"Black and white diet rules"

Or you know... Don’t have cookies in the pantry... It’s ridiculously easy when there is no “bad food” around to stick to your plan :) No willpower spent, no rules to follow. But of course, everyone in the house must be in!

Seems logical, though I wonder if there could be a potential downside to this approach. It really depends on who you’re working for, but I can see it being troublesome to set unreasonably high expectations early by grabbing all that low-hanging fruit at the start of a new job. You’ll almost certainly hit a lull when…

This should help with that reoccurring dream I have where I’m back in high school and can’t remember the combo to get in my locker!!

Yet another interpretation is that Anna Merlan was pleased to find an excuse to get her Cool Chick Boho on. Oh, those mommies, giving a flying fuck about people who watch their children all day! Such busybodies, amirite?

I also feel like “venting” and straight up saying that you hate the core of the job are pretty different things. Like, a lot of the teachers I used to work with “vent,” but it’s more like, “I have one zillion papers to grade and am fresh out of patience today,” not, “I really hate imparting knowledge to children and…

Yeah, we all need to vent after work has been terrible - like a really bad day or a really bad week. She felt the need to vent before she’d ever gone in to work. That’s... bad. If you feel like that your first day? You shouldn’t be working at a daycare.

Here is a solution;

What did she need to vent about at that point, though? She hadn’t even started the job!

“kids can be really challenging” Indeed!

If you have an open dislike of children, chances are you’re not going to be as patient with them when they act like children and not in a cute or funny way. Children are erratic, emotional, defiant, and in some cases extremely cruel. It takes patience, and lots of it, to work with them and (hopefully) correct bad…

Ehhhhh, I want to give the benefit of the doubt here, truly. When it comes down to it, I know I wouldn’t be comfortable knowing that one of my daughter’s day care workers hates being there. I’m not asking for it to be their pride and joy or life mission, but as a parent, it would concern me. Especially given how much…

To think that after all these years I still have so much to learn about how to poop.

Prenups are an interesting topic to look at socially. The “default” seems to be no prenup, so if one suggests the partner might respond with “why? Don’t you believe our marriage will last and it won’t matter?”

Right now, we call artificially grown meat “shmeat,”

I agree with you, but after hearing others talk about marriage (and divorce), I actually think it’s worth it for a couple to discuss the possibility of a prenup before getting married. It teases out what each party thinks is fair in terms of breaking up.

You missed the only reason that matters:

My youngest son has low impulse control and MUST BUY NOW!! We’ve adopted the “no, we don’t have money in the budget for X” to keep the whining under control. As they’ve gotten older, we’ve explained how we spend our money based on a budget. It had been confusing to the kids how we would say we don’t have enough money…

A few years ago, my husband lost his job. We were really upfront about it with our children because it impacted them. We answered their questions honestly and completely but without a lot of specific details - yes, we can still buy food but we cannot go out to eat vs. our food budget has to be reduced by x%. My…

I know that when I was young I was acutely aware of what I understood to be my parents' lack of funds. And, yes, it stressed me out as a child. While I don't want my son (almost 4) to grow up having it too easy, I do my best to not introduce unnecessary stress.