It was nice to read this tonight, it reminds me not everyone is an asshole to parents. Today as I left my place to walk my kids to school cause I'm a loser who doesn't drive, my boss texted me. She wanted to know if I could cover a shift since I have a part retail job and thats how they roll, I sent out a quick text…

I don't have children, but my sister has three and I was with her when she had a similar, but much more mild, breakdown. I literally rocked her while her children were running wild around her. After 30 seconds she said, "Thanks. Now let's go get the kids." Sometimes you just a need moment.
I think your experience…

I know those screams. My daughter had a full on meltdown in the cart at Target. Just screaming and screaming. I didn't know what to do because she was failing around so I couldn't pick her up. I was getting ready to cry myself when an older lady came over, put her arm around me, and said I was a good mom because I…

crying. A few months ago I was having the worst day and just horribly cranky but trying desperately to hold it in and not take it out on my kid. And as I was leaving a store a woman caught me in the parking lot and said "we kept passing each other in there and you're doing a good job. You're a good mom." Then…

Oh god, that made me tear up because something so similar (well,sort of) happened to me when my son was a baby. I didn't have a car at a time and had a doctors appointment I really couldn't miss, so I took the train. On the way home my son decided he had ENOUGH of the train and wanted no part of it. Full on screaming,…

Ohhh, what! I was not expecting to get emotional over this thread. Thank you for sharing that; that was lovely. My mascara is fucked.

Oh jeez, I'm crying after reading that. I think all mothers can sympathize. The kindness of strangers is sometimes a magical and most welcome thing. And it feels good to be the kind stranger! And I agree 100%—no matter how rotten you felt, you took care of the kids. That puts you at the front of the class. Putting a…

It just goes to show that you never know what a kind word or gesture can mean to a stranger. How wonderful that there were people there when you needed them most. What a beautiful story.

I was going through a very bad bout of PPD and my husband's best friend's partner messaged me about how great it was that my husband and his bf were going to puerto Rico together. This was news to me, and turned out to be totally just an idea the bf had. I texted back "if he's ever going to pr, it will be with me!"…

I am now sobbing. Maybe I should enter into this contest the fact that I sobbed at an Internet stranger's story. You just keep being strong, GURL.

This took me back to a couple years ago when I was there. I'm now crying in the Rite Aid line.

Aww. I teared up.

"Angry, I was now drinking to get shitfaced. And it worked."

God, law school will ruin a person. RUIN. Especially the 1L year. FUCK THAT

This made me a little emotional, thank you for sharing there are many days that I want to just scream I give up in public. But I keep it together and I don't have any kids.

Hmmm

This is a story of how one of the worst days of my life ended up reaffirming my faith in strangers and in the human race in general.

Several years ago I was at an "art show" with friends (there was art there, but we were concentrating on listening to music and getting drunk) and a guy that I had been casually dating walked in. Now, we were not exclusive, and that was fine with me. I chatted with him and our other friends a bit, then he went off to…

My first semester of law school, final exams. I was so stressed, I wasn't eating. In fact, I weighed less then than I had since middle school.