Ok, I’m gonna sound like a typical smarmy over educated liberal here but....shit like this is why people think of the Republican Party as “the stupid people party”. It’s also why that saying “if you want to see what life was like 25 years ago go to the south” is becoming so prevalent and incredibly true. I know that…

Tuteur is basically crazy. She doesn’t think parents should have the ability to make any informed decisions if they conflict with what she thinks is the correct decision.

My first reaction was “hey, we’d take this a lot more seriously if the recipient was a girl!” then I remember that I was once a girl in junior high who got groped just about daily and no one ever did anything to stop it so...I stopped talking.

If you want kids, have kids. You cannot possibly be Mother of the Year for every single aspect of parenthood and you have no idea how you will react physically and mentally after you have a baby—or how that baby will react physically and mentally to all of your grand plans.

This comment thread is a microcosm of the…

People don’t always plan to have kids. About half the time in the U.S., they get pregnant and do the best they know how.

I’m the same as you, and I have three kids. I focus on the shit I’m good at which is organising things, homework, dealing with teachers, sorting out the extra-curriculars. I’m not good at playing in the floor and that kind of shit. So I don’t do it. My husband does it or they do it themselves. This playing with your…

You know what, fuck that. Why can’t you have a couple beers hanging out with your kids? don’t get obliterated, just take the edge off your adult brain and have some fun with the kids. Stop listing the groceries you need to get in the back of your mind for twenty minutes to play ponies. For real. Get in it. That’s all…

You seem to be under the impression that pot disables your brain like alcohol. It doesn’t. At all. So what if you have an emergency? You deal with it, just like if you hadn’t imbibed. In fact, being stoned might help in keeping you calm and focused. I would wager that you would never know I was stoned while having a…

Are you kidding? This is America. Parents are constantly buzzed or drunk around their kids and it’s thought of as completely normal. In the summer my neighbor never is outside without a beer in his hands and I’ve never seen his kids taken away from him. One is tolerated, the other is scandalized.

Funny. My dad and I smoked together the first time on spring break of my sophomore year in college. I’m not much of a smoker so it wasn’t a frequent event.

You did read the author’s husband was home and sober, yes?

if you think patience is the most important thing when raising kids but you have to get high to be patient then MAYBE you shouldn’t have kids.

My parents always smoked, it was an afternoon thing (after lunch bone, or ALB time kid get outta here and play in your room!) that I didn’t really understand, but I knew I had to kick rocks after lunch and dinner for around a half an hour to an hour. But when I came back down? The haze was different. This wasn’t just…

Probably 85% of the parents I know drink in front of their kids and no one makes a stink that BOTH parents have had a few beers when their kids are in the house. Drinking culture is so normalized in America but I couldn’t even admit I prefer to get stoned because it automatically make me a terrible person.