Part of being pro-choice is being pro CHOICE. You would have made a different choice if you were in her shoes. That doesn’t make it ok to condemn her choice. You think her not get getting an abortion is wrong. Pro-life people would think you were wrong for getting one. Being a judgmental asshole is being a judgmental…

Yes, they are. Kids sit cross legged. They’ve never known anything else, so it’s not a big deal. I know it can seem ridiculous but unlike a lot of this new safety stuff rear facing is very, very research based. A rear facing child is 75% more likely to survive an accident.

My mother lost some checked luggage in 1981 during the air traffic controllers’ strike. I was raised to believe that checking luggage was for suckers.

I teach elementary school. I have very mixed feelings about extended day programs but I’m totally on board with year round school. It will never happen. It’s too expensive. Anything that involves spending more money on education (unless that money is going to Pearson) is doomed to fail.

I had a stress dream last night that we were stuck in that. We drove up the Jersey Turnpike on Monday. My one year old is cutting molars. He is not an enjoyable travel companion.

There was also a TV movie about it last year that’s being made into a series. Jezebel and iO9 both covered the movie.

Physical sunscreen is also more work to apply so people are probably less likely to reapply. My strategy is to start with a good physical sunscreen (making me look even ore ghostly) but then reapply using a chemical sunscreen because then I actually reapply. I can’t use chemical stuff on my kid, though. It irritates…

But the Honest website lists zinc oxide as the only active ingredient so whatever they added isn’t FDA approved as an active ingredient in sunblock.

But the issue isn’t that zinc oxide (the active ingredient in Honest sunscreen) is ineffecive, it’s that Honest cut corners and didn’t use enough of it. Physical or mineral sunscreens are just as effective as chemical ones. Personally, I fewer freckles when I use the mineral stuff so I prefer that.

According the the article Jez posted on Friday they cut the amount of active ingredient they were using in half.

They’re super cute and I liked the convenience of the subscription but they aren’t any more effective than cheaper diapers. They were the best of the eco-friendly diapers we tried. Once my kid got mobile I gave up and switched to Target diapers which smell weird and sag terribly when full but are cheap and contain…

It’s a zin oxide sunscreen with 9.3% zinc oxide so it’s going to have a higher failure rate than it’s direct competitors like Badger (Zinc Oxide 18.75%) or Alba (Zinc Oxide 14.5 %, Titanium Dioxide 2.0 %). I don’t know how that compares to chemical sunscreens, though. My understanding is that physical sunscreens are…

Do you have the kind that’s 9% zinc oxide or the kind that’s 20%? I wonder if some of the people who haven’t had issues have tubes from an older batch.

The issue isn’t that it’s “hippie.” The issue is that they cut corners and didn’t use enough of their active ingredients. Zinc oxide is a very effective sunblock ingredient. Any sunscreen is going to be less effective if the manufacturer cuts the active ingredient in half.

I definitely know people who have given their daughters androgynous names for that reason but there’s a difference between Taylor/Riley/Skyler and a straight up boys’ name. I’ve known girls named Ryan and Rowan and they both hated it because it was such a PITA. Ryan actually changed the spelling of her name to Ryanne…

Maybe Pinterest has lowered my standards but I don’t think it’s that bad. It’s definitely not good but at least it’s only one font. I know a lot of women who would have used at least 3 fonts of the same announcement.

Given the available options, yes. But she’s going to spend her while life correcting paperwork when people see the name and assume she’s a boy.

Where I grew up the rich kids were the ones who didn’t go to camp. Camp was for people who needed childcare during the say. The well to-do families had stay-at-home moms.

I had a pretty good experience with them. They're narrowly cut and my kid is pretty skinny so they worked for us.

I’m an elementary school teacher with a toddler in daycare. I’ve never heard of that. Many places do require parents sign a form giving them permission to apply sunscreen but that’s generally about allergies.