Dude, the actual material is such a small portion of the overall cost of the product, and that cost is nothing compared to how much they sell it for. They're protecting their image, plain an simple, and using blatant fat-shaming techniques ("well it would cost soooooo much more to make a tent that would fit you…

Sometimes having them in a stroller is LESS of an obstruction.

Been there - my oldest was 4 and my middle was 2 when my youngest was born, and yes, it's all pretty goddamned blurry (my oldest is now almost 7 and my youngest is 2, so while I'm not out of the woods yet, at least everyone is out of diapers). Mostly I just developed superhuman upper body strength from lugging all…

It doesn't solve every problem - my issue isn't that my 4 year old runs into traffic, it's just that when he feels too oppressed by the hamster wheel of life, he will just STOP. MOVING. Seriously. I posted a photo montage from a walk home in another comment thread. And with getting big brother to school and keeping…

The above is a walk home from the park last spring. When he didn't feel like trucking along, he would just LIE DOWN ON THE SIDEWALK. I mean, I'm glad the kid doesn't really tantrum, but sometimes we need to get places!!

Ha! I have kids the same spacing and was just gonna say WTH am I supposed to do? I take my kids (ages 2, 4, and 6) hiking and whatnot, but I live in a super hilly area, and when I make the younger two walk on the way to dropping my oldest at school it TAKES FOREVER. My middle has the peaceful protest down pat, and…

"UGH, you mono-brows are so insecure and unrealized."

We once had a couple over (the parents of my son's classmate), and when the fact that we rent instead of own our home came up, the woman cheerfully exclaimed, "You guys are like GYPSIES!" As in, "your relative poverty is so charming and bohemian! What a relief it must be to live a life so liberated from concerns…

I lose weight when I'm stressed out/angry/ manic. The conversations usually go like this:

Eh, go for the cheeky shorts. I was of the "two layers of sheer = opaque" school when I was in the first half of my twenties, and it didn't hurt anybody. If (half-)mooning the world while you get your shit together and adjust to accountability keeps you on the rails, then moon away, friend.

I just miss my boobs. My cute, perky, symmetrical little boobs. Fucking kids.

Yeeeeaahhh... it doesn't last forever though. I looked like a teenager through my twenties. I'm in my early thirties now, and while I still get carded about half of the time (when I don't have my three kids with me - then I get carded approximately none of the time, mostly because cashiers are eager to get me and…

Ack! Amy Adams! I look a LOT like her, and I did the drama thing for a long time but decided I wasn't pretty enough to be famous for that or weird enough to be a character actor so I just kind of let it fizzle. And now here she comes and she's KILLING it.

When my brother was 13, his two "best friends" stole checks from our parents and tried to cash them (they also "stole" a game system that one of them had left at our house, in the hope that my parents would feel so bad they'd give him money for a new one, which they did). The bank caught on right away, but it was…

Is that the woman from GOT? Margaery Tyrell?

I actually think it's overrated. The first season was good, and then after that things were kind of a stretch... I feel like they had this idea - to take the relatable, sad-sack protagonist and turn him into a nefarious villain over the course of the show - but in order to make the leap, several of the characters had…

Bless your heart. I politely tolerate the dick pics my husband takes when he's out of town (look, distance is hard and sometimes you gotta take one for the team), but whenever I get one, I feel a little like I'm being poked in the eye. Also - LIGHTING! CAMERA ANGLE! HOW CAN YOU BE SO GOOD AT POWERPOINT AND SO BAD…

Also: I get a strange delight in the fact that right now, my kids, ages 2-almost 7 find nothing funnier than people of either sex doing nekkid (or semi-nekkid) booty dancing. This is then followed by the crushing realization that sooner or later, they'll likely be socially conditioned - regardless of sexual…

My toddler's delighted response to the section with the stop sign on the dancer's arse was: "That man is dancing like a roly poly!" Then she peed on me.

They're not just as likely. I am white with a Slavic-sounding last name. My kids are mixed. I get asked what THEY are all the time, whereas I very rarely get questioned about my own heritage. The way most strangers ask makes it feel a little like someone wondering about the special breed of super cute puppy I'm…