WTF SUPER LICE????? Nearly killed me when my kid came home with it. Nearly fucking killed me.

The thing is just to make the kiddo responsible for their own shit. But that’s a chore in itself. I dunno, I feel guilty all the time for not being more involved, but then I sit on the couch with the baby and the 10 year old while the 2 year old does a silly dance and all three collapse in a fit of giggles and I…

Oh, you are not kidding about the lice. And they don’t die easy, like they did when we were kids. I do not even want to think about the $200 lice baking-and-combing center we had to go to after the first two rounds of poison barely made a dent in them. The four successive nights, combing and combing and combing. The…

OMFG with the damn homework. I’ve read the research and there is no evidence that it will help my kid in any way (beyond reading which is always a good thing). We just ignored it completely in kindergarten and his teacher never said anything so I figured she didn’t care. Now he’s in first grade and if he did…

Yes. I am a terrible parent because my kid has had a lot of birthday parties. I’m awful for letting him play baseball and committing to several practices and games each week. Sometimes I let him invite a couple friends over to spend the night and I bake them cookies because I’m a monster.

Agreed, but most of them don’t have kids, or if they do, they’re babies and don’t require much in the way of activities or homework oversight. And there’s way too much “when I was a kid in the 70s/80s/90s, my parents never even spoke to me and I wandered the neighborhood all day and all night!” Yea, sorry, I totally…

Hear hear! We too are drowning in the school administrative details and the every day demands of life. There are no mason jar/pallet costumes here!

Thank you! All these “you’re doing it to yourself” and “you’re too indulgent” and “you do too many things with your kid” comments are kind of grossing me out. The mommy wars suck and are one of the most unpleasant things about parenting.

AMEN TO ALL OF THAT! I get very pissy reading these comments from people who are clearly not in the trenches and do not understand that the world now is not the world they grew up in. You can’t just sit around with your friends smoking and gossiping on the porch while your kids run around outside because some nosey…

Can we stop with the whole “ur doin it to urself” thing please? Sure, there are probably upwards of several hundred couples in Manhattan who are both employed, with young children, who have attempted to craft a Halloween costume out of mason jars and pallets, but that really isn’t life for most of us (admittedly…