Maybe if you stopped patronizing her, she might actually listen to what you're saying.

Ok in fariness it sounds like Holdencannan's child should maybe not have more vaccines. They do have many common components. I don't think it's really the same thing as saying 'oh just try a different one' as you can do with antibiotics. My child took penicillin several times and then suddenly had a reaction. They…

It's hard to have a more balanced discussion because the risks associated with vaccines for most people are so small as to be almost negligible compared to the benefits. It's like when a talk show tries to present a "balanced" discussion on global warming- they give 50% of the airtime to someone who represents what…

All together now: "Correlation does not equal causation."

If my child had an adverse reaction to a vaccination I would NEVER encourage others to avoid them. I would want every child around her vaccinated as much as possible to ensure the herd immunity that would protect her. Because if she, by allergic reaction or neurological sensitivity, cannot tolerate vaccines she is…

I think the most important point made in this article is not about those who choose not to vaccinate (which there have always been, and will always be - my husband almost died of whooping cough as a child because of his hardcore fundamentalist anti-Western medicine mom, and I also know a lot of hippies who did not…

The thing that drives me crazy is that these anti-vaxxers all seem to think (in the UK at least) that the diagnoses of Autism went up in the 90s-00s because of the MMR vaccines not because that is when understanding of autism flourished. And that because the age when autism appears and is diagnosable is around the…

Oregon girl this is for you.

I, for one, am sad about this.

Nevaeh is so played out. When I first heard it, I thought it was cute but now it has become the most common uncommon name ever.

I would say this doesn't

they're just fucking overalls.

Raccoons are not horrible! With their stripy tails and their fat fluffy bodies and their lil creepy human hands and their omnivorous diets and their SWEET DANCE MOVES

"This provoked an argument, as Mr. Cheeze accused me of trying to push my non-gender conformist ideas onto the kid." .... as opposed to the rest of world trying to push gender conformist ideas onto her. You keep doing what you're doing, show her she has a choice. Show her she can be who and what she wants to be, not…

Don't worry. All clothes are for everyone, really, first. AND more importantly, in another three years, she will fight you tooth and nail over clothes, so enjoy your moment of dressing her like you want now. It won't be over girly or boy clothes either. It will be over things like "This has sleeves!!! I hate…

Very badly, according to my mother. My use of the language should be illegal.

Hello Cheeze. I would say that you are not pushing your ideas in my opinion. At that age, dress the kid how you like. Once they get to the age where they can speak to you, let them pick their own appropriate clothes. Best of luck Madam.

Just like with everything else, I'm sure you'll expose her to all her varied choices in many arenas.....clothes should be part of that. Comfy, fun and cute! Girly is always an option.

There is actually no such thing as "girl clothes" and "boy clothes," those distinctions are all fake and only continue to exist because we collectively and bizarrely persist in the delusion that they are real. Fortunately, any individual can just get off that train anytime, as you already have, and is better for it.…