'calm little dandelions' just cracked me up so much. That is exactly what people try to portray. I am going to borrow that on occasion if that's all right.

You are going to get destroyed here haha.

I resort to one good spank on the butt when my also 4 year old takes his shit too far. I also reinforce it with a "go to your room" and an authoritative point in that general direction, and he's not allowed to come out until he's done crying and ready to apologize. He gets…

Hey man, can I just say how much I identify with you right now? I'm a person with a temper. I know this about myself, and I work on it, but sometimes I slip up. I am terrified of having kids. But the only thing that terrifies me more is having kids, fucking up, and not being able to talk about it to anyone because…

Oh my GOD, shut UP with the drama. Peace out — this is officially pointless.

My younger son had tantrums 3-8 times a day for his first three years, starting with colic and finishing around 3-4. I have always suffered from noise aversion. Because this is the internet, I will leave the rest to your imagination.

If you have to do that routinely, it isn't working. Besides, you're about four or five times his size. You hitting him hurts a lot worse than him hitting anybody else.

You're not a parent though... and kids tend to respond much better to discipline from people that are not their parents. No matter how rational I am, I'm not gonna convince my exhausted 5-year-old that he does not need to sit on a stack of 5 chairs at lunch to be happy with logic. He isn't smarter than I think. He's…

LOL this is why my mom friends and I have a secret Facebook group where we can vent about how we shackle our kids to hot radiators, I mean, deal with stress.

Pro-tip: no one is honest about parenting on the internet. I'm sure you can see why.

I'd keep it old-school and just make my misbehaving child push a boulder up a hill.

I don't think you need to be calling parents, "idiots." There's a big difference between being an aunt/uncle and being a parent. If you are not a parent, you really have no idea. Just because you tried that once with your nephew and it worked with him in that instance doesn't mean it will work with every other kid in…

Oh they were the worst, those year 7 b.c. kids. Always tearing through town on their donkey carts blasting that damned loud Lyre music.

18 months to age 4 can be like pure hell - but your method of withdrawing attention is ideal! It's not always the easiest method, but its pretty damn effective if you can be consistent.

I was just talking about discipline with our pediatrician.

I personally don't mind if they change canon of the series.

Even Aliens should have been erased from canon imo. Yes it's a good movie, yes it's way better than what came after since. But, it's still not in anyway (in my opinion of course) similar in tone and atmosphere with the first one, Alien. Alien is a fucking horror movie, it's about a crew of people, normal people, not…

He's not the only one who supports legal status for transgender people so you can't really give him that much credit. He's one of those thug-babas who gain a lot of notorious fame in India.

Yes. I feel like this need to embrace a lack of interest in sex as an identity is mostly due to two related myths: that women, as a general rule, want sex just as much as men, and that men, as a general rule, want sex all the time. Neither of these things is true, and I think they really distort our views of what is…

Over-discussion is totally a killer! Our kid conversations ended exactly as yours did. No kids = no problems, right? :)

Hugh and David should kiss.