With three of my kids, they skipped a meal once in a blue moon, but mostly they ate without complaint. My fourth child has led to many nights. of wondering what will happen if the teacher or counselor finds out that my child has not eaten a single morsel of food at home (she still takes a lunch to school) in three…

Even if you don’t give in and let the kid eat pb&j or Rice Krispies, it’s still a monumental headache dealing with a kid who will not eat what you cook for dinner. I have spent the last four years saying to my daughter (who is now eight) that this is dinner and she can like it or go hungry, and it is still a fucking…

Yeah, my daughter is the same way. When she was three, I became quite smug because the only things she wouldn't eat were jelly and syrup and soda (she said the bubbles hurt her mouth). Then at four, she just...turned picky. We figured it was a phase and didn't make a big deal about. During the first year, anyway. It…

Hey, most of the women you know are having this same issue right now but with eyebrows. I spent a decade fighting with tweezers and wax and threads and now strong eyebrows are a thing. Super.

I know, see my sheepish response to my own comment. Still creepy in my opinion, because I think the whole weird tradition is creepy. And it probably smells terrible, too.

Dibs.

So on further reading, it looks like she ran up and asked for a kiss and that this actually is a gender-flip of a weird-ass Wellesley tradition? Okay then. Still creepy in my book, because it puts people on the spot, but probably not as assault-y as I had originally thought.

I feel like this is one of those “reverse the genders” situations.

Good luck, Charlie!

No, I know you were “kidding”. The joke was still creepy as fuck, just like most of your other comments. I seriously hope you find some self-awareness and peace.

There's a reason why one is legal and the other could possibly be a felony, though.

This is not a good story at all. Wrecking someone’s property and then making fun of people who ride the bus. Obviously being a domestic abuser (yeah, that's what you're describing, committing crimes against your ex) is worse than being classist as fuck, but yeah...this is not a good look.

Cheese zombie is my spirit animal. So basically your daughter and her friends are eating bits of my spirit, washed down with chocolate milk.

The kid is in the video. She’s thin. Not that that means she's healthy, of course. But that's their business as a family.

Well that doesn't sound creepy at all

This should have more stars

I definitely agree. In case I wasn’t clear, I mean that people without any mental health problems at all (usually young men) commit suicide impulsively while drunk/high at a rate that would surprise many people, not that substance use/abuse should be criteria for a diagnosis (that’s a whole ‘nother can of worms).

Most people would be shocked if they realized how often men/teen boys with no real history of mental health problems commit suicide impulsively while under the influence of alcohol or drugs.

In the last paragraph, you called Sawyer by his character’s name.

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