They needed a study for this? I thought it was a fairly established approach to parenting. We sleep trained ToddlerTarheelBuckeye and have enjoyed a regular bedtime since he was a few months old. It's the best thing we ever did for our child and ourselves-we have guaranteed time each night to relax and he has an…

I have a serious addiction, and seems like Julep would be an enabler. My collection is already overflowing the case. Is it really worth it?

What a girl!!! And what a parent!!!! And a grandparent!!! Sounds like three generations of awesome there!
I've used up my exclamation quota for the day.

Sounds like she is a real argument for nature over nurture! And so is the awful mom in the original post!

Most telling, beautiful part: he is taking him to raise. He's putting his money and effort into making sure his grandson's needs are met. Even if the kid turn 18 soon, the commitment to step in and be a parental figure when someone else acted like such a fuckwad is just.... Fabulous. Bless him and keep him.

So when can we expect your parenting book on the shelves? Clearly you have more sense than most of the authors writing today...

So, I did that, but I'm in a crazy conservative state, and it's really rage inducing and I'm having trouble controlling myself. Any guidance on the line where telling a representative or senator to get his head out of his ass crosses over to being something that can get me arrested? Mark Sanford is next on my call…

Ahem...top name of the 80s AND 90s weighing in here.... Every where I go, there is another Jessica. It's.... Really no big deal at this point but it sucked when I was younger. I went with Brock Garrett for ToddlerTarheelBuckeye. Familiar, but Brock isn't super popular.

I love that movie. And the hair!!! It was awesome.

Ha, if I didn't know the couple, I would think it was an urban legend. I'm sure the story got tons of traction-how often do you hear/see something like that?

After reading this article, I immediately went to my Facebook, where the majority of my friends are from ETN. I am proud to say that there was not one racist comment disparaging Nina's heritage, assumed religion, or talent. Weeding Facebook works!

Except that since she's an uber-conservative right wing religious nut....

I don't think they've made it mandatory yet. I'm pretty much a Republican nightmare, as much as a straight white high earner can be, but so far no one has come for my ovaries. If we don't get our social issues straight, they will just make laws that don't allow me to act like a "man."

I love Poo-pourri. It's not embarrassment, but I think not sharing your odor is courteous, and it encapsulates the stench very well. I bought it for my niece when she left for college as part of a survival kit, and she and her roommate loved it. That being said, you have to read the directions. You use it BEFORE you…

I have a close friend who is married to a guy who can only poop naked. He always wanted to go home to poop so he could strip and read Sports Illustrated to his heart's content. One time, and I won't tell the whole story here, but he ended up needing to poop on the beltway in Baltimore rush hour traffic. What happened…

This is interesting, although the focus on weight will be a difficult topic. I hope they don't do weigh ins, measurements, or chart their "progress" throughout the show. If its approached with the mindset that Fact: these are big girls; Fact: these are dancers; Fact: the best dancer wins; then I could be down. And…

ToddlerTarheelBuckeye came home from daycare with fingernail marks dug into his skin a few months ago. Obviously, we yanked him out of his daycare, got him into a new, much better one, after 6 weeks at home, and he's sleeping through the night again and seems to have forgotten the whole thing. He wasn't able to tell…

That is pretty adorable.

I loved meeting people online-my confidante/sounding boardfor years was a guy I met on MySpace (shut up I'm old-also it was mutual. he was not friendzoned.) We were 90 miles apart but tried to hang out several times a year. I ended up becoming friends with a lot of his friends and they became another part of my social…

MrBuckeye took ToddlerTarheelBuckeye on a long road trip when he was three months old. We had moved, cuz my heathen self had one of those awful jobs and got offered a promotion while 9mos pregnant, and he hasn't gone back to work. He packed 10 days worth of frozen breast milk and drove from SC to TN then up to OH.…