I’d listen to the pediatrician before some rando lady who’s got a financial interest in your being there.

I’m in a kind of similar situation: I finished taking classes for my PhD, but even though I have a list of things I need to get done, I don’t really have any hard deadlines and nobody’s making schedules for me. The best advice I have for you is 1.) have a routine AT LEAST for getting up in the morning, and maybe for…

If you like mystery shows, Netflix has Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries and Murder in Paradise, which are both fun whodunnits. I also endorse Broadchurch, but while it’s very, very good, it’s much more of a dark drama than those other ones, so you might have to be in the mood for it. In other genres, Grace and Frankie…

I’m pretty sure it’s illegal for the insurance company to tell your parents what you’re being treated for and how, if that’s part of your concern. At any rate, at the very least a checkup with your regular doctor and your standard gyno exam should both be free (I’m assuming by some things in your comment that you have…

My ex in-laws had a labradoodle. She was awesome. Very friendly and incredibly smart. She had tons of energy, though, and their biggest problem with her was teaching her not to jump on people. Also her favorite game was chase, so she would steal my bras and make me chase her around the house to get them back.

I already knew about this, but I clicked through anyway because everything about that movie is wonderful.

See also the retail equivalent: “This doesn’t have a price tag, so I guess it’s free then. HAHAHA.”

PotC is a FANTASTIC movie if you go in expecting Manos, the Hands of Fate with a lot more blood. There are DEMON CHILDREN and a raven pecks a dude’s eye out for no reason. I do suggest booze, though.

My BF’s parents did that to him at least twice while he was growing up. Also a four-person family.

When I was in middle school my family was driving home from my maternal grandparents’ after either Christmas or summer vacation (we usually made that trip twice a year). Nowadays I can make the 12-hour drive in one shot, but when my sister and I were kids we used to stop halfway. Well, this was apparently the year…

When I was about 8, I guess, I figured out that you could shell and eat the little seeds that fell out of pine cones. I figured I was some kind of genius. It was another year, at least, before I found out that you could buy them from the store.

ANY peanut butter is not associated with lowered mortality, or mass-market peanut butter? Because some peanut butter (read: the best peanut butter) is literally JUST ground up peanuts. Does the grinding process work some alchemy by which their life-granting properties, I dunno, escape?

Someone can’t stand all the Lady Attention Mad Max is getting.

Same here! I had to read it over again to make sure I was reading it correctly.

Isla Nublar conservation laws are enforced by the local police

That’s so silly. Everyone knows you only have to abort your FIRST fetus, to prove your loyalty to the cause.

Well, you seemed to be taking me to task for supposedly implying that father’s don’t get judged, so I clarified my position.

They do get judged, but they get judged for different things than moms do. Dads get judged if (and often only if) they walk out, but if they’re showing any interest in parenting at all, they get YouTube videos and claps on the back. Mom’s have to deal with being judged (and judging themselves) about whether they’re…

Part of the difference is that fathers don’t have to fear the dichotomy that is the Good Mom/Bad Mom. Because we do have a stereotype for the mom who’s obsessed with baby gear. Only it’s not Gearhead Mom, it’s Psycho Lady Who Will Call CPS Because You Buckled Your Carseat Wrong.

I’m pretty sure there was only one hanging in the tree for very long. We learned quickly to decapitate them.