A little over a year ago my partner and I were in a very rough spot in out relationship. I decided that it would be best for the kids if, when I took my eldest child from another relationship to visit her dad for the summer, I stay with my best friend for a few weeks, get a job and find an apartment in Queens. My…

I think social media is great for introverted kids like I was to communicate with other, like-minded people. Now, as an introverted adult, I would have to say that the majority of my friends are people I communicate with primarily online, and about half of them are people I've only met once or twice, or have never met…

Christina Milian's bathing suit was actually kinda cute I thought.

My step mom still has friends that do the Mary Kay thing with varying degrees of success, but for the most part they like it and don't get caught up spending more than they make. They also live in a more rural area, whereas my friend's mom is in NYC. That might have made a difference too, though I can only speculate.

Not to brag, but I'm self employed so I frequently have juice and graham cracker snacks. If the economy was better and I had time to nap shit would be so cash.

I was thinking that too. What if you don't have a mother, what if you only have a Dad like I did. I think my Dad did a great job of calling out all the bullshit I saw on television, but I'm sure there were things he missed because of the whole being a dude thing. You can't explain what you don't understand.

Nap time is wasted on the young.

I think it depends on where you live and who you end up dealing with. My step-mom did it for a few years back in the 90s and loved it, and she was pretty successful. She only stopped because she went back to work at her regular job full time (doing telemarketing so you know she was good at sales).

I was invited to a Lia Sophia party a couple of months ago, and I was going to go even though I think they're lame because it was a good friend doing it. Something happened and I couldn't go, but I still planned on buying something through the woman who she was doing it with, but then my paycheck bounced and I…

Ack, I still made a mistake, lol! *stories. You can tell I'm passionate about this subject.

Ugh, my sister in law has been making me feel like a fat slob for 6 months trying to get me to buy this viSalus shit. She doesn't come right out and say that I'm fat, she just keeps pushing this shit on me and I know I gained some weight over the last two years due to a medication.

I do remember that piece. Good for you and good luck!

Just because two kids are completely different from each other doesn't mean that either are unique snowflakes. There are children with different temperaments just like there are people with different temperaments. There are hyperactive adults too (they always seem to move in upstairs from me) and laid back people. My…

Oh, and do yourself a favor and don't even read parenting articles if they annoy you this much. Life is way too short.

Well I got a laugh out of it, and I definitely don't think any of my perfectly ordinary kids are different than any other kid. I think you need to take the stick out of your ass, I bet you're a miserable person to be around.

Well aren't you a sparkling ray of sunshine? Obviously this was a tongue in cheek piece, and as someone who had a fabled 'easy baby' I can tell you that her child was 100% different than my first. She doesn't literally think her kid is some special hyperactive snowflake, she was being, you know, funny.

I had one 'easy baby' with my oldest and my younger two were very high maintenance. I could take my oldest daughter to the movies, to dinner, and I could even read on the subway all the way from Harlem to Rockaway Beach on the A train (well over an hour ride). The other two were much more difficult, to say the least.…

Only anecdotal from my ex-husband's family (he was half Japanese) that the practice was common when his grandmother was a girl, but it obviously isn't any longer.

Having a healthy marital sex life is absolutely valid. It's his attitude about it that sucks. As if he is entitled to it, instead of it being something that needs to be worked toward during a marriage.

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