Yeah I’ve said this to my childless friends who ask if it’s harder with kids, and explain that actually having a child is an amazing way to stay grounded and focused on the meaningful things in my life when everything else in the world is nuts. But yes I am also rather privileged and can’t claim that my experience is…

“And other factors”

Like I don’t have enough to worry about as a pregnant person right now. Let’s add peoples’ judgy comments on top of it! 

We live in a country run by wealthy, older, mostly white men. It’s beyond their comprehension that people are quitting their jobs because childcare literally costs more than many people take home in a year. It’s beyond their comprehension that, by the time many couples have the income and stability to afford children,…

This situation has actually had the opposite effect on me: after spending most of my youth focused on having fun, traveling and my career, I feel the need to focus on other things, and having a baby is top of the list. The rest seems so trivial now. All of this comes with huge helpings of guilt about all my privilege.

As an IVF baby, I think it’s more complicated. Adoption isnt easy or cheap either and it’s interesting people always pull out this excuse like only infertile couples/parents should be responsible for adopting kids who don’t need homes. It puts adopted kids in the position of like a last resort instead of being wanted…

Having worked for some sports teams over the years, I’d take the position that hockey players are ill-educated but baseball players are incapable of education. There’s just nothing there to work with. Cognitively, I mean. As the point of the article attests, there’s a lot to work with otherwise. 

Ohh I’m going to argue that this is a fairly America-myopic viewpoint.

As a person who would love nothing more than to clear a similar path through every NHL locker room, I feel so seen by this. A million times thank you. 

You’re never going to remember the floral arrangements, hors d-oeuvres, or music. But if they make you pay for drinks at their wedding, you’re going to carry that with you until the day you die.

Dressing up for weddings (and more importantly, getting likes on Instagram) is a sport.

What the hell, people‽

I don’t really have an opinion to share on this story, but I can genuinely say that the culture shift that’s taking place to define and identify abusive behavior (besides just physical abuse) has helped me reflect on the way I treat people, especially those close to me. This public conversation (along with a tough…

I mean, I doubt her $20 Fenty lipstick is the reason she can’t afford tens of thousands of dollars a year for daycare.

You do know lesbians can also be moms, right?

What a weird take on this topic.  One, I don’t get what the 6 lesbians have to do with it at all.  Two, having a full time job that requires that you find childcare during work hours is not equivalent to having someone else rear your child.  Unless you’re claiming that *all* working moms are letting other people raise…

What an utter nightmare. Infertility can be rough enough as it is, but the sheer emotional trauma of carrying and giving birth to two children only to learn they’re not yours, and having to give them back is horrible - and that’s before we factor in the ridiculous amount of money they spent on it, too.

Hawaii was definitely the beginning of the end. That whole season was a mess, filled with people who were fame hungry and wanted nothing more than to be on camera. I remember Ruthie and Kai (?? )would just stand around naked in the earlier episodes, and I was never sure if it was because they wanted more or less…

What that map shows me is places where people have access to doctors who can diagnose autism. Even in a large metropolitan area in the US with access to an excellent children’s hospital, it was a 6 month-1 year waiting list for a developmental pediatrician to get my son diagnosed. People with autism are…

Rates of autism go up with better awareness, reporting, and diagnosis. Full stop. Rates will probably continue to go up as we are realizing it presents differently in girls and many go undiagnosed or misdiagnosed.