Of course...Why share my expertise for free?

I used to work in male circumcision programming. I keep my mouth shut while people air their opinions.

Yes. I work in the social services in a field that is largely misunderstood. Whenever a thread comes up, I usually scan a few posts and then close it in disgust. So many ignorant people on here.

I also avoid threads involving anything to do with feminism. Again, disgusting.

Yes, but I sometimes talk about another area if people are getting things really wrong.

Yes

Criminal defense attorney. I weigh in every now and then. Mostly avoid unless someone posts something like, "I am so excited! My boyfriend of 3 weeks loves kids! He hasn't worked since he got laid off from his job 4 years ago and has agreed to watch my kids for free while I am at work! How did I get this lucky!? No idea why his horrible ex sued and won full custody and he has to have supervised visitation with his own kids for a couple hours every other week. Oh well! More time for me. He wants me to homeschool since the schools have some rule that I don't understand about him not going on school property. So lucky he wants to be involved with my kids!"

Yes.

I get tired of people who assume they know everything wrong about education just because they once went to school.

Yes, dog training. I get depressed every time I read the pets forum, so I mostly avoid it.

Yes. I have responded on the threads that ask for advice in my field (trying to be helpful) but am now trying to refrain, simply because I am sick and tired of being called a loser, a scum, whatever. I love my job, am very good at it and have a very loyal following.

To try and give advice on this board and to be shot down by randoms who love Redfin, think they know everything there is to know about real estate when sadly they are totally misinformed based on what they post - no thanks. For example check the "s/o what conveys and what doesn't" thread right now. Everyone thinks they know!

Since you all seem to be such fans of Redfin agents, I will leave the advice giving to them. Oddly, I don't think I have seen too many give advice on this board, if any.

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Anonymous wrote:Kind of. I'm an airline safety director. I post frequently about child restraint systems on airplanes and how important I think it is, and I get people arguing about how it doesn't matter at all. I don't mind when people say you're safer flying than driving (true) but I do mind when people trot out outdated stats or guidance or try to say that if you go down, you're going to all die anyway (the overwhelming majority of aviation accidents have survivors - little known fact...). Just generally speaking, the other thing people want to talk to me about is how expensive airfares have gotten, when they're the steal of the century compared to what they were 20 / 30 years ago. But, everyone has an opinion on traveling...

hey, just fyi, I hear you on some of those things! A friend and I were just remarking on how amazing it is that the airfare from DC out west is just the same as it was when we were in college 25 years ago! Hasn't gone up with inflation or gas price increases at all. It came up because we were talking about how bitchy people have been getting when other people recline their seat. I was wondering why people expect to have all this legroom when they want to pay rock bottom prices! If my seat can recline, I'll recline it, thank you! If you want more legroom, stop complaining about airfares so the airlines will stop trying to cram so many seats into a plane!

I did not know that child restraints were important on the plane. In fact, I'd heard some were not allowed on the plane, so was never sure what to do. I do, however, make sure my kids are well-buckled (they've outgrown the childseat stage). Not as much to survive a crash, but to avoid being injured in turbulence. It annoys me though when other people stay unbuckled, though, as my kids could be more injured by having a big adult fall on them than by being unbuckled themselves.

Can you recommend an affordable restraint for toddlers?

Safety director here. The CARES harness is fine for toddlers, although many people don't realize that if you take an actual CRS, you are basically guaranteed a window seat for your child (the CRS must not block anyone's egress, which usually means window seat) which, in turn, means you can sit next to your child because nobody is going to fight for that middle seat. Not sure about an affordable CRS for the airplane - when my kids were little we used our home seats and a go go babyz travel mate carseat roller. Now my kids are almost old enough to fly the airplanes!

It's true that often flight attendants don't know the rules, unfortunately. Knowing where the "approved for air travel" sticker is will save you some grief. Knowing the rules yourself is good, too; you can even print them out.

The rules are: they must accommodate you (on U.S. flights - foreign carriers have different rules -- unfortunate). I fly for free but when we do it's space available for my family, so I end up buying tickets often, and I agree it sucks to grit your teeth and buy that extra seat for the baby. but, it's really a major safety improvement. It's true, flying is so safe that your child is almost certain to be fine. Accidents are rare. But, turbulence is not. And if an accident does happen, your child is hundreds of times more likely to survive if he / she was in a CRS.

