Availability will depend on where you are/funding, but keep in mind that there are lots of different types of therapy/therapist, so if you find certain aspects really off-putting you might be able to find someone who operates under a different model where it won’t be a problem.

Absolutely. Its almost like.... make judgements based upon the child’s developmental level and your own assessment of the environment. Crazy I know. Unfortunate side as well is that it means you can’t read a parenting book based on some trend piece and call it a day, you have to like... remain conscious and shit.

I like cottage cheese. My local supermarket (UK, Tescos) has like seven flavours/sizes of non-fat cottage cheese - no full fat or even ‘half fat’ versions, apart from occasionally in vat-size that would go off before you’re 1/4 of the way through. The non fat stuff is just curd water. But I think the logic (or…

Thanks. x

Thanks. x

Fair enough, but this is a nationality thing rather than a racial thing.

I’m getting married and am considering putting on the invitation that unless you were born in Scotland and have lived there for a minimum of 15 years and/or BOTH your parents are Scottish (which means Madden is all good), you are not Scottish and will not be permitted to wear a kilt. Because there is always some…

but gave my son (all of his) vaccines based on a staggered schedule so that there was no danger of vaccine injury.

Billionaire heir/shitty peripheral reality TV star, dontcha know. Which fleshes out the ‘person who chooses child’s father based on novelty meme’ profile as well.

Indeed.

‘Which of these deeply shady people did/are doing something deeply shady?’

• Go with the weird. Writes a dad named Brendan: “Don’t correct them if they tell you something crazy. Just play along. I cannot stand people that squash kids’ creativity or fun by dismissing or correcting goofy things they say.” Plus, he says, it’s fun to pretend. If a kid tells you he just came back from Saturn, don’t…

An old neighbour of mine used to have two girls, about 4 and 6, and they were very pretty (you see even writing this I feel awkward talking about the ‘looks’ of kids, but I suppose you could say they had all the hallmark conventional ‘pretty’ features, more than your average children).

I have two weddings to attend during the same weekend in September, and one of them is in another country. But then I’ve had the genius plan that maybe I could tell both of them ‘sorry, I had another wedding’ because it would be strictly true, and then I wouldn’t have to go to either.

You see I’m normally like “Don’t hold idols up because they’ll only let you down, actors aren’t the people they play, not treating your faves with detachment distracts from the issue” etc.

Indeed.

Sorry editing my comment because I re-read yours and I think I misunderstood you. (Its been a long day and apparently both my reading comprehension and sentence construction have been impacted by that.)

I would have agreed for years, but then one of the guitarists set me up with my partner.

I think this is the big problem with this whole ‘IDW’ thing (as opposed to the ‘incel’ thing, because obviously the problem there is that its just scary lunatic misogynist club).

Yeah. But wait did Simmons drink the whisky? I don’t remember? She could be and not realise it yet! She could be and deny the existence of Foetal Alcohol Syndrome!