Difficult to get the hang of and rarely remain in place properly... And they leak, a lot.

FUCKING KIDDING ME would be my next name submission.

So I was born near Christmas and I have a lot of relatives who say they can't buy me presents because they have so many other Christmas presents to buy. I don't feel like I should be punished for being born on an unfortunate date (poor planning on my parents' part), for my relatives not thinking ahead far enough to…

I'm pretty pissed about this. I used to write all the time back in college, but since I graduated it's very difficult to get feedback and exist in that sort of community. Every time I give my work to friends or family for feedback I get stuff like, "It was good." "I really liked it." And that's only after I have to…

I did something very similar! I was about 4 and had been at a natural history museum with my mom, who refused to buy me some small dinosaur toys .. kind of like eraser type toys. So, I put them in my little purse when she wasn't looking. When I started playing with them at home and she asked where I got them, I…

My middle sister was like this — making up magnificent, impossible stories involving thieves and teachers and older sisters (ahem) and random stray dogs and ponies and whales and what have you doing whatever it was she had obviously done. The stories would go on and on and on for 20 or 30 minutes.

A good friend's son is about this age and such a liar. The other day he lied about something very obvious and his mom called him on it, "Julio, why are you lying to me? I was there and I know that it didn't happen." Without missing a beat, he said "Oh mommy, at school the teacher gave me rotten noodles to eat and…

Uncles and aunts and grandparents are allowed to be horribly lenient. Parents are not. It is one of the things that makes other people's kids so much fun.

Get over yourself and your judgment. All children tell stories. Toddlers don't fully understand what "truth" and "lie" is. In a year, she'll understand better. This is excellent parenting. Mom doesn't give the kiddo mixed messages. Sticks to the script.

When I was this age, I remember very clearly stealing a bag of chocolate eggs from the drugstore, and when I was in the car eating half of them, my mom asked where I got them from. My response: "They gave them to me because I'm cute." Although I was cute, she did not believe me. I had to go and tell Mr. Bill the…

"What am I looking at?" (Mom implies that she is looking at the donut evidence)

What was really cute to me was that it didn't seem to me like she was hiding the donut because she thought it would make her mom forget about it. It was because (in my view) she thought the thing that was making her mom mad was being able to SEE the donut, and she was trying to make that better. It was only when the…

So I am watching this with the sound off (in special collections right now) and the ovaries that I don't have and never had and never will have have just exploded because of the cuteness! I can only imagine what will happen when I get home and apply sound! Balls GONE!

And the fact that you can't see how precious this very normal thing is ... that's what makes you cynical. YOU are the one that has been hardened to the world. YOU are the one assuming that this mother put up this very normal video expecting to make millions, rather than just wanting to (most likely) amuse herself…

Uh, I know how toddlers are, and I still think it's completely precious because (most) toddlers are damn precious (some of the time, anyway, lol). I don't even want kids (and I'm nearly 33, so I'm pretty sure of this) and I STILL think this is damn precious.

That's an excellent approach though, teaching moderation and self-control.

When my daughter was this age, I bought some Hershey kisses for Christmas time and poured them in a bowl. If she was good for the day and attempted to eat a good amount of healthy food, I would let her have a kiss for dessert. Little did I know, she was super sneaky and found a way to get them. It was months later…

Why is no one talking about Miles? Where was Miles? Why hasn't Miles agreed to testify? What is he hiding? Did Daddy set this whole thing up?!

99% of the time I discipline straight away, but there is always that 1% that the stories they come up with and their behavior just makes it too fun to not drag it out a bit. I believe this is one of those times.

Teaching kids to talk their way out of things is a valuable skill...