OMG. That’s what’s behind the hair. He’s growing it so he can let it down out of a window and someone can climb up it.

We had a similar experience with our kid. Around 7 or 8 he just decided it was time to sleep in his own bed and that was it.

We got a king sized bed and our four year old climbs in the middle at some point in the night. Not every night, maybe 1 night out of 10 she will stay in her own bed. I am confident that when she is ready she will sleep through on her own but til then, I would rather her wiggle in between us and feel safe and loved and…

My little one also will cry-it-out almost to the point of vomiting. And it’s a bear to calm her back down after she has worked herself up so much — like, we’re signing on for another hour plus of being awake with her. Seriously, kids and parents are all individuals and every family is different. You need to save your…

Oh my god, the screaming and crying until puking: our doctor would shrug, “If she pukes, clean it up, put her back in her crib.” Dude, no. Maybe I’m weak, but I couldn’t live with the idea that my baby needed me for comfort and I was refusing to show up for her. So we slept together a lot in her first 3 years, and…

My daughter is 11 and she has not one but 2 friends her age who still need to be “put to sleep” by their mothers, and wake up multiple times during the night, and demand to be “put back to sleep” by their mothers again. The thing is, both of the kids’ fathers were like “oh, hell no!” when this pattern started to…

My son is 8 and still needs one of us to lay down with him most nights. We don’t mind it. We had a heartbreaking time ‘sleep training’ him and then just went fuck it. Him sleeping in his own bed? Victory, at any cost. And if that cost is more bedtime cuddling and a free pass to come to the big bed if he has a…

I feel the same as you. We co-sleep with our 2 1/2 year old; she has a bed in our room. She started sleeping with us when she was about a year, it helped me with nursing. My top priority is that all three of us get a good night sleep; we all get 9 hours this way. I’m sure she will choose to sleep alone at the…

One of my 3 year old twins cries until he vomits. We fall asleep together every night on our living room floor. Then I move him to his crib. I very reluctantly share our routine with our pediatrician.

It was already suggested on another Shade Court that political shade is the best shade, so I have to go with Michelle.

I’m so sorry that happened to you. It is a fucking crime.

Greetings, Jezzies! I wanted to thank everyone for the support with my interview for a job in Chicago on Friday. It largely went well, but I thought I petered out towards the end...to the point where I utterly panicked and blew the “where do you want to be in five years and 10 years ?” question, which sort of sucks…

You don’t want to cheap out on something that’s going to be inside your vagina. That’s a recipe for disaster.

How dare someone—a Kennedy no less!—listen to the words of not just a man, but an old man.

please please please tell me dev hynes is also producing tracks. so glad they’re working together again

Tolerating each other’s bullshit since 1993 over here.

Not a school paper, but I assign Jezebel articles in my African American Women’s History class, specifically this article by Hillary Crosley Croker, Ida B. Wells in my lecture about black women and Gilded Age politics, and Madeleine Davies’ piece about race and appropriation in my lecture “Black Women, Representation,…

I wrote a recent paper on the why Gone Girl was such a hit, despite the intense unlikeability of the two main characters. I referenced a Jezebel post called “Let’s talk about Gone Girl,” specifically referencing the discussion thread on Amy’s Cool Girl speech because it is a narrative attempt to justify her actions…

RIGHT?! (Err... spoilers from here on out). they really glossed over the parents’ grief but when I saw all the trails of shells leading back to the house and that they were still working on the trails, I swear to god I nearly howled out loud “THIS IS A TERRIBLE SAD MOVIE WE ARE LEAVING NOW!” Clearly the movie is about…

Especially the end of credits scene. I was like, seriously?! But I guess hopefully they will pass quarantine, be released and find their friends.