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I’ve had three kids, but I’ve never actually seen what goes on down at the business end of a birth. While I love the idea of witnessing such a profound moment, and of course supporting a laboring woman, I am a bit on the squeamish side. I sometimes wonder whether watching a birth wouldn’t gross me out just little.
My husband, also squeamish, had no choice. He had to be there all three times. He wasn’t allowed to scream in horror or cover his eyes or pass out or throw up a little in his mouth. Just like me, he had to take it one push at a time, no matter what came out where. No opting out. I mean, what kind of father doesn’t want to be there when his child is born?
Turns out, plenty. Or plenty regret that they were. Continue reading »
While the mean girls are ruling the playground, some of their mamas seem to have a potty-mouth problem.
Browsing through MomLogic the other day, my eye caught this gem of a headline: “Are You Raising A Future D-Bag?”
That can’t, I thought, mean what I think it means. Sadly, it did. MomLogic ran an article encouraging us to ponder whether or not our kids were growing up be douchebags. Really.
I’m going to sound like a prude here, but I just don’t get MomLogic’s “Childless Bitch” column. I know, I know, she’s supposed to be sassy and make us parents walk outside of our little lives and laugh at ourselves.
It would be a heckuva lot easier to laugh if she was actually funny. Take CB’s (because she never actually owns up to her real name) rant this week on pregnant women who dare show their face inside a club: Continue reading »
A reminder to listen to Morning News Live with Brett Singer (me) and Jeanne Sager, today, Wednesday, August 26 at 9:30am.
This week’s topic is my post about the Chinese ad that offered half-price abortions for students (with ID). We’ll start there and then get into other related topics. Continue reading »
The post I wrote on about the Chinese ad offering abortions at a 50% discount to those with a student ID got a strong reaction, but not the one I expected.
It also raised a host of other important issues.
So, as Joan Rivers used to say — can we talk here? Continue reading »
Pro-life, pro-choice, wherever you stand in the abortion debate, I think we can perhaps all agree that a hospital advertising “half price abortions if you show your student ID” crosses a line.
A hospital in China is offering just such a deal. According to Shanghaiist, a hospital in Chongqing is running the following ad: Continue reading »
Remember Mayim Bialik from the sitcom “Blossom”? Well, like all of us, she grew up. And like many of us, she had children. So what, you say? Well, Mayim says that you can train your kid to use the potty much earlier than you thought. In fact, she started when her son was two days old. Continue reading »
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