For some people, the better route for finding like-minded parents is just to get out of your house with your baby and frequent baby-friendly places.

The most reliable ways to make oneself miserable are attempting to change people and not attempting to change circumstances.

I think we'd all hate to be the one who gets declared undateable by one's entire grad-school population based on a couple of told and retold stories.

Separation is where you see if it works better with the adults in two different homes.

When people get more frustrated by their indecision than by the situation that prompted it, clarity often follows.

Bodies and minds need breaks or the work suffers, this has been proven and reproven to the point where we don't even need to post links to support it.

And if you're a parent who thinks you're okay because your kid doesn't have a phone or iPod yet, and/or you've used all the parent controls to filter out explicit material, you're not okay. The filters are tissue paper and your kid without a phone is on a school bus or in a locker room or at a public park with phone-equipped kids every day. And they're like all kids in exploring - by whatever means available to them - exactly what their parents are treating as too embarrassing or taboo to talk about.