Does she make it by sticking iPhones in her pants?

I agree completely. The "can women have it all" trope needs to die already. NO ONE can "have it all," for goodness sake, and the fact that Americans actually debate this highlights just how dumb, overprivileged and out-of-touch we are as a society. If you are over the age of 5, you should be OK with the fact that you…

No shit. Because there's just not enough guilt out there, let's unnecessarily expose moms to more of it. I have 3 kids and have worked their entire lives. I've never: a) been "room mom"; b) attended the "Friday PTA coffees in the courtyard" at 8:30am; c) volunteered to stuff Friday Folders (shoot me now); d) you…

"Cramp in my back" is a "read Playboy for the articles" excuse. Try again.

That's the culture of the school as much as the culture of the society. Many elite kindergartens make clear that their parents, BOTH parents, are expected to give of their time, no excuses allowed. But most schools aren't like this and the expectation in elite day schools, ESPECIALLY religious schools, is that the…

I don't understand why a school feels they need to have a weekly meeting with people's parents? Like...when I was a kid my parents had one, maybe 2 parent-teacher conferences a year. Hell, my mom was a SAHM and she wouldn't have had time for a freakin' classroom coffee once a week - she was busy organizing booster…

Seriously, fuck this. "Here is an idea," said the school administrators, "for a new and easy way for schoolchildren and mothers to shame each other!" It's like institutionalized clique bullying.

"Just put the donut near the lens, honey!"

In related news, I'm never borrowing anyone's phone ever again.

"I'm the CEO for Pepsi - we can afford to pay someone to get the milk for us"

YES. Fucking thank you. Although my daughter's school has "Donuts with Dad" and "Muffins with Mom"... so both working parents are equally subjected to the guilt of not wanting to use your precious PTO to watch other parents eat pastries.

And not only that, but the husband gets a pass because "he's tired", even though he got home two hours earlier. You kind of undermined your own argument there, Mom.

This. Our society has the impression that women have to be there for all of their children's moments- if they are not there, they are accused of putting their ambitions before their children and it's implied that they are awful parents for doing this. Uterus yadda yadda maternal instincts blah blah...

Men are free…

Class coffee sounds like one of those things manufactured to allow for SAHM to come to school and spend time with their children however making working moms feel like dogshit.

Honestly, I don't think it's really possible to "have it all" for either genders. Growing up my dad worked long hours and rarely, if ever, took time off. The result? A pretty weak relationship with my dad. He has a successful career but my brother and I are not very close to him. I love my dad, but I do wish he was…

AND her husband didn't take initiative on the milk AND her daughter was a jerk-face.

The idea of "class coffee" pisses me off. School administrators know that many parents work during the day, yet they set these things up anyway, and now you get to feel like a shitty person for not being able to invest in your kid's education or whatever. And notice that it's only supposed to be with the mothers; it's…

No one, ever, can have it all. Men who are CEOs don't have it all, either, we just don't expect them to be active parents, we expect them to have stay at home wives.

Always glad to hear someone embrace her child-free life, though I prefer the succinct and to-the-point explanation by Helen Mirren:

naming fake bands like you're going to catch someone out is beyond annoying!!