No one has answered my question yet: WHY was a 50-pound dog in this woman’s LAP on a damn plane!? I mean, that’s like having a 5-year-old in your lap! Who wants to sit NEXT to something that big as small as plane seats are? And if she was THAT tense, get in the damn car!

I have a service cobra I’m going to take with me on my next plane trip.

Don’t worry- I’m on UK time anyway! Like I say. I’ve had the heebie jeebies about this story for a while. As I’ve said elsewhere though, depressingly, I suspect it isn’t a troll. Just someone who can’t handle parenting a clearly disturbed teenager.

True. I misread that. Kind of curious why then they would even allow it on board? Sounds like they need to either decide they are going to treat them like service animals or not. Not that I know exactly what the airline rules are for true service animals.

Crush up a ton of chips and use them to “salt” the rim of a stemless bordeaux glass, then fill it with onion dip and enjoy the entire thing alone on the couch under a Slanket while you marathon Always Sunny and ironically judge them for the decisions they make

edit: that puffy bubble chip in the header is my new best…

*ahem* Wrong city of obnoxious sports fans: 

I’ve never heard it called that in my life, and I’ve here for years. It’s a Pittsburgh left.

I read this article yesterday afternoon, went home and held my fussy baby as I cooked dinner for the family, all the while fuming about these types of B.S. articles and books that delusional people think give off good advice. Immerse yourself into the real world, Ms. Anderson.

Before deciding to have a baby BOTH members of the couple need to take a hard look at themselves and their spouses. A narcissistic, lazy or clueless person isn’t going to magically change the day the baby is born.

Though honestly, if your husband had time to nap and do hobbies and crack open beers with his friends and you didn’t, then things were still not fair. My husband does things that I don’t do and vice versa but one of our ongoing arguments is that he carves out WAY more time for himself than I do, at the expense of (in…

The issue with that is that so many men put all the emotional labor, social, and household planning on their wives.

It’s valid to say that a guy will have a harder time getting babysitting business due to social perception (you know, due to the kinds of generalizations that are in this article like all men are less likely to be woken up by the sound of a child than by the wind because caveman).

So uh, there is an important thing to note here: some people are poorly matched, and while kids may expose that more glaringly, kids are not, in fact, responsible for choices adults make. So when I married a guy I very incorrectly thought might grow out of some of the things that later came to drive me nuts, the…

Can someone explain to me why the insulting stereotypes asserted here as general facts are permissible? I am generally really impressed by Lifehacker’s forward thinking, but as a father I found this straight offensive.

Nice book title. So inclusive. It probably hammers home even more to some men that, “Yes, my wife is the problem here. Even this author agrees with me. That book is clearly for her. I will carry on forthwith to the garage.”

The closest comes at Rule #1, which is presented as “let him screw up” rather than “don’t be a control freak”. If either partner treats the other as a know-nothing fuckup then of course there’s going to be trouble. In the real world, each parent has an opinion, and one of them is going to be less wrong than the other.

attachment parenting versus arming children with machetes

To be fair, anyone who’s done such a bad job at something that she felt the need to interview a slew of experts and get a book published about the saga probably isn’t representative of the normal experience.

I read this when Jezebel did a piece on it, and Dunn’s advice is surprisingly solid, even if she herself comes off like a total asshole. Maybe she was exaggerating for the book, maybe she’s really that terrible, but I was kind of shocked that her husband hadn’t run for the hills long before they tried counseling.

Dunn and her husband went to couples therapy—and even consulted with an FBI crisis negotiator