That’s exactly it. And they reaped the rewards of the battles that their parents’ generation fought.

That only makes sense if you assume that us Gen Xers went to college right out of high school and/or are working in jobs that we will work in our entire lives. But many of us didn’t and many of us aren’t. We’re right there in that shitty economy with you. No need to treat us like we’re the enemy.

Your description of the questionnaire really hits home. They didn’t even give me one after my baby was born; they gave me one months before so I could “watch out for the signs”. As if a person in that state could adequately identify even the most “typical” PPD. Mine manifested as rage, intrusive thoughts about…

Yep. I swear the fact that I knew enough about labor and my hospital’s policies to ask for a heparin lock rather than the standard IV in the beginning is the reason I was able to deliver vaginally rather than have a c-section even though it was a long, difficult labor.

I know of a very similar case in a different state where the family decided to vaccinate afterwards, but ONLY for tetanus.

If it helps you feel any better, I took my kid on a plane when she was 3-years-old. Three-year-olds are literally the worst human beings on the planet so I was terrified but she LOVED it. When I asked what her favorite part of the whole trip was (and we did a lot of things on that trip that were kid-approved fun like…

Same with people in the suicide lane. If you need to use the middle lane to turn and there’s no one coming the other way, get the hell over.

Amen. When my daughter was born, everyone insisted that newborns MUST sleep in a small space because it’s more womb-like and they’re so fresh out of the womb, they need the closeness to feel secure. Finally, when she was a month old, we said, what the heck, let’s try the crib; it can’t be worse than everything else…

My dad, who physically and emotionally abused me as a child, had the gall to post about how awful child abusers are on Facebook. Never once turned that finger on himself, though.

Paper boxes work well for moving paperback books, too.

The only parameters I’ve ever put around cuss words are that they are “home” words and not to be used around anyone other than mommy and daddy. We’ve never had a problem. What you model to your child is more important than what you tell them to do anyway.

This is much more believable to me than drugs. I’ve known someone like Trump in real life for years. The person I know also has a tic; he claimed it was mild Tourette’s (lol) but it would only appear when he was obfuscating and telling lies.

I was confused too. I went back and reread. I think the meat is here:

We had to cut out baths at bedtime because our kid would get so riled up, she couldn’t sleep. They don’t work for everyone.

Also, through the years, we’ve adjusted bedtime by replacing one thing with another. So her infant bedtime boob snack became a toddler bedtime actual-snack became an occasional school-age-kid…

You’re proving my point, friend. If the movie had some of what you describe in it, it would have seemed more contemporary (and as a parent of a child who lives in a neighborhood full of children that we almost never see, it would make me more interested in this movie). From what this review says, though, it didn’t…

And eventually if you do find someone and end up having a kid with them, you’ll dream wistfully of the days when you used to be able to do things alone.

It sounds like it DID depend on nostalgia, though, because the theme wasn’t updated. “[O]ptimism, embracing your inner-child, and the importance of friends and family” are not typical themes for movies these days, or not in the same way. A different approach to the same theme might have added that excitement that was…

In what world does this actually happen? I work at the health sciences section of a public university and the only doctors I work with who are making $150k+ are chairs of their respective departments. Their counterparts in the non-health sciences wings are definitely not making anywhere near that amount, and a friend…

I’ve done this too and now that we’re past the toddler phase (phew!), I can really see the effect of it. Just last night, my daughter was acting up and I asked if she was grumpy or tired. She said she was feeling mad and mostly acted better after that because I had taken that small moment to acknowledge her feelings.

Then you’re losing an opportunity to help them learn how to articulate what is bothering them, though. That “manipulation” is actually just a process of trying to get what they need, and one of the things they need is to have their feelings and presence acknowledged. I only have one kid of my own but have used this…