don’t say it… the review theoretical launches the review possible

no, and to be clear, no one has done this to me!

I want a third and what I experience is mostly people acting like this is a deranged idea

Oh, also no. I was one of the first people I knew with a baby (at 31 but in NYC lol)

I don’t think so. I do sometimes talk up how great it is, but I try to always match my rhetoric to the other person’s interest level in having kids. If they’re ambivalent, I’m happy to talk through both sides!

we do our best but other kids sure do love to say “you can’t do that, it’s for girls”

It’s not JUST my daycare — it was also at the public school my older son attended. I have also heard it from friends elsewhere! I do realize it’s not universal but I don’t think it’s specific only to one daycare.

ahhh right, that's what "triple threat" means.... i always forget the part about never needing to have her hair combed

Personally I don’t think a 14-month-old needs 11 Halloween goodie bags full of cheap plastic toys, but apparently many disagree!

I don’t know if it’s widespread, but I have been shocked by the nonstop holiday and birthday related goodie bags from my kids’ classmates. Like, since infancy.

“what’s it like being married to john lennon? he’s an incredibly gifted musical artist who gets me going in the morning with his beautiful songs about love and revolution”

talk about the coddling of the fucking american mind

hi professor, the president says there are only two genders and so this book is engaging in wrongthink, isn't that illegal

when i took a children's lit class in college, one of the first texts we studied was struwwelpeter, an astonishingly racist and violent 19th-century german picture book that i would NEVER show to my small kids