This was my life as a child! Happiest day of my 9 year old life was when my mom taped it off of TV for me since we couldn’t find the VHS for it in stores.

What I find funny about what happened to us is that we all put our kids in the same daycare - meaning, it cost the same amount of money for all of us and we all could afford it. But I didn’t show up to drop-offs or pick-ups wearing expensive clothes. And my kid didn’t wear Hanna Anderson every day. Or bring lunches…

How about an uplifting story of a man’s love for his daughter, his wife and narrowly avoiding the sex offender registry? Okay, if you insist.

A mother I knew suggested I treat my kiddos very very serious, like yearly hospitalizations now takes 3 daily medications serious asthma with unpasteurized honey. Honey. We didn’t do anymore playdates after that, I cannot abide stupid (and I doubt she vaccinated her kids). 

This really hits home to me. I have a 4 year old and a 1 year old and I have a hard time connecting to a lot of other parents - especially the dads.

I had a mom scream at me in the daycare parking lot because she wasn’t watching her kids and I was (while driving) and they ran behind her car almost in front of mine. She said I was driving like a lunatic - I said you weren’t watching your kids.

It’s really hard making new friends as an adult.

We moved from the city to the burbs, and all my city friends are like single and not wanting to come out by us EVER.

My suburbs friends suck and I have finally taken the advice from the lovely people of Jezebel and left their biased, racist, pearl covered clutches.

So my husband and I are at square one and I feel bad…

As someone with social anxiety who has never got in, I find myself re-living the awkwardness and despair of thinking I should connect with other parents but being shunned over and over again, or worse, being sucked into the drama of crazy parents. As my kids started in a different school I just decided to let go. I’ll…

okay so now I need more moms’ horror stories about other parents. Please share.

I don’t remember my mom being friends with the parents of any of my friends, and it didn’t even occur to me that she should be. It’s hard enough to find friends without the added pressure of aligning social circles with your child.

I am 31 and its so damn hard to make fucking friends as an adult!!!!

This grown-ass lady made herself a goddamn unicorn dress. And wore it to work.

I’m waiting for a mythological trend I can get behind, like harpies. I want some harpy themed junk. None of this stupid fairy/mermaid crap.

The “mermaid hair” thing makes me rage. I’m just a woman who likes having pink streaks in my hair. I am not a mermaid and I don’t want to be a mermaid. I like my otherwise unremarkable life on land, and I am not interested in trading my Danskos for fins. STOP IT.

I just re-watched this movie with my two boys (6 and 9). They loved it as much as I did! My oldest loved the music. <3

I don’t care if it’s trendy or whatever - UNICORN EVERYTHING.

OMG and the song!!

The book is beautiful. So’s the movie, but there’s something so sweet about the book’s prose that makes me love it more.

I recently re-read the book and loved it.

When I was little I used to love this movie, still do: