Really? We all complain from time to time, but I don't know anyone who actually regrets having them or would tell someone else not to. I'm not 100% overjoyed by my kids every moment of every day but just thinking about not having them makes me well up. On the days they are particularly irritating or exhausting my…

Just curious and don't want to assume, but are those parents with more than one kid? My son is an only child (and a handful), but I feel like I would probably be more inclined to make that type of comment if I had two kids or more. In my experience with families I know, the parenting stress level just goes up…

I hear it occasionally. I think what really gets a lot of parents is the repetitiveness of dealing with kids, and how constant and endless it is, topped with worry. You do the same things, especially when they're little: change diaper, feed, burp, put to sleep, play with baby, take to toilet, read same bedtime story…

I think it's difficult for most people to admit their ignorance the way that Kim Kardashian has with regard to racism. I don't understand the instinct to mock someone for this. Thinking that these issues are everyone else's problem is not actually that uncommon, especially for this generation. So good for her for…

Here's Jon Hamm holding a snow leopard, for the greater good:

Whenever I do something embarrassing I try to laugh and play it off, not just because I don't want people to laugh at me first but because I think it makes a big difference in how I remember the incident. I have found that in situations where I do something totally clumsy or put my foot in my mouth accidentally and…

Oh god this is me. I remember pretty much every embarrassing/shameful thing that's happened to me since I was 5. And sometimes it takes quite a lot of energy to keep it at bay. And I have a VERY well developed sense of shame. So even little embarrassing things haunt me.

I cried myself to sleep three months ago when my twenty two year old cat died...Tiger was a legend, the quintessential neighborhood cat. Would walk right into a neighbor's house and eat from their dog's bowl. He was mourned by all, the vet was tearing up when he gracefully pounced onto the table, looked her in the…

You stay with your pet when he or she is being euthanized. I don't care that it is "too hard" for you. You suck it up, hold your pet, give kisses, and stay until the very end. Then you go to the beach and scream for as long as it takes. You do not leave your pet behind to be euthanized alone. Period. (Also, this vet…

that "client" was actually the doctor himself calling with the bane mask on.

So much left out.

As someone who has given birth naturally (well, with a few happy drugs), I wouldn't have wanted a C-section, no matter how it avoided discomfort at the time. Recovery from childbirth is bad enough (stitches down there — uh, ouch) but recovering from massive surgery - going through all stomach muscles, the uterus,…

Nutella or genital warts...that's almost worse than the classic Eddie Izzard proposition!

Having taught and brought up teenagers, it honestly looks to me more like a really angry boy wrote this.

The laws of time are rewritten for pushing.

You'll be feeling a lot better really soon, I bet. I remember being in my doc's office complaining about my nausea and then two days later it just disappeared. Gone! I was blown away. I did go back to the gym eventually but I also enjoyed walking and prenatal yoga classes too. Stay hydrated...dehydration makes the…

I used to go to a weights class once a week and had really progressed on the amount I could lift. I really want to get back to it...though probably with slightly lower weights than before.

Here is my problem with the friends with kids question. I have lots of single girlfriends in the same situation, do not want kids ever, etc. and I totally get that. At the same time, when a person starts a family, typically (and rightfully) that family does become their #1 priority. I've lost a few friends who became…

In my experience it didn't happen that way but rather the reverse. Once I had a baby and suddenly 8pm drinkies out and about weren't an option, I worked hard to find alternatives - weekend catchups, lunches where I'd come to them, dinners at our place. Some single friends (and those without kids) were amazing and…

Soooo glad Jezebel (finally) found someone that gives awesome advice. Especially the first one...I've been having similar issues with a friend who said something unacceptable about a family member of mine after they passed away, and sometimes it's hard to remember that it's ok to keep the people who upset us out of…