Mom: I don’t understand how you can read multiple books at a time, don’t you get confused?

Some of us get to use no bandaid in any of its forms, including liquid, because we are allergic to both most adhesives and topical antibiotics. It’s fun.

Some of us keep a very loose, easily-negotiated nightgown right by the door we’d have use to evacuate, so ... yeah.

My parents didn’t sleep naked, but I saw them naked - Dad occaionally when I was young enough he probably thought I wouldn’t remember, Mom frequently to this day - and it never bothered me. I’ll probably just keep a nightgown on the bedpost, pop it on casually if/when kids get to me before I get out of bed.

That is so not allowed! If someone kept doing it to me, I’d probably be forced to assume they were an intruder and take appropriate action. I didn’t get my legally required notice, so how am I to know they’re not an intruder? And with all these intruders I’ve been having, I was really helping out the landlord by…

For some people who menstruate, it can strike at any time, like lightning or the realization that one day everyone you’ve ever known will be dead.

Two words: Wet. Wipes.

Exactly! That’s why I use a fuzzy blanket but no pajamas in winter! Not last Christmas, but the one before, an aunt gave me a pajama set and my mom just busted out laughing. I use it when I visit my mom, since that is the only time I wear pajamas.

My apartment is four people, both conventional genders represented, and we live with middle school locker room rules - just cover the important things and none of us will look too closely. If it’s really fricking hot, no one raises an eyebrow at coming into the kitchen in just underpants and a shirt, or in the case of…

Some guys like icy feet when summertime rolls around. If you want some of this frozen-toe cooling action, you better share your toasty warmth in the winter! XD

I saw my mom naked all the time a a kid and now, when I am an adult, her house still has locker room rules. Sometimes I lean in the bathroom door to hammer out dinner plans as she’s getting out of the shower, or I wander around looking for my bra. I saw my dad naked on occasion when I was pretty young; I can’t ask…

Sleep naked except for wool socks, with a really soft, fuzzy blanket against your skin. Burrito-rolling doesn’t work for me because I roll in my sleep, and if I feel like my limbs are constrained in my sleep I start flailing and wake up with the adrenaline pumping. So instead before I sleep I rock back and forth a bit…

Sleep with an ice pack under your pillow, so there’s always a deliciously icy cool side to flip to. Also helps cool your whole body because it cools all those blood vessels in your face, scalp, and neck.

My mom and I diverge on this point all the time, which is super weird because she raised me. To me “turning it down” means what it does to you - make it colder. To my mom, “turning it down” means make it warmer. When I visit her, one of us usually ends up asking the other, “Did you turn it up/down like I asked? It…

Yeah, my dad tried that, but mine was an iron will even at the age of seven or eight. How many times do you feel like serving a hamburger on wheat bread and forcing your child to sit at a table for multiple hours, really? Why do you want to break your child’s spirit/will to heed to yours on such a micro level, like…

Sounds like you might benefit from reasding “The Mommy Myth”. Even if you’re not a mother, most of it is applicable to parenting generally; it’s just that women, per usual, get the short end of the stick.

I remember my mom letting me cut things side-by-side with her when I was around that age. She probably started me with fruit and a butter knife. I was also an unusually patient and careful child, though. My younger sisters were really energetic and erratic and I have no recollection of them helping in the kitchen…

There should a cautionary note on the Slip n’ Slide. I’m all for kids having fun and even getting dinged up a bit in the process - I broke multiple bones as a child and it was definitely good for me in every way - but it requires a bit more supervision than some of the more laid-back ideas, if someone is really in…

Pass the brain bleach, please.

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