No. They handle their anger very well, because somehow they manage to never have these so-called uncontrollable outbursts in front of anyone with power over them.

I have watched two women in my life die from insisting on using those “miracle cures” to treat their cancers. Both died in agony, after spending many, many weeks in unrelenting pain. I wish those snake oil peddlers would all be prosecuted.

The sleeping on their backs thing gave me so much anxiety when my son was an infant. From birth, he hated sleeping on his back. He would fuss, kick, jolt awake, and scream. I tried swaddling, but he hated that even more than he hated back-sleeping. Finally, I turned him on his stomach. The first time, he seemed to…

I live in Houston. I’m not pregnant, but I’m hoping to become pregnant in the next year or so. I’m very concerned. Houston is going to end up with Zika, from what I’ve read. So far, our cases have been from travel, but I would be very surprised if we don’t have it here by mid-summer or so. Also, I’m pushing 40. I hate…

Born Against - Half Mast.

At least, not repeatedly and without apology and sincere efforts to manage the behavior.

So people who struggle with mental illness aren’t capable of having a high level of vitriol without that mental illness? What?

Sucking it up and accepting being abused isn’t supportive. What if her friend had hit her husband? It probably would have been much less painful.

This is such co-dependent, enabling bullshit.

No. Not true. These animals are NOT domesticated. They have not been bred to live with humans the way that dogs and cats have. Dogs have been bred for centuries to have traits that make them favorable to living among humankind. These are wild creatures, period.

There is a new book out, YA fiction (of course!)— Truthwitch by Susan Dennard. I read it and immediately got a copy for my middle school classroom library. The friendship between the two young women protagonists is central to the book, taking precedence over all things romance. And it’s a healthy, non-exploitative…

Right. And I just want to mention that this particular song has made my BLACK students feel like they can approach me and inquire. And my few white students, who often feel very put upon, have an inroad into understanding that even though they are “the minority” in their individual situation at school, they are by no…

I’m not even trying to do the “damned by faint praise thing,” but I want to say that as a middle school teacher, I appreciate Macklemore. I teach 95% minority, low-income students in the inner city. They listen to all kinds of hip hop, including fluffy stuff on the radio. When “Same Love” came out, there was a…

Have you spent much time around anyone with that IQ? Saying their ability to consent to sex is “iffy” is really not an accurate statement.

Right. It's a complicated, heart-breaking issue. I teach at a K-8 campus where two children of an intellectually disabled mother attended. She should not have had those children. She actively interfered with their education until both were failing. We had to call CPS repeatedly because of things one of the children…

My son’s father, who is abusive and negligent, gets more supervised visitation time than this.

When someone has a personality disorder, it can be hard even for professionals to detect. My child was planned with a partner I loved very much and thought I knew deeply. Then it was like he had a personality transplant. In private, he became someone I couldn’t recognize. I hear similar stories from other (ex)partners…

I feel you. For me, it’s Frail and Iconoclast.

My child (age 5) is currently angry with me because I don’t believe in Santa Claus. He also finds my atheism suspect. It’s so weird. This is never how I thought it would go down.

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