Also confused, I thought maybe a San Pellegrino was high brow so they got it, but then crisps and a BLT isn't as healthy as a pasta pot so maybe that's it, but is a Yazoo healthy?
Yes, a drop in behaviour. I did originally think that they hadn't learned acceptable behaviour or had forgotten, but it hasn't got better, and I do feel like it's coming from anxiety and stress a lot rather than hijinks like it used to be.
I teach older kids (16-19), so I can't speak for the really little ones, but I do have prior experience of taking homeschool kids (a lot of homeschool kids do college to prepare for university) and they never had this issue that I've seen recently.
I think there was a drop post covid. I definitely think part of it is learning disability related. Like a kid with sensory oversensitivity was at home, in the quiet, in their comfortable space, and could control lots of aspects of their environment.
Now they're in an uncomfortable space, with lots of noise, movement, conflict, and they're just angry. Things kick off so much more easily than in the past.
I don't know if this is international but it's a common joke in British media to use this as a bit of a joke, for example a geeky character might say that they're a bibliophile, and the dumb character will make it sexual.
Have you looked at 1001 Arabian Nights? Loads of fantasy and sci fi in there that might help. Jinn, mermaids, immortal space travellers, I read a fair few of them as a kid and they were cool.
While I agree that laziness could contribute, you can't just decide to swap, everyone would have to swop. Especially when Whatsapp is so common in the workplace now.
I nearly didn't go because I've been to so many Natural History museums and I had a short time in New York, but then my friend reminded me that Ross from friends worked there and that tipped the scales.
It was so huge though, I got there at opening and there was genuinely a point where I realised I needed to speed up or I wouldn't finish it before closing time! That's without any of the special exhibitions too.
I'm not saying he's lying, he wasn't molested by Michael, that doesn't mean that the other victims must be lying. Paedophiles have preferences like anyone else and even within families, a person might assault one of their children while not touching the others.
I'm enjoying this thread, I've been to many of the museums already mentioned and they're all great.
For me I think my current favourite is the Natural History Museum in New York which I went to a couple of months ago. It was enormous and every room had a few really special things. I learnt so much!
My all time favourite is just so difficult. I really enjoyed The House of Terror in Budapest, I really didn't know anything about the topic at all and I was thoroughly educated.
I'd also give a special mention to a museum in Rhodes that was full of sculptures they'd pulled from shipwrecks. The geography means there's a lot of shipwrecks nearby and those date from ancient Greece onwards. The oldest sculptures were well rounded by the water and it gave them a very weird ethereal look.
Any museum where you walk in and mentally say, "I've made a huge mistake."
I went to an art museum in the balearics once, the door was open, normal stuff, free entry sign, donation box, cloakroom, etc. So I'm walking round the first room and a guy runs in shouting "NO! NO!" and chases me right out of the museum. I definitely made a huge mistake there but I wish I knew what the mistake was!
Foxes, birds of prey, and if we consider egg predation then basically everything. Rats are a big issue for all seabirds.