If you choose to have a child, or take leave to take care of sickly relative or parent (I can only assume you have at least one of those), then I will happily “pick up the slack” if you feel you have take leave.

The benefit for non-parents would be getting to keep all their salary, less what the government takes in taxes. ;)

Heheh, I thought we were going to stop at two, too. Surprise! And three boys to boot! But that was my thinking too. For women, there’s a deadline and all you can do is position yourself as best as you can, then make the decision, whether its to go for it, or forgo it.

I get it, and I wouldn’t call you heartless for saying children aren’t a necessity. But it doesn’t negate the fact that childcare, for the people who do have children (can’t exactly get rid of ‘em once they’re here in order to cross that line item off the budget!), is a necessity and a giant chunk of the budget. In…

I’m amused at how many of the Lifehacker editors are participating in the comments here. I take that as an indication that this is indeed a well thought-out article, which was my opinion too. “Invest in yourself” is an excellent way to think of it, and I’m going to have to steal that for myself.

This method is also more efficient if you eat as much rice as Asian households typically do.

I grew up with a pool, and my family was the first to have one in my church community. We had people over EVERY WEEKEND who wanted to go swimming. Of course, this being Southern California, soon everyone else had their own pool (or their gated community had one) and then it was like crickets at my house.

Later, my…

It’s great that he played well, but could someone have please cropped this photo for everyone’s sake? There’s no way to unsee this.

I was just thinking this. That sounds way more exhausting. A friend once advised me, before we went to Hawaii for the first time, to do just one big thing each day and its a philosophy I apply to each vacation now.

Having grit, or persistence, is pretty important for just about everything in life.

Copied and pasted from a blog post about my wedding day:

Agree wholeheartedly. In the counseling my husband and I received before we got married, it was pointed out that the marriage relationship is unique because its the only one in which each person chooses each other — parents can’t choose their kids, and kids can’t choose their parents.

Sounds great, if you have the time, money and no kids. Yet, there are millions of folks who don’t apply (myself included) that somehow manage to stay married....

This looks like a lot of work. Parenting is hard enough.

I am all for this idea. Breakfast is my favorite people meal of the day, which is why I’m such a fan of brunch. I have fond memories of leisurely breakfasts/brunches when I was single and living on my sister’s couch.

The Snap-N-Go stroller

I’ve got three kids, and I SHOULD HAVE CREATED A GOFUNDME FOR THE THIRD ONE. Fantastic idea.

Reacher?

So THIS is why employers want to make workplaces so miserable!

Congratulations! It's totally refreshing to see/hear someone feel the way you do about having a fourth kid.