I get it. My daughter passed hers along to little cousins & a girl she babysits with the caveat that she gets to come over & play...

Absolutely 1000000000% correct. But I also appreciated the AG series being strong enough not to completely whitewash the experience of young black girls in the 1800s. Especially when you consider the ludicrous scholastic book recently that had Washington’s slave baking him a cake...

I went the other way. Spends doll, lots of cheap clothes.

The furniture. I have human sized furniture that costs less!

You know your kid best, but mine was great about understanding that AG stuff was a big deal present. I’d keep her online “registry” up to date of her wish list items and family members used that as the shopping guide for her birthdays and Christmas. (The kid didn't know about the registry, I'd email the link when…

My point was that all the books dealt with way bigger things than homework and ice cream. And that Addy’s story is the darkest because the series dealt with the ugly parts of history in a much more realistic manner than most children’s books.

Molly’s dad was fighting in WWII.

It’s still a pretty great series. When we took my redneck dad to the Chicago store once, u expected him to lose his shit over the price tags, but instead he thought it was super cool for an age appropriate store for little girls that really embraced a lot of different kinds of girlhood. He passed when my daughter was…

Kirsten gets dark too. They kill off a kid on the boat from Sweden. Happy 5th birthday, daughter of mine...

If she's in good condition, you have an eBay goldmine...

My daughter had a slew of them (I think 5? My mother sprung for 3, father in law 1 and Santa 1.) yes, they're pricey, yes there are less expensive dolls. But I prefer to drop $100 on the ONE thing my kid wanted then $100 on 5 crappy things she didn't. We're not wealthy by any stretch of the imagination, and those…

He's an asshole and you dodged a bullet.

I'm sorry. I got laid off at 30, but the confusion took awhile to hit me because my dad & gram died shortly after that and I had babies to deal with. But I remember once it hit me feeling completely unmoored. It's rough.

Diet Coke, but contemplating a hard root beer.

I use my actual name... nothing yet.

1) can we all agree that saying “having a uterus doesn’t make you qualified for the presidency” when precisely ZERO US Presudents have had uteruses (that we know of...) is pretty boneheaded?

All of this.

Counter point- it’s NOT an 8 year old’s JOB to fund their school.

Our school eliminated the fundraiser sales and now do a flat donation of (ideally) $100 per family or whatever you can afford. Being in a slightly better position than I was for awhile there, we kicked in $150. The kids aren't involved and the communication was done via the weekly e-blast and a direct mailing. No…

An excellent point. But I counter- why the HOLY FUCK are ANY OF US schlepping wrapping paper (oh the FUCKING WRAPPING PAPER!) to find our schools?