Now you’re just being mean. Michelle doesn’t deserve to spend 90 minutes listening to an echo.

My mother used a harness that zipped in the back and tied under the mattress to keep me in bed. I still have insomnia now. Every illness I ever had was dismissed by my parents as “attention-seeking”. Reading this throws me into a panic.

This is what “sleep training” and abuse look like, 30 years later.

I was thinking the same thing. My oldest stepdaughter had horrible separation anxiety at age 7. She came unglued one day in the school parking lot when it was raining because she was convinced a tsunami was going to sweep the school away and her mother had to drag her into school. Her mom refused to get her…

I work with kids who have drug and alcohol spectral disorders, autism, etc, and this was basically a “yep, that’s normal” for me. I don’t even know any kids with normal sleep patterns. This is typical for my clients, as it was for me.

Hate to be the wet blanket on everyone’s tsk tsking of this woman’s parenting (I have two myself and an eldest who never seemed to need sleep,) but what this woman is describing is not normal spoiled-kid behavior. It sounds concerningly close to what I’ve read about sleep behavior in children who were later diagnosed…

Melania will just repeat everything Michelle says

Maybe it’s just my own fucked up family, but I’ve had an assortment of relatives require co-sleeping ‘til past the fourth grade mark. One of my cousins slept with her mom until she was eleven, and only moved out because they moved in with her mom’s boyfriend. Cousin is a wonderful, functional adult now, and has a…

this is a great example of the many ways i know parenting isn’t, like, For Me

Parenting is a continuous exercise in picking your battles.

It’s not assault-y, it’s assault.

Can I rant for a minute about how much I fucking hate comments about “normal bodies” and how “real women” have curves? It’s just so pointlessly divisive and belittling.

“Apologized”

When my Mom takes those quizzes that are supposed to predict how long you’ll live, she gets 112. Her Mother (the orneriest person ever, but super interesting despite all her failings) lived to be 101. Her father made it to 91 or 92, which is relatively impressive as is until you know that he lived with emphysema for…

My grandmother lived to be 91, and she smoked from age 13 to 90, when my aunt took her cigarettes away for fear she might fall asleep with one in her hand. I don’t think mere normal people could get away with that, though. Grandma Helen was a seriously cool old lady:

C-section here. Trust, my baby was zero percent deprived. We didn’t skin to skin immediately after birth because I was being sewn up, but did do it immediately after I got in the room with him (maybe 30 minutes after birth). Kid then nursed immediately. In fact, he got great time just him and his dad before I came in.…

First, for the sake of your sanity stay away from that stuff. Those posts always end up with the sanctimommies ruining everything and making everyone else weep. I had a c-section with my youngest. It was a traumatic, emergency kind of deal and I will spare you the rest- but I did not get to actually see the kid let…

the english are a disgusting people

Yeah, I’m kinda shocked Jezebel of all places would announce that she was afraid of being raped-well duh.

This guy can’t handle his own words quoted to himself a few days later.

Really? Veterans can’t handle PTSD... this guy can’t even handle mean tweets.