Our middle son's mild dyslexia was finally diagnosed in the middle of Year 12 - we'd been telling his teachers for years about the struggles he had with reading & spelling, had taken him to behavioural optometrists, but he never got the diagnosed because he'd worked so hard to compensate for pretty much of his schooling, but in year 12 he burned out. Post-diagnosis the school offered all these great support tools but it was too late - he just didn't care enough to even try very hard any more. He was also engaging in self harm and suicidal ideation. We put no expectations on him about HSC results or uni or anything else really, helped him find a psychiatrist. Post year 12 he did a lot of casual work in a warehouse, started going out with a girl. This year he started a car mechanic apprenticeship - we've been clear that it doesn't lock him into anything but getting that little bit of structure into his life is good for whatever he wants to do next. He's enjoying the learning and the work but realising that apprentices don't get paid very much for a very long time.

Fil from Wings of Pegasus on YouTube has some great videos examining the Eras tour: it's pretty clear that the only parts where the entire song isn't pre-recorded is using autotune. I'm actually fine with that - I think it's really helped Swift deliver a consistently good experience to her fans repeatedly in multiple shows over a long period of time, and saves her vocal cords from the enormous amount of wear & tear that singing live night after night would cause - but I also think it's something that people should be able to accept as the objective truth once the first couple of attempts at alternative explanations have been demonstrably disproved.

@rush I felt the same way when I first saw it reported. I understand that’s it’s a matter of the technical definition, but it’s absolutely for the same underlying causes. I have to wonder whether the perpetrator would have acted differently if the father had still been alive and present - at this mindset that acts against women.

My first thought is that this is pretty much the definition of the term "unreliable narrator".

@laura__palmer watch some of the current coverage of American NFL when the Kansas City Chiefs play and Taylor Swift is at the game

@loz86 What sort of details are you looking for, and where are you looking for them? There are several articles on Mamamia - including the above - and elsewhere, such as the Parliamentary report or the Law Council of Australia's statement - see  https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Bills_Legislation/bd/bd2223a/23bd080#:~:text=of%20the%20Bill-,The%20purpose%20of%20the%20Constitution%20Alteration%20(Aboriginal%20and%20Torres%20Strait,Torres%20Strait%20Islander%20Voice%20(the and https://www.lawcouncil.asn.au/media/media-releases/constitutional-amendment-to-provide-for-the-voice-is-just-and-legally-sound#:~:text=%E2%80%9CThe%20proposed%20amendment%20will%20not,Parliament%2C%20to%20consult%20the%20Voice.

I guess that’s what can happen when participants are looking for love rather than celebrity 

I doubt this is going to last even a year, but maybe they’ll prove me wrong.

I had tried it all over the years.

Can't help but think she's had a massive uptick in demand for her services over the last few years with the unrestrained freedom of sports betting companies to advertise their prodict during sporting events and online. My 14 yr old daughter  and I found it disappointingly hilarious that we could repeat the scripts of ads from multiple companies. But remember! Gamble responsibly! Even though it's fun and you can parlay your expertise into massively profitable multibets!

You do know that there is actually a movie about this, except with gender roles reversed: it's called "Good Luck Chuck". I don't think it's a particularly good movie, since the premise is that being "the one before the one" makes Chuck particularly attractive to ladies wanting to meet their One makes it less rom com and more teenage boy fantasy.

This is about as surprising as Jimmy Savile being a pedophile. How about we stop publicising and promoting these sort of people before looking more deeply into who they actually are?

Red Heart Campaign founder and senior journalist Sherele Moody noted: "It's easy to say things [at home] were normal, but none of us knows what is going on behind closed doors. One of the clear things my research into violent deaths shows is that domestic violence murders never happen in a vacuum - there's always precursors."

Trying to imagine what it would be like for one of my 14 year old daughter's school friends turned up on our doorstep asking to stay the night - given the demographic and the distance, I don't think it would ever happen. But I'd like to think we would let her stay and try and get her the help she needed.

@reannon I understand why the part of their friendship where they'd support each other through such things isn't for public consumption, but it still makes me sad that Leigh and Brendan couldn't make their partnership work through the times when she perhaps needed it the most. That's not necessarily anyone's fault, but equally it doesn't mean that I don't mourn what they were to each other, what they were to their children, and even though I think it's going to be okay that it's still a little sad. James TW's song "When You Love Someone" somehow feels appropriate for the situation...

@reannon Yeah, I discovered Chat 10 Looks 3 a few months ago and then went back to listen from episode 1: I've really enjoyed it, but I had hoped for some more insight into what happened to her marriage - maybe she'll mention something in Any Ordinary Day, which I've also just started reading. Seems like she had significant trauma in a short space of time and something just had to give.

I feel more compassion now for Serena: she's the best female tennis player ever, but a part of that was an arrogance that made her an ungracious loser. I can see how this may be a coping technique with what her father did to her. I think it's a tragedy what he did to those girls: where is the care for either their happiness or the sort of people they will be? I think that's more important than how well they can play tennis.

We were driving down the coast for a 7 day break when my kids played a song that I heard for the first time: James TW's "When You Love Someone" ~ this article reminds me very much of that song. Undoubtedly sometimes mums & dads need to go their separate ways while both still loving their kids, but that doesn't mean it doesn't hurt or that they wish that it could have been somehow different in an alternative universe somewhere out there. It makes me emotional: I'm so glad that you're working it out and wish you all the strength and love in the world to share with both your kids and your step-kids.

@flyingdale flier It's not just rom-coms, it's also pretty much every single "reality" TV show - the Bachelor/-ette, Married At First Sight, even First Dates - everyone is looking for that "spark" that somehow has to be there almost instantly. Dating apps reinforce that attitude - if there's no "spark", you simply move on to the next date. There was an article here on Mamamia in the last 3 months about exactly the opposite: about a relationship that grew out of two people getting to know each other, becoming friends, and then realising that it could be something more.

I'm not surprised the divorce rates are so high in marriages where the husband doesn't take part in the raising of his children - that's just nuts. This should have been part of the pre-marital discussions about the future and about expectations, and part of their ongoing communication within their marriage. That's not "lowering your standards", that's just how love is supposed to work, not this sense of male entitlement in a marriage.