It’s never too young to have some age appropriate talks. By 10 he can go looking online for information himself so you definitely would want to stay in front of it. You want him to be comfortable enough to come to you instead of Google when he has questions. Google is full of misinformation that could be potentially…

That doesn’t mean that 80% of people HAVE to have HPV.

My nephew is 10 and I recently had to explain to him (and my/his family) that the creepy adult male at the hotel pool engaged in convo with only him, who then followed him alone into the enclosed spa, was not, indeed, a nice guy/friend. My husband and I were with him and removed him from the spa immediately and left…

talk to your kid - talk about appropriate touching with adults, too, not just the sex talk. stuff.

so did his parents

You could get a T-shirt made that says “I understand that you’re mad, and since you don’t want to believe someone you thought was a good person turned out to be horrible your brain resists being angry at him. It’s a defense mechanism. In time you will accept that this is his fault, but until then you have to stop…

i. Accusing someone of sexual assault (real or faked) is not a route to any kind of money, but rather a lifetime of victim-blaming.

Are we sure he considers his victims to even be human, though?

If someone brings this shit up if you can look them dead in the eye and say, “ya know, I’m a survivor of sexual assault. The men who do rape all look like good guys and they don’t come with warning labels. They all have mothers and friends and relatives who love them, but at the end of the day they use that good cover…

He doesn’t even think it’s rape. That’s the really astonishing thing.

I don’t think she’s pretentious or means to come off that way. I think she’s just a huge dork (I mean that in a nice way lol). She kind of reminds me of my pal who is REALLY into cosplay and is kind of socially awkward and even a little sheltered about certain things (like she had super weird parents and wasn’t…

Wait till they learn coffee doesn’t grow well in the NYC climate.

Sadly I’ve discovered that women just don’t seem to be interested in whether or not a person is a freemason. I don’t know why I even bother going to the lodge anymore.

Oh god, Annie, be careful!