Eagle Scout, Assistant Scoutmaster, and merit badge instructor here: This is fine.

Honestly, Scouting needs to be more inclusive if it wants to survive. The Mormon Church was unofficially running the show for a long time (hence the shitty track record towards the LGBTQ+ community), and only recently announced they…

I get your point, but it is well documented that doctors’ decisions to subject someone to a c-section are not solely based on a clear medical need and there are other things in play that factor into that decision (including the doctor’s preferences, the amount of time he or she wishes to devote to a patient, and…

I sent this article to my cousin, who is an OB. She says the doctor did the right thing (though maybe needs to work on bedside manner). According to her, any signs of fetal distress is enough to move for that emergency c section- apparent tanking heart rate is one of the last things that show- the damage may be…

The second article mentions that a home visitor taught the parent how to love her baby, and as a home visitor, this is a very accurate description of our work. I work with my state’s MIECHV (mick-vee) program, which stands for Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting. In some states, MIECHV works with a…

I hate just ‘adopt.’ Every child up for adoption has experienced trauma. I have friends who’ve gone through it and it is utter agony-even when it’s straightforward. Also, there’s fewer kids up for adoption than people think.

My experiences with child protective services have been horrific.

I totally support the FDA here. GTFO with adding imaginary ingredients to official labeling, even if you’re just trying to be cute.

I mean, we get it and all. A good 99.999% of all your energy is to keeping this little person hell bent on hurting themselves from doing just that. And then your boss wants 85% of your waking energy too, which means you have negative energy left over to do much of anything else. I don’t even have issue with my friends…

THANK YOU. Adoption happens to be our family’s first choice and it is a minefield.

Girl, I am with you. Talk and let it be known!

My sister and I are 22 years apart. People like to joke about it. Oh, you’re an oops baby! Ha, your mom must’ve been empty nesting.

“Frances McDormand is here. Frances, can I just say, I love you. You are the only person in this room that I would save in a fire.” -Amy Poehler, speaking for me. 

I got more ‘Dollar Store Nicholas Hoult’ out of it.

I’m really disappointed that so many people commenting on this post just want to vent on this guy for being an idiot on gun control for so long. Yes, he was stupid, now he wants to change for the better. Any positive change, whether civil rights, women’s suffrage, LGBT rights etc. has required people who were wrong to…

Actually, this was my question! I like my old-school crock pot for good old slow cooking, but I keep hearing about this gizmo. Is it worth getting if I already have a reliable slow cooker for my slow-cookery needs?

Actually, this was my question! I like my old-school crock pot for good old slow cooking, but I keep hearing about…

thank-you for saying this. As a doctor when I hear someone say the flu shot “gave them the flu” I want to scream. I tell them that if you had the flu and were able to do more than lie in bed and cry for your momma then it was probably a cold. I constantly tell staff to never call anything “a flu” unless it’s proven,…

Having a husband that has Cystic Fibrosis / double lung transplant person on immuno suppressants for the rest of his life and can be put into the ICU from even just getting a cold, I am a firm believer in getting the flu shot. As a person working in healthcare, I assure you its medically impossible to “get the flu”…

The Kit Harrington story is rather sweet.

didn’t she sign the divorce papers giving her like, almost no alimony or something? (because she was too dim to realize how much living in an apartment in LA actually costs?)

The best explanation I heard was this. So many of these guys are the basement dwelling stereotypes you read about, the ones who can’t get a date. They’ve convinced themselves that it’s because they like comics and SF and fantasy and nerdy things that girls don’t get. Now, with more and more women becoming fans and…