Where do you live? Is it somewhere actually important? Also, have you considered calling off the wedding? If the answer to the first two questions is “somewhere unlikely to decide the fate of the election, so no not important” just give yourself the permission to stop trying to convince him to change his vote. It’s…

Maybe it’s time to reevaluate whether or not you want him as a fiance? It’s drastic, I know, but it sounds like he’s fallen down the QAnon hole (with the Biden is a pedophile thing) and I’m not sure that’s the kind of person you would want in your life. This isn’t something that I’m saying to you lightly, but I follow…

YES!!!!! And the little annoyances of school — other kids talking out of turn, general boredom with over explanation of simple tasks, etc. — result in “MOM - can I log off” or “MOM - this is so dumb.” If they were in school they’d just tough it out and cope. The little interruptions every 20-40 minutes makes it nearly…

Rock it and keep it up. I’m a HS teacher and I’m trying to be as clear to parents as possible that none of this is normal and it will pass. No one will be behind because everyone is behind. Content learning is still important but we won’t be teaching as much of it as in years past. Students get grace, I get grace,…

“I think what’s bothering us (all) is that running simple errands feels more and more overwhelming as this pandemic stretches on, not that picking up the packets is a big ask.”

The first ‘Dr Emilio Lizardo’ posting at 11:56 0n 9/28 is the True Doc’s lurking troll.

It really is.

I didn’t give birth to a child to also have to ask my husband “for help” with his children.

GOOD LORD.  I have had this conversation so, so many times with close friends lately.

I hear this SO MUCH from other moms.

Before the pandemic, my husband was home more than I was - a lot. Then everything changed when he was on campus and we had no childcare for 3 year old. His PT job was more important than mine suddenly because he’d left to watch her and then had just come back to the workforce. I…

Holy shit, my thoughts exactly. Er...um....I mean.....pat on the back for you Eric.

Fucking seriously. I guess that’s where this “supposedly feminist website” has been dragged to: mommybloggers awarding their husbands for doing the bare minimum of parenting like it’s a Reddit query.

I don’t understand the need to play the “who has it worse” game. Can’t we just acknowledge that its a shitty time for a lot of people for reasons that are sometimes similar and sometimes different?   

We probably had those rules but I don’t read the emails!

I feel lucky that Eric’s stepped up and really wants to be involved with her school work.

We’re supposed to ask kids at my school not to lay down on their beds while Zooming and lol I am absolutely not enforcing that. You’re doing it right over there!

Eric’s a woodworker, so he just leaves at noon and then he’s gone for the rest of the evening. I feel lucky that Eric’s stepped up and really wants to be involved with her school work. I would say we split overseeing the Zoom classes. I do most of the homework and organizational stuff with her, but having his help …

Stray thoughts from a teacher. I’ve heard other parents complain about picking up homework packets and, logically, it’s odd—those complaining (on my social media) are the same parents who picked up and dropped off their kids at school every single day rather than rely on busses. I think what’s bothering us (all) is…

I have 3 teenagers at home doing virtual learning while I work full-time plus hours dealing with an overwhelming amount of new patients with Covid related chronic conditions (I work in home telehealth). NO ONE IS ON THEIR A GAME.

I also don’t think that anyone is “on their A game” any more. It’s gone on too long for that.

5? You’re lucky. Try hormone raging I-just-want-to-see-my-friends-again-you-don’t-understand-my-life-13-year-old-8th-grade-daughter. When she says this whole thing is BS, you can’t argue with her because it is.

The amount of fat-shaming, food-shaming, and shaming of poor folks for being poor in this thread is just gross. I’m terribly disappointed in all of you concern trolling here under the guise of “health.” Wellness culture, a thing to which this Libertarian a-hole clearly subscribes is toxic. Is it good to eat things…