I recently went to Paris and it was my first time out of the country. While I did have a really good time, I definitely felt that if I didn’t talk about how awesome it was or if I had any complaints, no matter how small, I’d be ungrateful and/or spoiled. Even though I paid for it all myself, I still felt like it was…

I hate the coworkers who act like I need to go OUT and DO SOMETHING FABULOUS every single weekend. One guy interrogates me with particularly odd questions every Monday, ie “Did you survive the weekend?” Well, I’m here, so obviously. Also, wtf do you think I do? Blindfolded cave diving?

It was a misstep and tone deaf, however... The left’s cancel culture is going to kill us. Trump was never a Republican and he isn’t (really) now, but the Republican party doesn’t care and Trump is giving them everything they want. Every candidate in the race has a valid reason not to support them. Creepy uncle Joe,…

As a customer service person in the vacation industry, they don’t have an issue telling us when they had a shitty time. ;)

You know Elizabeth Warren is hitting a nerve when the editorial pages of the Wall Street Journal, National Review and Fox News are soiling their pants responding to each and every one of her proposals. Proposals by the way that wait for it........ actually lay out how she is going to pay for it. Warren needs to hang…

“...and promised that his mere presence in the White House would make everything okay...”

Her focus on policy is one of the reasons she’s my top pick right now. I have a really hard time imagining much of this being enacted, but I love that she’s putting them out there, and wish the media would give more attention to this than to the horse race stuff they usually focus on (not you all).

We used the velcro ones. I think we only had 4 but he didn’t puke much at night. It just took us two weeks to figure out to put him down right after nursing and get him wrapped in there as quick as possible. If you wait, there was fighting. And swaddling with blankets never worked for us- too much fighting so it…

My baby would only sleep in the RNP, too. Luckily no flat spot for her. Our crib was a giant storage bin for 6 months. 

We co-slept, and at my son’s 4 month checkup his ped asked where he was sleeping. I said, Do you really want to know? And he said yes, so I said, he sleeps with us, but it was either co-sleep or drown him in the tub. The look on the pediatrician’s face in the second it took him to realize I was joking was a sight to…

I’ve been very fortunate that my old friends with kids are all really supportive and chill about child rearing practices, and I’ve also met two other women whose children are in my son’s daycare class who also live in our neighborhood, and our kids really like playing together, and they’re both non-judgy, and “real”…

And that the recommendations are so punishingly limited. If you had a baby who would sleep at all without being held consider yourself blessed. If you had a baby that would sleep in an empty crib on their back... give that unicorn child the keys to the city.

4 kids with serious reflux, one of whom I thought was never going to gain weight because of the amounts of puking. There are frustratingly few or no actual safe sleeping solutions for babies that will not sleep on their backs. It is a completely lose on all ends situation.

I hate shit like this.

My mom kept parenting over the phone “He just has to get used to sleeping on his back!” And then she visited and realized- babies don’t like sleeping on their backs. Our generation is going to have way more sleep deprived parents- safer? yes, but really annoying. After 2 weeks, we finally mastered the swaddle and…

The problem with this product was that parents used this beyond the recommended period of use, i.e. when the infant could roll over, which is not really what this thing is for. We used this for my daughter for the first three months and it worked really well but once she was starting to hint at rolling over, we moved…

The anecdote you outline was us with our 2nd, not our first. With our first, we were able to do crib sleeping from the get go. Our 2nd, not so much.

What she actually said was a cup of water could have won both her own and AOC's district. Not click baitey enough? You just needed to set fire to a non existent fight? Don't we get enough of this in main stream media? Do better.

She’s right. I know this isn’t a popular fact on Splinter but the three progressives that seem to be getting all the attention (you know who) are all from extremely safe districts. They are not the reason the Democrats won congress. The Democrats won congress because they had another 60 odd freshman run and win in…

Yeah, but she ain’t wrong. I’m all for keeping progressive momentum going in pulling the Democratic party more to the left through primaries. But in 2018 the House was flipped by less leftist Democrats winning in swing districts, not the (outstanding people that we need more of) handful of progressives who won in…