The reclining wars crack me up! I don't recline, and don't particularly like it when people recline into me, but until airlines stop making seats that recline, people need to get over the idea that they can enforce someone else's reclining choice. It's just a personal decision. And sometimes people recline because the seat in front of them has reclined, etc. The airline I work for bans the "knee defender" and our FA's are instructed to inform passengers that they can't prevent someone from reclining.

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Anonymous wrote:speech therapy. sometimes i post but mostly not, too much to say.

I have five thousand questions for you! I went to one and it was a total dud and couldn't get my questions answered.

We went through three before finding a good one.

Oh. Thank you for telling me that. I was shocked at how useless the speech therapist was, but guess I should reframe my expectations.

Anonymous wrote:Kind of. I'm an airline safety director. I post frequently about child restraint systems on airplanes and how important I think it is, and I get people arguing about how it doesn't matter at all. I don't mind when people say you're safer flying than driving (true) but I do mind when people trot out outdated stats or guidance or try to say that if you go down, you're going to all die anyway (the overwhelming majority of aviation accidents have survivors - little known fact...). Just generally speaking, the other thing people want to talk to me about is how expensive airfares have gotten, when they're the steal of the century compared to what they were 20 / 30 years ago. But, everyone has an opinion on traveling...

Please tell me the best restraint system for preschoolers! CARES harness? Something else?

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Anonymous wrote:Kind of. I'm an airline safety director. I post frequently about child restraint systems on airplanes and how important I think it is, and I get people arguing about how it doesn't matter at all. I don't mind when people say you're safer flying than driving (true) but I do mind when people trot out outdated stats or guidance or try to say that if you go down, you're going to all die anyway (the overwhelming majority of aviation accidents have survivors - little known fact...). Just generally speaking, the other thing people want to talk to me about is how expensive airfares have gotten, when they're the steal of the century compared to what they were 20 / 30 years ago. But, everyone has an opinion on traveling...

hey, just fyi, I hear you on some of those things! A friend and I were just remarking on how amazing it is that the airfare from DC out west is just the same as it was when we were in college 25 years ago! Hasn't gone up with inflation or gas price increases at all. It came up because we were talking about how bitchy people have been getting when other people recline their seat. I was wondering why people expect to have all this legroom when they want to pay rock bottom prices! If my seat can recline, I'll recline it, thank you! If you want more legroom, stop complaining about airfares so the airlines will stop trying to cram so many seats into a plane!

I did not know that child restraints were important on the plane. In fact, I'd heard some were not allowed on the plane, so was never sure what to do. I do, however, make sure my kids are well-buckled (they've outgrown the childseat stage). Not as much to survive a crash, but to avoid being injured in turbulence. It annoys me though when other people stay unbuckled, though, as my kids could be more injured by having a big adult fall on them than by being unbuckled themselves.

Can you recommend an affordable restraint for toddlers?

Anonymous wrote:Kind of. I'm an airline safety director. I post frequently about child restraint systems on airplanes and how important I think it is, and I get people arguing about how it doesn't matter at all. I don't mind when people say you're safer flying than driving (true) but I do mind when people trot out outdated stats or guidance or try to say that if you go down, you're going to all die anyway (the overwhelming majority of aviation accidents have survivors - little known fact...). Just generally speaking, the other thing people want to talk to me about is how expensive airfares have gotten, when they're the steal of the century compared to what they were 20 / 30 years ago. But, everyone has an opinion on traveling...

hey, just fyi, I hear you on some of those things! A friend and I were just remarking on how amazing it is that the airfare from DC out west is just the same as it was when we were in college 25 years ago! Hasn't gone up with inflation or gas price increases at all. It came up because we were talking about how bitchy people have been getting when other people recline their seat. I was wondering why people expect to have all this legroom when they want to pay rock bottom prices! If my seat can recline, I'll recline it, thank you! If you want more legroom, stop complaining about airfares so the airlines will stop trying to cram so many seats into a plane!

I did not know that child restraints were important on the plane. In fact, I'd heard some were not allowed on the plane, so was never sure what to do. I do, however, make sure my kids are well-buckled (they've outgrown the childseat stage). Not as much to survive a crash, but to avoid being injured in turbulence. It annoys me though when other people stay unbuckled, though, as my kids could be more injured by having a big adult fall on them than by being unbuckled themselves.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:speech therapy. sometimes i post but mostly not, too much to say.

I have five thousand questions for you! I went to one and it was a total dud and couldn't get my questions answered.

We went through three before finding a good one.