I can see trying to enforce an age limit for free meals, but most kids meals I’ve seen are much smaller portions. My 9 yo is ordering from the standard menu now at out favorite family restaurant because the kids meals just don’t fill him up. I’m in the camp that says if an adult wanted to eat from the kids menu,…

I felt this until 1) my eyes started to age and 2) I got an cheap, plain e-ink Kindle. Now I pick up a physical book and am confused about why I can’t make the type go bigger and it’s so damn heavy. 

Also in PA and our district has a cut-off of 10/1. I “redshirted” my eldest who has a birthday of in the last week of September. Mostly because I knew he couldn’t possibly sit still at 5. I don’t regret it. 

This is more useful when one person is doing all or most or the care. Apps or sheets are useful when people are share duty and trading off a lot.

Actually, in my experience, they hear it from adults, usually the adults that then freak out about a kid using a swear word, before they ever get to school and internet exposures. True story. A childless friend was OUTRAGED that a neighbor kid wrote an expletive in chalk on another neighbor’s sidewalk. She said the…

Also, look for local options, like http://pghtoys.org/

There are a couple factors here: 1) legistlation, 2) age of architecture and/or renovation. As someone who lives in a city with a lot of older buildings, I really notice that newer places or newly remodeled places have them and older places don’t. 

My husband was a SAHD and he just used to flag down a manager, get them to clear the women’s room, then use the changing table in the womens room. Make management KNOW that there is a need for this. We are in PA and past the point where we need changing tables, but it is not mandated here. My youngest son is now 7 and…

I’m late to the party. But my sister once gave me cat food for Christmas. Just cat food. She had been pushing me to start my cats on one of the expensive organic cat foods she recommends, and I wasn’t doing it. 1. I actually did try a few and my cat wouldn’t eat them. 2. It wasn’t in my budget. She was totally judging…

Add this: if it doesn’t get put away from the box in some period of time, you just throw the box away. 

I’ve observed that kids who live in more affluent communities are more likely to reach 10+ still believing in Santa. In economically mixed and poorer communities, the harsh realism that Santa can only bring what your parents can afford strikes some kid at school and the cat slips out of the bag. 

I know some very sincerely (and liberal) Christian people that don’t do Santa AT ALL because it takes away from the real meaning of Christmas, which is Christ was born and that’s important gift. Like their toddlers know that Santa isn’t real. 

Elf on the Shelf? No way. 1) Ain’t nobody got time for that. 2) Do the right thing or I take away your privileges just like the rest of the year.

Naps, so quaint. My kids were seeing given bonus division problems on kindergarten homework by April. 

I need help. I friend bought me a Megyn Kelly book for my birthday. It’s sitting to in a pile. I read this and I get ragey. I think I need ideas about what to do with this book. Burn? Deface? I feel like my rage is blunting my creativity. I know someone out there can come up with the perfect thing.

I had a doula for my first. This was not my experience. Of course, I did research doula groups and interview my doula before the birth.

“And when a fan pointed out that the line stopped at cup size 44DD, Rihanna actually listened to them and expanded the line to go up to 44DDD.”

Dare the techbro to do his regular commute in drag for a week and then come discuss.

In my experience, it doesn't matter what your birth plan is, no one in a hospital will look at it.

Not all election boards pay for I Voted stickers. I was told by a poll worker in my town that if people were getting them, the poll workers were paying for them.