shawnmendes: Im making songs im realllly proud of guys ✨✨✨ - April 27, 2021
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shawnmendes: Im making songs im realllly proud of guys ✨✨✨ - April 27, 2021
My teenager has more hours of homework per night than I got in my entire university career, and it doesn’t teach them a goddamn thing besides how to hate themself for not being able to do it all.
If my wife isn’t expected to labor outside her designated work hours at her literal job, why is my teenager expected to labor outside theirs?
If my kid has three hours of homework a night, that extends their work day to ELEVEN FULL HOURS. That’s inhumane. If an adult told me they were working eleven-hour days, I’d give them my wife’s number and tell them how to start unionizing. Like????
Ok! When I was a kid I would complain so much about school and homework and adults always told me, “when you have a job and responsibilities you’ll realize how easy you had it as a kid and how small and easy and insignificant this is.” Except I became an adult, got a job. And I still feel fucking bad for kids. Like I’m sorry, my job is really fucking stressful and I have to deal with idiots and assholes giving me shit. But like
1. I get fucking payed to do this? Like kids work and don’t get payed at all
2. I get a 40hr work week and again get payed to do those 40hrs because if I wasn’t it would be considered inhumane for a person to do 40hrs of really stressful work and not get payed anything. Except kids work even more then I do and get payed literally nothing. Like kids go to school from 7am-3pm at least where I’m from. That’s 8hrs for 5 days aka 40hrs except they also get homework, the average kid gets around 3hrs of homework a day (sometimes more.) So that’s no longer 8hrs a day which an adult is expected to work but 11hrs a day, making for 55hr work weeks!!
3. I’m an adult! Like why do people not understand this. “Oh well as an adult I have to go through stresses and and responsibilities and shit too!” Well yea you are a full grown fucking adult. Don’t compare what you have to go through to a literal child of like 12!! Why does the 12 year old need to be as stressed out as you?? They’re 12!
4. Children have to wake up at fucking 5 in the morning every day. At least I did. My classes started at 7:00 but the buses would pick us up at around 6:30 and I would have to wake up at 5:30 to get ready. That’s insane! I still sometimes have to wake up at 5am for work but I get payed for it, it’s not every single day, like some days I’ll close or open or work midshifts, I’m a fucking adult not a growing developing child, and I don’t get home to do homework and study which keeps me up for hours.
5. I get home and I’m done. That’s it. Time to do what I want. Kids get home and fucking do more work?? Bullshit.
6. Adults are allowed to be tired and frustrated but kids aren’t for some reason. I’ve seen so many time kids will be visibly tired or frustrated or upset probably because they’ve got a shit ton of responsibility, deal with assholes for 8hrs a day, wake up hella early and stayed up all night doing homework or studying, and then everyone gets mad at them. Like fuck you guys. Let the child take a nap. I was always so angry all the time as a kid and that immidetely went away when I graduated. Because I was no longer a sleep deprived kid who was yelled at 24/7 and feeling like a moron all the time.
So yea fuck people who give shit to kids/teens or say they have it easy.
Also, something that’s a surprisingly major factor: Adults need 8 hours of sleep every night. Teenagers need 10. Those two hours make one hell of a difference.
Like, my high school routine was waking up at 5 AM to catch the bus at 6 - I lived in a small town with no high school, so my bus route picked us up then had to spend awhile collecting all the farm kids before bringing us to school, so I’d get there at about 8. School would be done at about 3:15, and I’d be back on the bus for 3:30, to get home at about 5:30 PM. Let’s take an hour or so to eat dinner, shower, and just generally take care of any chores that need doing (laundry, cleaning litterboxes, ect), and then I could start on homework at 6:30. Three hours of that brings us to 9:30 PM, but uh oh! We’ve got a problem here! Let’s say I finish my homework exactly at 9:30 go straight to bed, and fall asleep immediately. That means I wake up at 5 AM the next day with only six and a half hours of sleep. Three and a half less than what I need.
But that’s not too bad, that’s survivable, right? And I’d always fall aslepe on the bus, so let’s be generous and call the naps an extra hour and a half of sleep, pushing us up to eight hours. Except I’ve got ADHD, and one of the effects of that is extreme difficulty falling asleep - unless I’m passing out from exhaustion, it takes me at least an hour to fall asleep, dropping us back down to 7 hours. And nowhere in here is there room for personal time! I’m not a social animal; I need time alone with my own head, or I start to really lose my shit. Let’s call it at least three hours of that every day, which was the bare fucking minimum needed to convince myself that suicide was probably a bad idea, and jesus fucking christ we’re down to four hours of sleep, and a solid hour of that is just a fucking nap on the bus.
