Allison Slater Tate
@AllisonState
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Leo • ENFP • @Princeton '96 • 🐊 • Mom of 4 • College Counselor • Writer @TODAY_Parents @NBCNews @OnParenting/@WashingtonPost @GrownandFlown @ParentsMagazine
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People wonder why our teenagers grapple with mental health? In the middle of a pandemic, when it seems like the world is falling apart around us, I spent today explaining to one weeping teenager why, even after going to tutors, taking the SAT 5 times, and working her 1/6
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So sorry in advance for writing "hope all is well!" in emails when I know that all is not well. 🫠
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I would rather have been wrong.
Am I the only one who now sort of wishes not having read The Handmaid's Tale? I love your work, @MargaretAtwood, but I seriously worry that you might be a visionary.
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Mr Biden, I need you to stand up, straighten your back and make some things shake before your departure xoxo the women in america 💙
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I don't know who had the idea to sit @PeteButtigieg down with undecided Michigan voters and just let him cook, but this is just brilliant content strategy.
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Me checking Twitter all day like they’re going to surprise drop the election results a day early
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God grant me the confidence of the dude that tried to mansplain "The Handmaids Tale" to Margaret Atwood.
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the guy who just mansplained The Handmaid’s Tale to the author of The Handmaid’s Tale
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Cardi B, who is campaigning with Kamala Harris today in Milwaukee, is a policy nerd and an FDR historian. I loved when her high school history teacher defended her on Facebook.
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Just a reminder that you are doing your best, and that’s more than enough. It’s okay to take it one day at a time.
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“He has been there since I was a little boy, throwing batting practice to me every day. This isn't my moment, it’s my dad’s moment." - Freddie Freeman on running over to his dad after his walk-off grand slam home run to win Game 1 of the World Series
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Just here to declare my continuing beef with Honors College prompts that ask students to tell them why they want to be in the Honors College. They're 17 yo and they barely even know what college itself will be like, so why don't you just say, "Read our website and summarize it?"
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He's about to perform Lavender Haze. https://t.co/Fy3kdUlxMR
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Wife: Why does the coach have his shirt off? Me: That was a fan CFB fans are crazy Wife: Why does he have a headset Me: college football fans are crazy Wife: is that a Waffle House menu? Me: college football fans are crazy, that’s why I love college football .
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Teens call it "Grind Culture" - needing to excel in school, clubs, appearance, social life. Common Sense Media has a new study that finds many teens are burnt out. My @TODAYshow story
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We flew over Hurricane Milton about 90 minutes ago. Here is the view out the Dragon Endeavour window. Expect lots of images from this window as this is where I’m sleeping while we wait to undock and return to Earth. Timelapse coming in a separate post. 1/6400 sec, f8, ISO 500
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Nurse: Step on the scale, please. Me: I was told there'd be no fact checking.
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This is why schools matter.
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"Just wanted to make you aware if you hadn’t heard about the smaller communities regarding hurricane helene. I’m from a little town outside of Asheville NC called Burnsville… Burnsville Spruce Pine Little Switzerland Boone Blowing Rock Bakersville They are devastated. I last
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