Your prenatal care provider would have noticed if your kid was 14lbs by now, don’t worry. And heck, me and my midwife were expecting my baby to be at least 9lbs — she came out just 7,7.

My mom used to work in her practice. Dean’s wife is awesome , their relationship is awesome (he would call the office and ask for, “the WONDERFUL Dr. Schull”), and the way they support each other despite two very different and very demanding careers is kinda’ aspirational for me.

THIiS. Thank you for being the first to point out that we actually have real political demands that will not be acknowledged under Hillary.

Not to mention the disgusting, raw-sewage polluted water the athletes will have to swim in, the incomplete infrastructure, the human rights abuses.... Ugh.

Thank you so much for this thoughtful response! I’m getting my masters in Special Education, and I have been thinking about what kind of supports I might provide to a teen student who is disabled by a car wreck or sports injury. And one thing that matters a lot is having role models who can help show a teen in that…

No, because that is Deaf culture.

OMG I answered my own question. There’s a whole subreddit for it (of course): https://www.reddit.com/r/happytrees

I’v can wee always wondered what the paintings made by Bob Ross students/viewers actually look like. Did you actually follow along as he painted? Can we see one of your happy trees?

Ugh, what an out of touch, casual response to such tragic events.

There are instances where the whole “wear a color” thing can be a kick-off to REAL change. Kids at the middle school where I worked arranged a “wear purple to support LGBTQ youth” day, and that was kind of nice — lots of kids and teachers wearing…

I wore one once, for leukemia, at the request of the parents of a 13-year-old student who was battling cancer (he recovered). It was nice for him to see a whole team of students and teachers wearing bracelets, and knowing we’d been thinking of him while he was in the hospital for 4 months.

But if anyone asked me to…

This story is delightful!

“Dick snorkel” could only be a snorkel made out of a penis. No thank you.

Classifying workers as contractors is also really common. A contractor is defined as a worker whose duties are nonessential to the business’ success — cleaning staff and maintainence/repair workers are examples of legit contractors. But plenty of companies use the label to avoid paying overtime, liability insurance,…

I put it in my smoothies. I just prefer a sweet breakfast so I hide the spinach from my tastebuds.

Oh man, that sucks for that girl!

Honestly, I don’t give a damn about the gorilla. That one gorilla was not the key to saving his species. He was never going to return to the wild. He was just an animal, and he was a danger to an innocent child. Why would anyone value a gorilla over a 4-year-old human being?

I'm pretty sure that Ron Swanson would be unbearable if he were real, too.

My god, you’re so strong to have gotten out of that relationship. I can only imagine how hard and terrifying that was. ::Internet hugs::

I think it’s a southern thing. All my coworkers called our students “baby” as a general term of endearment. We taught middle school.

I’m pleasantly surprised that this prediction isn’t coming true.