That was my schedule. Every. Single. Day. Four hours of sleep, if I was lucky and my insomnia didn’t act up, and I had nothing else going on. On a really good day I might get five or six hours. That’s difficult for an adult. For a teenager, it’s torture. But it’s okay! Yeah, I had a massive sleep deficit, but that’s what weekends are for! Fourteen hours of sleep may be a bit extreme, but dear fucking lord did I ever need it. But oh wait, everyone knows teenagers are super lazy and that definitely included me. Just look at how I’d sleep past noon if left to my own devices! Thank god I had my loving and understanding parents to forcibly drag me out of bed at a reasonable hour in the morning on weekends to ‘save’ my sleep schedule. After all, I had a really hard time getting up in the mornings, and I’d sleep through my alarms sometimes, so that obviously meant I needed to sleep less on my days off, to make sure I didn’t get too used to it. Oh, and remember, not only did I have to go through all my classes with like 4 hours of sleep, I also had to do it with an untreated learning disability and no accommodations. And I was going hungry more often than not on top of it all, because the mountain of stress and exhaustion I was under meant that I rarely had the energy or executive function to make myself breakfast, and packing a lunch for myself hasn’t been possible since junior high. I’m pretty sure four hours of sleep and one meal a day is all a growing teenager needs to function; I mean I didn’t fucking die, so I was probably fine. I only dissociated hard enough to accidentally wander out into traffic a few times, it wasn’t so bad.
…and that is why I burned out so hard i pretty much dropped out of high school, finally finished the last few courses I needed to graduate in night school when by the time was 19, and now at 21 I’m still struggling to explain to my parents that I’ll start attending university once the idea of returning to school doesn’t make me genuinely want to fucking die. Which will probably be never.
Just from an adult side, like a fully FULLY an adult side?
Adults get done with their jobs, go home, and barely feel like cooking dinner. They drop everything to socialize and do hobbies. A HANDFUL of people push themselves past eight hours a day, but that’s NOT the majority, and the majority neither want to nor could keep up that pace indefinitely.
And it’s barbaric that we expect our kids to, especially with how I’ve never seen ANY proof that homework improves kids educational quality. It seems to continue more out of an expectation that it SHOULD than out of any good done for the students OR THE TEACHERS. Remember, grading all that homework is extra work for the teachers too!
I am relating so much to this.🥺
dude that highkey sounds like child labour. like that IS child labour bro. HIGHKEY CHILD LABOUR.
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guys … i am terrified. PLEASE reblog and like this if you aren’t able to help.
on the very very early hours of the morning yesterday, my little sister (age 21) was detained by police. she has severe mental health issues and has been having a psychiatric episode for a week or two now, getting worse each day. she did not harm anyone nor is she accused of harming anyone, but i don’t want to discuss what she is being accused of since it is an ongoing legal matter. my sister has major depression and her therapist also believes she has borderline personality disorder, though she has not been formally diagnosed yet. we also believe she is on the autism spectrum. during the incident she was arrested for, it is clear that my sister was hallucinating or experiencing a delusion. the detective who arrested her did not know she was mentally ill (he thought she was intoxicated but they found there was nothing in her system; it’s a mental episode!!) he later told me and my dad that he would have baker acted her instead of taking her to jail if he had known. she is now being held in jail. she has no criminal record whatsoever and i am certain she is terrified and scared. due to covid, we can’t visit or even talk to her because all video visits for the next two weeks are completely booked.
i have tried for two days now to try and get the jail to understand she is having a mental health crisis and needs to be transported to a mental health facility. her attorney is trying to get her to one. as you can imagine, it’s fucking hard to do that.
due to having to hire an attorney experienced in mental health, this situation is very very expensive. many thousands of dollars. but it’s a life or death situation for my sister and we have no choice. we are in huge debt for it now and trying our best to come up with any funds possible to pay for this and the future extensive mental health treatment my sister is going to need once transferred to a facility. if you are able, ANY AMOUNT, please please help. i swear every penny will be used to help my severely ill, sweet, brilliant, beautiful and kind little sister. i’m so scared and don’t know what else to do except constantly cry.
venmo: @ajjess cashapp: $ajjess1 i can give you my paypal via im if you need it instead. i dont want to post it because it has my full name and i want to protect my little sister’s identity.
please help any way you can !! even if it’s just a reblog, sharing gets the message out to more people.
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i would rather say "i love you" too much than too little, yk? i would rather yell "i love you" across a parking lot at 8:40 pm than to quietly go home, i would rather scream at my friends that "i love you" before i turn a corner, i would rather live in a world where my friends yell "i love you" back at the top of their lungs because life is so insufferably long but its also so so so short and i just. i would rather tell my people that i love them a ridiculous amount than have them not know,
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