Who would’ve thought the 3 am boat crash in Miami would involve drugs and alcohol

Well he’s not getting a new iPhone, that’s for sure.

I’ve been thinking recently how funny it is that after seven years of promising to have a super-awesome health care bill with no downsides, when they actually have to turn in their homework it’s such an atrocious proposal that hospitals, doctors, insurance companies, the AARP, ultra-conservative Republicans, moderate…

This article hits home for me. I was paralyzed at the age of 21 in 2014, and while I’ve had a very lucky recovery, I will always face a lifetime of related medical costs. I know that there are millions of people in similar situations, and it filled me with rage to watch Paul Ryan give that fucking PowerPoint…

Steve Bannon is not uneducated. It defies belief that someone who understands Wall Street and capitalism

It bears mentioning that you should schedule this pantsless week in the summer, if you live in the North. Then you can just sit outside in the yard and await progress.

I have a boy and a girl. I assure you, they are both terrible in different ways.

Here’s to re-using pullups when they are dry. I totally did that. No shame.

Preach. I’m not sitting down and having my waistband hit my (rather small) tits EVER AGAIN!

My friend’s daughter wouldn’t potty train. They eventually refused to keep changing her diapers, and she began changing her OWN diapers, which she did until shortly after her 4th birthday, when she decided to potty train herself.

Fabled kid alert: My nephew started daycare and was still in diapers. My brother and sister-in-law got a note sent home from school mentioning how great he was doing using the potty at school. They were floored and when they asked him, he said “I go on the potty at school! Not at home though!” They sorted him out…

My pediatrician has told me that night training has far more to do with physical development than day training. Their bladders have to be developed enough to hold and their brains have to be developed enough at the same time. We were told that up until about age 6, there would likely be intermittent periods of night…

To be fair, it’s your first. I think everyone uses a much more scattershot method with their first unless they spent their pre-child days raising siblings or somesuch. And the 2nd kid does it faster cuz you have more experience plus they watch their older sibling.

Potty training is such a (excuse the pun) crap shoot. Some kids get a sticker chart and are golden, some kids just decide their done one day and that’s it (mine would have wallowed in her own crapulence forever, I’m convinced), some just need a few packs of m&m’s, some succumb to peer pressure, some need a little…

Those were NOT the inspirational potty-training stories I was hoping to hear, kazari and purple toes! :D I have a 2.5-year-old who is hooked on pull-ups, doesn’t accept bribes, and will verbally communicate when he is peeing and pooping but only sits when he wants to.

See, that’s what I’ve come across insofar as girls potty-training goes. Most of the parents I’ve talked to, they just say, “Oh, one day she decided she didn’t want to wear diapers anymore, and that’s how we trained her.” I’m like WHAT THAT’S NOT FAIR! haha

with my first we went full-hog with pull-ups, mostly because we...honestly weren’t mentally ready for the poop-and-pee-mageddon it would involve, so we hoped the myth of the pull-up as potty-trainer would work. Needless to say, it didn’t. We have all boys, and our oldest seemed like he was more than happy to wear…

We used pampers in the hospital, but then buy diapers at Costco where they sell Huggies.

Or parents could use the patented Artless Parents method, wherein the child wears underwear of their favorite characters and are then shamed relentlessly for soiling on She-Ra or the Care Bears.

“We would never tell mom implicitly when to start,” he said.