I think a once a week check in is absolutely reasonable. A trick I (a long out off college/my parent’s house old) use to let them know I’m alive without having to talk every day is play Words with Friends with them. If we play a word every day or two, they don’t worry about my being alive. And it’s handy for messaging…

I agree - this post is way over the top. Barring some dysfunctional family backstory, the adult child owes the parents polite behavior (returning calls, being nice) just as much as the parents owe the adult child polite behavior. Unless the adult child wants to break away from her parents entirely - including…

I don’t know the situation but I think you are reading a lot into this. It sounds like a frustrated mom dealing with a major transition period in the relationship. The rest is just projection. Eta: and to add, young people also have to learn to have a relationship as an adult with their parents. It’s usually a mutual…

Well buried in the paper is a paragraph that seems to indicate that there is a similar effect for mothers of daughters versus mothers of sons, i.e. working moms are more likely to take parental leave if it’s a daughter versus a son:

Don’t judge yourself to harshly. I am guessing that her waist trainer and compression pants are doing some of the heavy lifting in this pic.

baby looks a very cute accesory here

Not to mention that it suggests that parents who choose to go back to work at or even before 3 months (even when more leave is available) are deliberately playing Russian Roulette with their kid’s life.

I too enjoy pricing human beings out of bodily functions.

It doesn’t sound like they couldn’t afford to have children though; just that they couldn’t afford to have one of the parents out of work.

This is tragic of course but I really hate the whole “You’re leaving your baby with STRANGERS!!!” Um... no my husband and I actually visited the daycare, met the caregivers and did our research on whether or not the facility was licensed/the policies they follow. My daughter is now 2. She loves her caregivers. They…

Ugh the bouncing. My husband doesn’t roll on his side. He flings his body into the air and flips. Our best decision has been to get a foam mattress...no more bouncing. And we sleep with separate comforters because he rolls himself up like a burrito and I used to wake up with nothing. And he’s STRONG when he’s asleep.…

Donating an organ sounds scary as shit to me. Doing it for someone she didn’t even know? Clearly a far better person than I could hope to be.

I agree that banning tipping is not the way to go, but I also think that paying servers a sufficient base wage only solves half the problem, and I can see how banning tips is a ham-fisted attempt to tackle the other half—that is, the issue with customers feeling anxious/unsure/resentful about the tipping thing, and…

I think in 2002 the kid was 6 years old by the end of the movie. 13 + 6 = 19 years.

I support these students 100%, but I think it is absolute horseshit that this professor has to resign. Yes, he could have been more sensitive, but he clearly did not force anyone to come to class at the risk of losing a test grade etc. - he offered the opportunity for a make-up test. And he stayed aligned with what…

Wow. It is the immediate resignation that surprises me. As a college professor, technically you don’t have to (and if you’re part time, *shouldn’t*) cancel your class unless the school has released a statement. So in theory, he may have people backing him in admin.

I have less of an issue with this because I am interested to see what happened next. As opposed to some sequels that are so unnecessary I cannot even handle it.

Man. Some people’s parents, I just can’t even...

Most of these people value their careers and don’t want to deal with the long term derailment that a break long enough to care for multiple children until the youngest goes to preschool causes. About half of them are also families where the woman is the higher earner, which makes matters complicated both because of…

And then when your husband leaves you with the five kids he said he wanted, you’ll easily be able to jump back into the workforce. It's foolproof!