My mom went to pick up my kid at the in-home daycare, and found the sitter asleep on the couch while my kid wandered around crying. She was able to walk in because the front door was unlocked. Also, the front door on the inside was a handle-style knob that my son could have easily opened. I still get ragey when I…

Honestly, I don't feel bad for the nanny. But you're right that people will blame the mother for not properly vetting someone who watched her kid for less than four hours. I have a bad babysitter story, too, and I feel for this woman. It's hard for a new parent to know where the line is between diligence and paranoia…

HOW'D YOU GET A COPY OF MY SCREENPLAY?!?!

I was coming here to say this! Dr. S sounds like a riot.

This! The punishment has to make sense regarding the crime. If you miss curfew, you have to come home early from now on (if you miss a deadline at work, your boss makes you complete tasks well ahead of time). If you don't complete your chores, you don't get money to go to the movies this weekend. Etc.

I'm so glad to see all of these sorts of comments. Sometimes it seems like positive parenting gets drowned out by the yelling of "kids are out of control these days because hippie-dippie parents don't discipline them propertly!"

If it makes you feel any better, my husband is a car salesman and he has, more than once, talked people out of expensive/high maintenence cars when they really couldn't afford them (even when it means a smaller commission). Oh, and he's one of the top salesmen at his dealership. #oneofthegoodones

This. When it's just a food thing, that's fine (I have certain foods I like and dislike, too!) but when it's indicative of greater attitudes it's another. My ex would declare he "doesn't eat anything green" and turn his nose up at anything that sounded "healthy" (like turkey burgers) or ethnic. It was very much a…

Yeah, I recognize that it's really probably a lot less "look at me" than a lot of other things on social media, and I get wanting some photos to remember when you're pregnant, but the over-the-top staged pregnancy portraits just strike me as odd.

My 2yo was upset last night because it was really windy and leaves were falling off the trees. He kept yelling at me to fix them. When I told him I couldn't, he started bawling.

You're really going to hate http://www.reasonsmysoniscrying.com/

One of my friends posted a bunch of "sexy" pregnancy photos...

I seriously feel like little kids don't process pain the way adults do. Like, I stub my toe or something, I bitch about it for the rest of the day. My toddler stubs his toe, he howls for ten seconds and then acts like nothing happened. I've seen that kid take some pretty epic falls - once, we were playing with the…

Literally every single feminist woman I know is obsessed with ModCloth (myself included)

At one place where I worked, one of the managers got the brilliant idea to cut the dishwasher a few hours early when it slowed down, assuming the servers could just do the dishes when they had downtime.

Yeah, this. I wonder how many people who talk about the servers they know who "make bank" are referring to the 2-3 times that person came home gleeful because they had a really good shift (around the holiday season, got lucky with a party of big spenders, etc) and conveniently forget the Saturday nights where you're…

Not to mention, raising the minimum wage does not necessarily mean that suddenly fine dining servers and greasy spoon servers will necessarily be making the same. If we give market forces some credit, then it would stand to reason that the owners of these fine dining establishments, wanting to attract a higher level…

I was really surprised at how much I liked the lettuce wraps.

A couple. Like, my work email is my first initial and maiden last name, and I'd have to submit documents proving its been legally changed to change it. And generally people tend to call me by my maiden last name. But I don't worry about it much, tbh.

I think people are concerned that if the kid has a different last name than the father, it suggests you a slutty slut who had a child out of wedlock. Which would be terrible.