My gram would literally go to Walmart to buy me the shiny can and 2 weeks groceries because if she saw that artfully distressed piece of wasted cash, she'd assume we were 2 doors from the poorhouse and can't even afford a clean trash can.

It’s all good. Technically, I’m a thin crust garbage pizza cut in squares, middles only girl...

Thems fighting words.

I'm 100% sure that teaching your kid that authority figures like your mom or, you know, judges, can be completely disregarded because you don't like their decisions doesn't promote confidence. It makes your kid a spoiled monster. Affluenza teen is example numero uno.

He wasn't allowed any recording devices, including a pen & paper in the interview. I'm no fan of Sean Penn, but that wasn't on him.

I'm on a CTA train right now and the only dude NOT doing it is wearing the cutest pair of very high heeled boots I've seen in a long time.

But how many reward points?

Because their feelings are much more important than her grieving her friend. People are awful sometimes.

The beauty of the Potter series is that it ages with the kids. So 7 is a bit little for the 4th book on, but you've got 3 marvelous books before that. I really admired how Rowling respected her characters and intended audience by aging the characters and complexity of the books appropriately.

I shared an L stop with the Chicago cast. My old ass just watched to make sure I wasn’t on it.

Never say never. I could have left the country during Thomas and my kids would not have noticed. Irritating though he is, Thomas saved my bacon many times. Now. Caillou? That's the real parental enemy.

R rated then is PG now. My 10 year old has seen Rocky on TV. Granted, I’m a pretty liberal parent, but grand scheme of things, there’s a lot more objectionable content on network TV during the supposed family hour than Rocky.

I agree. I HATE being referred to as “a female" rather than a woman. My gender is female, I am a woman.

Broke four toes. Putting on pants. Stone sober.

Duh.

She won't get a job at Fox without the full Greta VanSustern.

Yep.

He actually has a legit doctorate. In education. Which is terrifying.

I’m going to recommend you attend pre-Canaa slightly buzzed and remember you just have to nod & smile to get through it. My husband promised me ice cream if I controlled myself long enough to get the priest to sign off on our non traditional traditional catholic wedding/5 month old child’s baptism. It was not easy...

It can be both. My mom’s answer to less traditional names is “there’s no Saint Paige” (for the record, my answer of “what if my kid IS St Paige” fell on deaf ears. Was moot, had a boy, named him Aidan, which is a saint...)