I’m so relieved that somebody GETS IT.

A thousand likes!!!

Best response here.

Wow...I wish I’d been that articulate at her age!

What is that cartoon you refer to? I’d like to watch it. Thanks.

Maybe I can get out of the grays with this comment because it’s my story and I’ve never told it. Reading the comments below has reframed my response to something that happened to me when I was about 13. I was flirting with a boy at a day camp by tossing something at him...something little like acorns or some other…

I am so glad you posted this! I think of myself as very tuned in to these things, but I just remembered that last weekend at a family gathering, when I asked my four-year-old nephew for a hug, he grinned and said no and walked away...and what did I do? I grabbed him and said with aggressive affection, “Ohhh no, you’re…

Do you mind if I ask how you talk about consent? I have a nine-year-old son. I’m pretty open about sex, but talking about consent hasn’t been on my radar until recently. What kinds of conversation openers do you look for when talking with your kids? Anyone have suggestions?

Or one of those courthouse dogs that comfort victims who relive trauma when they testify: http://courthousedogs.com/

Ask people in the adoptee rights community about Rosie O’Donnell and the unsavory adoption practice that brought this child to her. Her daughter left home to connect with her biological mother, whom she found through another family member after a search that Rosie did not approve of. Her mental health issues are…

Two points. One: this is not “female viagra.” It doesn’t work in the same physiological way that Viagra does. Two: When I am around people who sneer at men who need Viagra and/or Cialis, I desperately want to tell them that after my husband’s spinal injury, his neurogenic bladder needs Cialis so he doesn’t have to pee…