Whenever there is a post that talks about smart children, commenters immediately come out to lament about the burdens of being gifted, and the weight of the expectations loaded upon these special and smartest snowflakes. Don’t live my struggle, they stoicly request. I’m no hero, they whisper to the apathetic masses.…

I actually really like the phrase “put on going-outside” and I’m going to use it now, because it’s not just clothes, it’s the whole attitude of going-outside that’s hard to muster.

Right? Diaper changes, NBD. Sleep deprivation for six months or more? Torture.

Your evidence is compelling. However, as the mother of a 20 month old, I remain unconvinced. More research must be done.

Yeah. A smart baby would hear the capital C!

Not the smartest but definitely the most edible.

I dunno - a friend of mine was recently showing off her kid’s smarts and asked her to show me the cups.

I bet Ariana Grande knows China is a country...maybe she’s the world’s smartest baby.

Me (to my 2 year old): “you’re wonderful”

I knew a guy whose dad had him at 60 odd. He was about 25 and had had to move back home to take care of his divorced father in his declining years. Now that many people live well into their 90s he may have had another decade as a carer (and full time worker) in front of him. Fun, fun, fun.

LOL. I don’t know who you think you’re talking to. Quit confusing every woman with the one who dumped you.

Well, 100% of marriages end in divorce or death.

I get that logic, but being married does not automatically mean one person will not be fuck over the other person. If I were married to my ex and in the same situation (having signed a month to month lease on a house owned by his mother, at his urging but also with his support and promise that we’d live there happily…

Oh boohoo. You bought into gender essentialism just as much as she did. But rather than re-examine how society’s standards are detrimental for men and women you’d rather blame your wife and women in general. Why is that?

Holy fuck. I have my own baggage around women and dating, but this guy takes the cake. Either he’s a troll or fucked in the head.

It looks like she is looking for someone in her own age range, while the guys in her age range are looking for significantly younger women. Honestly, it seems like the age range most guys online go for gets set at about 23 and doesn’t change til they hit 45 or so.

The women of the world are grateful that you have chosen to stop bothering us.

“Women all turn into your mother after 3 years.”

Wait, do they all turn into my mother, or your mother? Or the mother of whoever they are dating that time? Seems like outcomes could be radically different depending on the answer to that question (and what kind of mother the dude in question has).

Whether it was a man or a woman doing this, it’s incredibly unfair to the children.

Agreed. I give doctors serious sideeye for enabling these decisions.