7 months after separation and my ex has a fully-stocked alcohol cupboard at his new place. I don’t think it’s something to be concerned about myself. We do weird things after a break-up. Through mutual friends I hear he likes to mix complicated and bizarre cocktails when they visit. He doesn’t get visitors often and…

And even still...

I think the ratio of people the pull-out method ‘works’ for is far-outnumbered by the people it does not work for.

I don’t believe every single man or woman is meant to have children. There are important roles to play in life and they don’t require spawning children. Aunts and Uncles without kids can be the best gift to any family, you guys have so much energy! Fuck questioning your natural instincts.

Try weed! At the very least use your careful self-control to begin attempting alternatives. You know your body can’t sustain this indefinitely.

Eventually it will come out that tummy-sleeping has nothing to do with SID’s but meanwhile, it might be worth a shot!

I like to say “No means no” to other peoples children because ‘no’ often means let’s negotiate the terms and conditions in which the kids gets everything they want. It teaches them to be manipulative negotiators so that’s something! But seriously, I think kids crave tight boundaries for security and comfort. I like my…

Nah, nothing juicy. I was a live-in Nanny and the juiciest thing that ever happened was when 2 guys (1 gay, 1 not) from Paris stayed overnight. My bedroom shared the walls with the bathroom and I was awoken at 7am to the sounds of the shower running and passionate cries of “WAH! WAH! WAH!” which translates to “Yes!…

Ex-nanny’s for the win! I nannied in London in the 90's and they were into attachment parenting. I took what I liked about that style, but I noted what didn’t work so I’ve blended my old-school discipline with the warm fuzzy of praising and hugging and all that stuff.

Parents are too scared to be dictators and lots of my Mom friends admit that they didn’t sign up for the discipline part of parenting, I shit you not. But I feel it’s better my kids are scared of me and respond immediately when I say “Stop” rather than the kids who’s parents voice only seems to prompt them to…

Seriously, I offered to babysit my neighbours 30 lb 1 year old until I found out she required me to bounce him to sleep for 20+ minutes at naptime. 1) I have my own 2 children that I can’t ignore for large periods of time and 2) my back is not that strong, and neither is theres! They ended up having to pay top dollar…

Snap. I completely forgot I used to use the blow dryer to make my daughter go to sleep. I subscribe to a noisy environment from the newborn age because you can’t walk on eggshells for life, especially if there are siblings in the pipeline.

Also, letting a kid cry takes a good amount of resolve, I find modern Moms feel too much internet peer-pressure to withstand the “what if?” guilt. Sleep deprivation alters peoples ability to make decisions and can change their personalities. It’s a tough time for Moms.

Have you tried tummy-sleeping? It inhibits the Moro Reflex. This is another sleep aid that modern Mothers have been told is akin to murder, but as long as your child can move his head, it may do the trick. Best of luck.

My son had the same temperament, to this day bedtime is a struggle because he is naturally a night owl. I didn’t need to CIO with my daughter because she’s an early bird. Get your resolve now, because you may have a night owl on your hands, in which case, the earlier you start getting sleep the better. Be brutal, stay…

Also the tired Mom will become very irritated when she gets any inkling that how sick she is and how sleeping isn’t working in her household could be because what she is doing isn’t working. Out of defence, they lash out at the Mom who is CIO, something she needs to be convinced of is child abuse in order to keep up…

I always say I used dog training on my kids when I get complimented on how well they listen.

It’s a tough time to be a mom.

I have seen Mothers hospitalized with horrible infections and exhaustion basically, fighting and screaming all the while that they will never ‘cry it out’ with their child. I insist on calling it “Cry-it-out”, I hate all the sideways terms we are supposed to use to protect people who don’t want to know what you’re…

Thank you for this: “my uterus is constipated”. I am newly familiar with the pain and ache of “mittelschmerz”. Just when I thought my body has caused me enough grief, there’s always something new waiting around the next growth spurt.