My husband and I are working class (assistant and graduate student) and get outraged several times per day. If we had to throw $5 at every cause we love or are outraged about, we'd have to consider selling our kids into the child labor force.

We still have drunkenness as a crime. Not 'public drunkenness'. Not 'I assaulted someone drunkenness'. Not 'I'm blaring Wrecking Ball at 3:00 a.m. because this song is TOTALLY about me' drunkenness. Just plain old drunkenness. A cop could show up to your home for an unrelated reason and if you are drunk, you can spend…

You realize that the average age of a fast food worker is 28 (for men) and 32 (for women)? There is no more "work really hard in high school, then get promoted to manager, then keep climbing." People are stuck there, and not by their own fault.

Yeah, that's the problem with SC is that there's not even partial coverage for daycare - it's all or nothing.

Sorry for your loss.

SCDSS can take for ever. Literally the US DHHS just got done investigating us, and it led to the resignation of the director of DSS. Even worse, when a child is placed in temporary foster care, it is not nearby. I've heard stories of children in Columbia (dead center of the state) being sent to foster care homes in…

It's also horrible because SCDSS is a nightmare. My co-worker is a guardian ad litem and has told me about what a shit show it can be.

In SC, subsidized childcare is a shitshow. They will only give vouchers to parents who have been on TANF and have found work so their benefits were cut. Anyone else goes on a waiting list that never shrinks.

Ugh, someone should have sent that list to my mom when she got in a fight with four year old me for wanting to wear my pumpkin costume to Christmas Dinner.

Yeah, my kids got in a fight over a cheerio. A single cheerio. Kids are sometimes irrational to the point where it's hysterical.

Yeah I withhold toys for periods of time if my kids can't play nice with them or won't listen. Usually for an hour to (in the case of our five year old) a day or two. It won't kill them.

I don't know - I didn't hate 3 as much as I hated the time between 2-3. They just won't listen at that age.

It depends. Ones who will help soothe a crying kid or help you get your diaper bag in the car are parents or at least work with children or families. The assholes lecturing are usually the people who had kids two generations ago (as in my pharmacy story) or don't have kids at all (as in my "your kid is going to become…

I've seen that as a method - I just don't get it. Most kids can't make that connection at the tantrum age (2-3).

My brother always wondered about the situations where Supernanny would take charge during a tantrum, it would cut to commercial, and then the kid would be calm. He was like "wtf, did they just beat the shit out of the kid or something during the break?"

To be fair, that's the same logic my oldest (3 at the time) used whenever the baby cried. "Mom, he needs milk!" "No, sweetie, he doesn't. I just fed him." (twenty seconds later) "Hmmm...he needs milk."

That is adorable. Big props to your boyfriend!

Luckily I've never flown with children. I don't think my psyche could handle it. The sick baby scenario nearly pushed me over the edge, though.

Not really - and aside from the TMNT cup (which my brother got from McDonald's as a kid), the rest were just nonesensical. We live in New York - why do we even have SEC cups?

My husband's family was the same way about cabbage. Sorry, but I fucking hate cabbage. I'll eat the rest of your meal, I may even have some cabbage to be polite, but don't get too offended if I don't get a plate full and I don't go back for seconds.