Thank you! I’m really glad this helps. 

I’m not a parent and am never going to be and even I appreciate this article. 

As a parent, this is correct.

Michelle - I don’t have kids but I catch your articles occasionally and I just wanted to say - especially with this piece - you’re doing a real service to parents everywhere.

Sweet jesus. I have one job and one child, could not be bothered to get my MBA, and I can barely muster the energy to make pointless comments on the internet. She is truly an inspiration. To someone. I hope. I need a drink.

Can we make this an annual weekly event?

Can we talk for a moment about how Janelle Bynum has a Bachelor’s in Electrical Engineering, an MBA from Michigan, runs four restaurants as a small business owner, and has four children? She won her seat because she campaigns on a positive message of funding education, supporting small business, and fairness for all…

Oh, you ain’t never lied about that! While they running around calling the police on any black people in a five mile radius of them, those same white people getting raped , robbed, assaulted, and murdered , by the white people in their lives that they refused to be scared of, and give the benefit of the doubt to.

Nah.  $5 says she’s just a dumb racist.

This is one of the reasons I read and enjoy the Root.

Agreed, have always loved Doug, but good grief, the microscopic analysis of interior minutia is over done with so many ‘quirks’ being such crazy things as a piece of trim or a graphic equalizer (which he didn’t know the name of and seemingly hadn’t ever seen before).

I love Doug, but either he hypes up some of the quirks and features, or he’s an idiot with some sort of quirk-amnesia.

wallah ballah, ho-hollah fee-fi-fo-fallah, mee-my-mo-mallah, WALLAH!

This is true. I’ll chalk that up to thinking “I don’t recall how this is really spelled, but . . . it’s a jalopnik post . . . so that’ll do it.”

From when the car caught fire till the first safety truck showed up was 15 seconds, I just timed it. And thats discounting the dude with the extinguisher who got their earlier. The dad happened to be standing right there. The Safety crew was more than fast enough even without dad helping, no hard look needs to be…

This can’t get enough stars

Or he’s guarding immigrant babies right now. Seems right up his alley.

Most likely. They’re shuffled around the country like pedophile priests.

1.) It wasn’t insensitive and highly inappropriate; it was racist.