Walks in the park, esp. with a playground, story time at the library or bookstore, look into mothers' groups in your area. Look into [www.themommiesnetwork.org] and see if there's a forum for your area. I'm a part of my local one and they ALWAYS have playdates and mothers' days out. Good luck! Know that this phase…

I'm fully prepared to leave a just-served, fresh-from-the-oven dinner sitting on my table or a cart full of groceries if my kid starts tantruming. It's my job to show her how to act in public. That makes me less of an asshole to the people around me and more of an asshole to the store employees who now have to…

Was it here that I read the story of Illinois not checking sex offender registries before hiring people to receive state funds to babysit poor families' children? I mean, what is the point of having a sex offender registry if you're not going to use it in a situation like that?

"well she says she's a he but he looks like a he only he has she parts."

My ex-boyfriend's sister was divorcing her second husband because, as she said, she loved him and he was her best friend, but she wasn't in love with him anymore. And even then, at the tender age of 19, I remember thinking that her ideas about commitment were vastly different from mine. Loving and sharing life with…

What makes you think he wants women to vote?

I want to live in a world where I never see or hear about anyone from Jersey Shore again. And also where I own Sharon Osbourne's shoes. Those are darling.

Gabriel Aubrey #corrections

Jim Carrey = Champ Kind in Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy.

No, he actually said, "Not for termination or anything like that."

Thank you!

When I was pregnant with my first baby at 33, the doctor offered me information on screening for Downs and other chromosomal abnormalities and specified that that information was for planning purposes, not for any other reason. I sort of scoffed, thinking, "Not your decision to make, doc." Fortunately, that baby is…

Leanne Rimes is exactly right. That person was completely out of line, whether Leanne was in front of family or not.

Yeah, that squicked me out. Who says that?

They thought they were being diverse by using a black model anyway. Can't they get some accolades for their token minority model?

I love how the email automatically assumes that a woman who stays chaste until marriage will marry a man who's been sexually active with enough harlots to have contracted HPV. No indication that, you know, men should stay abstinent as well.

Maybe I'm an idealist, but this just confirms how corporately-designed the music industry and radio have become. I feel like, back in the day, there were enough radio stations that played music people wanted to hear and now it's just all Clear Channel designated crap. That Katy Perry has a lot of number ones means…

Actually, no, he doesn't say stuff like that about ethnic groups, gays, women, people with disabilities. He says stuff about people who fit into any of those groups who do something particularly egregious or stupid or mean, but he doesn't tend to paint with that broad a brush. It's more a matter of, "There's a guy…

Yeah, I was thinking Djimon Hounsou and Michael Jordan, myself, but same general idea. And yes, Idris Elba, you are sexy.

The link at the end of the story takes you to the Jezebel story, not Forbes.