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Dr. Kate @radkat.fitzpat.com · 21/09/2026

Me to 3yo: - could you please treat us nicely? - huh? me no do anything - you found some oil and you spread it everywhere in the house and Papa got upset - why Papa no take deep breaths? 🤣🤣🤣 Gen Alpha teaching Gen X social-emotional curriculum.

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Dr. Kate @radkat.fitzpat.com · 19/09/2026

Articles are for people with underdeveloped context inference skills. There, I said it. (This post is sponsored heavily by Russian language. Follow me for more linguistic takes.)

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Dr. Kate @radkat.fitzpat.com · 19/09/2026

What kind of driver are you? Finish the sentence "curb is part of the" a) sidewalk b) road I strongly identify with b)

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Dr. Kate @radkat.fitzpat.com · 18/09/2026

I'm so fed up with people putting a sticker "crossed out Elon" or "here for zero emissions vehicle not Elon". Just buy a different damn car. If anyone makes stickers saying exactly that, I'll buy and commit to putting them on on any spotted parked Tesla.

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Dr. Kate @radkat.fitzpat.com · 18/09/2026

How do you know parenthood became part of your identity? When you listen to "Steve's lava chicken" with no kids in the car.

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Dr. Kate @radkat.fitzpat.com · 29/08/2026

Finished "Lives like loaded guns" - after visiting Emily Dickinson's museum in Amherst felt only appropriate - what a deep running drama. Kudos to Lyndall Gordon for such a delicate detective work. I know it's speculations but I bought it.

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Dr. Kate @radkat.fitzpat.com · 14/08/2026

Reporting from Spain with 3yo: A Coruña's playgrounds are the best, Bilbao's ok, Vigo's and Gijon's nonexistent. Follow me for more travel tips.

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Dr. Kate @radkat.fitzpat.com · 14/08/2026

It's the beginning of the end for Chat got: they started tweaking UI instead of doing things ("think harder"). Next comes the Gmail style spacing (classic, compact, whatever), color schemes, and a line of pre-approved icons to use for everything.

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Dr. Kate @radkat.fitzpat.com · 05/08/2026

Did everyone else already finish Claire Stapleton’s book, too?

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Dr. Kate @radkat.fitzpat.com · 28/07/2026

Oof. Rachel Cusk is not for the faint of heart.

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Dr. Kate @radkat.fitzpat.com · 27/07/2026

It's interesting how anticlimactic good things can be.

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Dr. Kate @radkat.fitzpat.com · 26/07/2026

Me, to a 20yo: did you read about that new movie, Odyssey? 20yo: no Me: it's based on the Greek classic literature and they used those amazing cameras and.. 20yo: ah, the movie with Zendaya? Me: who?

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Dr. Kate @radkat.fitzpat.com · 24/07/2026

I did *not* expect rock tumbling to enter top 10 regretted decisions of my life.

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Dr. Kate @radkat.fitzpat.com · 24/07/2026

If someone is capable of understanding that they're wrong -- they're also capable of arriving at that conclusion themselves. So telling them directly would rob them of the experience they would gain in the process of the discovery.

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Dr. Kate @radkat.fitzpat.com · 22/07/2026

In today's rubric "Kate's talking to newspapers" How about "there are no other options available for two income families without any relatives living close by"?

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Dr. Kate @radkat.fitzpat.com · 19/07/2026

We're at that awkward phase of life when the only thing worse than 3yo resisting a nap - is 3yo finally giving in for a nap that's too long and too late. 🫠

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Dr. Kate @radkat.fitzpat.com · 18/07/2026

Prompted by a barista's question - there should be an app called "What is a good name for you?" - upload a photo and get a suggestion. "You look like Clara today."

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Dr. Kate @radkat.fitzpat.com · 11/07/2026

Ppl who bruise easily, brood easily.

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Dr. Kate @radkat.fitzpat.com · 09/07/2026

As the late psychotherapist John Weakland famously said, “Before successful therapy, it’s the same damn thing over and over. After successful therapy, it’s one damn thing after another.” Maybe You Should Talk To Someone by Lori Gottlieb is a _really_ good book.

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Dr. Kate @radkat.fitzpat.com · 04/07/2026

xkcd.com/303 but "AI-of-my-choice is thinking!" Some things never change.

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Compiling

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Dr. Kate @radkat.fitzpat.com · 04/07/2026

TIL about Nimona 🤘🏼

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Dr. Kate @radkat.fitzpat.com · 27/06/2026

I would go to yoga more often if teachers were doing less Teaching. Maybe I should switch to pilates. No one probably talks about "energy of the summer" there.

