My daughter gets to watch YouTube sometimes as her reward for getting ready in the morning, or when I need to make dinner but she’s trying to get me to play every 5 seconds, or because sometimes we all just need a break from each other but my backyard is full of mosquitoes no matter what I do and the gates don’t lock…

This is really important, I know, but... the white balance of that holiday advice picture is hurting my eyes.

This is my absolute favorite and everyone looks at me like I’m crazy. It is a whole different flavor than cooked corn and so so so good.

I was pretty convinced that pregnancy would be the worst thing ever for me. It certainly wasn’t fun but it came nowhere close to what I had imagined, which actually made it seem like a really easy pregnancy. Now I tell everyone that my pregnancy was easy but that I’m not the norm so that hopefully their experience…

I’m artistic, creative, enjoy people but only sometimes, and love organizing and thinking. So I am back to square one of wondering what the heck I want to do with my life.

She voiced the whale shark in Finding Dory.

I loved CBT. It helped me deal with post-partum depression, PTSD from a shitty childhood, and I’m working on it for my anxiety. I am all of the things you list except resistant to being told what to think/feel, but I didn’t feel like that is what happened in my CBT therapy; I felt like I was given the tools I needed…

Hi. Welcome to the interpretation of art, which is completely subjective. What exactly is your problem with black people interpreting Game of Thrones to have meaning for them?

That’s the thing that I wish that all Americans understood: what happens in the middle states effects all of us and all of us are getting screwed in some way. I have lots of friends who are being priced out of their respective coastal states but moving to a non-coastal state would mean losing something else as…

Yep, that’s how I always read them too. I was horribly awkward as a teen and it was such a relief to know that even the girls who read Seventeen had their embarrassing moments too.

Not only did our DARE officer at school also get busted for drugs, my own dad was a DARE officer who smoked weed (and probably did other stuff) on the weekends.

This. This is part of the reason that I have a really hard time considering moving back to my safely blue home state from my current ultra-red state. Because if I’m not out here to hold down a corner of the supposed big tent, how big is that tent really?

I cut out my dad too. He already thinks of himself enough. He doesn’t need me to do it too.

I’m one of those moms who thinks it’s the most rewarding thing I could ever do, but I don’t expect it to be the same for everyone. That’s just my experience. Even then, things like getting my Master’s degree or getting politically involved are only a few steps lower on the scale. And I will also freely admit that the…

I don’t have a ton of great techniques but one thing that always seems to work: if I’m making dinner and the kid is complaining that she’s hungry, I tell her she can have a fruit or vegetable that is easy for me to serve (like those packaged baby carrots or an apple) or else she has to wait for dinner. This is often…

That’s the era they are trying to return us to.

I already do this but rather than brush, my daughter chews on the toothbrush.

Yup. That’s what I do. It doesn’t look as much like carpet as the neighbors but so what?

They are shockingly popular in their hometown.

I like to play tourist in my own city. There are probably lots of things to do in or near where you live (even in rural areas); it’s just a matter of finding them. Google and tourism websites help a lot.