When I mentioned eating outside I wasn’t implying going to a mac Donald. I was mentioning the numerous local restaurants with local dishes which doesn’t cost that much more as what you would spend to make them at home.
Not necessarily “local dishes”, many small asian restaurants serve meals that are not more expensive than at fast food restaurants.
There is no such thing here, as far as I know.
Yes I mentioned it because outside your world, there are countries where it’s affordable to not eat at home. Ok, nvm.
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I understand, I just wanted to reply that, unfortunately, there are no such things here 
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If you had 3 children with birthdays February 28th, February 29th and March 1st, how would you navigate the inevitable “who has celebration priority” debacle?
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Trial by combat
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Can humans ever think of a totally random number?
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Considering the issue with one of those children having a “birthday” once per four years, the optimal solution is celebrating all the birthdays together, at the first available date, so February 28th.
Because the child born on February 28th won’t want to share their special day, and the March 1st will ask repeatedly why they don’t get their special day on their special day.
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won’t want to share their special day
If they don’t want to share, then they can choose to not have at all. 
If you cultivate that “tradition” from early on, then that’s their “special day”. A family celebration.
Now, if the kids have a big age gap between them, that’s harder to apply, come to think of it.
Then again there are other factors too even if the age gap is small… one child is introverted or one is extroverted. Now there is some conflict worth its pop-corn.
It seemed obvious at a first glance, but it can be a surprisingly difficult question/issue.
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The best would be to celebrate on Feb 29th on each bissextile year, and alternate between Feb 28th and Mar 1st on other years.
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So, let’s say
28th
1st
28th
29th
1st
28th
So let’s say in a span of six years (one educational level, give or take, whole of middle school maybe), 28th gets 3, 1st gets 2 and 29th gets 1.
I would like to have toddlers/ early teens present and ask their opinion, because I think we are being too rational here
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Probably with a bit of organization they could have some time to party for each one, and some time together if they appreciate it too.
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just pick different days to celebrate. Who celebrates on what date would be case by case, mediated and ultimately decided (taking into account the involved children’s arguments and positions) by the parents
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I would’ve just told them all their birthday is on the same day, for example Feb 28th, that would be the cleanest solution
Edit: but of course you should’ve started doing this early enough before they can remember there was a change
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This could work, but it depends on the age gap and at what order the 29th came.
And what if a child is born on Dec 24th? You can’t celebrate Christmas and a birthday at the same time.
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I know many people who have birthdays on Christmas, New year’s or the same day of their nameday (so they only get one celebration). There’s drama, usually, but it depends on the family.
I was more focused on the sibling drama with my philosophical question.
Hi all! 
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it’s been FIVE YEARS (to the day!) since I’ve posted this, and what a 5 years it’s been. When I posted this, I was in 7th grade (just turned 13), and now, I’m graduating highschool tomorrow!
I moved on from Go quite a while ago, but I see that this thread still gets used now and then! I read up on everything since I last saw it, and I just want to thank you all for keeping my silly little thread going for all this time, it was really fun to see what’s been going on here!
I’ve been looking through some memories, and with Go being such a huge part of my life for some years, that includes things on this site. A lot of the things I said were kinda ridiculous, and I’m almost embarrassed seeing my 12/13-year-old-self’s internet presence. Oh well, I think it’s just an inevitability that middle schoolers online are a bit cringe, haha.
Anyway, now that I’m slowly losing interest in the hobby that’s dominated my high school years, I’ve been thinking of things I could do for the next chapter in my life - and I have seriously considered getting back into Go. So who knows, I may be active here again someday…
Until then, I’ll probably just pop my head in from time to time to see what’s happening. see y’all around
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