I really liked the No Drama Discipline book. It gives you strategies to stop behavior in the moment, and how to teach your kids, rather than just yelling at them to do what you want. They also address the fact that as a parent, you will yell at your kids. No one is perfect. The important thing is that you apologize…

His tweet about Pittsburgh is such a goddamned lie. My daycare, less than half a mile away from Tree of Life, had to close early because they weren’t given enough information about what was happening with his visit and were afraid parents weren’t going to be able to pick up their kids because of protests. Protests…

I meant he’s supportive of my work out habits, and I his (from a budgeting and time perspective). We made the decision to prioritize exercise as parents because it helps with long term health. Yes, it’s his job as a father to get kids ready in the morning, but both partners have to be willing to prioritize exercise…

Since my work schedule is 7a-4p, I won’t see my kids in the morning no matter what and my husband gets them ready while I go work out. I wake up around 4:45a to get to the gym so I can be to work on time and then I do day care pickup and dinner is on the table when he gets home around 5:45. Kids are in bed by 7/7:30…

Two words: tide pods.

All I can afford at RH is the paint, but goddamn the colors are AMAZING.

ThredUp also has a decent maternity section. LeTote has a slightly edgier maternity clothing to rent than StitchFix.

Asos and Seraphine have dresses that go from pregnancy to nursing, no problem. Seraphine is pricey but the clothes are well structured and look nice both during pregnancy and post partum.

A lot of kids can learn to sign before they speak. This is not unusual, nor does it require backstory...

Thank you for this. My doctor and I have lengthy discussions when she prescribes me anything, especially because I’m allergic to sulfa drugs and my nursing kid is allergic to penicillin. Finding an antibiotic for my last sinus infection (went to the doc after 10 days because I was trying to treat it on its own), was a…

That movie destroyed me forever. It doesn’t help that my brother’s name is Zachary.

It looks like they’re both ascending the steps.

Rash guards for adults are in. Just ask J Crew, Athleta, Old Navy etc. My favorite bathing suit is a one piece long sleeved white and blue striped suit from JCrew (goes up to size 18 now) with a zipper down the middle for easy access so my child can nurse.

My second is a teeshirt style one piece from JCrew with an…

Oh it’s so ridiculous and I don’t actually mean to say that they don’t target black people, because they definitely do, even if they don’t own up to it. There’s a few of us who call it out for what it is and are constantly explaining why maybe calling the cops in Pittsburgh for really minor shit that isn’t even…

I live in a diverse area and am part of a facebook group that is predominantly the white people in the neighborhood. They call the cops for EVERYTHING and honestly believe they’re making their neighborhood safer. They describe perfectly innocent behavior and then say “so I called the cops.” Half the group fawns all…

My mother does this to me and has done this to me my entire life. She literally does not listen to me until I yell or scream and then tells me I’m melodramatic.

She didn’t believe I had asthma and let me cry in the snow while cross country skiing (worst exercise for my asthma) because she thought I needed to “toughen…

That was actually a big plot point in the past season and the show does interrogate that assumption regularly. It actually nearly drove them to divorce.

I love her too! I think she’s brilliant, and it kind of confuses me because her character on Blackish has had to make these choices, so it’s not like she’d be completely unaware of the reality of many women out there.

AND YES SO MUCH TO THE MEN THING! I have a great husband who does so much at home, but I work in tech w…

It’s specifically the “neither did many women in your personal life” part. I’m fine with her not making that choice, or never having to, but to say that it’s no longer a thing is really not true.

Cute. I know a quite a few women who have due to childcare constraints and the demands of early mother hood, and I’m a bit younger than her.

Summer Lee is black.