Do you want to move next door to me and play with my two kids?

Where are the kids during the day in your scenario? I’d like to do something like this but I’ve had a bad experience with my kid in another person’s home. Then again if they’re at my house, it’s my home that’s getting all the wear and tear from a bunch of little kids.

I’m so sick of hearing this argument (which was overwhelmingly made by Jez commenters in the overwhelmed parents post from yesterday) for all the reasons you mentioned. We parents aren’t enrolling our kids in all these activities and having playdates because we’re helicopter parents - it’s because the culture has…

That’s what’s so weird about the current tipping culture - whether the server’s refilling your sweet tea or water, or serving you a cheeseburger or a steak, or bringing you the free refills on the $3 endless chips and salsa appetizer vs bringing one $10 app platter, they’re doing the same (if not more) work but are…

The entree split charge is like the $10 cake-cutting fee for people who bring outside desserts. Maybe $1.50-$2 goes to to the server who has to spend 15 minutes cutting and serving the store-bought cake you brought for your 15-person party, but management can coo that they’re looking out for you because they don’t…

I want to go there...

I’ve made chocolate pudding with avocados and it’s tasty! Little bit of citrusy, nutty flavor to go with the chocolate.

And it’s not just the moms. There’s a lot of Mommy War BS being repeated here but IME the pressure is just as bad from those without kids, mostly in the form of “you have to make time for yourself” to go to the gym or play with the dog or make sure your performance at work isn’t suffering because then other people…

I feel like nowadays that’s automatically included in the “having it all” stereotype. You have to be fit and work out and eat healthy, non-processed meals that you cook for your family. Growing up it seemed like cream of chicken soup casseroles were perfectly fine for a parent to feed their family and in fact probably…

My husband has really bad ADD. That means all the household management stuff falls to me. Paying the bills? That’s me. Scheduling and remembering appointments? Me too. Planning meals and doing the grocery shopping? Right here. So while we split the cooking/cleaning/childcare equally, I still do a shit ton more. It’s…

Yes, exactly. Everyone making snotty comments about parents pushing their kids into too many extracurriculars miss the part where those extracurriculars may be the ticket to a scholarship, which may be the only way the kid goes to college without bankrupting the parents or ending up in a shit load of debt.

My family is around but their support comes with a great big heaping helping of passive aggressiveness. I can get maybe three hours of childcare out of them per week if I’m lucky.

And you feel guilty that any time you spend doing one thing is time not spent doing something else. Time spent cleaning is time not spent cooking a nutritious family-friendly meal is time not spent working out to “get your figure back” after the recent baby is time not spent playing Legos with the older kid is time…

To add to this, the “send your kid outside in the morning and don’t let them come back until the evening” people forget that more two-income families means there aren’t SAHPs throughout the neighborhood keeping an eye on the kids, traffic is heavier, and parents are being investigated by CPS over that sort of shit.

UGH, the post-baby body shit. Hate it. HATE IT. And I’m just an everyday person - I can’t imagine what it’s like to be a celebrity.

I’m struggling with breastmilk supply issues and my LC has told me to eat more to help my body produce more milk and it just threw me for a loop - like “but what? I thought I was supposed…

Same way all the open-carry advocates don’t let out a peep when a black man is shot because he’s holding a gun and therefore causes the cops to fear for their lives.

YES. So many of these videos show people who are grabbed by cops, or who hesitate because they’re confused why cops are suddenly yelling at them (thinking specifically of John Crawford and Tamir Rice). It’s fucking human nature - if I get grabbed, I’m instinctively going to pull away. If I’m holding a toy and I’m…

I mean, I love my dad, it doesn’t get under my skin as much as it would if it were someone else, I’ve just found I need to be more aggressive if/when we’re having a discussion so as not to be bulldozed.

DADSPLAINING. Perfect. I am so going to use that. My father is a dadsplainer - God bless him, I love him, but he is so bad about it. He has explained my own job to me so many times. He tries to explain politics to me and I WORK IN POLITICS. I remember the first time he tried to start on a topic to dadsplain to me and…

But you don’t need a gun to kill someone! Literally anything can be a weapon if you put your mind to it - a knife, a baseball bat, anything! That’s why it’s foolish to focus on gun control. But I need a GUN, not a pansy-ass knife or a baseball bat, because only a GUN makes me feel safe! But guns don’t kill people, bad…