I feel like maybe we have the same daughter? How’s the door slamming/kicking/furniture throwing at your house?

I’m expecting a girl and I fear no one is gonna get out of this alive. We told people days ago and I feel like I already have a permanent eye twitch.

This brings up another trend that I hate. Men are referred to as men, but women are referred to as ladies. (At least we are starting to get away from being called girls). Fuck that. There is a gendered behavior expectation in “ladies” while men simply get to be. It implies that we will are proper and demure, and it…

i ordered 14 of these chairs for the jez office

Yeah, my cousin’s little girl was obsessed with being pretty for a while. It was the cornerstone of her tiny four year old existence - something like this would have totally devastated her. I don’t think she’d have behaved any better - she was four, her misbehaviour was generally too much energy to contain and a…

Exactly. Both boys and girls got told to ‘stop being ugly.’

Fucking... NO! No, no, no, no a million times no.

“Acting ugly” was an actual phrase I grew up hearing when I was being a little snot. Hell, I use it sometimes. I grew up okay so whatever.

These chairs are fucking horrible and I will go off on anyone on my Facebook who posts one of these on my timeline because I have a daughter.

This is horseshit. (Not the article, the chairs.) And what breaks my heart is that the kind of parents who think it’s okay to expose their kids to this shit think it’s “cute” and “funny.” When people talk about socializing kids into rigid, patriarchal gender roles and how that’s harmful to everyone (boys and men as…

I think what annoys me more is the materialism behind the idea of purchasing an extra little chair just for time-outs. Man, people have too much disposable income/space to store shit.

“She’s breaking things, what do I do? THEY DIDNT HAVE THIS IN THE LITTLE GIRL HANDBOOK, ONLY IN THE LITTLE BOY VERSION AND I DIDNT BUY THAT ONE!”

I read the worst thing on Facebook the other day and I just really need to share, “This quote my client said to me always makes me tear up: ‘your daughter grows up and becomes a wife but, your son is your son for life.’” I FOREVER NOW MUST TYPE IN ANGER CAPS BECAUSE WHAT IS THIS? WHY? HOW CAN YOU EV? I JUST!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yeah, I was thinking the same way — “ugly” in this context is applied equally to both sexes. At least in my grandmother’s house.

I’m struggling a bit now with how to get Lil CatChick to be courteous and respectful (her 10 yr old attitude is ON POINT) without at all squelching her ability to stand up for herself, speak her mind, or argue her case. I had none of these skills growing up and I still suffer from it in my 40s. In fact, I’d rather her…

OH MY GOD THIS FUCKING CHAIR. I spent a chunk of this past weekend railing about this chair on Twitter. It showed up on my Facebook more than once, from parents of young girls, and I wanted to scream.

This pumpkins spice madness must end. IT’S EVERYWHERE AND THAT IS NOT A GOOD THING.

By the Lords Of Cobalt, don’t let little Starbuck lead the Halloween parade in toxic face paint. Spend another nickel and get the Ben Nye.

Yes!

Sylvanian Families! I had so many when I was a kid, and now my niece is into them...but some of the animal families are downright weird looking.