Yup. One of my biggest jobs was telling parents that children pick up on your cues. If you get upset and nervous every time they get upset. (SO MANY PARENTS) then your kid feels unsafe and out of control. When you give them the message, kindly, that what is happening to them is not a big deal, and they can get over…

Actually, it’s fundamentalists and evangelicals who are growing, because they have all the babies and attract confused people seeking meaning in their lives. It’s the liberal Christians who are dying out. We have small families and don’t believe in harassing strangers with evangelical bullshit.

I think it’s pushback. So many disagree with them and it scares them.

Yeah I know but it seems like evangelicals & fundies are REALLY ramping up the obnoxious pontification (and that's saying something) is this pushback from the gay marriage ruling? Is trump galvanizing the loudest, most uninformed, and prejudiced amongst us? What the hell is happening?!

What year is this?! Are fundies really surprised people are sick of them & leaving in droves?

Uggh and then the kid’s in middle school and you still get mommies that email me EIGHT TIMES PER DAY (not an exaggeration today!) and then they wonder why their kid has trouble initiating tasks on his/her own.

Yep. About a year and a half into mommy-hood I had a serious crisis of identity that felt like the moment Samantha on SATC starts throwing sushi and screaming “I am not the kind of woman who [talks endlessly about diapers and sleep training]!” except the person I was mad at was a toddler asleep in the next room who…

My sisters and SILs seem so unbelievably stressed out, and their mommy communities appear to be comprised entirely of venal, competitive gashes who have no interests outside of their children and subtly putting down each other.

You’re so right about the sacrifice and judgment for little gain. American children are SO safe and SO healthy on average, yet it seems parents constantly try to make them even safer and healthier. I’m not saying you should let your kid play in traffic and drink 2 liters of Coke everyday, but is it really worth the…

The whole idea of “mom groups” kind of terrifies me. I hate the whole culture around parenting and children in America. Like, I want to be a parent someday, but I don’t want to be a “mommy,” if that makes sense. The mindset of most modern American moms seems very stressful and individualistic and all-encompassing.…

I feel like more of these should’ve listed how long their shelf-life is. I want bang for my buck and nice tights that quickly run are just a tragedy.

I feel like more of these should’ve listed how long their shelf-life is. I want bang for my buck and nice tights…

Really— aren’t handicaps like “I am unable to write in any different voices than my own” and “I am unable to consider how a character might speak if they are a different gender from me” usually things that writers try to HIDE?

It would help if he didn’t recycle his dialog from show to show ....

They’re gonna talk the same way, CJ and Josh and Scully ’cause I’m one writer.

She does have health issues and will probably lose her uterus as a result of this pregnancy. You don’t like her, okay, but pregnancy is no walk in the park.

I think maybe she just doesn't enjoy pregnancy - it's common enough. You don't need to be mean !

Maaaan, half of today’s American-born high school graduates cannot write in American English. It’s getting really hard to tell the scammers from the regular stupid people anymore.

I've learned the best way to loan money is to not consider it a loan - consider it a gift and only give the amount of money you'd be willing to/can afford to give without getting it back. That way if you don't get it back - whatever it was a gift - but if you do get it back it's just a nice bonus

Um...how is 9 or 10 way too young to be exposed to reproductive stuff? I’m sure I’m not the only woman who got her first period at age 9 - good thing I knew what it was, and didn’t think I was dying, right? Children should know the proper names for body parts as young as they can pronounce them, and not be given a…

I'm pretty sure that's how it was with me for my mom when I was younger it's like you watch your kids poop they watch you poop you take showers together - whatever! There's just a lot of like I guess personal hygiene? Intimacy at that age between both mother and child just because of the care the child needs