Most toddlers start speaking in sentences between the ages of 24 and 30 months. By the time a toddler is three years old, she should be understanding the majority of what adults are saying. Of course, toddlers develop at different …
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No, autism isn’t a gift—for parents, it’s literal hell The media will have you believe autism is just about being a really smart guy with little to no social skills. It's a lie.
The entertainment industry, allied with know-nothings on social media who will say or retweet anything for a jolt of virtue-dopamine, is advancing a meme best summarized as “autism is a gift.” According to the meme, Sheldon from The Big Bang …
I let my daughter wear a Disney princess dress every day, and you should too All the Disney princesses, from Snow White to Elsa, allows Penny to discover who she wants to be and is still becoming.
I’m not sure how it happened, but I had the girl obsessed with princesses. If I was lucky, it might be nearly Halloween and I could explain to anyone giving us a sideways glance that she was wearing her Disney …
If your children are fat, you are failing as a mother Being poor, lazy, or tired are invalid excuses for tossing a frozen pizza at your fat, unhappy kid.
Most Americans are overweight and don’t see anything wrong with that. As weights have gone up, so have perceptions of being “ideal”, with the ideals getting fatter and fatter and fatter …. and people reporting themselves to be just dandy …
Sorry, girl, you can’t have it ALL But there's a trick if you stop thinking in terms of individuals, and start thinking about family.
Ann Marie Slaughter has written a piece for the Atlantic bemoaning the fact that once you have children, you have to take some responsibility for those children. And that really put a cramp in her professional plans. She WANTS IT …
Refusing to breastfeed your child makes you a TERRIBLE mother Giving birth doesn't make you a mother. Accepting the responsibilities and obligations of motherhood is what makes you a mother.
Kitty Dimbleby (DUMBleby, more like it) is whining today over at the Daily Mail, that the “Breastapo” doesn’t like the fact that she “chose” not to breastfeed her seven week old daughter, Chloe. She writes, ”I feel unspoken criticism from …
Single mother dating is difficult — and it should be Ladies, this is why abortion exists.
Updated to add: The use of the term ‘single mother’ is not exactly accurate. If you are a mother and you are collecting child support, you are not a single mother. You are a single woman. He rejected you. Not …