Maybe I’m talking with my kid more than I think, but our tantrums are minimal and I don’t believe that’s why. Tantrums are really just a skill kids use to get what they want. If they learn you cave when they throw one, they’re going to do it again. I’m sure communication is a factor, but I don’t think it outweighs…

After reading that “landmark” study, I have some serious concerns about generalisability of its findings. It seems like there’s a much stronger moderating variable there, which is SES. Language exposure seems to covary with the success and level of education of the parents, but absolutely cannot be said by itself to…

30000 words in a day? I’m pretty sure I don’t say half that on my own (quick Google says that the average woman only says about 20000 a day and the average man 7000, which sounds about right). If the average person speaks at a rate of about 150 words per minute (Google again, but I’m guessing this is a really high…

I’m pretty sure if there was a larger scale emergency, like a fire or something, this kind of design greatly increases risk of casualties.

“At the very least most, Trump is a hero in his own eyes.”

Safety issues aside, isn’t the mean age of teachers fairly high? https://nces.ed.gov/surveys/sass/tables/sass1112_2013314_t1s_002.asp (Spoiler, it’s about 43.) A fifth to a quarter of all teachers are over 55, depending on state.

That’s like saying you’d rather have had a meth addiction than be too lazy to clean up, if you had to choose. It’s a false dichotomy and it really grates on me. Believing that happiness is directly tied to appearance is a pretty sure way to suffer, no matter what you look like. I know that most people are biased…

It’s better to find a way to just be happy.

Where did she find the time while helping run that struggling, family-run burger restaurant?

Something tells me this won’t solve the problem.

I’m not saying thin privilege isn’t real, I’m saying is insane to say an eating disorder is in any way a lifestyle to aspire to. As I mentioned in the second half of my reply, it’s apparent you’re unhappy, but your writing screams that the problem isn’t primarialy your weight, but that you sound bitterly depressed.…

I can tell you’ve never spoken to someone with a true eating disorder, because I can assure you, it’s absolutely not worth the psychological hell that it is. You constantly feel like crap,are in constant fear of judgment, are always worried about food and how to hide the behavior and you hate yourself. As it worsens,…

As an eating disorder treatment specialist, I think you have the order of operations backwards. Yes, diet restriction can cause food obsession, that’s been known since the Minnesota Starvation Experiment at the end of WW2. The fact that one believes one must disrupt their food intake to correct for appearance issues…

So there is an environment in which he believes toxicity is a concern? Too bad it’s not the literal one.

To a point, I assume. I doubt albinos are especially cuffed.

It doesn’t usually surprise me when conservative patents raise liberal kids, but I’m always a bit confused when the opposite happens. I had a co-worker one tell me she and her boyfriend had to get away from his family because they couldn’t take it, and I don’t get why. I suppose I’m biased, and there are certainly…

I honestly can’t tell if Jenna Fischer is really sweet or really thirsty.

Gonna dispute that the pregnancy fetish is just about virility. It certainly could be, but it could just as early be about the transgression of not “being careful” or about the psychological rush or intimacy components of taking the significant relational step of having a child together.

I think Sweat Poo is an indication you need more fiber in your diet