I also don't understand why the WHO wants to prevent people in hospitals from receiving formula. I had a C-section, my milk was delayed, my baby had jaundice and was losing more than the recommended amount of weight. So we gave him formula, because he needed it. What should they have done, charged me for it?

Hi - School Psychologist here. There is really not an incentive to diagnose students with autism, and if anything the pressure goes in the other direction. An autism diagnosis can lead to an out of district placement, which is hugely expensive (around $80,000 per year). It's news to me that schools get more money for…

What, so people have to give up their Uterine Anger workouts just because they're pregnant?

My brother eats a chicken sandwich every day for lunch and dinner. I need to get him set up with a blog.

And they can come from biology without being genetic, too. If I remember my college readings, Simone de Beauvoir explained the development of the patriarchy in part by the fact that women couldn't participate in the work force due to having babies all the time.

This is not science. That's the part that makes me angry. In other areas of evolutionary biology they research genomes using advanced statistical analysis or even located particular genes. In evolutionary psychology it's just like "hey here's this thing people do, must be evolution!" and they get published. It's a…

The problem is that this isn't science. It's just guessing. There are small physiological differences in typical male and female brains and they lead to some mild cognitive differences (e.g. a bias toward multi-tasking vs. linear thinking), but even then we don't know if that's the result of evolution.

My bachelorette party was a ghost tour in a local cemetery.

I'm into week 24 and have yet to be groped. So maybe it's not inevitable?

I really like the name Hannibal, but I backed off the idea of actually using it.

I'm asking this because I'm having a baby soon, and I will be returning to work after 6 months. What do people do if they're returning to work, and their baby will only drink straight from the tit? Some people need to return to work after only 6 weeks, and I'm wondering how that works.

The UK heavily participated in the slave trade until it was outlawed in the early 1800s.

I think there are some classes that are hard to teach because a large number of the kids have learning problems, so they get distracted easily AND they try to disrupt the class to avoid doing work. But aside from that, it seems like over time teachers get better they are at presenting really structured lessons, set…

I'm obsessed with Ponds - the cold cream for washing and the dry skin cream. Super cheap and better than the expensive brands I've bought.

What are the older kids doing that's messing you up?

School psychologist here, so not quite the same thing (it definitely is easier in my 2nd year). My mom taught for 30 years and said the first few years were a complete disaster. She had low expectations for teaching though, so she didn't give up, and then it got much better over the years. I think behavior management…

It kills me when people say "I don't consider rap to be music. That's just how I feel." The "just how I feel" justification of stupid opinions is irritating in itself. But also, it IS music, whether or not you like to listen to it.

That's nice. He will date Russians, Italians, or White people.

That's the point - by focusing on thoughts instead of feelings, it encourages coming from an evidence based place instead of a defensive position that the other person can't engage with. Otherwise you end up with something like this:

But you're supposed to actually distinguish between thoughts and feelings in CBT, because they're not the same thing. So if you said "I feel like you always attack me," a CBT therapist would help you clarify that it's actually a thought you're expressing. The difference is that thoughts can be analyzed and adapted,…