That's awesome! My sister is a SAHM with two little boys (the oldest is 3), and she's been training them from the get-go about helping out where they can—youngest is still too young to do anything, but oldest can put his Duplo back in the box, and hand laundry to mom out of the basket when it needs washing, and put…

It was my in-laws' home :( so that's the other problem. In my house I would've felt much freer to speak my mind.

You guys! Have you seen her dancing to Anaconda?! I must have watched it 15 times in a row when I discovered it.

Today is National Coming Out Day.

I have three, and am a SAHM. I have 2 boys and a girl. We've both worked hard to show them how we both contribute and work as a team. They have cleaning toys and we teach them that it is nice to have a clean house and respectful and welcoming to tidy for guests. They also have baby dolls. Which when someone( oddly…

It's sad how proud I am of my fella for doing his fair share of housework. It's also sad how shocked people are when I tell them how he helped with our newborn overnight while I recovered from a caesarean (We split it more 50/50 now). Seriously, I couldn't get out of bed without help for two days. Are there really men…

I am trying to make all my kids have that internal shame (I do come from a military family and I have allergies, so I am at just below OCD levels), but somehow it is only taking in my son. My daughters are gross and proud of it. They will throw their used socks in with their shoes. They will put worn clothes back in…

I agree, with regard to social pressures and traditional gender norms. But it seems to me, in an ideal world none of us would clean house for weird, status-obsessed, keeping-up-with-the-Joneses reasons—we'd do it in order to make our homes comfortable and accessible for the people we live with. Because it's the…

Never ever marry a guy who is not a full grown man yet. He won't become a man magically after the wedding and it is not your job to help him get there. He HAS to be there. My sister made that mistake. She thought her fiance would mature miraculously after the wedding, that she could help him, and boy was she wrong.…

I honestly think it's mostly that men aren't raised to have an internal, never-ending shame if their house isn't Martha Stewart levels of clean and perfect like women are. It's not that they can't, or won't clean - it's that they honestly don't have that same societal pressure there driving them to do it.*

"The fault here is any parent who doesn't feel this is essential training for boys, too. "

This was not my proudest moment, but when I got dumped by a guy who had sworn eternal love just long enough to hook me and then stomp on my heart, I called a florist, had them cut the heads off a dozen long-stemmed roses and deliver the wrapped-with-a-ribbon box of stems to the asshole during a long business meeting…

whoa

"You know I picked out that dress for her. You're welcome."

The only thing that makes me almost as happy as that letter is that her dad was proud enough to post it to Twitter.

HENDRICKS FOREVER. It's much more herbal/botanical and has notes of rose and cucumber, rather than industrial janitorial supplies. Approximately one thousand times nicer and smoother and more complex than Tanq or Bombay.

Can we do an investigative piece on the buyer(s?) of the peacock? That would be amazing. ETA: it's sad being grey.