Do you ever drive with your kid in the car? Why? Do you know how dangerous that is? That is far, far, more dangerous than leaving a kid in a parked car. Hundreds, maybe thousands of kids die every year in car accidents.
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Another thing is the zero tolerance groups want to conflate child deaths because of being FORGOTTEN in the car for say a whole work day , and the act of INTENTIONALLY leaving a child for 5-15 mins. The two situations are not at all the same. Zero tolerance policies are not going change anything about the variables…
Great topic. I think it’s ridiculous that I can’t so much as run into a post-office for stamps without shlepping two children along with me, but I have this perception that there are so many busy-bodies out there that would call 911 as soon as I locked the door that I feel like it’s better to just err on the side of…
I am not a parent, but GOD did you just articulate exactly what creeps me out about how obsessive and guilt-focused parenting seems to be now. ALREADY someone in this thread is blathering about Victorian doctors withholding all affection from babies for months as if that were somehow relevant to training your…
Fuck those people who come down on you because the answer may be NO. At about 4-5 months my son started waking up every 40-60 mins and wanted to be rocked to sleep every time (not fed). After about four weeks I was about to have a mental breakdown. We did some very gentle sleep training and he’s been a sleeping rock…
People are gonna come down to my house and lynch me for this but... Does the need to be held, once again, when he/she been held 18hrs already today, is more important than my need to sleep?
IMHO, the best PBS show of all time was the pledge break in which Oscar the Grouch said that pledge breaks were the best thing on TV, his absolute favorite.
I said it on io9 and I'll say it here. My Irish grandmother had 13 siblings and only THREE made it to adulthood because of things like measles, polio, influenza, etc. I'm not great at math but I know those are HORRIFIC ODDS.
Back in the 1950's my brother who was 7 and my sister who was 5 contracted the measles. My sister ran the course and was healthy again within a few weeks. My brother was not so lucky. He began to develop calcium deposits all over his body. Those deposits eventually also attacked his organs. His muscles began to be…
Well, then, I am surprised I haven't gotten my son taken away from me with all the times I've run inside to pay for a quick tank of gas.
If we're going to go there with leaving kids in cars, then I think it is vastly more important to write a story about "don't do it, don't do it, don't do it" with even owning a gun if you are the parent of a child. An average of 37 children per year die left in cars. Over 3,000 children per year die because of a…
It makes no sense to compare what Brooks did with the people profiled in Weingarten's excellent piece. They are completely different scenarios, and it undercuts your argument to put them in the same league. Regardless, I have no problem whatsoever with what Brooks did. You don't need to "tell everyone it's totally OK…
The seats are small and close together; you're right. I'm a dude and I take up a good amount of space in a seat. And, for the record, my balls are HUUUGGEE, but aren't uncomfortable when my legs are close together. Anyway, if it is crowded to the point that I'm uncomfortable sitting in one seat, you know what I do? I…
Being a foster mom has confirmed my suspicion that parents can do many, many things worse than abortion to their children.
There are many many insane elements to this statement, particularly in light of the question, but this is the most problematic to me:
This hits really close to home for me. I am 18 weeks pregnant and have always been strongly pro-choice. When I first saw my baby squirming around on an ultrasound at 12 weeks, I wondered whether my personal views on abortion were changing, i.e. whether abortion would be off-limits for me, personally, in the future; I…
I blame the anti-vaxxers in no small part for the fact that we're losing ground against diseases like measles and still having a hard time with polio. Their idiotic and unhelpful efforts at spreading misinformation put them in the same category of FUD as creationists to me— impossibly stupid.
Apparently, "her own Organic Liaison weight-loss system" doesn't really work . . .
Because a newborn has no body sovereignty; they can't even control their arm movements. It's a parent's job to make healthcare decisions (and wipe their ass, too). We do a lot of things without our children's consent, and rightly so: food selection, school selection, clothing selection, hairstyle selection, etc. I'm a…
I'm a pregnant woman who found out recently that my measles vaccine had worn off and I'm no longer immune. Because the vaccine has a live virus I can't get it until after I give birth in September. I live in Los Angeles and recently there has been a measles outbreak in Orange County. Now I'm terrified of going to the…