Criticism is almost always needed. It's universal. It's how we grow. As a mom, I am criticized in a multitude of ways every single day of my life. Why should men be excluded from that?

Thank you for this. I saw this dad's post pop up in my newsfeed several times in the past week and it was sweet and all, I guess, but it rubbed me the wrong way. And truthfully, I'm tired of having to parse it out when these things come along (I feel like there is a new dad list out every week). It's like I read…

Aeoteara, Wellington

Did she start making good music and I missed it? Because if she's still making over produced, autotuned poptart shit, I will be celebrating Thanksgiving as planned, thank you very much.

Eh, but I feel like it's always the same conversation. Maybe it's kind of interesting but people typically fall into two camps-1. she'll be hella old when they graduate high school! And oh, yeah-she's old and will die before they grow up! Or-2. more power to her! People can die any ol' day!

When I ordered mine, it was basically laid out 490 times that they print what we tell them to print and do not proofread. I don't think every printer is like that but I think many are. They do not want to claim any responsibility for anything but how it looks.

That's a potential puzzle piece in an enormous puzzle. While ingestion of peanut products probably doesn't come until 1-2 years of age, peanut exposure happens pretty early on (via breast milk for some, via just touching for others). My child was exposed immediately via breast milk and at 4.5 months just by touching…

Sending an unvaccinated child to school to infect other children is punishing innocent children. See the recent measles outbreak in NYC as an example. There's nothing I can do for children with stupid parents except try to force their parents to be less stupid. There is an easy way for them to not be "punished." …

You are the perfect example of the problem with the anti vaccination movement. It's a bunch of people who think so fucking selfishly that they shouldn't be having children in the first place. That's how fucking stupid they are. If for one moment, you think something like vaccination only matters to the vaccinated,…

I don't have your kind of bits (I'm guessing you're a fella) but if I were to kick someone squarely between the testicles, it would not be to startle him.

That would be some sort of laser point kicking if she managed to kick his dick and not even graze his testicles.

I've never known how to articulate very well why I don't like Ricky Gervais. It's not black and white for me. I recognize his talent. I recognize that people with great qualities can be people with terrible qualities too. His terrible qualities outweigh the great for me and it's become more and more prominent the…

I do believe her latest release is about exactly what her Instagram message says.

It's often used as a thickening agent and most people who use it use the unsweetened variety. My understanding is you can't taste the peanut butter. It's often added to commercial tomato sauce for the same reason. Weird, definitely.

Most peanut oil is actually fine for people with peanut allergies to eat, surprisingly. Highly refined peanut oil, which is what *most restaurants/people are using if they're using peanut oil, basically has no peanut protein in it.

I think I'm actually starting to feel bad for her that she feels she always has to be some sort of spectacle. I just don't buy that she does all this because she likes it.

She's talking about Mark-Paul Gosselaar. He, in real life, is Indonesian and Dutch.

I know it wasn't personal to me but if you watch TV, read birth stories, hell, even watch Ellen, that seems to be the prevailing treatment of women who don't get an epi-one where people think they want a medal for doing it, and it's not true for most. So yeah, it hits me the wrong way. There are lots of reasons…

I didn't get the drugs and have never referred to myself or thought of myself as a hero.

Not only that but I could *feel* that the pushing was working. It hurt the more I pushed and the more the head moved along. I honestly thought if I saw things happening, I would be scared to keep going. To each their own and all but it's not a decision I regret.