I can't stand the boy/girl ones. I have one particular Facebook friend who is always like "LOL sooooo true. love being the mom of a boy! :)" Seriously? It has to do with the individual kid's personality mixed with what the parents encourage.

Some of these serve a really good purpose. For example, "12 Thing You Should Never Say to a Person with a Chronic Health Condition" would be really helpful to the family and friends of someone just diagnosed with a chronic condition. I wouldn't memorize the list just in case I happened to meet someone with a chronic…

Yes! I was outside unsupervised a lot during the summers when I was a kid. But if something happened, I had somewhere to go. I'm not really as concerned about the safety issue as much as I am the stress of not having some place to go issue.

Yep. I, like many commenters, spent a lot of my summertime out doors because I wanted too. If I got tired, or skinned my knee, or it was hot, or I suddenly decided I didn't like the kids I was playing with, I could go home. I feel better knowing that her mom's workplace was nearby, but like you pointed out, that's…

I have 1 dog. She has 4 beds. And several pillows. I cannot imagine with 4 dogs...

Thanks for including the map. For me it really helps put it in perspective. Yesterday, I was reading 1.5 miles and pictured the little girl having to walk that far along busy streets to get to her mom if need be. This map shows that it was not that situation at all.

So true. I don't get the appeal of outing someone before they are ready, especially with how common early loss is.

How dare SnaggleTots used anecdotal evidence to convey a personal anecdote! Unless I missed the part where she tried to claim it was statistically significant.

I was really excited to watch her compete.

Are some people just that totally unaware their surroundings?

I hope so much that Coco (whoever she is) typed that passive-aggressively while eating dinner.

What? Mine is totally sexy. I often wear it out on the town.

I was doing that for a while, and it made my work day much better, but eventually the desire to sleep in won out. It's probably time to start doing that again though...

I'm the middle face for the first 30 minutes of everyday (because for some reason, everyone has a question they need answered rightthisminute). Then I switch to the 1st face for most of the rest of the day (because science is hard, and I'm just pretending to know what I'm doing), with sporadic moments of the last…

That's great! I figured they'd package it "For Girls! <3!"

To be fair, those are the expressions that I make 99% of the time I'm in the lab...

I think that's totally ok. My step mother-in-law will sit down at a table, but then decide it's too close to the door, or too far from a window, or too near an a.c. vent, or whatever, and ask for the waiter to find us a new table. Sometimes she does it before we've sat down, but other times she'll wait until the…

I swear my step mother-in-law asks to be reseated about 75% of the time just as a power trip.

Sigh, I know he's probably a troll, but I just can't let it go!

I didn't mean to imply that it was always bad decisions! I hope you didn't take it that way. I'm lucky to live in a fairly low cost of living area, but your story certainly shows how that can change right under you.