I am printing this off and showing it to my wife. Because our daughter is the same age and she was starting to turn into your daughter’s BFF and we, thankfully, righted the ship and she turned into someone more like your daughter. Nicely written and perfect advice for parents-to-be!

I was basically your kid. Growing up I was an only child and while the neighborhood had a lot of kids my age we did a lot of fun stuff, but sometimes I had to entertain myself. I sometimes think only children are better prepared to entertain themselves because the opportunity comes up more frequently.

As new parents of a daughter who might be an only (because this is tough and we both work!) thank you for this post. Your daughter sounds awesome, and y’all sound like great parents. We can’t be with them everywhere, shouldn’t we be raising kids to make good choices when they’re in the world without us, not teaching…

Learning to entertain oneself is a solid life skill that every child should have to learn. I make my 15 month old play by himself (supervised) while I make dinner. We play together too, but part of my job as his parent is to help him grow into a self-sufficient adult. I have to teach him how to entertain himself, and…

Much obliged.

It’s a still from T-Swift’s video for ‘Blank Space.’

“He makes everyone cringe hardcore!” is perfect.

I’m a counselor at an abortion clinic in Houston. I’ll be at work helping women access abortion care while they still are able to exercise that right!

That guy... that fuckin guy...

I’m with you, my husband and I have employer provided insurance and we are in the upper middle class income category. We are also decent fucking human beings and realize that the world is bigger than our own backyard. It is more important that no family ever have to worry about whether they can afford taking their kid…

Absolutely agreed. And there have been other recent travel-related stories independent of the ban that are outrageous.

“Useful idiot” is a phrase I’ve practically worn out with this administration and the sycophants it is run by.

all wearing orange jumpsuits

Who gives the remotest of fucks if they are a “gold star family.”

The anger should be about the movement of an American citizen, any American citizen, being restricted because the president doesn’t like him.

Basically

Just like Megyn Kelly.

In the end, reactionary, evangelical GOPers are only trying to make us more free. Promoting neighborliness. Encouraging freedom. Those freedoms the Republican party loves. Not those freedoms you and I take for granted. And have lived by for many a year. Those freedoms are now becoming illegal. Which will make…

I don’t owe Conway jack shit. She chose who she wanted to become and who she is working for.

Agreed. Hence ‘not’ qualifier. Though my wife is kind enough to disagree on occasion.

Yes, it’s about pushing trans people out of public life. I am a transman that reads male. Just an average guy, not remarkable. People would be startled and point me to the other bathroom if I went into the ladies.