing solve.”
“Wow! That was impressive!”
“I couldn't solve that one to save my life, but Demus-Gamble got it like it was nothing.”
“There's only one way to describe this to me: 😦”
"One of the most impressive bonus round solves I've seen for this season"
"I’m happy for her, that was not an easy puzzle to solve and she got it right away. So amazing! I definitely had no idea what it was and I’m pretty good solving the puzzles."
Demus-Gamble's solve was absolutely incredible, but it might fall just short of being the best of all time.
In 2020, a woman named Taya solved a lengthy five-letter phrase with just two letters given: "A Place Like No Other." Another man guessed "Championship Match" with only the letter T present.
Demus-Gamble's epic solve definitely earns her a spot in the Wheel of Fortune Hall of Fame, however.
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Solving word puzzles like this one might seem like pure luck, but there's definitely a strong element of skill involved. Keen watchers of the show will be familiar with patterns and will quickly be able to identify likely choices. For example, in the clip above, the first word is shown at "T_E_." It could be a lot of different words, but it's highly probable that it's "They." It takes a lot of practice and quick thinking to recognize that in just a fraction of a second.
According to her LinkedIn, Demus-Gamble has worked as an English teacher and as a self-employed author, which totally checks out.
At the end of the clip, Seacrest opened the envelope to reveal that Demus-Gamble’s puzzle solve won her $50,000, earning her a total win of $78,650. Certainly not chump change.
As for her winning strategy—Demus-Gamble assured no cheating was involved. “I just dug deep," she told Seacrest. We’ll say.
This article originally appeared in January. It has been updated.
Ashley Judd doesn't care if you like the clubs she belongs to.
Actor Ashley Judd has perimenopausal and post-menopausal women everywhere cheering after she posted a video of herself frolicking in the ocean with the caption "WE DON'T CARE CLUB: BALTIC SEA EDITION." As she plays around in the water, she narrates what she's doing and what being part of the We Don't Care Club means.
"Hi, I'm Ashley and I'm a member of the We Don't Care Club," she begins, "and when I'm in my swimsuit, sometimes I get a little chafing, like right down there, so I put on cornstarch—good trick if you don't know that already—and then there's like a white thing, and if you see it, I don't care."
She then picks up a small jellyfish—the non-stinging kind, she says—and explains that she thinks the stuff in the middle of it is its central nervous system.
"That might not be right, and I don't care," she says, "cause there's another club that my inner child belongs to called the MSU Club…" Here she pauses to adjust her swimsuit, saying, "I'm picking my crotch and I don't care," before resuming, "…and the MSU Club is the Make Stuff Up Club, and that's for inner children. And as a post-menopausal woman, I don't care if you don't like the MSU Club for inner children!"
Judd then proceeds to do all the things we used to do in the water as kids when we didn't care what people thought of us. Back flops. Head dunking. Beauty shop hairdos. Handstands. Belly flopping. And all with so much joy.
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At one point, as she walks away from the camera, she says, "Oh yeah, I probably have cellulite. I don't care. And I got hungry bum, and I don't care."
The whole video is delightful as Judd channels her inner child, bringing viewers back to their own childhood days playing in the water. People loved it:
"The amount of times I laughed out loud…This is perfect and I definitely needed this laugh today, thank you!!"
"Oh my goodness! I completely forgot about the hair thing. Thank you for reminding me, now I’ll have to do it. It might be in the shower, but you know what?? We don’t care."
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"Can I join the club? I’m not peri or postmenopausal yet. But I really do not care and I really do make stuff up."
"This is the best side of Ashley I’ve ever seen! She is morphing into a woman comfortable in her own skin and not afraid to say what’s on her mind! I want to be a member of both her clubs!! You go Ashley!"
"Thank you for sharing this journey, Ashley. It's beautiful to witness. I've joined the IDC club, and it's glorious."
As Judd pointed out, the We Don't Care Club was founded by influencer Melani Sanders, and her viral post hit a nerve with middle-aged women who were eager to join.
Sanders refers to the club as WDNC (We Do Not Care) and it has blown up and spread all over social media in just a few months.
"The beauty of the WDNC is all of the positivity that flows throughout all of our platforms," Sanders said in a video. She calls it a sisterhood for menopausal women.
"Watching my Sisters create Chapters and put the world on notice that we simply Do Not Care much anymore makes my heart smile," she writes. "Look at all of the positivity and love shared. Me and my Sisters are at capacity. We are tired. We have found a place where there is NO division or judgement. Everyone is accepted and loved regardless of race, religion, bank balance or brand of pocketbook you carry. The only requirement is you must have a She Shed. 😎😂"
People often lament getting older, but one of the bonuses of aging is getting to the point where you genuinely don't care about things that preoccupied you when you were younger. Bad hair day? Don't care. Bulging out of the swimsuit in places? Don't care. People judging what you're wearing or saying or doing or feeling? Don't care. It's a glorious club to belong to, with its freedom from worry and the room it makes for wonder.
Thanks, Ashley, for the beautiful example. You can follow Melani Sanders for more WDNC club updates on Instagram.
