It absolutely is. Outside of academics, a “top tier” education MIGHT help you get your very first job- but truthfully your GPA will probably matter more than the school name.

Oh god, I feel like this already a lot of the time and I don’t even have kids! The spending 2-3 hours on a bus each day commuting; sitting at a computer for 7-8 hours a day doing meaningless work; then going home and sitting on the couch watching tv & drinking wine, because most nights going out is too expensive and…

She didn’t care, she’s two.

I will say that most of the complaining that parents are doing isn’t (and really shouldn’t be) in front of their kids, it’s to their friends or it’s through pop culture like the shows mentioned. I also think those mundane, tedious, sleepless etc. early parenting days fade in memory and once parents are out of those…

I think what MissAndry said is really key, and I want to point to where she mentioned her gut, because I think that’s what it comes down too. I didn’t want kids for a long time, and had many reasons for it and really thought it was a no. But when I sat down and pretended my husband was going to get a vasectomy and…

So I think we’ve discussed this before, but I am future you. I’m a lawyer with two kids ages 11 and 12.5. People bitch too much— we are so lucky to have the resources we do. I really don’t think my life is very hard at all.

Are you me? I have a 20 month old and am expecting our second - we are both 34 yrs old and VERY busy professionals. I have a nanny and cannot believe that I get sh*t about that. If I had to take my son to/from daycare every day I would lose my mind - and it would not work with my busy work travel schedule. I am not…

High five to you, fellow lawyer! We deal with enough drama and bullshit at work; who needs it at home?

So I refrained from commenting on this topic on a story that was highlighted yesterday, so now I’m going to. I likely fit the demographic these shows depict. My husband and I are both lawyers, we one vehicles and a nice house. We were together nearly 10 years before we decided to screw up someone elses life and have a…

Counterpoint: people who are telling you, directly or indirectly, to “get over [your]self and just deal” want you pliant and quiet and don’t value you as much as they pretend.

Before high school, my sister and I were allowed one activity a piece: she played flute; I took ballet lessons. Once we were in high school, we could do as many as we wanted provided that 1) our grades didn’t suffer, 2) everything ended up on the calendar, and 3) we figured out how to get a ride if mom couldn’t take…

Seems to me everything changed the day the word parent went from being a noun to being a verb. When I was growing up you “had kids” - your parents did their best to raise you so you grew up okay. There weren’t books and seminars and blogs and groups and tv shows and everything centered around this idea of how “to…

My husband and I aren’t upper middle class, we’re like barely middle class, and he’s white; I’m Hispanic. Anyway, I was raised by a single mother who didn’t get her GED until I was 9 years old and we were on welfare until I was in junior high. In all that time, I don’t remember my mother ever complaining about how…

I agree, this indictment of parents complaining is merely the mirror image of the enforced ‘happy mother’ myth from earlier decades. It’s about time parents (mothers in particular) were allowed to voice their frustrations. Parenting is a sublime, not a happy, experience. It has misery, exaltation, misery, probably in…

I have this AMAZING letter my grandma wrote to my grandpa when he was overseas during WWII. In it she talks about raising their newborn son, and describes her routine (at one point mentioning she was learning to play pool at the local bar...did I mention my grandma is AMAZING?). Then in the course of describing her…

This. I am a fan of what’s call the “put your own mask on first” form of parenting. I take care of me, so I can take care of you. It doesn’t make me a worse mother than someone hell bent of martyrdom.

My parents were middle-class throughout my childhood. I think they stayed sane by letting me walk to school, and by not making me play sports.

I guess I’m not sure what the article is trying to say. Does parenting suck a lot sometimes? Yeah. Can it suck even if you’re rich? I’m far from rich but I’m not poor either, so I’m gonna go out on a limb and say yeah it can still suck if you’re rich. I don’t think that the shows are trying to say anything in…

The thing is, stating that being a parent is not necessarily the greatest thing ever IS NOT NEW. If you read classic feminist books from the 1960s like The Group, you’ll see that women were certainly actively questioning how fulfilling motherhood was. But after a couple of decades where women made huge inroads in…

I watched 5 minutes of There Goes the Motherhood. There is a mom on the show who literally locks/deadbolts her children into their rooms at night. Don’t do this.