I just hope all the people here complaining about the small ns go out of your way to sign up for and participate in research studies. And also signs your kids up for them.
I just hope all the people here complaining about the small ns go out of your way to sign up for and participate in research studies. And also signs your kids up for them.
Much to the surprise of everyone, Toddler Tashkent actually deigned to wear his Cyberman costume! I was shocked because I was pretty sure there was no way in hell that was going to happen.
The important part is that they didn't know she wasn't a real child. You know how on To Catch a Pervert or whatever they use a very young-looking but-totally-of-legal-age decoy to lure men in and then they arrest him? It's the same thing. Though international virtual webcam child porn is something that is new enough…
This baffles me as well. I guess I'm a kale hipster because I've been eating it (and growing it in my garden) for years and years and, like, it's not that hard to cook? If you can cook spinach, you can cook kale. Tear some up on a plate, drizzle some water over it, put it in the microwave, zap for 2 minutes, dress…
My kid isn't in the full throes of the Terrible Twos/Threes yet but we get plenty of tantrums and I just can't imagine what yelling would accomplish in such a situation other than giving the kid volume to compete against. He barely understands English, and he definitely does not understand the emotions he's having…
The comments on stories like this always make me feel so obsolete and Second Wave.
Life with a young baby is like that scene in The Neverending Story where Atrayu is at the Southern Oracle and there's those Sphinxes where if they open their eyes it means they're about to zap you dead, and he's standing there and their eyes start to slooooowly open and Bastien is yelling RUN ATRAYU RUUUUUNNNN!!!!
The company my husband was with when our baby was born had an ungendered parental leave policy, so he got 8 weeks off at full pay (!!!!) and it was ah-mazing. He took 4 weeks right when we first had our son, then went back to work for 4 weeks while I stayed home, then I went back to work for 4 weeks and he stayed…
Husband and I split who gets up early with the baby on the weekends, my day to sleep in is Saturday and his is Sunday. On Saturdays, if I can hear the baby stirring before, like, 7 or so, I start to feel super mega deluxe guilty. I lay there, unable to fall back asleep thinking, "Ohshit if the baby wakes up for real…
BRB taking applications for a sister-wife. That sounds rad.
All of my friends who have asked about what sort of stuff they need to consider before having a baby I have told the same thing: talk talk talk talk talk to your partner about expectations for child and household work. Get that shit in writing if you have to. I've had a similar experience to you, my husband and I are…
But that final bit didn't come out of nowhere. It was based on the preceding analysis of the data about what explicitly stresses out mothers v. fathers. Mothers are stressed about money and lack of support. Fathers are stressed about their relationship with the mothers.
Yes, I'm sure it would. I'd get to hear all about their lack of blowjobs.
A lot of butthurt about that final aside but it certainly jives with a lot of necdotal evidence I've personally witnessed: Mom is a stressed-out mess because sleep/diapers/feeding/probably-also-working-on-top-of it and Dad is a do-nothing jackass whose primary locus of butthurt is that his partner isn't sexing him…
Well, when it comes to keeping most kids alive and functional, it's not really rocket science. But what it is is really time and resource heavy, so if you feel like you don't have enough of either, that's where the stress comes in. After the newborn phase where it's all 100% new and terrifying, the eat-sleep-change…
It actually took me forever to find the original article (not the LiveScience write up, the Philisophical Transactions one). Which article are people talking about here?
The article referenced is a "review article" not a research report. It's chock full of citations and references to other studies, though those other studies might be plenty flawed and full of opinion masquerading as science, but that's nothing new in the world of science. This is an academic argument between two…
This is basically what makes science go, though. It's not surprising at all, it's how the scientific method works.
Legal and tax advantages, big party, and to be honest I just like the idea of a codified, witnessed commitment.
Yeah, my section kind of sucked ass. It was legitimately a traumatic experience. I would have much muuuuuch rather done it the old fashioned way. The umbilical cord had other ideas.