Don’t worry, soon we’ll be forced into lady-skirt-uniforms to go out of the house so all our mens know we’re actually *ladies*. Sorry, the Elisabeth Moss article had me thinking about A Handmaid’s Tale too much.

I saw this news and got so excited that my chest hurt.

I lol-ed.

THIS! my son is 10, but he is special needs. he CAN’T go to the bathroom by himself. he can’t even be in the fucking stall by himself because he needs help. so i take him in the ladies rooms with me and my 2 daughters.

Thank you! I keep thinking, “you know, you had a TON of help when i was a kid to get to work, and do the farm, and renovate the house we moved into.”

she’s already on mostly unscented stuff (sensitive skin); but that’s a good thought! though, you are assuming my kids like to shower enough that they do it often! ;)

thanks. i do try hard, but man; there is a reason we didn’t have any more kids. 3 is more than enough, especially with a special needs child. most nights lately i just collapse onto the couch. but they are seriously such cool, cool kids. i’m a lucky ma.

i can’t blame her 100%. i feel like, a lot of the time, people are products of their surroundings. she’s getting older, she has regrets, and she’s been hardened by 30 years of shitty factory work. she loves my kids, but she is a truly misguided and manipulative person with her affection.

mine has been a “ma” but usually a “mother”. my oldest is not biologically mine, she calls her bio mom (abandoned them multiple times and is currently in jail and sends us 10 page letters about how jesus will save us) by her first name.

i had them starting at about 7 too and have never been able to get anything figured out for them. i don’t want to stick her on daily beta blockers starting so young; but it’s that terrible feeling of holding your kid when she’s a week and a half into a headache and don’t know how to stop it.

it’s like, i feel half bad about not talking to her, because i know it hurts her, but it’s been so great not having to deal with her.
she wasn’t always such a hurtful person. i partly blame the factory that she’s worked in for about 30 years, but she’s always been great at playing “the martyr”.

thank you! it’s so hard for kids to be in pain, especially so young, they can’t really articulate what, exactly is the problem.
i started getting debilitating daily headaches in 1st grade (daughter’s age) and nobody believed me, so i’m trying hard to be her advocate.

Wow, thank you. I’m trying; it’s just maddening. So glad you had an amazing mom!

Oh wow, yeah, I should have read that closer!:/

This was exactly my thought too! “Alan Cumming nude scene? Where do I find this??”

“You’re a bad parent, you’re the reason you child is sick.” Literally just heard these words from my mother two weeks ago as she yelled at me on the phone after I had already asked her to stop bc I’d had a very stressful week trying to figure out why my child has migraines. In addition to a huge week at work, and the…

Paul is the literal worst. I was a theology major in college and somehow landed a job teaching religious ed to kids at a church, programming k-12 and counseling. The counseling part was great because then I could actually guide kids and help them out, but the ed part was soooo much stricter and literal than I was…

yep. like two empty capri sun pouches.

i ruined my step-daughter in this manner. i thought she knew. she WINKED at me in regards to santa, fer christsake! and so i said something that totally spilled the beans and gave her an existential crisis meltdown in the the mudslide of santa-easter bunny-tooth fairy- all other made up things that followed. :/

i have been wanting to sign up for adult dance classes!