Yes, I tell my kids that it is. Unemployment, even at the height of the Great Recession, was substantially lower for those with a bachelor’s degree or better than those without. (Obviously, results vary by field.)

Salaries are significantly higher.

And, as I tell my kids, college gives you options. Maybe you don’t want…

A career doesn’t have to be high-paying. It has to be paying enough for the lifestyle you want.  Nobody should take out $100,000-plus in loans to work for $26,000/year for the foreseeable future. But nobody needs to be in STEM, either, if they plan to live a small, frugal life and not one obsessed with making other…

As a former college admissions officer who now works on the end of the puzzle (retention and completion), I am confident that college is still worth the investment.

Yes, but with some caveats.

Much like paid maternity leave, doulas should be standard care. My doula was EVERYTHING during my labor and delivery. She was aware of my concerns and desires, anticipated every need I had before I knew had it, and helped my husband be as productively involved as possible. DOULAS FOR EVERYONE!

Not trolling here. I saw an episode of the West Wing where a character said, (paraphrasing) if you want to change the NRA, have every Liberal in America join it and demand a majority rules vote to ban assault weapons.

they did, but it was six million $CAN.

I would say about Tim Lee that “I haven’t seen a man leave such a burning wake in his trail through Atlanta since Sherman,” but most of Cobb County doesn’t have access to the books to explain the joke.

Nassar didn’t only treat gymnasts. The entire athletics dept was complicit in that numerous reports were made to people in the Dept and they failed to act. The adults in that Dept actively discouraged the victims from reporting. and even gaslighted them.

I’ve saved so many Offspring articles already I should just wait for the book version. Will there be a book version?

Michelle - you keep rocking these parenting posts! I love your thoughts - they’re encouraging and challenging. Keep up the good work!

Use that bud lite tech where the label turns blue when cold!

This was always going to be the next domino to fall: male abuse victims have hopefully taken strength from the bravery of female victims and are going to overcome the additional stigma that Fuller mentions and start coming forward.

“many people told me that I should not do this,”

He statement is truly amazing. She is trying to play the victim. Now I hope they find some hard evidence of her covering it up.

My general rules:

You see, the crease is lava. And you can’t be in the lava with the ball or you catch on fire. You can be in the lava accidentally without the ball, but you have to leave immediately.

Yes. So much solidarity with no gift bags.

We have done this for years with our kids. Most people ignore it.

Keep fighting the good fight, sister.