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Wellness Wednesday for June 19, 2024

The Wednesday Wellness threads are meant to encourage users to ask for and provide advice and motivation to improve their lives. It isn't intended as a 'containment thread' and any content which could go here could instead be posted in its own thread. You could post:

  • Requests for advice and / or encouragement. On basically any topic and for any scale of problem.

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  • Encouragement. Probably best directed at specific users, but if you feel like just encouraging people in general I don't think anyone is going to object. I don't think I really need to say this, but just to be clear; encouragement should have a generally positive tone and not shame people (if people feel that shame might be an effective tool for motivating people, please discuss this so we can form a group consensus on how to use it rather than just trying it).

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Are the kids able to help with the seed planting? My kids (4 and 7) love planting with me, though of course they need close supervision to avoid things like putting the entire packet of seeds in one spot or spacing the tomato plants 2 inches apart.

Yes, they were especially excited about the huge elephant ear bulbs and the bugs. Though the almost 5 year old kept insisting on ripping off pieces of rosebush and burying it instead of putting soil in pots, which she's clearly able to do. Two year old did mostly help with things like that when asked.