I wouldn’t use the Wal-Mart/Target brand but they do sell others that I would use. It’s also a convenience factor. There have been times I’ve been grateful both exist when I’m traveling because I know they carry brands I use. It would suck to be traveling, realize I forgot shampoo, and not have the ease of going to…

I can’t get over how this is just NOW happening. I can’t remember if I read it or heard it over a podcast but I recently I learned that stores like Wal-Mart and Target haven’t always carried hair products for African-Americans; apparently they just started selling them nationwide less than ten years ago. Like, what…

I like “best body” and thank you for sharing that piece! I might post it on FB for all the parents wondering how to explain it to their kids!

I haven’t had the trans talk yet because at two and four, I don’t think they’ll get it just yet but I plan on saying something along the lines that not everyone is born into the right body so they have to work a little harder to get there. I go back and forth on that one, though, “right body” seems to imply that there…

My best friend/cousin is a gay man and the first time my three year old heard him talk about kissing a boy, she said “No, you kiss girl silly!” We had never discussed it but I guess she just picked up that heterosexuality is the norm. I explained that boys can kiss boys if they want and girls can kiss girls, it all…

Good on her for being a nice lady and only saying “Gah! Ah!” when falling. Had it been me, they would have heard “Fuckin’ shiiiiiiiiiiit!"

I agree 100%. My girls are almost two and four so correct me if I’m wrong but I feel like it would be easier to have these discussions when they’re younger because they question less. Lay the foundation when they still believe everything you say and then discuss the nuances when they’re older, right?

I’ve already read multiple posts on FB saying they’re digusted they now have to have these discussions with their children. You’re digusted that you now have to discuss being a loving, open minded person with your child? One who respects people and doesn’t judge them for who they are? You’re disgusted by having to…

Since when is swallowing “nasty”? Who hasn’t done it? And unless she was forced, which it doesn’t sound like she was, who cares?

Yeah my small boobies aren’t as perky as Keira’s. After two kids, they’re more flappy.

So.much.polyester. Isn’t it super muggy there? Natural fibers are your friend!

I hear you! I was a large B (maybe a C when Flo visited) before kids but now? I’m an A. Whoever said your boobs grow after kids totally lied! I haven’t felt this self-conscious about having a small chest since sixth grade.

I was going to comment with a Longchamp recommendation as well. I’ve started using mine as an everyday bag and sometimes it doubles as a diaper bag.

Did Dean get a nose job?

I’ve done that a few times but Google is definitely my go-to. How did we live before Google?!

I’m doing this thing where each week I make dinner from a different country and I was basically Ally when I went to the Asian market for Myanmar week. “Um, I’m looking for, um, water spinach?” *Google a pic* “This, I need this” *store employee starts speaking a different language and laughing at me* “I’m sorry for…

My husband and I aren’t upper middle class, we’re like barely middle class, and he’s white; I’m Hispanic. Anyway, I was raised by a single mother who didn’t get her GED until I was 9 years old and we were on welfare until I was in junior high. In all that time, I don’t remember my mother ever complaining about how…

“Baby Baby” came out not that long after Mariah Carey’s debut. Amy and Mariah gave me major hair envy and for a good year or so, I spiral permed my super straight hair in the hopes of achieving their beautiful curls. I was not successful.

But he shook the shit out of her?

My three year old calls them “Yoda pants” and I don’t correct her. There’s no point to this comment other than my daughter is super cute and way into Star Wars.