Yup. 11 year olds are texting their friends, playing video games, and whatever else until the wee hours and their parents have no clue. Then they fall asleep in school. And then the parents say stuff like, "yeah, they have so many electronics in their room, I don't know what to do about it."

Seriously, how do all of these nitwits ever get elected?

As a school counselor I regularly have kids share with me that friends of theirs are talking about suicide. I'm so proud of these young people for having the courage to seek help for a situation that is beyond what they can handle. However, I'm sure there are also kids who I don't know about. Handled correctly,…

I hear you. It drives me nuts when people talk about how selfish suicide is. Look, people don't try to kill themselves unless they are absolutely desperate. I think it's selfish not to realize the immense amount of pain a person must be in to be at that point, and to respect that. It's not all about you, people!!!

I'm a larger woman, and my kids are aware of it, and I NEVER make disparaging comments about myself in front of them. Its more like, 'yep, I'm big, what's next?' My kids know I struggle to find time to exercise and I need to eat healthier, but I NEVER talk about fat or size. My daughter, at 7, has said that she…

I wouldn't say anything directly to the other woman or her kids. But I would make it a point to make a counter-comment to my own kid or niece or whomever was with me about how all bodies deserve respect and size doesn't determine self worth or goodness, blah blah blah. And I would make sure that comment was loud…

You might not be on the right meds. You could be describing me when I was on prozac. Kind of worked at first, stopped taking it, started again, blah blah, felt better but never really "good." Then I found an amazing shrink who got me on the right meds. I never knew I could feel this good. No more obsessive thinking,…

For me, getting on the right meds was the thing that saved me. I have always dealt with anxiety and depression, was on Prozac on and off, was functional, but it never really went away. Following a pretty big health scare that came on the heels of a some other pretty stressful/traumatic things, I had a total meltdown…

My kids were in the NICU for 7 weeks and I definitely had PDD.....and no one noticed at all. And I'm in the mental health field, for crying out loud! I was so busy dealing with the babies and their medical needs I didn't even notice that I was falling apart. There really needs to be better screening, because its so…

If I go into a bathroom and no one else is in there I can't use whatever one I like? Come on. That's just ridiculous. Sorry but I am a very tall person and not particularly thin and the smaller stalls are often extremely uncomfortable. Besides, I'm quick, so by the time someone else came in that needed it, on the off…

My SIL said it best - "I'm tired of being in charge of all the thinking for the family." That about sums it up. He doesn't even realize so many of these jobs exist. And even the ones he does wind up fucked up half the time. I leave for work at 6AM so he gets the kids off to school. Today my son came home with his…

I knew when I first read it on the piece that you would win today. Props!

Us, too. We had tenants that wouldn't pay or leave, and once they finally did, I almost cried when I saw how much damage they did/mess they made. It wasn't as bad as what happened to you, but it did take us several weeks to clean, repaint and make all the repairs. We didn't bother to sue because they didn't have a…

Trust me, do it now. So many more chores will appear when you have kids, and only you will see them. I call it the iceberg effect. They only see the shit that sticks out. Everything else just magically "gets done." I don't even care if he does the more visible ones and I do the invisible ones, as long as it's…

We've been arguing about that a lot. My husband does most of the cooking and gets the kids ready for school in the morning and mows the lawn, and that's it. Whenever I ask him to do something he moans about how he does all the cooking. He simply does not see the vacation planning, the Christmas process, the…

Pantsless for Prez!

Preach. I don't have time for the drama of trying to be with the "cool moms" or whatever the fuck they deem themselves. I went to Jr. High once, that was enough. If I'm friends with someone, cool, if not, also fine. I'm certainly not stressing or agonizing about it.

Ummmm.....we're not talking about her as a person. We're talking about her comment about a specific photo shoot.

My kid's school does this. It sends home a record of their health exam (vision, etc.) along with their BMI and how it compares percentagewise to other kids their age. All the kids get letters, it's not just sent to the overweight ones. And at least they mail it, and my kids are too young to go rooting around in the…

And women are generally not judged on their singing voices like they are on their appearance, so it's not a great comparison.