For sure, and I’m not advocating a complete lack of supervision. What’s normal here is to have an adult at the barn (or at home, since most people just keep their horses in their yard), but the kids go out in the desert and do their own thing. If there’s an accident, one rides back quick to tell an adult. It’s just…

On more than one occasion my mother threatened to tear off my head and feed it to the dogs. I never took her seriously, but she said it in front of my grandmother once, and grandma was pretty upset. “You can’t say that to her, she’s a child!” My mom said “look at her, she’s laughing, she knows I’m not serious.”

Then people need to get over it. I saw an article in The Atlantic that talked about how some of the breastfeeding benefit studies are problematic for a variety of reasons.

Aside from the fact that my wife and I both work full-time (both because we want to and because we like nice things ;) ), I can only tolerate so much togtherness. I have 2 friends who homeschool their kids, and it sounds like pure hell to me. They are, of course, total rock stars, but I definitely know my limits!

I mentioned health because some people act like giving your baby formula is tantamount to giving them poison and they will end up sickly.

I was once left by the side of the road by one of the moms in a carpool. It took her about an hour to find me. I believed her when she said I’d have to walk home and so when she drove off I crossed a four lane highway, and walked along the road in a ditch in the cover of some trees. I was 11. (And that woman never…

I think it’s a pretty regional thing in the US. Where I live, it’s pretty common to see kids that young doing a lot by themselves. They can’t travel much alone because we don’t have public transportation, but they’ll walk a few miles to their friends’ houses or school, or go out hiking or horseback riding alone (or,…

Yeah. I literally give no shits about 99.9 percent of the things people do as parents. I draw the line at spanking. I realize that it’s none of my business, but as someone who was abused, I can’t stand by and watch a person hit a child. I can’t. In that case, I am the judgmental asshole but since the alternative is…

I don’t think mothers should be shamed for breastfeeding in public, but I also don’t think women should be shamed for choosing formula, no matter the reason. I was formula fed and I turned out fine. I was a super healthy child to the point where the family doctor told my parents it was unusual that I didn’t get many…

It would be hilarious if you were breastfeeding and told her you weren’t just to see her face >:)

First road trip with my sister's forever-man we were joking about what a brat my teenage nephew was being and how we were going to leave him on the side of the road at the next bear crossing sign. My nephew knew we were kidding, but her honey obviously was not sure. When we started coming upon a bear crossing sign we…

I threatened to sell my teenager to the circus. They still haven't called me back :(

I’m an adult and my mom still threatens to make me walk the rest of the way to wherever if I’m being bitchy in the car with her. But she never actually did.

I remember in middle school I made a shit ton of paper ninja stars. I walked home everyday and still had my stars. You guessed it, I flung them at passing cars. I flung one at a black SUV and I hear a loud screeching. I look back and see the SUV do a u-turn and speed up. I fucking booked it. Of course the SUV caught…

In my day your parents would only pretend to drive away.

Goddamnit, mommy feels. Can’t believe his parents drove that far away from him to “teach him a lesson”, but at least they felt reeeeal bad about it for a while.

I’d invite you to my Facebook feed, where super-moms chat AT LENGTH about the wraps they have for baby-wearing. They also discuss the horrifying monsters who put their babies in cribs, which is exactly what Hitler would have done if Hitler were a terrible mother and not a dictator.

That’s terrible. I’d have my kid trained to jingle the bell by the door so they can go out and poop in the yard with the dogs.

If I ever have a kid, forget sleep training, they’ll be crate-trained by 12 weeks.

I might be misremembering, but when they played the video on the news I thought I heard on the audio that the boy kept saying he was going to climb the wall and the mom kept telling him no, then she turns around and oh hey, guess what, he climbs the wall.