I could not stop staring at that fucking facial hair. It completely overwhelmed the entire movie. It was, and is, the only thing I recall about the film.

I just don’t understand it. Yes, this man is a loathe-some example of humanity - but the facial hair.  It’s as if the individual follicles are all fleeing in different directions. It just makes no sense.

His facial hair disturbs me. A lot. 

I’m sure that if they just ask a judge nicely if they can trot off to Mexico for a few days it shouldn’t be a problem.

I’m 50, so I am rapidly moving out of the “fuckable” category and I am not sad about it. And High five on the “mean looking”. My fellow female colleagues and I call it “Stares in Academic female” look.

Ugh. I once had two male colleagues try to get me to react as they talked about sex clubs. If I had objected I would have been a “prude who couldn’t take a joke” or “too sensitive” or a “SJW”. When they finished and got no reaction from me, I steered the conversation back to where I’d started which was to ask a pretty…

As a female academic, this is prevalent - even more so for women of color. Dare to show up a male colleague - or even (gasp) speak at a dept. meeting - and depending on the power structure in the department or University, you can be metaphorically fucked.

Right? I’m 50. I’ve never let a series of racial slurs flow and I’ve certainly been pretty drunk on several occasions throughout my adulthood. I feel the same about “Oh they are young, they didn’t know.” Fuck that. I knew and I was a teen in the 80's. My mother knew better and she was a teen in the 1960's. I never…

SO true. Whenever you see the horror stories about co-sleeping it is, without fail, an issue of an impaired adult.

I am ALL about exiting a practice or practitioner who is shaming you in any way about what you need to get through the day. My beloved Pediatric Nurse Practitioner ( who was a million times more accessible and down to earth and beloved by her families) was a fucking ROCK. I mean, I know LOTS about children, but when…

It’s funny you ask. I am not crazy about that author - but I am actually trained in the same method - RIE. I’ve been using it since 1992. My sample size ( maybe 100 total kids for whom I was the actual caregiver) is wildly successful as well. And my own kid who, despite being a hellion in many ways, is actually a…

I’m replying to my own reply, which is some meta bullshit if ever there was any.

I wouldn’t either. As a parent, and as a caregiver and teacher for other people’s children and now as a Professor, I tell my students that no one knows my child as well as I do. Now, those people may know tidbits about my child - like how do they interact with other children their age, what kind of true independence…

Ahhh Ferber. I hate Ferber with the white hot burning of a 1000 suns.

Listen. I 100% know the desperation of needing sleep. My own child did not sleep through the night until she was 10 YEARS OLD and I am a god damn PhD in child development. I had severe postpartum - like on the verge of psychosis - PPD. My lack of sleep was a part of the PPD. There is copious research on the…

Exactly. Thinking about how to “train” your newborn is one of the more horrifying concepts we have come up with. Your child is not a dog. People treat their dogs with more compassion.

Attachment Parenting is the absolute WORST. I fucking hate that shit. Talk about a plot to make moms feel like shit from the first second post delivery - and by that I mean feel MORE like shit than the rest of the god damn world.

And it is nearly ALL bullshit. I started my career in 1992 and I can not believe some of the ridiculousness that is being marketed at parents. My sister has a 6 month old son and some of the things she tells me, in terms of advice or things her mommy friends tell her? Half of my texts to her are “You don’t need that”,…

Shit. You can all pay me to talk with you. I have a PhD in Child development and 25 years experience working with young children including infants ( my actual specialty).

I am a professor of Education who teachers in a teacher education program. Upon her confirmation, a colleague said “Maybe she won’t be so bad. I’d like to give her a chance.”