YES. Ugh, I get so many christian parenting and mormon wife pins picked for me. I'm an atheist mom, and while I do stay home with my kids, I have zero desire to submit to my husband or create elaborate bible studies.

I was recently diagnosed bipolar 2 and I wouldn't wish this illness on anyone. Lithium works reasonably well, but makes me pee constantly and sometimes makes me dizzy. Seraquel slows me down and stops the voices, but makes me feel slow and tired all the time, makes me gain weight, and it feels like I have a perpetual…

I can't see the picture because of greyness, but 7 year olds are into stationary/ art stuff a lot of the time :)

I know this one! My daughter just turned 8. This is the age when gift cards start to be cool- getting to pick your own thing is always nice. $20 to Target goes far in the toy department. Or, if she reads you can ask for some ideas about he reading level. They have a junior Nancy Drew book set out that all the second…

AHHHH!!! This lady makes me want to tear my hair out. I wish I couldn't relate.

Opiate of the masses, indeed!

I was offended by their stance on waves. I have wavy hair! It used to be curly but after two pregnancies it totally uncurled into waves. I can wash it and let it air dry and it looks like Veronica Lake. I consider it to be my blessing in life after having frizzy, untamed curly hair for so long. Fuck the wave hate!

Yeah I tried Spanx and felt like an overstuffed sausage. Plus, it gave me body acne I never had before because it's tight, friction, and sweat all day long. Not worth it.

Middle of the day meetings?! That is not cool at all. You shouldn't feel bad. Ours are at 7, with free childcare and pizza. Because people work and stuff.

Preach! I'm the PTA VP and our group is doing everything all the time. I totally understand that some parents really can't swing the time commitment, and if I know they write a check instead or donate supplies from their business or something, we're cool. We do what we can.

Let me join you in this club.

This made me laugh so hard! Now I'm going to will myself to believe that they ARE the same people.

Add me to that list. Same story. My daughter will be 8 tomorrow- her biodad who begged me to have her hasn't seen her in 6 years, and never paid child support.

Learning about catastrophizing in CBT was maybe the most helpful part for me :) I think someone should have given me a degree in it by now. My poor therapist has said more times than I can count, "okay, maybe that horrible outcome is potentially possible- but what is the more likely outcome here?'

Trollhunter was great!

Have you tried some basic sign language? My kids both started just losing it around 2 and having some basic signs to help get those thoughts and feelings out when the language wasn't there yet made a huge difference.

I am so, so sorry that you had to go through that loss.

That shirt is so shiny. I can't look away.

I totally relate to wondering if your relationship can survive the really intense parenting time. My youngest is 3 1/2, and the past two or three years felt impossible. We talked about divorce a few times and it felt like even if we were two reasonable people who loved each other, maybe we just couldn't weather the…

Yes. When you hear "I'm so ready to settle down" like that, so early into meeting someone- run for the damn hills. I didn't learn this lesson right away- I met a guy who threw that line at me probably first/ second date and assumed he was just being mega honest. He then impregnanted me after a few months of dating and…