By Jennifer Philp-Zakic of Branko Has Funny Bones It’s hard to be a skinny baby. I mean, I don’t exactly know how a skinny baby must feel, because A) I wasn’t a skinny baby and B) I don’t even remember being a baby. But my son, Branko, was a skinny baby. […]
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My Son Takes ADHD Meds, and I Am Not Apologizing
By Marie Hickman I see your comments on social media, shaming moms who choose to medicate their children’s ADHD, and I get it. You think they’re lazy, self-absorbed, uninformed, or trolls for Big Pharma. Your heart might be in the right place, but unless you have a child like this, […]
America Needs Paid Maternity Leave
[nextpage title=”Page 1″ ] By Liv of Live By Surprise As the elections edge ever closer, debates are happening, and candidates are again discussing why America is so far behind most other developed nations in developing a national policy on paid maternity leave. According to the International Labor Organization (ILO), […]
Advice For My Teenage Daughter
[nextpage title=”Page 1″ ] By Alice Jones Webb of Different Than Average I have an amazing daughter. She is brilliantly smart, funny, and strong. She is quick-witted and confident. She got straight As her first semester of public high school, dazzling her teachers with her brainpower. She’s a brown belt in […]
5 Reasons Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood Is Creepier Than A David Lynch Film
[nextpage title=”Page 1″ ] This weekend we tripped across Mister Rogers on Netflix. We had some great bonding time and introduced our first born, age 10, to one of our childhood mainstays. Fred Rogers taught kids lessons, shared the neighborhood of make believe, and welcomed us into his own neighborhood […]
Last Week’s 10 Funniest Facebookers
It’s time for the big reveal. No, not my reveal of the fact that I’ve been going commando for the past 2 days because I keep forgetting to do laundry. My reveal of last week’s funniest Facebookers. (Perverts…) If you’re not already following these people, I ask you, what the hell […]
How to Take Toddlers Trick-or-Treating
Worried about taking your little monsters out this Halloween? Never fear. Here’s how to take toddlers trick-or-treating and survive. But probably not.
How Playtime and Cake Pops Spawn Sugar Demons
There’s nothing good about “playtime.” Ever. It wasn’t even good for me as a kid. Recess was a time during which no learning took place, and during which a weird, pale girl in pigtails would chase me, threatening to put me in a stew pot. I shit you not. The […]