This is an excellent take.

White people can leave guns lying around their houses and when one of their toddlers shoots their other toddler the police and DA just say, “Well, this family has suffered enough.”

I mean, couldn’t you ask this about a lot of things parents do for toddlers? Do you ask you friends’ kids if they think their parents are going to read them bedtime stories or tuck them in at night when they’re in space? When their mom cuts up a melon with a big sharp knife, do you ask them if they’re going to have to…

I live in a city, and every weekend day we walk well over 5K, just doing normal kid shit and running errands. The other option is staying inside all the time and resorting to screens, which I’m sure you’d also have lots of judgement to spew about. My almost-three-year old (who looks and talks like a 4-year-old) is…

Side note, the Spike and Tonya Lewis Lee children’s book that gave the episode its name is a delight for the under-three set.

Sure! I’m 100% with you that most babies and children don’t belong at weddings or funerals, and I’d much rather leave mine home. And I absolutely don’t think you should ever bring children to a wedding where they aren’t explicitly welcome. And I can’t stand when people let their kids run wild or talk through times…

You still haven’t provided any evidence that there’s any impact on development. If we’re just going by anecdote, I know several peers of my almost-three-year old who are still nursing. Their parents aren’t into attachment parenting - the kids are in full-time daycare - and they’re totally indistinguishable from their…

Literally no one is arguing that you can exclusively breastfeed a 12-18 month old and meet their nutritional needs. That doesn’t mean breastmilk can’t still be a source of nutrition. I mean, I wouldn’t eat a diet of 100% yogurt, but that doesn’t mean there’s no value in me eating some yogurt every day.

Based on what evidence?

You think comfort isn’t a need to a 15-month-old? Or a three-year-old?

I guess I just don’t understand how it’s all that distracting? If I’m sitting in front of a breastfeeding mother, I’m looking forward at the proceedings. If I’m sitting behind her, it just looks like the kid is sitting in her lap - at most I can see legs and an arm. I can see if someone’s giving a toast and nursing at…

Why? What’s the magic age where you “need” to stop? And I agree, wandering the aisle during a wedding ceremony is inappropriate, so isn’t keeping the kid otherwise quietly occupied the correct thing for the mother to do? As long as the kid was quiet, shouldn’t everyone be looking at the bride and not worrying about…

My larger point is, if you’re a single-issue voter who only cares about abortion, there’s ZERO evidence that electing Republicans who closed Planned Parenthood clinics and vote for new abortion limits will do anything to decrease abortion rates, and there’s pretty good evidence that doing the things progressive states…

I don’t think abortion would disappear if we had all these things (nor do I think that’s the goal). Here’s one article: https://www.guttmacher.org/gpr/2016/03/new-clarity-us-abortion-debate-steep-drop-unintended-pregnancy-driving-recent-abortion

Exactly. Because if you actually care about reducing abortions, you do that through universal healthcare, comprehensive sex education, good access to contraceptives, decent wages, social supports that make it possible to raise children... all the things pro-choice Democrats support. Abortion rates go down under…

You would think! From what I’ve read the FAA actually believes it’s not safe to allow lap babies at all and that it’s much safer for babies under 2 to be in car seats. But their calculations are that requiring families to buy babies their own seats would prompt many to drive instead, and that driving is SO MUCH more…

Because breastfeeding isn’t just for nutrition/hunger - it’s for comfort, too (which is a legit thing to offer a 2-year-old, especially in a new noisy environment like a plane) and most toddlers would cry if you made them stop nursing before they were done. I guarantee you that 2-year-old also eats sandwiches and all…

No - according to regulations in the US, it’s actually far more dangerous to have a lap baby belted in - a lap belt can cause serious internal injuries. In Europe many carriers provide a small loop that hooks onto your belt that you’re supposed to use for takeoff and landing around an infant. Those are banned in the…

The American Medical Association is also crystal clear that guns are not safe substances and takes a pretty strong stance on gun control including the assault weapons ban, fwiw.

Ugh, yes. I’m 18 weeks with twins and the first trimester I went from vaguely sick-ish to FAMISHED to totally disgusted by the thought of food within the span of 15 minutes, over and over all day. All I could handle was carbs and fruit, and only fruit and popsicles after 6 pm. But my nausea was mostly gone after 12…