Here is why I never had a nanny, an au pair, or a housekeeper: because I cannot afford to pay them what they are worth. When my kids were small, I figured a person would have to earn $30-40k to be able to live decently in my area. I couldn’t afford it, so I dealt with my dirty house and the unrelenting of parenthood.…

(“for its part”, not “for its piece”)

This makes me squirm as a professional nanny; just gross. When I worked in Atlanta, I had to schlep my little 3 year old boy to playdates and social gatherings and it was always noxious and the mothers ignored me. One birthday party of note was out in the burbs at a giant mcmansion where the very glossy and well to do…

It’s beside your point, but the person would be responsible for the kids for that whole nine hours, sleeping or waking. They can’t just up and leave at any time, and they’d have to deal with it if there was an accident or someone got sick.

Clearly, your anecdote has little to do with the issues described in the article.

Regardless how you feel about Williams, the faint video is disturbing. The loss of control/panic in her eyes hits me in the gut every time.

I can’t handle this. Nope.

It would be worth doing something like this in the U.S., if for no other reason than watch the hosts of Fox & Friends all drop dead of aneurysms as they struggle for an appropriate reaction to it.

Or, she could have had an assistant write that tweet. <adjusts tinfoil hat>

It reminds me very much of people protesting allowing transgender people to use the restroom of their choice. “But we have to protect our WOMEN!” Yes, because right now, no rapist will go into the women’s restroom because it’s illegal. That’s definitely what is preventing rapes. Rapists wouldn’t break the law by going…

Is it my computer, or are these pictures spliced in an unbecoming way for everyone?

I mean the #1 question I would ask myself before deciding whether to kill as many of my peers as possible is definitely “but will the guns both fit and be neatly concealed in my school-issued backpack?” I would just hate getting written up for breaking an important rule like that.

I would completely fill my bag with tampons in protest.

Clear bags make me furious. Some retailers require their employees to use them. You can put a makeup bag in your clear bag and poof- no more clear bag, but if you suddenly need to buy a box of tampons- there they are for everyone to see. Honestly, if a kid wanted to bring something illegal to school, they could wrap…

Clear bags are stupid. Is everything in the bag going to be clear? No everything will not be clear.

She looks great and I’m glad she’s getting work. But the glossing over the DUIs is really irritating given the fact a regular person would still be under the jail for half the crimes she committed. She ran over a human being with her car! So she can fuck right off with the giggling.

Yeah how DARE she send a couple champagne for their wedding day?! What a monster.

Iron & Wine’s “Flightless Bird, American Mouth.” “First Day of My Life” by Bright Eyes was a close second!

Are we sure there wasn’t a lawsuit tucked inside the package?

The LSFYL songs were TERRIBLE this season. All that VH1 money and they couldn’t get a Janet song, or Carly Rae Jepsen, or even Since U Been Gone???