I never even figured it out. I’m a grown ass woman who’s had two kids, I should be able to but I think in the end I just didn’t care enough. Toxic tampons 4 life.

Me too. I was with some people who were explaining that the book is the reason they were cleaning out their closets, and how it was like some sort of magic— poof, I found some sweater I had forgotten about. You need a book for that? Dumbass.

Same here. Actually I chose a male OB in his 50s because he handled a VBAC for someone I knew, and she had great things to say about his skill in the delivery. He was knowledgeable and friendly with a thriving practice, but he really won me over at my first birth. After a long time pushing and some weirdness with the…

Right? And we didn’t really live near any kids, plus they sent me to a private elementary school that was about 20 minutes away, so no one from school was nearby. My summers were spent watching TV and going to the mall and grocery store with my mom. So when I read these articles about the good old days when kids…

I’m an only child, and I’m probably somewhat selfish/self-absorbed, but I’m not sure that’s why. Mostly, I just thought it was really boring, probably because my parents were boring when I was growing up. I wanted a house with more stuff going on, and where my parents were forced to go do cool stuff like go to the…

I love doing stuff with them on my day off— I get one weekday off every two weeks (plus weekends). It’s awesome— beach, amusement park, etc. But yea during the school year that’s my day to work out, maybe get my brows done, and sit on my ass.

Yea we have the sitter but she’s a little older and she’s not cheap— I have her 11:30-5:30 four days a week now, then full days later on. And yes everything is designed for a stay at home parent. Everything. I just can’t get over it even 11 years into it.

We have that thing at the public school— about $300 per week I think. Might be more subsidized in a less affluent area, I hope. Our version of “summer school” in elementary is a camp program that goes from 9-12. What’s left for people who need full day and don’t want to get a sitter is called a “rec” program at the…

I need to start some of that again. Mine just got phones and will play Dragonvale and other stupid shit forever.

So true. Most camps are bare minimum $250/week for half day, more like $400 for “full” day that’s not even a full day. Last summer I had the sitter AND half day camps. I think I was into the five figures. This summer was a beach program for four weeks for less than $500 per kid, and a babysitter. All of it makes me…

Yea some places have way more working parent options. Whenever I post this stuff, people are like what about YMCA? Our is 25 minutes in the wrong direction. Plus it’s the same thing— all day camp that’s not very appropriate for kids over 8 or 9. And the money— there will be like a science camp that runs all day, but…

Exactly, and most of my neighborhood is SAHMs. So they’re all like, we’re doing nothing this week and it’s just glorious! Or my personal fave, “if I have to take them to the beach or pool ONE MORE TIME I am going to lose my mind.” Uh, that’s my day off dude.

I love the “the more you ask, the less you get” approach. My favorite, totally works if you start it young and keep it up.

Lucky— all the camps like that by us say full day but that means like 9-3, without any before or aftercare.

What no one talks about in all the free range/old fashioned summer propaganda articles is that some of us have jobs, so we can’t be around to do the necessary passive monitoring needed for kids under a certain age. And hell, probably early teens too— not sure I want to give them 8-10 hours of totally unsupervised time…

My dad was a head a of a department for a major city when a popular business type guy became mayor, I think in the 80s or 90s. He says the guy was all set to “get rid of waste” and cut bunches of stuff, but then came into a staff meeting of the heads of all the departments and was astounded to find out all the…

We don’t have much mold, and I have some weird stomach issue that won’t go away. These things happen. You could have someone come look at your house, just not a “mold” company because guess what they’ll find for sure? All TEH MOLD!!!!!

The people whose main thing is “I hate the government.” So they have no interest in voting for a good government, and they love a guy who yells about how bad our current government is.

I heard some on talk radio (listening for comedy value only, of course). I also saw some comments on some woman’s FB page— she’s a popular mom blogger of some sort and mini-celebrity in suburban LA. So she gets all types commenting on there, some of which were defending him. Not sure if that means they would vote for…

I think everyone has some mold- not all of it is dangerous. I think it’s one of those things if you google, you’ll be sorry because you’ll find all the nutters who think it caused their depression, IBS, and gum disease. (ask me how I know this)