I'm four and a half months pregnant, and I've begun to revisit everything I experienced as a child with the perspective of a clueless parent-to-be.
scary kid movies
kids
If I do my son's coloring pages, I'm providing myself with some well-earned relaxation while forcing my child to find something more productive to do with his time. It's a win-win.
parenting
Three year olds don’t mean to be assholes; they just are.
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what the parenting books don't tell you
May 15, 2013 at 7:00pm | 0 comments
homeschooling
Sometimes I want to run out of my house and yell out to every parent that sends their kids to school to “STOP! STOP RIGHT NOW! YOU’RE MESSING IT ALL UP.”
kids
Those quiet three-year-old girls playing nicely with their blocks? They're going to be horrible to their moms in about 10 years.
cats
You have your baby, and I have mine.
parenting
When it comes to handling tantrums, counting to 10, cooling down, and all the other tricks needed to handle kids growing into themselves, some of us crazies are old hands.
illeism
We are all super annoying to each other, now that we always know what everyone else is doing and thinking, at all times.
motherhood
Becoming a parent is mind-blowing for everyone, but I think it's harder when you're older because, as the British woman says in her article, you've become extremely set in your ways.
what the parenting books don't tell you
When my son was a baby, I often imagined what my life would be like if I had NOT had a child -- and yes, sometimes I wished that I hadn’t.
moms
Ask me how many movies I've seen since my kid was born.
parenting
I want my child to never laugh at a classmate tweeting about a rape he just committed. I want my child to stand up for girls who are drunk and just want to go home.
ihtm contest
When I wiped, I saw a single white worm on the toilet paper. Like any sane person would do, I freaked out, sobbing hysterically at 5 am.
fat
Young kids' burgeoning obsessions with their weight and dieting are tragic, yes. But surprising? Not in the least.
ihtm contest
Between the biological urge of my body, and the now raging doubt in my brain, I am stuck. I love my foster kids, all 4 of them, but I just don’t know if I want to do it again “for real.”
alcoholism
I grew with a parent who just drinks more when things are getting tough, and then goes to bed and forgets all about it. How was I supposed to learn how to deal with things without opening a bottle?
kids
Even if I'm not actively thinking about all the ways I'm screwing up, the guilt is lurking there in the background.
childbirth
I feel a Monday birth story coming on…
parenting
When you are chasing a naked five- year-old in circles with a tiny red skirt in one hand and your sanity in the other, some might say you’ve hit rock bottom. Others might call it parenthood.
parenting
Tell me: how do you stop the sh!t train from leaving f@$k station, when you are born with a potty mouth like mine?
god
When you eject a baby from your belly, they don’t come with a handbook, which means bringing up a kid is mostly guesswork. Particularly when she's having an existential crisis.
childfree
If everyone could just mind their own damned business when it came to who has kids and who doesn’t, we’d all be happier people. Trust me on this one, people.
