I'm the person at the party who's always very aware of the cat situation and if they are allowed outside or not. At my friend's birthday party last NYE we were at her house and I knew the cats weren't allowed outside.

Hmmm

This is a story of how one of the worst days of my life ended up reaffirming my faith in strangers and in the human race in general.

That was me too. I was also just very observant and listened to adults a lot so I would end up with a TON of snippets of information with no context and lots of times I would use my dolls to create scenarios around which I figured "well, this MUST be what that was about..."

My barbies didn't just have orgies, they had kinky BDSM filled orgies. So yeah, totally normal.

Claire Danes! Anyone else seeing that?

ToyTalk has said parents can opt to receive daily or weekly e-mails that allow them to access the audio files of their child's conversations with Hello Barbie.

To be honest with you, I don't have a problem with this. While it isn't my kind of thing, a lot of research has shown that both men and women have these kind of 'rape fantasies', and this porn is obviously causing no one harm to produce.

I don't know what it says about me that "22 year old boyfriend" is the part that is sticking with me.

You are totally right. When would you suggest? As young as 12 months? 24 months?

Excellent.

If corporations are truly people, McDonald's is the guy who takes five ones on the table at the start of the meal, announces that it's the tip, and pockets one for every time the waiter's groveling is insufficient.

Once at a store I worked at, there was a kid running around unsupervised. By kid, I mean like maybe 5 yrs old, and by running around, I mean "full sprint, trying to body-check other customers". The floors were tile, and frequently had a lot of dust on them, so this wasn't something we encouraged. I asked the mother…

Thanks. I do feel like I dodged a bullet with this guy. He seemed normal. And I had told him Fridays were out for me because of my daughter. It's just weird. Surgeons are weird.

THAT CLOCK.

THEY FUCKING TASTED THE GREY SLUDGE WATER?

It's not your fault, those people are horrendously inflexible and they would have been awful to work for. You had a limitation on your time and you let them know in advance, there's no more you could have done. *hugs*

I too am experiencing the joys of being newly single! Junk food + bad TV (that no one judges you for watching) + cozy pajamas = a damn fine evening. Just stay away from the liquid cheese dip that's sold next to the tortilla chips because that shit is like crack and shouldn't be legal.

This is like, the ur-example of what "privilege" actually is and I will draw on it forevermore.

The Llama Llama book where he is bored at the store reawakened my memories of how awful being dragged shopping could be. Sometimes you need to realize your kids' attention span/hunger/boredom/tiredness and cut them some slack sometimes. It doesn't excuse bad behavior, but sometimes we expect perfect behavior out of…