👏Children👏Aren't👏Reasonable👏
It is OK to end the discussion with "Because I said so, or else."
It's not good for your relationship to spend your life thinking you just need to try harder.
4/4...for now.

Don't let gentle/positive/attached parenting fool you into a cycle of unending guilt when you don't get the outcome you want. Even if you have honored their feelings, filled their emotional needs, understood their perspective, managed their expectations and addressed their behaviors reasonably
3/?

If your picky eater regularly injests some sort of vegetation and some form of protein in addition to white carbs, they're going to be fine.
The little kid years can be really hard, no matter how much you love your kids. But eventually, they turn into people you really *like*.
2/?

:: cries in American::

“The claims that the U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses or other extremist imagery as prohibited symbols are categorically false. These symbols have been and remain prohibited in the Coast Guard per policy,” Adm. Kevin Lunday, acting USCG commandant, said in a statement.

So WaPo made it up and everyone ran with it. Or something?

Didn't stop my state (Florida. Of course) from taking it out of the water. Thus removing one of the cheapest, most effective public health initiatives in existence

I think he's actually allergic to understanding causal relationships.

OMG YES PLEASE.

Me - "YAY! I'm done having babies! Now my body can be normal."
Perimenopause - "What it do, bish?! Here. Have some itchy earlobes."

I've just been adulting SO MUCH. I mean, sure. I *am* 43, but it's a LOT.

Thanks for the reminder that I have to feed my starter!

I'm sorry. This is all too coherent to be accurate satire.

OMG HOW COULD I FORGET??? I also scheduled a dentist appointment and got gas, too.