We need more Mom's talking shit about raising older kids on Jezebel. Most posts and posters have very young kids, thats fine but I don't need newbie parenting advice or "look I'm a former cool kid, now I've got a kid of my own" posts. I want advice on how to tell my kid he stinks without making him feel bad, is it…

Ha ha mmm I feel this. I don't have a live-at-home partner, though. I just have a lot of shit that needs to be done at home - and I'm not being supervised and paid to get it done. So I just collapse into a heap. Work is so much easier because I know exactly what's expected of me and I know how to do it.

I dated someone raised like that. He couldn't quite move beyond superficial affection. Even love was 'love', if that makes any sense. We dated for a long time, but it never seemed serious, because he just couldn't deal with intense emotions - his or someone else's.

If that's how you want to put it, I won't stop you. I don't think it meaningfully changes anything that I've said, though.

I have to disagree that they "can't". It would be more accurate to say that they do not choose to.

You do realize that not all kids are 6, right? Also, your mother probably calls you a motherfucker behind your back.

I am trying hard to instill such self-sufficiency in my daughter. She does do all of her own packing when we go on trips, and has done for a several years now (she's 10). I don't even check her bags to see if she's got it all. I think she's better at packing than me.

yup.

I usually don't advocate violence but we sorely need to start decapitation of the rich.

I was just going to post that many non-rich people also prefer to outsource their kids in the summer. I have a friend who is a stay-at-home mom, and she sends her kid to day camp in the summer because he's too annoying. My daughter's not that annoying (yet) that I have to pay someone to take her off my hands. I…

My sister makes 5k a week packing kids for camp on the laptop. Find out how you can do it too!

It's a goddamn disease. These are the kinds of folks who will do or pay whatever it takes to make sure that their kid is not a failure.

First impression: people are ridiculous

But... who is going to make sure little Timmy gets his 3 o'clock caviar?!

I'd be less likely to vote for a proudly vocal Christian, and I'd also be less likely to vote for a proudly vocal atheist.

Funny, isn't it? I've always thought of atheists as being the ones with the moral compass, because we have to seek truth for ourselves and make decision based on what's right and wrong, rather than blindly following a set of rules from the church. And I think of religious people more as letting fear of punishment…

Atheist here. If I were running for office, I'd just pretend to be a Methodist, like a lot of other Methodists.

How silly of us to expect the same 1st amendment rights that theists enjoy.

...by which you mean "demand that nobody forces you to live by the rules of their religion."