Posts by Just My Opinion

My birthing experience was awesome. Besides being immensely spiritually rewarding and empowering, it now and will always remain the touchstone of my reasoning why I am allowed to do whatever it is I damn well please so long as it isn't...

I am extremely confident in my parenting, which is awesome for me, dh, and dd, but seems to be a turn-off to some other people. There is a sort of mommy-martyrdom that goes on a lot, and if you say, "nah, I don't feel guilty, I feel...

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Well, I wasn't overreacting LOL She came over, and I made it clear I expected her to stay (in a subtle way). The entire time she talked about how much work she had to do, all ((((sigh)))) and whatnot. It was very clear she expected me...

Why tell your kid's gender when you can make them a worldwide human social experiment? I mean...how important is a penis or vagina, really, when book deals can be made? Way to subvert the dominant paradigm. Nothing says child advocate...

Disengaging now

...and I disagree. Either you are doing something or you are not doing something. The difference is, you obviously believe something can't be counted as a "do" unless it is done to the specifications you've defined. Enter the...

The bottom line regarding "try" is that some people need the word "try" to insulate themselves from the possibility that they may fail, or as a comfort to themselves when they fail. "Well, I tried! That is what...

Quote: Originally Posted by IncaMama because it's such a loaded word. it can contain so much more negativity than other words i could use to describe the same thing. imagine a life full of those unexpected results. ...

Someone is clearly not "trying". Had to.