no.

studies have shown the longer a mother is home with her baby, the child’s survival rate increases 2.6% every ten weeks. There’s probably a lot of reasons why, but as a mother myself, I would assume it has a lot to do with me having the time to pay more attention to my child versus a day care center, well meaning and…

I have health insurance. my husband does not. that is legitimately the only reason I am working still. it’s really good health insurance and it’s not terribly expensive. There are no other options. This is a problem. We are wealthy enough to do without my salary but to lose the insurance when you have three small…

I DON”T GET THIS MEME. “Like for a prayer for this family facing cancer” or “I bet this picture (of a starving child) won’t get 1500 likes, i bet you’ll just keep scrolling. Like to send them a prayer” or “Share to help this family get food for dinner i bet 90% of you will just ignore it” like what the actual fuck…

I’m not changing my damn profile pic to a flag or retweeting those “Paris has gone dark, but the world lights up for them” pictures, or sharing any other of the “pray for paris” memes that are all over my feeds. What is it accomplishing? I donated to an aid organization and try to keep myself informed by reading…

this is it right? the end?

I’m still lost as to how these guys think that the muslims are going to get elected to political office and suddenly start enforcing sharia la——oh wait. because the christians do it with their religion. maybe government shouldn’t be allowed to favor any religion at all? maybe we ought to have, oh I don’t know, some…

dude., fuck aftercare. we did it for two years and I was just completely shocked at how much they charged for watching my school aged child for 3 hours. F it. we stopped and now have a neighbor watch them. Sure they aren’t making volcanos or doing after-school learning enrichment programs closely aligned with the…

there’s no way my family could do that. We tried and nearly lost our house. We cut out cable, had one cell phone, a home phone and didn’t go out to eat. We had one car payment. 1 credit card. No vacations. We coupon cut and ate cheaply and lived frugally. All so I could stay home for 2 years. It was completely fucking…

my kids went to a privately owned home daycare, licensed by the state. She charged $170/kid for ages 2-5, and had about 6 kids in her care. that’s only a little over $1000/week, and on top of that she pays taxes on her income, buys food for the children, educational curriculum, craft supplies, etc. Her husband is…

thank you. i do love them so, and am so glad to have them, but good heavens is life crazy.

this is true. I tell the kids all the time, I’m not a chef, this is not a restaurant, there is no menu. you get what I put on your plate. It surprisingly works. And they eat real food at restaurants. Who knew!?

my mom was a SAHM and was super involved when I was in school. At least I thought so. I work full time. The other night she was you and I was your sister and she was APPALLED at the crap I had to sign and check and remind my 3rd grader to do and the little homework I had to devise for my kindergartner to do to…

the fucking. snow days. half my vacation last year was used up with them — and that’s even with my built in plan for them to go to a babysitter’s house when it snows. Doesn’t help if I can’t get there. fucking snow days, I swear to god.

this. all of it. ALL OF IT. Spelling word “games” and reading log and math facts log and typing log and creative writing and math worksheet and don’t forget pizza night at Lliardo’s on Thursday and tomorrow is hat day and did you log in to access your Star Bux Points for the fundraiser? OH DON”T FORGET THE FUN RUN!…

So i’m with you. I’m not, nor do I try to be a perfect parent. I absolutely adore my children and try to give them everything I can, but that’s really not a WHOLE lot, and I’m not going to kill myself to give them more. I can’t, there aren’t enough hours in the day. My kids do activities but I limit them to one per…

I’ll admit it. This is me. My husband and I work full time and we have two almost three kids. I commute over two hours each day because my line of work really only exists in the city. My husband has an incredibly flexible job and I honestly have no idea how we’d make it if he wasn’t able to pick up the little one by…

thanks, now crying at work. Santa and ice cream and wtf nice people. I come here for the snark! I wasn’t ready for this!

technically they can’t ID you though, so what your driver’s license says is moot.

different strokes for different folks and all. I’m extremely competitive, as are my children.they absolutely thrive on being on stage, having an audience, etc. to deprive them of that experience means that they’ll just perform all over my house and fight with each other about who has more dolls