What really gets me is that a lot of anti-vaxxers see autism as worse than death

I hate to say or even think it but won’t the borderline insane anti-vaccers of the U.S. seize on this?

Honestly, the quizzing I get from his tiny classmates is hysterical.

I’m a single mum, and when my kid was five he was getting grief about it in school. I asked him how he responded when kids questioned him, and he replied thusly, “I tell ‘em that my mummy had two husbands and they went away when I was borned.” This is his version of me being married once, amicably divorced, then…

I don’t know, maybe the kid asked mom if she ever had other babies, or about miscarriages. My niece is 5 and knows all about how babies are made, so maybe it came up while the mom was reading a child-friendly sex-ed book to the kid? Who knows.

I can see how a “I always wanted a baby and nearly had one, but she died and now I’m so lucky to have you” conversation might have happened. I dunno. Don’t worry. Kids are nuts. :)

Why would saying she's a teenager automatically imply that she's a victim? Teens do fucked up shit all the time and 19 is definitely a teen.

Thank you!!! It’s an honor just to be nominated!

Wow, is the era of Jaydens and Braydens and Kaydens really over? Maybe those never made it in the top ten for either list, but these seem pretty conservative.

No snark, honest...just ignorance: What’s an Aranza? It sounds like an Italian sports car, which is kind of cool, I guess. Sort of like naming your child “Mazda?” Is it a name from a movie? I could Google but always prefer Jezzie replies! :-)

I’m forever grateful to my Mom for successfully vetoing my Dad’s insistence on naming me Schroeder. He really loved Peanuts.

On the other hand, it was really nice of Barnes and Noble to give Helen Lovejoy a management position.

One more story. One of the families in our neighborhood were immigrants from China. The youngest son was and is a wonderful artist. Back in high school, he won a national competition and one of his paintings was shown at a museum in DC. His parents worked within walking distance but refused to go because they were…

My Mom passed a little over a year ago and I miss her every single day. Her parents were immigrants and all the men in her family were coal miners starting back when boys dropped out of elementary school to start working in the mines. She survived a childhood full of deep poverty and anti-immigrant bias, taking away…

This is one of those stories that makes me question whether or not I have what it takes to be a mom.

I guess I was thirteen because it was shortly after A Walk to Remember had been released on VHS (oh yeah VHS!), my younger brother was at a sleep over and my mom decided to treat me to a mother-daughter movie night. Seeing as she was a single parent, time + disposable income was rare so this was a big deal. I remember…

My mom grew up on a farm in Kansas in the 1920s, so she had a really different attitude about pets than the rest of us. My dad loved all cats and dogs, and so did all of us kids, and we did things that drove her crazy like let them on the furniture or on the bed. In my mom’s opinion, cats should really be mostly…

When we had a late termination for medical reasons last summer, my mom flew out to meet us, rented a car and got a hotel suite, made me eat food, drove us to all four of my appointments at the clinic and took care of our two year old the whole time so my husband and I could grieve our lost pregnancy and rest without…

A few years ago (before I was married) on April Fools I texted my mom mid conversation, “Btw, I’m pregnant”.

About 10 years or so ago, one night when I was visiting from college, I admitted to my mom that I was smoking weed. I was scared because all through high school and middle school she’d tell me over and over how she’d never done drugs. I believed her of course.