I don’t know, at five I thought that he should have been further along developmentally. Even if he was still nursing he should not have been as emotionally dependent on it as he was portrayed. I don’t necessarily think extended breastfeeding is pathological by itself, but his feelings were not developmentally typical.…

The author did a good job though capturing just how irrational and selfish children are. You want to drop kick him, but at least he showed signs of being an actual child instead of a fairy idealization.

Yeah, the narritive did feel trapped by the framing. I could see the author trying to bring in the adult by having Jack “overhear” the exposition, but I wanted so much more of the mother's voice. It felt like she was a little bit erased from the plot at points which is natural when your protagonist is a small child,…

I kind of liked how the second half turned out. You could see the mother struggling for healing and separation while still trying to meet the needs of her son, and how she slowly cracked under the pressure. I liked how the marks of his time in room slowly fell away piece by piece like the hair cut and the loss of the…

I made the mistake of watching the rifftrax first. That was so amazingly funny that a permanent soft spot has been etched inside me for the franchise. I read all the books and I can’t even say that I didn’t like it.

Not gonna lie, evil pregnant Rosalie would have made the whole thing worth it.

I read the original as an adult. I have shame.

I enjoyed hate reading the original and I am enjoying hate reading this one almost as much.

True confession: I am reading it and it is kind of working for me emotionally. Like it isn’t good, but it is guilty pleasure enjoyable.

Team Underpants.

My bangs were my best life choice. I will ignore anybody who tells me different.

You have just the best nail beds! Your hands are so elegant!

If you go to Asian stores you can buy dried seaweed intended for snacking. It is typically dried with salt and a bit of oil. It has a salty, mineral kind of taste with a sort of sweet aftertaste and the texture is like crunchy puff pastry rolled really thin. It is supposed to go well in soup, but I actually prefer…

Some days I have to close my eyes and chant my mantra “not my kids, not my problem, nobody likes a judgy pants” but seriously! Childhood nutrition is the building block for the rest of your child’s life! It builds their bodies and teaches their palate, and giving in to the kidification of food is setting them up for a…

Unsweetened applesauce is the best! My mom is a food hippie so I didn’t know the sugar kind was even a thing until adulthood. I can understand the appeal of the sugar kind, but absolutely nothing beats the sugar free kind left chunky and served warm...

Dried seaweed. OMG so good and it has all the trace minerals.

Omg, I have friends whose kids are allowed as much juice as they want because “It has fruit so it is healthy.” I would never say anything to their face because I am not an asshole but SERIOUSLY. I don’t even count whole fruit as healthy, let alone the glorious sugar water that we call juice.

Not to go to the sanctimony place but I do, in fact, know at least two sets of functional adult parents who think fruit gummies are healthy. In one case they are comparatively healthy as their family doesn’t keep vegetables in the house, but the other was just sucked in by the whole organic sales pitch.verbiage.

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Ok, just gliding past the whole no underwire thing, why on earth would it be a problem for a woman to be free boobing it? I would feel uncomfortable, but it isn’t exactly a safety concern.