Cindi Dean Wafstet

1 day ago

“Obesity Crisis”?????

Repost from July 8, 2008, with a few revisions and additions. I hate the word obesity, to begin with, but who in their infinite wisdom has decided that fat people are in a crisis? Is it because they feel this is one group they can use guilt and fear as…

Fatphobia

4 min read

2 days ago

Fat-shaming

A friend of mine, who is usually so caring and open-minded, but hates Donald Trump, posted a picture of a very fat woman wearing a “Trump 2020” bikini in a comment on my Facebook page. I was hurt, angry, and frustrated. We are in the middle of BLM and Gay…

Fat Shaming

2 min read

Sep 20

Turn the Page

It seems like my life is, and always has been, concerned with books. …

2 min read

Jul 25

Quora Question: How did you raise a child to eat what was in front of them and not ask for a separate meal from the rest of the family?

My answer: I just recently posted something on Facebook on this very topic prompted by an article I read (I’ll link the article at the end), so I just share what I said there.. ******** When I had the daycare (and this rule applied to my own kids as well)…

Parenting

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Quora Question: How did you raise a child to eat what was in front of them and not ask for a…

Jul 24

Outside

I don’t have a lot of pictures of my siblings and me in the 1950s. Film was expensive then, for a poor family, and flash bulbs or flash…

Childhoo

4 min read

Jul 6

Appreciation and Appropriation

In the 1960s, the TV show “Here Come the Brides” showed the Native Americans at the beginning of the city of Seattle as Plains Indians complete with teepees and feather headdresses. The tribe closest to the Seattle settlement at that time was the Duwamish. It’s too bad that the show’s…

Cultural Appropriation

6 min read

Jul 2

Questions from Quora: Advice

What advice would you give to a 14 year old? Learn as much about everything as you can, even if it’s not taught at school, church, and at home. Read. Read. Read. Read books on all topics. Read newspapers, magazines, webpages, blogs. Try to keep an open mind about everything…

Teenagers

2 min read

Jun 25

The Fallout from Roe vs Wade

I’ve spent the past two days reading and watching about what the so-called Supreme Court did based on the desires of just 25% of the country. But when it comes down to it, it’s actually based on their own personal wants and beliefs. So this is my own rant about…

Abortion

5 min read

Jun 25

Politics

I posted this in 2012 and I’m reposting it now, ten years later, with a few edits. This was when Obama was re-elected. It’s just as relevant now as it was then. Ron” is a prime example of why the people who need to read this won’t. He is proof…

Politics

8 min read

Jun 18

Questions from Quora: “It”

How would you punish your kid if you caught them doing “it” with someone or doing “it” to themselves? Okay, I’m assuming you are talking about having sex. Sex is not a dirty word and one that children should learn at a young age, as well as “pleasuring” and “masturbation”…

Parenting

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