In our house it's less about punishment and more about restitution. My daughter is a very well behaved, smart kid anyway- I think I just got lucky with her mostly. If my daughter breaks a major rule, we talk about why the rule is in place and who might be hurt/ upset by the rule breaking. If she's upset, she gets 10…

You can be good in some ways and abusive in others. My mom also played candy land and asked how I slept. She also hit and spanked, screamed and... eventually started spitting on me. It escalates. You know what? I barely register all that candy land as an adult. The abuse is what they will remember. Your kids wont…

That is not good parenting. I totally understand the frustration, but you are handling this wrong. If you hit your child while telling them not to hit, you are being hypocritical. They will learn that hitting DOES work, because you use it on them. They will also be more likely to accept an abusive relationship as…

I have the green suit and I love it. My donut-loving tummy looks contained, my boobs don't fall out, and it makes my butt look pretty good. Worth the money!

In addition to being an abhorrent jackass who should burn forever... he has really bad hair. Really fucking bad.

I can see that, too. When I was diagnosed with Bipolar disorder I asked my husband to divorce me. I just didn't want him to be stuck with a crazy lady. Since he's a good guy, he refused and made a beautiful painting to put by my bed that says "you are not a burden."

This is great! Our school district finally included Chinese New Year on our calendar, since like 75% of the students are Chinese and won't show up to school on Chinese New Year. I can't believe how long it took them to acknowledge that this is a major holiday.

I've only maintained one post- breakup friendship. He and I were good friends for a long time, then we started having drunk sex, then he proposed and I said nope, and then I got married/ he got married and we're friends. Otherwise, no way. I'm just bad at being a good friend anyway, so after seeing them naked/behaving…

That sounds like a delightful life though! Cardigans forever.

The benefits of marriage- tax breaks and extra cat allotments.

Oh yeah, it's insane here. My husband works for Google and we make embarrassingly good money, but it still only gets us a 2 bedroom apartment and we're solidly middle class here. We're lucky.

$2250 for my 2 bed/ 1 bath apartment just outside SF. Shared garage, no yard.

I want to give a standing ovation to Steve Carell and to you, for the telling of this story. I woke up kind of depressed, and this is just so nice. Like sunshine on my face.

I'm so sorry for your loss. :(

My whole family (except for one cool aunt in Santa Cruz) are like this woman's family. You're exactly right- cut them off. It's never going to get better and they can drag out childhood "wrongs" for a lifetime. My dad sexually abusing me for years as a kid? That was totally me wanting attention and trying to make my…

Huh, and I was just thinking of getting one. I hate having my phone on me. Phone calls give me panic attacks, so using my phone for anything other than phone calls I really have to make is just not going to happen.

Calla. Is this because I went with honesty and admitted to being "mom sexy"? What is Target sexy even?

I want to high five you for this. Perfection!

My husband and I met in early June, got engaged at the end of September, married in January. We have two kids, 4 cats, and are totally happily married.

That's it, I'm making a board!