You sound like a fun person to talk to at parties.

Hi, Pediatrician here! (though I’m no Harvey Karp)

There’s only one correct way to parent, and that’s MY way.

I remember when that photo was first posted and the first couple of comments were nice and supportive. I thought the pic was cute and a good idea, but didn’t think much else about it. Then I checked back in later on to read some more comments and my mouth hit the (filthy) floor. Wow, that got out of hand fast!

Well yeah, sure, the author should just become a shut-in until her kid turns 18 then I guess.

How about we all just live two doors down from our families so there’s no travel necessary? Or none of our children get to know their cousins / grandparents / parents’ places of origin? How about nobody gets to bring home their recently adopted kids because you can’t fly with them? I’m all for flights that are more…

Seriously, you don’t want to hear a crying child on a plane, wear some sound isolating head phones.
As for the seat kicking. That only annoys me when the parents dont even make an attempt to have their child to not do that. If the parents are trying, there is not much you can do. Children are children. (My last flight…

*Technically* don’t you stow your extra belongings in the seat in front of you? So technically she’s not using your space. It’s her space. But with a kid instead of a laptop.

No, it’s real.

Well said. But there’s also something about the conservative Christian response that bugs me. ALOT. They act like men are thinking about sex & rape ALL. THE. TIME. They act like all men would molest/rape if they knew they could get away with it. One of the Duggar in laws seemed to imply that all men would have done…

I grew up in SA, that whole town has no sense of humor. Also we will not have any teachers left if we keep trying to police their private lives. If the teacher had these posted around the classroom, ok you can object. They’re on an Internet account not affiliated with the school? Then sit down and shut the fuck up.

When I taught, I got called into the office when a parent caught me buying beer and tampons at the grocery store.

I firmly believe that all Back-to-School nights should feature at least one ritualistic slaying of a busy-body parent to set an example to the rest of them that they can fuck right the hell on off and stop thinking that public schools are your personal daycares for your kids.

I am a parent. My kid has teachers. If I were snooping around on any of their social media pages and saw this, I would laugh hysterically and make a note to myself to up my end-of-school teacher gift game. I cannot imagine what it must be like to have to manage other people’s children all day long.

as they’re “still in the process of getting in contact with the parent who saw the posts.”

If a PINTEREST page is the biggest worry for your child’s education, you’ve got a great fucking school system.

Ah ok, so teachers don’t have to put up with enough, let’s also take away their freedom to have a goddamn sense of humor about their jobs.

I know people love to hate on cops, and for some legitimate reasons, but it’s cases like this that are a reminder of the horrors they have to deal with sometimes. I can’t even imagine what the responding officer(s) in this case must have felt as they came upon this scene. I would be haunted for life.