It’s Mean Girls Day!! 👧🏼

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That's right, and it's Mean Girls Day. Welcome back to Tweet Trends. Today's episode is, I don't know how to describe it, kind of like maybe what Mean Girls might do or what might happen to Mean Girls. It all kind of revolves around Mean Girls, kind of, sort of.

Let's get started. So one of the things that Mean Girls may end up doing is growing up to become mean moms. And in being a mean mom, they may tell lies to their kids. And that's where this first story comes in.

That there was a study done in Singapore about dealing with how much children rely to buy their parents and how that is affected them as adults. Do they lie more? Do they have difficulty adjusting? And that's exactly what they found.

Now, when I first read this, and there's a picture, and I thought it was an elf on the shelf with a girl hat in her hand. But it's actually a Pinocchio little mirroring it. So because initially when I think of lying to kids, I think of Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, things like that. But this study was a little bit different.

The research here was more along the lines of authority assertion over children as to why parents would lie. So more like lies like, if you don't behave, I'm going to call the police and have them come and arrest you. Or things like that where you're trying to force the kid to do something that they don't want to do. And you try to use some outside force to make them comply.

So basically, the research suggests that parenting by lying is a practice that has negative consequences for children when they grow up. And it's not hard to believe. A lot of times I think, though, adults feel that I said this, and it rolls off the kids back, kind of like how people say things to us. And we don't hear it, but we keep it moving regardless.

But with kids, they remember everything. Like they take in little stuff, and they put it in the little file cabinet in their heads. And they come back to it. So basically, what they're saying is that parents should be aware of the potential downstream implications and consider alternatives to lying, such as acknowledging children's feelings.

Imagine that. And you know, it's funny that I should even mention this, because I had a situation where a friend, with a friend, where our kids had a little altercation, and her kid was in the wrong. Mine was really upset, and I was acknowledging her feelings. And my friend blew up, like, oh my gosh, I can't believe you're coddling her like that.

And I'm saying, are you kidding me? I want her to know that she's justified to feel hurt and upset. But the bottom line was, I couldn't undo what the girl did. The girl couldn't undo what she did, because we'd be there all night.

It was Clovergate. I'm just going to call it Clovergate. There was a Clover, a four leaf clover that was found. The other girl took her clover, threw it in a bush.

It was somewhere. It's hard enough to find a four leaf clover to begin with. But then to find one that was thrown into a bush, yeah, we just didn't have enough hours in the day to try to right that wrong. But back to the topic, though.

So acknowledging the children's feelings, that's where I was. So if parents gave information so the children to know what to expect, or offer choices, and problem solving, do that sort of thing together to get that good behavior from the kids, other than trying to bully them or scare them into doing the right thing. So I thought this was a pretty good idea. Check out the link for it.

Another thing about Mean Girls, they probably have a hard time keeping a job. So guess what? Uber is about to be there for them, because they're coming up with a new app that's going to match temporary workers with job vacancies. Now, this particular app, they've been testing it for a year in Chicago, and they're going to roll it out in Chicago to start with the full fledged version.

It's called Uber Works. And on Friday, it's going to start connecting businesses with temp workers. Now, they're actually teaming up with temp agencies to do this, that they don't want these people to be thinking that they work for Uber. No, you don't work for Uber.

You work through the temp agency for whatever the job is that needs you. But their goal is to connect blue collar workers with businesses that need to fill in gaps, which sounds really great, because what they're trying to do is eliminate bottlenecks of finding work, and to help people find jobs without having to put their information in every single time. I cannot tell you how frustrating that is when you are applying for a job here, there, here, there, and you have to fill out these freaking applications. It is a pain in the butt.

And so to me, it's no wonder that sometimes people get frustrated and give up, because it's such a tedious task at just trying to be seen when here, this app sounds like it's going to be very helpful in alleviating some of that extra stress and anxiety. You do it once. Your information's in. And then from there, you use the app to see, well, who needs this?

And I got this. Let me click here. Boom, bam, bam, bam. I'm in.

I got me a job. It may not be a lasting job, but if it's something to tie you over until you get something better, then everybody wins. Another thing that mean girls do, they come up with rules that maybe you've never even heard of, or you don't understand the rule. So here is one about Americans needing to have an enhanced ID if they want to board an airline flight within the next year.

So basically, October 1, 2020, there's this rule that's going to go into effect, where you have to have a real ID driver's license. Did you hear my air quotes there? Real ID. But the crazy thing is, all states don't offer it yet.

So you can't get it in every state. And depending on when your license expires, say your license expires this month and your state doesn't even offer it yet. So you have to get your license renewed. But you kind of want to get this real ID thing so that you don't have to come back and get it done.

Because who likes hanging out at the DMV? Not I, I said to cat. But yeah, so I'm sitting here and I'm looking at this article. And I was like, I've never heard of this before.

This is brand new. In an article, they show you an example of what it looks like. And the first thing I thought of was a test or something because it had like one, two, like numbers, next to the different things. And although the highest number on here is 17, it's not 17 different pieces of information from what I can tell.

But it supposedly has little special things about it that makes it more difficult for someone to forge one of these ID cards. And amazingly, they're saying that it's been in the work since 9-11, that they've been trying to come up with a plan. And this is the plan. But I'm still kind of confused and concerned with the fact that I haven't seen anything about this.

I haven't seen anything on my local news about it. Or in the mail, you would think that there'd be something in the mail. I'm sure DMV doesn't want to have to send letters to everybody. But you have to get the information out somehow.

So I kind of went into a little panic mode. But then the more I read, then it kind of lets you off the hook a little and they're like, OK. But there's also other forms of ID that are considered real ID compliant for those people who like don't have the need to have a driver's license. And they go through different things, like a passport card, Department of Homeland Security, Trust Travel Cards, Nexus, Century, and Fast Program stuff, Department of Defense ID Cards, issued to military members and their dependents, permanent resident cards, border crossing cards.

I didn't even know that existed. What is a border crossing card? Federal recognized tribal issued photo IDs. So it sounds like just about everything that we already have out there is acceptable.

So then I'm not really understanding where these real IDs are coming from. So I don't know. I'm going to post it. You check it out.

See what you think. And you may want to check your local DMV to see, do you have these real IDs coming down the pipeline? When is that going to be? And how do we go about getting one?

All right. Thanks for joining me for another episode of Tweed Trends. Do me a favor and head on over to Twitter and follow me at hey, that's at he. That's at he.

Or just look for the hashtag Tweed Trends. I want to shout out this organization real quick. It's the other ones foundation. You can find them on Twitter at twofound.

That's at T-O-O-F-O-U-N-D. Now this organization is trying to reduce pan handling. So what they're doing is they're giving homeless people jobs. They have them cleaning green areas.

And they're paying them for like $15 an hour. And I think this is absolutely awesome. So the other ones foundation in Austin, Texas, way to go, guys. Before I go, another thing is remember that today is mean girls day.

But it's not about being mean. And it has nothing to do with girls. But basically, the bottom line is be true to yourself in spite of social pressure. All right.

I'll see you on Tuesday. Have a great weekend.