These are people who literally are children and literally do cry at lots of things and their tiny brains are forming and understanding the world. Most children who do not live with a mom or dad have experienced trauma, possibly extreme trauma like death of a parent, abandonment, abuse, neglect and more. So…

Exactly, psychosomatic illnesses have a physiological origin that can be as out of a person’s control as anything else.

A lot of people are paying attention there is just so much bad going on everywhere it’s hard to fight against all of it. 

Nothing Trump says or has said will make any real difference in terms of his public perception.

Or - what will Biden do if he ends up winning the Democratic nomination? Talking about his campaigning alone, this wistful public look at his white supremacist buddies means 1. He’s more gaffe-prone then we even knew 2. His campaign strategy is to win back white voters through “racism-lite.” 1. Does not bode well for…

I’m not sure I’d define having a 7 book series that was one of the most popular of all time as a one-hit wonder!

This particular guidance counselor lost her teenage daughter earlier in the year in a car accident. Might explain some of the absences.

I really don’t support the “entitled” and “bratty” label given that we know nothing of this girl’s own circumstances, but yes probably the ire should have been directed above, not at, the guidance counselor. In this particular case the guidance counselor lost her teenage daughter to a car accident earlier in the year.

Nursing an infant onsite would likely not be that much more difficult than pumping. Women who are pumping are already having issues with meetings/scheduling because you do need to pump within certain windows to keep the supply up. Infants sleep a lot during the day but yea, it’s not optimal for the mother’s…

“We also found that the nonprofit’s past executive director, Candace McDonald, appeared to have been paid both a salary and at least $100,000 extra per year for three years in fees to her consulting firm.”

It’s extracting sexual pleasure from power.

It’s just not true, it’s often discussed in a context that it is limiting and harmful to men. A recent high-profile example was an article in the NYT Magazine about the guy’s cousin who tried to kill him.

That’s probably true for many cases of burnout but if you actually like your job and are just working too much you can come back from it.

There have been about one million relationships where the man is decades older than the women. Why should any of us waste our energy the handful of times it’s reversed? This is not a “double-standard” anyone needs to care about.

Motherhood and infants are so hard but those first couple days do feel kind of magical and surreal.

I’ve outed myself as watching that video but I was really hoping someone would comment on this. Why didn’t Aunt Becky know “finesse” though?

I don’t know, I don’t think many of us agree with abortion in a normal pregnancy at, say 30 weeks, that’s pretty much a baby at that point. At some point you should be forced, in my opinion, to keep the baby alive with your body. Strong pro-lifers aren’t going to be convinced by anything, but people in the middle…

I think the immediate controversy is complicated but I’m assuming she made her comments with knowledge of this incident.

There is actually someone who lost her job in Texas b/c she wouldn’t promise not to boycott Israel. Some states are putting these pledges in place for gov’t workers.

Yes that’s a good point! Sometimes parents look like they are ignoring the behavior b/c they are lazy when in fact it is a parenting strategy.