I think it is both racial and cultural.

Also a class issue, certainly.

I’m an upper middle class hetero cis-gendered white male of European descent. I am the quintessence of privilege.

My partner and I mutually agreed to our sleeping arrangements, he’s hardly a victim. You should communicate with your spouse rather than strangers on the Internet.

Once I read that when Judge Judy made her first decent amount of money she built a house with two connected bedrooms, so she and her husband could each have their own bedroom with their own king size bed. My husband and I love each other very much but we would love this! I snore and my husband talks a lot in his…

“Throughout most of history and throughout most of the world today young children sleep with their parents.”

Thing is, this is like, for a fraction of you ones total life. like ten years out of like 80 where we have to adjust. If hes too resentful and cant give a few years where his sex life isn’t perfect, maybe hes not cut out for a family. just saying, intimacy doesn’t only happen in bed, and sanity is sometimes more…

Is it babysitting?

Are you getting paid?

Then if the babysitters club has taught me anything it’s that no, it’s not goddamned babysitting.

While I don’t believe there is one right way to parent, as a teacher for over a decade I have been privileged to take many courses on child psychology. One of my professors had an enormous impact on how I raise my children and deal with my students. Briefly, under his tutelage I learned a lot about how understanding…

Sometimes, but no biggie. If that’s the worst that comes of it, no problem. That said, they’re really good at flapping the covers off you. Little legs come up, pop out of the covers, and then flap back down taking the covers off as they go.

Nope. Even after a year, regression to the mean is expected. I have a PhD and do research for a living. Unless your kid is a super preemie or legitimately has some sort of medical issue which has been shown to be helped by BF’ing, formula fed babies are basically the same as breastfed babies after a year.

You may be like me. I am now pregnant and just learned the word “mompetition.” I think I will stay away from the internet for the next 18 years.

YES.

Well, they sound crazy, but baby wearing is awesome if your baby is a colicky hot mess of non-stop crying. Because worn skin to skin or in the shower was the only time my tot stopped wailing. I should think no one in their right mind should be on Facebook with other moms.

She spoke at my college years ago for a book tour she was doing and the thing that stuck out to me the most was that she was extremely adamant that women's rights, the rights of people of color, and the rights of GLBTQIA individuals all went hand in hand and that we could not ignore one in an attempt to gain favor for…

I was a baby fed on formula, who cried it out in the crib. I didn’t turn into a serial killer or Libertarian. Everything is okay.

My friend did this with her dog and it fucking AMAZED me the first time I heard the bell!! Fucking. Genius.

I have a good friend from HS who posts about crying-it-out like it is child abuse. I am not a mother, but it just strikes me as INCREDIBLY smug and judgmental towards other moms who use cry-it-out.

Two cats here. I tried the CIO with my oldest who is about like the Attila the Hun of cats. She shakes the bedroom door so hard that it sounds like some one is trying to break in. She doesn’t actually want to sleep in the bed most nights, she just doesn’t like the door closed.

I am attachment parent to three cats. They like to sleep on top of me. Daisy will often wake me up because she * must* sit on my face or squash he face up against mine at 4am or walk across my forehead. Life is good.