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Dr. Kate @radkat.fitzpat.com · 25/06/2026

I am "lumbar support pillow" years old.

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Dr. Kate @radkat.fitzpat.com · 25/06/2026

I read The Wisdom of the Bullfrog: Leadership Made Simple (But Not Easy) by William H. McRaven and I’m kinda confused he chose the name “Can You Stand Before the Long Green Table?” for one of the principles because it’s a story about Billy Mitchell..

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Dr. Kate @radkat.fitzpat.com · 21/06/2026

Taking a nap with 3yo who resists the nap: ✅ All stuffies placed in the wastebasket ✅ Toys lost ✅ Furniture moved ✅ Dad napped ❌ 3yo napped

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Dr. Kate @radkat.fitzpat.com · 29/05/2026

Let's see.. x1.75 multiplayer for having three kids in six years, x2 for pandemic years, x1.5 for the political state of the world since.., well, always. Happy 30th anniversary, love!

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Dr. Kate @radkat.fitzpat.com · 27/05/2026

I would pay extra to disable all the gamification in Duolingo. I'd call it "Duolingo Min."

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Dr. Kate @radkat.fitzpat.com · 10/05/2026

Live reporting from the Mother's day experience. Waiting for my second poached egg. "Kids don't get food" today apparently. They're eating my chocolate and drinking orange juice though. I'm open to anything.

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Dr. Kate @radkat.fitzpat.com · 28/04/2026

Do I know anyone who knows Mark Rober? 6yo is seriously into CrunchLabs and visiting the place would be the best birthday present ever.

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Dr. Kate @radkat.fitzpat.com · 21/04/2026

I didn't know that complications from measles can manifest years later.. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/o...

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Opinion | Measles Took My Daughter. This Is What I Want Everyone to Know.

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Dr. Kate @radkat.fitzpat.com · 12/04/2026

FTR, I'm not Satoshi Nakamoto. (Or Adam Back, for that matter.)

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Dr. Kate @radkat.fitzpat.com · 11/04/2026

How on earth it's 10 business days to unsubscribe? What kind of eventual consistency is that?

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Dr. Kate @radkat.fitzpat.com · 08/04/2026

So, Rocky's nickname for Grace was Meaty or Fleshy? Or Squishy?

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Dr. Kate @radkat.fitzpat.com · 08/04/2026

How is it that we trust our money only with fiduciaries, our health with those who took the Hippocratic oath - but we let basically anyone into our brains? By reading and watching whatever?

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Dr. Kate @radkat.fitzpat.com · 07/04/2026

In all my years of watching Instagram reels, only one trick I use practically every day. Picked up from the Top Gear I think. Putting a key fob or garage opener to my head to amplify the signal.

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Dr. Kate @radkat.fitzpat.com · 06/04/2026

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Dr. Kate @radkat.fitzpat.com · 06/04/2026

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Dr. Kate @radkat.fitzpat.com · 05/04/2026

How I remember dressing boys in the morning: here's pants and T-shirt. How it's going with 3yo girl: we're on sixth outfit change not counting the swimsuits. Send help.

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Dr. Kate @radkat.fitzpat.com · 01/04/2026

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Dr. Kate @radkat.fitzpat.com · 29/03/2026

You (watching Bluey): awww, this is so wholesome! I wonder, who my child is going to be like, Bingo or Bluey. Reality: MUFFIN!

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Dr. Kate @radkat.fitzpat.com · 25/03/2026

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Dr. Kate @radkat.fitzpat.com · 16/03/2026

If you have one kid, you're uptight but you don't know it. If you have two kids, you're uptight but cannot do much about it. If you have 3+ kids, you don't have energy to be uptight anymore.

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Dr. Kate @radkat.fitzpat.com · 09/03/2026

Кто не курит и не пьёт, тот здоровеньким помрёт Who doesn't drink and doesn't smoke, will die healthy without a stroke #RussianProberbOfTheWeek #NoReason #HumanTranslation

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Dr. Kate @radkat.fitzpat.com · 28/02/2026

“As Milarepa, the Tibetan sage, described his life of practice: In the beginning nothing came, in the middle nothing stayed, and in the end nothing left.“

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Dr. Kate @radkat.fitzpat.com · 15/02/2026

On a plane to Hawaii during the school break: kid's voice "when are leaaaaaving" and I honestly can't say if my kid.

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