Thank you so much for sharing this and saying this. I live in a fairly crunch-granola neighborhood and several families don’t vaccinate. Which means even if I like the people, my baby can’t be around their children. I cannot have another baby—my daughter was surrogate born and even with an altruistic surrogate we can…

I dare because my parents dared to love me, their autistic child, as I am. I’m now a successful ASD adult.

I think it’s probably human to feel that at some point. But part of being a parent to ANY child is being able to love them because of and in spite of their strengths and weaknesses, being able to support them and make them feel secure as they grow up, and give them the tools they need to be a decent person and have a…

You should be loyal because it is your flesh and blood. When you have a child with special needs it’s not enough to be their parent, you have to be their champion, like it or not. And, incredibly, sometimes even regular kids don’t turn out perfect. When you sign up to be a parent you take the good with the bad because…

Like, isn’t it insulting to say that you’d rather your child possibly die than have autism?

As a mom of a child with autism I find it mind-boggling that parents of non neurotypical kids jump on the anti-vax wagon. Because the message of the whole movement is: “It’s better to risk the life of your child than to wind up with one with autism”. It’s so unbelievably disloyal to your children. My son is perfect…

No-one has suggested your father did not make sacrifices or do good things, but he was exempted from a requirement to fight in a war. You seem to believe both that the requirement to fight placed on others and your father’s exception were/would be acceptable. Frankly I have more of a problem with the first of those…

I believe that the right to refuse to serve is a fundamental human right.

No one was. However, the largest feminist organization in the US, NOW has been arguing for equal treatment in selective service since the seventies.

I’m in favour of abolishing the draft entirely.

They really do.

Peeking quickly at my muffin tin. Wow! That would be a small serving even for a toddler. I suppose you could take a couple of those along though

Tell me about it....as I look at my cat snoozing on the chair.

This is just silly. If you set aside $2 a month for two years, then you were effectively paying the full rate. So now, at last, you get the two year discount that you should’ve taken two years ago.

The fact that Hercules and Delia are cheesing is the least of it.

People think anything having to do with kids/education is easy. How hard can a children’s book be? It’s for kids! Write two pages, draw something, done!

I am sure some slaves did take pleasure in their master’s happiness. If Stockholm Syndrome can happen to people who have only been captive for a short time, how much worse would it be for someone who was born into captivity? Someone who might even be the child or sibling of their master as well as a slave? It is…

A slave who smiles at his child or looks happily at a blue sky is a different thing from “the only thing that put a smile on Hercules’ face was when Lady Washington walked into the kitchen” (approximate quote). The book shows slaves taking pleasure in their masters’ happiness as if that was their purpose in life. It’s…

Comments like these blithely assume that all people consider slavery inuversally terrible, and a deeply shameful part of American history, but this isn’t the reality at all. There are politicians who talk about the good that slavery did for black people and black families (!!!), and George Washington in particular is…

I also write about food and culture and have written a children’s book. While it’s not uncommon for people to try new genres and styles that might be out of their depth (I do not consider myself a kid’s author), Scholastic and the editor should have known better. I appreciate the author’s attempt, and I don’t think…