Just saw this and totally agree - but you’re describing a way more balanced and reasonable approach than the parents quoted above.

I sympathize with your concern, and it’s clear you love your kid(s) but just don’t see how the level of surveillance described in the article can possibly be necessary. Almost everything that a teen texts or plans by text today, teens a generation ago said out loud or on the phone because texts didn’t exist. These…

The neighborhood of Englewood in Chicago has one of the highest rates of lead poisoning of any single neighborhood in America (bad landlords, disinvestment in infrastructure, etc.), which has been proven over and over again, and the EPA/state/local government have yet to provide any resources to clean it up. They will…

When I was little we got Kirsten when it was just the first few, and my Mom was upset that it was only white Americans, so she explained that to me and wrote a letter to the company. Coincidentally they came out with Addy the next year, and for years I was like MY MOM MADE THEM MAKE ADDY. She MADE them. And bragged to…

See how even in your fake accusations for a terrible point you can’t bear to make yourself the rape survivor, but it’s your ‘friend’? That’s why conspiracy theories of false accusations everywhere are such bs. It is not fun or easy to accuse someone of rape - you get nothing out of it, it often ruins your life, and…

Don’t redact! Still huge culpability of Anita Alvarez’s office. After repeated requests from the family they only brought the charge of recklessness, no manslaughter or first degree homicide or anything, and the judge in his dismissal of that charge specifically cited that the prosecution had not even attempted to…

My instinct is that it’s just that older mothers are more likely to actively plan pregnancies, and most less-than-18-month spacers are unplanned. Everyone I know who has babies that close together the second one was a surprise, because they thought nursing was still acting as birth control or hadn’t gotten their…

Yeah, gratitude for anything definitely needs to be a part of the picture. But with our first still baking in the uterus, I have actually been thinking about this a lot - it seems really easy to get too much stuff, but there are things I wouldn’t turn down help for. Is it unbearably tacky to be like “No presents…

When it comes to basketball and football teams at D1 schools, yes. But what is even more frightening to me is that many of the teams from which these criminal athletes come - hockey, lacrosse, etc. - in fact make no money for any school. It is *purely cultural* that their members are protected the way they are, a sign…

“If they really/want need the money, they can only eat what I think is appropriate. Easy.”

From some light googling it looks like single-embryo and double-embryo transfers are preferred, and in Europe sometimes the only legal option, because of the risks associated with multiples. It used to be you transferred a whole bunch, but the procedure is better now. You are allowed to go up for older mothers, where…

The age thing seems to me like a risk, but I try not to judge and people make things work, she may be a great parent. But any doctor who puts enough embryos in anyone having trouble conceiving that they end up with quadruplets, though, seems to me to have a high probability of being unethical. That is so hard on the…

My mom had c-sections, my friends have had c-sections, I might have one or more. They can save lives and they offer no poor reflection on the women who have them or the babies who come from them.

My mom had a successful and totally uncomplicated VBAC all the way back in 1989, after an emergency scary C the first time around - we were living in Japan at the time and it was just considered normal to give vaginal a try first. It is definitely possible! (plus, both babies were 9-10 lbs) But even if it’s another C…

MY FETUS IS A GENIUS AND/OR HAS ESP. It has been aggressively rejecting hummus, which used to be one of my favorite foods, ever since it was conceived. Like, I am forced to vomit if I so much as think about hummus.

My issue is that even within their claimed systems of verification they fail miserably. Maher, Harris, and Dawkins regularly make statements about gender, race, and religion that are straight up illogical, totally separated from the academic disciplines (‘sciences’) that study these issues extensively and from…

I am a Pastor and would not care one bit if anyone walked in to church looking like this. One or two older folks might be a little scandalized, but wouldn’t say anything to anyone but each other, and most people wouldn’t notice. In some communities appropriate church clothes and Easter clothes are still Very Much a…

Yes, but they are exclusively organized voluntarily by students, maybe teachers (different districts have different rules for how teachers are allowed to behave in this area). This was organized by the administration, advertised by the administration, promoted by the administration. Again, this particular class WAS…

You’re right, which is why (as I said) I agree with the verdict in this case. But the vibe of “How insane!!” I’m getting from the comments seems strange and out of proportion to me - there are versions of of yoga practiced in the United States that would have been inappropriate for a public school. This wasn’t one of…

Fine - replace it with Christian body-building in your mind, which is a thing, or fasting, which is both religious and potentially health-oriented. The point remains there are legal and illegal ways of doing this people are papering over - unless you believe physical activities can never under any circumstances be…