For all those people talking about the good ole days, remember our parents were practically in the next county as we rode our bikes all over town. They were probably earning advanced degrees while we played but I want to read an article on gendering of martyrdom in music and I’m a bad mother? Go away. Don’t come back.

And when did “watching practice” become a parents job. My kid does her extra curriculars because she likes them, not for me. I’m all for watching games and performances but it’s absurd to think that a parent should spend hours watching from the sidelines a week.

My husband and I try to minimize the time on our phones just because we don’t want to be connected to the outside world too much. Because of that, we’ve made it a rule to only play on our phone for like fifteen minutes when we’re at home. The other day I was at the park with my girls and a mom was on her phone the…

I am with my kids all day, every day from 7am to 7pm. I am not worried about “missing out” because I'm texting my brother while they play. I'm so sick of this crap. My mother wasn't staring at me the whole time I was growing up, and thank goodness for that. Who wants to sit and watch fucking soccer practice? We always…

They can be boring at any age. Infants are SUPER boring, when they’re not trying to tear your boobs off with their teeth. And while nine year olds can be more interesting to talk to than, say, a three year old, there’s still a limit to how much attention you can give them without some part of your brain rebelling (no,…

Parents are damned if you do, damned if you don’t in so many ways. Being on your cell phone in order to conduct the normal business of being an adult means you are “tuned out” of your child’s life, uninterested in their interests, personalities, and emotional health. Being completely focused on your child means you…

A-motherfucking-men!

No! If you are looking at your phone while your kid is growing up, you are an abusive parent and I am calling child protective services on you, you degenerate monster!

The approach needs to be multi-faceted. Mental health help is great - but you have to be looking for it or at least have someone else trying to access it for you. Sounds like this guy and his mother were in a bit of a bubble and she didn’t see the problem. There could have been a state of the art mental facility next…

I heard that rumor. It’s like that story from Columbine where one of the shooters asked a girl if she was Christian before killing her. It sounds like this guy was playing with them before killing them.

Anybody seen this awesomeness going around?

True.

neighbors remember his son as a gun enthusiast who enjoyed going to shooting ranges with his mother.

I would argue that McCain has always come off as a good sport with a sense of humor in those types of appearances, while Sarah Palin didn’t give that impression at all.

“You could have supported gay marriage sooner.”

I think it’s like anytime a person finds something new and exciting. My friends sure got tired of me talking about Twin Peaks, dragging them up to Snoqualmie Falls to see the filming locations from the pilot, and forcing them to watch every other David Lynch movie. Then I got over the initial excitement, and I swear…

Justin Bieber’s friends say he doesn’t drink or do drugs anymore.

Guuuuuuhhhhhhhh but then I’d have to get a blu-ray player, and that would seriously eat into my “expensive shit I don’t really need” funds.

#feeltheBern

It’s almost as if the GOP crusade to keep Benghazi! and email servers in the news every day for two years to erode her poll numbers has worked.