The thing is, I’m not sure it will.  I voted Beto and I predict all the major cities in Texas will go blue for him, as we did in the presidential election.  The problem is that Texas is fucking huge.  And outside of the big cities, there’s a whole lot of single-digit-IQ racists that fuck up everything for everyone…

Very possibly exactly that? It’s been argued:

I also want to say that no spanking, yelling, or time outs doesn’t mean no discipline. Like you said, kids do often need to be removed from whatever stimulus or activity is happening. And removing kids from a situation and then staying with them (or staying nearby if they are full face plant on the floor screaming and…

Dealing with toddler tantrums is “easy” (depending on your tolerance for screaming):

Seriously! There are lots of parenting books out there, but they conflict SO MUCH. We need a “List of ideas that work for misbehaving kids” campaign just as badly as we need those signs all over the hospital about putting your baby on their back so they don’t get SIDS. 

This is so important. Even knowing why a child is acting a certain way at certain stages can create so much more empathy and patience. Your two year old is not screaming “no!” to annoy the shit out of you, make you late, and piss you off. They are learning that they are a separate person from you who has their own…

No, because you’re an adult human, not a wild animal.

This, but honestly it’s gotta be more than just pamphlets.  Parenting is SO. HARD.  And it gets primal.  It’s incredibly difficult to parent differently than you were parented.  Even if you were parented well, the stress of work and money and taking care of another human being who lacks the capacity to take care of…

We need to start arming parents with the tools to raise children. Doesn’t matter if you are a young parent or an old parent - lots of people just don’t have a fucking clue on what to do when your kid is acting up.

I think we need to look at spanking like car seats. So many people hear “you shouldn’t spank your kids” and immediately get defensive because their parents spanked them, and if you aren’t supposed to, than that means that they had bad parents. But they love their parents, they couldn’t have been bad, so that must mean…

The best response I’ve ever read to “Look, my parents spanked me and I turned out fine!” is “No, you didn’t. You think it is okay to hit little kids.”

I love a high ponytail but if I haven’t washed my hair in a few days and put it in a high pony I heave such a sigh of relief when i finally take it down. My skull cries with gratitude. It’s almost worth the pain to be rewarded with the relief. 

Perhaps a married couple would find a male birth control helpful if the wife couldn’t use BC for some reason. Etc. Plenty of applications for this.

I’m no expert, but I’d think that a change in personality would mean that it’s time to go with a different medication (or at least a different dosage).

This is so fucking stupid. Why do Republicans get such a giant boner over cutting programs that help poor people, women, and children? Our government trying to save money by cutting funding for programs like SNAP is like trying to save money to buy a house by collecting dimes from behind your dryer while driving a…

Just because someone is a doctor doesn’t make them an inherently good person. An asshole will always be an asshole no matter what his job is.

I love the Spice Girls, but something about that first photo just cracks me up. It looks like 4 Express store mannequins along with a a glowing, crunchy granola mom who sells essential oils and works part time at the health food store.

They can’t do a study because it would be unethical to put pregnant ladies in a drinking and non-drinking group. And the full NYT article talks about how gathering evidence after the fact is difficult because moms don’t want to participate and self-report their levels/times of drinking. So the CDC has to err on the…

The language “all women of child-bearing age” isn’t problematic. You’re choosing to make it problematic so that you can have something to raise hell about in regards to the big bad CDC. While I do understand that the phrase could be a little more up-to-date with the current lingo, it’s really not a sign of...whatever…

I really don’t understand the resistance to science here. Alcohol reaches your baby and their developing liver at the same concentration that it reaches your brain. If you are buzzed, your baby is trying to metabolize it with their tiny organs.