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By the lovely Grace Farris. Her new book, See One, Do One, Teach One: the Art of Becoming a Doctor, came out March 24.
P.S. Parenting teens and Grace’s beauty uniform.
Portmanteaus of Parenting
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Where I live just outside if ATL, different neighborhoods make large banners of all the graduates that live there and I have seen *so* many Sportraits over the years, but especially this season! This term is so perfect for it and I’ve thought of it every time. Brilliant
We do this with certain words in our house so much that I forget that they aren’t the real thing … our fave being chalmonds (chocolate dusted almonds).
At least you’re using a portmanteau, which is descriptive! We love those caramel and chocolate covered macadamia nuts from Costco, and the term for them in our house is Blobs. Like we literally put “Blobs” on the grocery list, and use sentences like “If you speed run collecting all the laundry on the floor of the living room with me, I’ll give you 3 blobs.”
(This sounds like I’m speaking to a child, but no, this is something my husband and I say to each other, despite having the Adult Ability to eat blobs whenever we want. And it still works!)
I have loved giving Grace’s book Mom Milestones as a baby shower and new mom gift. Looking forward to giving her new book to friends in or embarking on the medical profession! Love her work so much.
Mine is maybe TMI but when I was pregnant my hormones were through the roof and I was so unbelievably horny! But also so nauseous at the exact same time- my husband and I would joke that I was “hornauseous”. Who would’ve thought you could feel those two things at the same time!!
Today I had a hangxiety attack. My panic spiral subsided only after several squares of dark chocolate followed by something resembling dinner food.
My partner and I “procrasticlean” all the time: procrastinate on another task we really don’t want to do by cleaning.
That’s funny. I remember doing anything under the sun to avoid assignments due for school or any other official business. Now I don’t do anything to avoid tasks. . I just avoid, period.
Mine is not related to parenting but can be very useful : facho-anxiété in French (facho/fascist anxiety ?) inspired from eco-anxiety and unfortunately so acute for what’s going on…
See one, do one, teach one’ is an adage passed down through generations of physicians and surgeons, perceived as a central tenet for achieving clinical competency in medicine.
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Congratulations Grace on the book. My sister a Dr. in CA is going to appreciate her own copy on Mother’s day!
These are great. At the small school I work at, the room we use for lunch and some gym classes and as an auditorium is called the Cafegymatorium. It’s official, written on a plaque outside the door.
This is way too hilarious! AND REAL. Thanks for a good chuckle today! Have a beautiful day, Grace.
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Oh, the wonderful portmanteau!
My parenting favorite is snacktivity (a crafty mess that’s mostly frosting!)
My forever favorite is “Brangelina”
My Gen Z slang favorite is “choppleganger”
The couples ones!! Bennifer!
I had to look up “portmanteaus”, which is the combination of two words, but otherwise this is spot on. Why do boys never smile and look tough in sports pictures, I’ll never know.
These are great. We use “shenaniganizing.” Meaning 2+ people are actively working on the plans for some shenanigans that haven’t yet been deployed, but will be soon. You know there’s some shenaniganizing going on when things get too quiet because of the plotting in the other room. It happens!
Haha hilarious, I’m going to start using this. Thanks for the joy, as always, Grace!
I LOVE THIS, new favorite word that I unfortunately have way too many occasions to use, haha
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