Why do I have so many intelligent, college-educated friends who have elementary-aged children who still sleep in bed with them? Who will call and sigh about their lack of sex lives but Oh well, little stevie sleeps with us still so what can do you". and I yell, what do you MEAN what can you do? You're the parent!…

As a former preschool teacher, those kids NEED preschool. Otherwise they end up being really poorly socialized and obsessed with their parents. Fun fact too, children who are obsessed with their parents are freaking annoying and do very poorly with other children and their teachers. I think it's actually selfish to…

Really? We didn't do any of that for our three kids. It's a wonder they survived!

Attachment parenting moms drove me crazy because they put so much pressure on themselves

You're my hero. We haven't had kids yet but I want to be just like you when I become a parent.

I've never been a helicopter mom by any stretch of the imagination, and am not still married. I don't think the two things are linked. I think either you have a good relationship, fundamentally on the same page, going into parenthood, in which case the relationship will be fine, or you don't, and parenthood shines a…

Kids need some independence in order to grow into functional human beings. When I was in grad school, one of my professors told me he could tell which students were raised by helicopter parents because they were so terrified of failure and had no intellectual curiosity or critical thinking skills.

I notice that current slacker moms do about what my mother did in the 1970s, and she was a high-contact earth mother homegrown-kale homemade-quilt La Leche League RN mom. But she sure left us with relatives and baby sitters sometimes, and I'm glad of it; way to find out that there are other ways to be.

Definitely true — to a degree. It's certainly possible to avoid this happening, but lots of people fall into the trap.

I love that you refer to your parenting style as being a slacker mom, and I will now fully embrace that as my parenting style as well. I'm all about babysitters, self-play/entertainment for my daughter, having interests outside of the home, and loving my husband fiercely and just as passionately as I did before our…

PREACH. So many of my friends seem to make their mothering decisions based entirely on a mix of guilt and fear and not based on what they want/think is best for the kid. I have not had that problem so far, which leads to awkward conversations like:

Sort of related to this, Elisabeth Badinter published an article a while back about how these new types of helicopter/attachment/earth mama parenting - but particularly motherhood - are undoing the advances we've achieved in the last 50 years and basically holding women back but more perversely, through guilt and the…

As someone who actually writes children's books, let me add to your rebuttal: "No. no you could not have done that." There are tens of thousands of unpublished writers for young kids. Write a children's book and submit it to an agent. Hold your breath. I dare you.

Parker Posey in Party Girl was the inspiration for both my wardrobe and lifestyle whilst in my 20's.

I coveted Keira Knightley's green dress from Atonement sooooo much that the owner of this women's clothing boutique I worked at senior year of high school helped me find a knock-off for prom :')

I have one that is always saying "OMG!! LUCKIEST GIRL EVAR!!!" about everything her husband does. Honey, most of the rest of us also have husbands who help us when we're sick or vacuum once in awhile. It's just called not being an asshole and isn't really brag-worthy.

If they're not the most insecure, they're certainly the most nauseating.

I'm all about Lucy Honeychurch in pure Edwardian gorgeousness.

My adult wardrobe is almost wholly inspired by two famous outfits:

Also a lot of what Michelle Pfeiffer wore in Married to the Mob.