Ideally you keep them rear facing for as long as possible. There are European countries where the recommendation is to wait until they’re four. 

I ate a Reese’s cup in the car today and my two year old had no idea. I love rear facing.

You can use municipal water even if it’s not fluoridated. You just have to fluoride drops at some point.

I think we can have empathy for the parents and understand they were victims too without saying that they have no culpability in what happened to their daughters.

I’m so glad his victims will be spared a trial. I can’t imagine the strength it must of taken for those two women to go the authorities in the first place.

I think if you pass out the toothbrush with candy it seems helpful, rather than judges.

Wow, Kennedy enrolled in 1936. It was literally current events. I guess we should never underestimate the power of a privilege bubble.

I grew up in Roslindale. People were moving there because they couldn’t afford JP over 20 years ago.

Many women stay home because they make less than childcare costs. I think upper middle class women who choose to be SAHMs actually make up the minority of SAHMs.

I think it’s more common when the kids are tiny. People chill out a bit as the kids age. I’ve definitely seen a bunch of it (my kid is two) but it’s more about attachment parenting vs not and breastfeeding hardliners. But as a teacher I don’t see it at school.

I wish my job were unionized pretty much everyday. I’d love to be firing off an email to my union rep right instead of trying to figure out if it’s better to let them rescind my maternity leave and not get fired. Or fight it and not let them get away with it but need a new job after said maternity leave.

Do people associate apple season with the south? Apple season in the New England (where we have fall) is still chugging along.

The northeast is having a terrible fruit season because it was so dry.

Ah! I was about to tell you that we’re almost certainly mistaken. The American arm of the Catholic hierarchy is very conservative and generally kind of evil.

I find Clinton’s stance on charter schools to be the most naive, ill-informed, and problematic part of her platform. Her statements clearly demonstrate a very shallow understanding of the state of public education in this country.

My statements are true. You don’t have to like them. You don’t have to feel they apply to your school but nationally, statistically, they are. The privatization of schools is no less problematic than the privatization of our prisons. I work at a “good” charter school, too. It doesn’t mean that charter schools as an…

Charter school, essentially a private school funded with public money. Charter schools are notorious for being more segregated than public schools which given how segregated public schools are is really saying something.

The topic is fascinating and the author is very passionate but it was unreadable. I couldn’t finish it even though not finishing a book hurts my soul a little bit.

It would be something that every student automatically paid.

Plenty of places do it. The state school I went to currently charges $970 for tuition and $8,305 in mandatory fees. I agree it’s absurd but it’s hardly unprecedented.