Lizzie fought for her parents to trust her with babysitting: once accomplished she learned a big lesson "The more responsibility I ask for, the more responsibility I get stuck with?"
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"a book store containing the works of Navajo and greek philosophers, a coffee shop where people only discuss music and politics, and a thousand foot water slide that ends at a swim up counter where they serve free deep fried pizza."
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Ayyy the McGuire's were composting in 2001, ahead of the curve
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Genius life hack from Lizzie: "I always make it a point to go along with it when teachers try to get laugh"
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In the episode Jack of All Trades, Lizzie's lil bro decides he's gonna change his name and start dressing like Snoop Dogg Instead of not allowing it, the parents cook up a scheme: they change their names too, start acting like Snoop and play into the game much to Matt's chagrin
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This eventually causes Matt to suggest everyone change back to normal when things get out of hand, and Lizzie admires their finesse: they shaped his behavior as she says "without humiliating him, and the whole time they respected his boundaries as an individual"
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This points at something really close to how I think about how we can work to make each other better, elevate each other without reducing agency, ask the right questions in earnest to empower folks to reflect and grow
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There's some dangerous territory that way when you get really good at this kind of manipulation (because it's totally manipulation, which is not inherently bad despite its memetic baggage) Lizzie refers to it as "jedi mind tricks" and she's not wrong...
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Jedi mind tricks are all cool and stuff when you're convincing someone not to smoke death sticks, but the Sith were all Jedi at some point too...
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Also something here about gathering the right Jedi around you that you can trust to play the right mind tricks on you
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