who was clearly very sick and should not have been flying

See, I’m a parent as well and I have no issue with a little benadryl or codeine if the occasion calls for it (IE, kid has a cough that isn’t bad but has been keeping him awake at night for 3 nights straight and he needs sleep). I would be OK with giving my little one a half-dose to calm him for a flight because IMO…

Only addendum to that: Some people should have a reasonable expectation of what “doing something” looks like. “THE BABY WAS CRYING AND THE PARENT WAS DOING NOTHING BUT HOLDING IT AND QUIETLY SAYING ‘SHHHH’ WHY DIDN’T SHE JUST GIVE IT A PACIFIER/FEED IT/WALK AROUND WITH IT” - because maybe she tried that already, maybe…

If a kid has, in the past, been OK with benadryl (makes them drowsy, not hyper), is it possible/likely for them to have a paradoxical reaction at a later time?

Ughhhh same here. Although I’m cool (as is my OB/GYN) with the occasional drink, I’m not down with the judgey eyes if we go to a cookout or something and someone sees the clearly pregnant lady with a beer in her hand. Also, all anyone wants to talk to the pregnant lady about is being pregnant and having babies. I HAVE…

What’s the process in CA for getting a measure on the ballot?

Just here to squee because I just discovered Lianne Moriarty and I love her books so so much. BLL is my favorite. Highly recommended.

ALL OF THEM. I’ve been on a Lianne Moriarty kick lately. Big Little Lies is my favorite, but I also really liked What Alice Forgot. I’ve also read Three Wishes, The Husband’s Secret, and am now reading The Hypnotist’s Love Story.

I don’t understand this shit. The same anti-choicers pass bills requiring actual health clinics that provide abortions to tell patients all sort of shit, true or not, if they think it will discourage the patient from going through with an abortion. But they cry freedom of speech when similar requirements are pushed on…

I suggest that you all un-gerrymander your states by having a non elected, non political party draw your district boundaries. This has lead to California’s local government being very sane over the last few years. Also, tie your state governing bodies pay to having a balanced budget in on time. Then you, shocker, have…

People who believe that men only talk about important things must not spend much time around “car guys.” My husband is one. He and his friends are worse than the stereotypical knitting circles for gossip and snotty comments about other people and what they’re doing with their cars.

Yes. My husband wants to tell me the details of his entire day at work.

That was my thought too. Tragic.

Along those lines: Eric Cantor held a lunch meeting at my dad’s restaurant. It should come as absolutely no surprise that he was a gigantic dick to every restaurant employee he interacted with.

My 3yo talks constantly in the car, asking questions, making observations. It’s because he’s a kid, not because of his gender, FFS!

I remember being a kid - pretty young because we were at some pool party thing - and my mom made a big show of loudly complimenting how good and skinny I looked. I was skinny because I had been extremely ill for the past week and could barely choke down some Campbells chicken noodle soup each day - the pool party was…

This “promoting an unhealthy lifestyle” BS kills me. It’s so selective. I wonder how many of them go around trolling pictures of people with tans, or drinking alcohol. And the “unhealthy” thing is used as an excuse to troll anyone bigger than a size four.

I have a theory about this: Unless you live near a beach, most women (and hell, men for that matter) don’t see many women in states of undress except in magazines and on MTV and the like. We just aren’t exposed to what the average* body looks like and we internalize this idea that since our bodies don’t look like what…

Yep, same - I’m not saying if my kid refuses a meal I know he likes (mac and cheese and broccoli, for example) because he wants candy instead, I give in - in that case, I make it clear that that’s his dinner and I know that if he doesn’t eat, he must not be really hungry. But I’m also not going to put something…

Give my son an apple, he’ll eat the outside until all the skin is gone and leave the rest (unless he’s really hungry). Slice him up an apple and he’ll eat the inside but leave the skin. Kids are just weird sometimes.