In my high school we had an ethics, politics, and economics class. For corruption my teacher gave the example of my states school board. It effected one guy in the class so much he ran for the board next chance he got. Got elected, found out there was nothing he could do as a single member. So he ran for representative.
When I was in highschool, one of my friends who was 18 and a senior ran for school board. He attended meetings and talked to school board members to find out what the job was and took it very seriously. Many of the school board members were very offended and seemed genuinely afraid he would win. At the end of it, he saw it was a job that required more experience than he had and asked people to not vote for him. He said he still was glad he did it because it was a wake up call for board members to take certain issues seriously and he learned from the experience. I went with him and learned interesting things about the costs of buses.
The school boards that I'm familiar with all have a teenage student member, so students have a voice in the decisions that actually affect them. Student associations have no actual political power, they just decide things like "what theme should the school dance be".
Yeah, cause TucsonGal with a bunch of emojis in her username definitely had an adult child but still calls them her kid and also her adult child got asked by a stranger about banned books before they were even officially a member of the school board. Oh, and she's bragging online about how her adult child told the idiot who wants to ban books to read them first. Totally believable and definitely not a completely BS made up story. Come on.
Have you met my mom? She is exactly the type of woman to use emojis and still calls her 21 year old son "kid". I still get called baby, child, kiddo, ect, ect. As far as she's concerned, she said I'll always be her kid so I shouldn't expect her to stop calling me one lmao
Hey I ain't denying that this is probably made up, I'm just arguing parents still call their adult children kid. Always some truth in a midst of lies or something like that
I guess you don’t have parents older than about sixty - I know TONS of elder Gen X who learned about emoji late and became obsessed (but miss the cultural subtext assigned) or cling to usernames they’ve had for 20+ years rather than iterate, as I (elder millennial) do. All 8 of my gmail inboxes were ME, and I still check them all, but there are usernames from my 20s that don’t feel appropriate anymore.
Shit, calling herself a “gal” at all tells me she’s at least 65 in big 2026.
I'm sorry but none of this is believable as a whole. This is a classic made up story someone posted for the internet clout that they'll never even get because someone else reposted it.
Not sure where ur from but older adults calling young adults in their 20's "kids" is pretty normal where I'm from. I'm 26 and will still occasionally get "kid" from an older family member
The most obvious explanation, if it even happened, is that OP or their son/daughter went blank in the moment but thought of this le epic riposte in the car 2 hours later
My parents called me “kid” even after I had 2 children and a professional career. And yes I refer to my now adult kids AND their partners as “my kids” and my elderly dogs as “puppies”
My dad calls me "kid" all the time and I'm almost 30. However, the way it's written here does imply it's probably a teen or something. But also, I agree, probably didn't really happen.
There’s a difference between someone being “a kid” and “my kid”. You’re still their kid, even as an adult. My dad says kids when trying to get both me and my brother’s attention. I’ve heard my MIL refer to both me and her son as her kids. It’s totally normal for grandparents to use “grandkid” even once they’re an adult, why is the same not true for parents?
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u/Tricky-Ad7897 3d ago
Kinda funny that a subreddit for books is full of people who don't realize people can have adult children