My (Ohioan) Catholic school was a quarter Black, but this was in the Cleveland area. Probably not representative of most Ohio areas. But even at my diverse high school the Black kids were disciplined harsher. Also, the nuns didn’t bother to learn to distinguish between the different Black students. It really sucked.

Did they change that recently? I could have sworn that when my daughter was born 2.5 years ago, they recommended 1 year, and then more if you want. I nursed my daughter almost a year and a half, but I have no intention of going beyond a year with my 8 month old. He’s a biter.

My husband does pretty well for someone who’s never lived alone in his entire life (unless you count a dorm room). I think could probably handle most things except for the cooking. I do worry about what he and the kids would be surviving on if I died.

Remind me to thank my son when he gets older for timing his exit so that we got to drive to the hospital around 5:30 am on a Saturday, when there was no traffic.

Sure, parenting is stressful sometimes, but I’d say it’s fun more often than not. And I say this as a stay at home mother to a teething six month old and a two year old who had a melt down this morning about the fact that her socks didn’t go high enough up her leg.

Yeah, my two kids are 21.5 months apart, and if I have a third I don’t want to wait too long. I wanted my kids to be able to hang out together, to look out for one another in school, etc. Mine are a boy and a girl though, I hope it doesn’t affect how close they are.

Maybe a height/costume size thing? I’ve heard that all the princesses have to be pretty short to fit into the costumes (not sure why they don’t just make them in different sizes).

We're not vegan, but I think my toddler would be supremely happy if her diet consisted entirely of chickpeas, oranges, and peanut butter on toast. Not sure if this would be the most nutritious life style, but I don't think it would kill her either.

It's probably not the best approach, but I didn't even think about whether to have the second child, I just went ahead got pregnant when my kid was barely one year old, since I knew I wanted more than one and I don't like being pregnant so I figured I'd get it over with sooner rather than later. But, aside from the…

8 years of Catholic school. I converted to Judaism a few years ago.

The reaction is probably because rape is so common in the real world, so it touches on actual fears/memories/experiences of viewers. Those other horrible acts aren't so relevant to actual life.

First time I had sore boobs, a weird prickly tingling in my abdomen plus a kind of fullness feeling in there, a sense of smell like a blood hound, and I was nauseous before I had even missed a period. This current one I had zero symptoms until around 8 weeks in. So I guess you never know.

I got to sleep until 9 am instead of 6:30! Also got flowers, which honestly might be a first in the eight years I've known my husband. No slight meant to him, I've never held myself out as a flower kind of lady. But they were nice.

My mom's boyfriend is best friends with Bill Nye the Science Guy. We (my family and my brother's family) live in L.A., as does Mr. Nye, and they stay with him frequently whenever they're in town visiting us, including one time when they flew in for Christmas. My mom was actually late for unwrapping presents at my…

I moved to LA after many years of living in NYC, and then D.C. I love it here. People are actually freaking friendly. And not friendly in a phony overly concerned with manners way, not in a nosy intrusive way, just in a nice cool way, because everybody's in a good mood because the weather is lovely and the tacos…

I didn't hate the finale, and while I understand most of the reasons why people did, I'm actually really shocked that so many people are upset that Barney and Robin didn't end up together. Come on, guys. Really? Barney changed, but not THAT much.

This might be the first time a major death occurred on a television show I watch that I wasn't spoiled for. I've usually read the books first (Game of Thrones), or I am watching it years after it aired (The Wire), or I DVR'ed the show the night of and watched it a few days later and couldn't avoid spoilers (happened…

I hope you get to go, it's so beautiful! My siblings and I visited family there when I was a teenager and we didn't have any trouble despite looking like very obvious tourists (we're half white and pretty pale), but I'd be afraid to go without someone who wasn't really familiar with the country. All my cousins grew…

I had an ex who thought that periods were like, one drop of blood that came out during a specific timeframe once each month. I remember being on day 3 or something, and he asked me, "so, you're still waiting for it to come?" and I'm like, "no, I'm on it now." And he said, "wait, still? I thought it was just like, a…

I'm pretty sure he was having sex with female hyena then.