Laura

Mom of 3 kids under 5. You should probably take a walk and call your mom.

[Laura @LauraVanderLees]

@emzanotti @yikessomally Only when she’s giving the illusion of it in “best hostess” mode! 😂

[Laura @LauraVanderLees]

@yikessomally @emzanotti I agree, it reminds me of Martha Stewart a little bit - kind of catlike. Friendly if she wants to be, but she’s built an empire and she doesn’t really have to be.

[Allie ✞ @allie__voss]

I’m begging people to learn anything, ANYTHING about the foster care system before running their mouths

Foster care is not just a modern day orphanage for kids with no parents

[Laura @LauraVanderLees]

Me: puts on a sample of a very popular perfume, Chance by Chanel.

My 5yo amateur critic: “I DO NOT like that smell, that is a very smelly smell, I was trying to eat my breakfast and then I smelled that smell and it’s a little bit super stinky. That’s really weird Mom.”

[Laura @LauraVanderLees]

@castlehillmom The quality of the books we got were terrible - I don’t know how much they varied state to state but I stopped our subscription a year ago because I don’t want my kids to read dumb, ugly books.

[Laura @LauraVanderLees]

@allie__voss @RealFDAGirl If he really wants to commit to the bit, he should log off, that’ll show us

[Laura @LauraVanderLees]

@allie__voss “Living intentionally” - I think he’s just living for attention on Twitter, lol

[Laura @LauraVanderLees]

@JamieWhistle It’s also an interesting exercise in the current era of hours of no screens, no one really talks to you, just constantly scanning the pool and being with your own thoughts.

[Laura @LauraVanderLees]

@DouthatNYT @L0m3z I think many presidents/giants of various fields have just concealed it more tactfully

[Laura @LauraVanderLees]

@xwanyex That’s the basic premise of Bryan Kaplan’s book:

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Connecting young people to digital networks serves no purpose if they remain disconnected from themselves, others, and their own interiority. We must help young people rediscover silence, reflection, the ability to ask questions, the depth of relationships, and openness to transcendence. To listen to the soul, we must lend an ear, because the soul's voice is not a shout, but a whisper.

[Laura @LauraVanderLees]

@simonsarris It helps if you both perceive each other as slightly more competent than the other

[Stephanie H. Murray @stephmurrayyyy]

I've said it a thousand times but the pressure to keep kids quiet in public leads to *more* permissive and indulgent parenting.

[Laura @LauraVanderLees]

@wrowclif Gotta be ready for Primetime!

[Laura @LauraVanderLees]

@MrsCMFrancis I just love this.

[Laura @LauraVanderLees]

@xwanyex Lot of blank slatists on here that don’t even realize that thats how they filter every “study”.

[Laura @LauraVanderLees]

@stephmurrayyyy 10/10 baby, def would smile and wave from across the restaurant where my kids are also talking a little too loud

[Laura @LauraVanderLees]

@_parasocial And then sanctimonious anonymous accounts insisting that their children DID do that because they were just GOOD PARENTS unlike you LAZY DIPSHITS

[Laura @LauraVanderLees]

@ObtainerOf The Germans have a system of separating students onto different academic/career training tracks so no one is wasting their time:

[Laura @LauraVanderLees]

@HansFiene Intersex competition - who is the most important and honored woman in your life?

Similarly, many men feel emasculated when their wife circumvents them to have their dad fix an issue, or if she her dad’s input over the husband’s.