Ew, come on. On a restaurant couch? Some people are just absurd and entitled.

I was on a flight to California and about 1 hour before we were to a land a woman got up with an 18 month old with a new diaper and wipes in her hand and went in the bathroom. First, never knew a baby was even on the plane and second, yes, it can be done.

Oh, mine is ages out of date. I’m old as dirt.

Wait. Rihanna and Kurt Cobain have the same birthday? Well, well, well. Well.

Hey in today’s teen-dystopian-novel-come-true world, it’s nice to have something good to read.

I enjoyed my New Wave 80s outfits, thank you very much

Children, like animals, are a great judge of character. I don’t mean that cruelly, but I believe their intuition is a mode of self-preservation.

My mother never spoke badly about my father, even after he stopped contact with me when I was five. She told me that he wasn’t ready to be a father and that didn’t make him a bad person. If I ever wanted to contact him or his side of the family she was more than willing to help me.

Seriously. My brother hated my dad because he had the nerve to enforce rules. Lord knows what would have happened if he only had my, “but I’m a cool mom!” mother as the adult in his life.

Yup. I was terrified of my biological father. Still would be if he wasn’t dead. My brother and I would scream until he’d back off and leave. When I was about to graduate high school, he insinuated that my mom put us up to it. I lost it and let him have it. Nope, I was not about to spend time with someone who pointed a…

Do you have contact with a lot of children? I’ve been teaching for a long time and have dealt with multitudes of children with divorced parents. It’s not unheard of for children to be manipulated by a parent, however I find it far more common for children to have a legitimate reason when they don’t want to see a…

I had a friend who had a child with her then boyfriend. They broke up when the little guy was still a baby, and they had to deal with co-parenting this child from infancy. There were times, when her son was a toddler and little kid, where he just wanted to be with mommy. He wanted his mom and would cry when she…

I feel in general we don’t listen enough to children when it comes to custody arrangements. If someone was hitting me, even “lightly”, I wouldn’t want to be anywhere near them.

In my case, Kiddo’s not being manipulated. I absolutely DETEST when people weaponise their children.

That assumes the child is making an actual choice and not being manipulated by one parent. In an ideal world sure. But if the parent or parents are manipulators it’s not really the child’s choice.

I am a firm believer in not forcing a child to visit the absentee parent. If the kid doesn’t want to go, that’s good enough for me. We can talk about the “why” of it later.

My greatest regret in life is not being Rihanna.