I came here to say exactly this - I "worked" on getting pregnant from about age 38-40 when I realized that actually making a baby wasn't my goal, being a mother was. We adopted our daughter 10 years ago and not a day goes by where I don't feel grateful that we did it this way. Adoption is not easy, but it's the best…

Aw, thanks! The books are called The Care & Keeping of You. There's one for younger girls and one for older girls. xxoo

They do if you have a toddler knocking on your door!

A nice antidepressant takes care of this completely.

I cannot agree more! I had a boyfriend who took an inordinately long time to ejaculate and I remember constantly asking for doggy-style so I could close my eyes and rest while he got on with it.

For Christ's sake, when do you do your laundry?

As many here have said previously, the best way (in my experience) to handle growing girls and their body issues is to (1) have zero women's magazines in the house; (2) focus on feeling good/good health; and (3) when they do have issues, talk them out. I bought my daughter the American Girl puberty books on the…

Came here to say just that. The day my 12-year-old asked for a swimsuit with ruffles to hide her emerging boobs and nonexistent tummy was the day I died inside.

Joanna, thank you for using a picture of an actual ripe banana. For too long we've been subject to images of tough, not-nearly-edible, bright yellow bananas. In fact, my office mates and I are currently in the middle of a banana war, fighting endlessly and passionately about when a banana becomes edible (certainly not…

The "potential Becky/US celebrity" confused me. Sorry!

I get it, but why can't I call myself whatever I want? I was a victim of rape and survived that rape. God, I hate academic pieces like this. In any event, I came here to argue that ANY use - or overuse - of a word, a descriptor, as in this case, ends up meaning nothing or the thing it was meant to avoid. We called the…

And that, my friends, is how you get pregnant by sitting on a toilet seat.

Wow! I do . . . *wink*

Rita Ora is American? I only tolerated her because I thought she was British and possibly a fourth Delevingne sister!

If you don't like ice, go move to Great Britain! Ice is American!

Patti Davis, your bullshit antics probably caused your father more grief than about anything else, including Iran-Contra. Why don't you step your hypocritical, narcissistic ass out of here?

I, too, am utterly annoyed by my lackluster forefathers. While the Rockefellers and Gettys were setting up capitalist empires, my lazy ancestors were satisfied with a dirt farm and a well. Thanks a lot!

And my goddamned kid can't even put a ketchup bottle back in the fridge.

Viola Davis is a goddamned treasure.

The Y is the answer to everything. I have a membership in Kansas, but use it wherever I go be it San Diego or St. Louis, etc. I've never had a problem. Are they fancy? On the contrary. Which is why I like it so much.