Parents: Who needs them? Who's got them? Who can't live without them? The answer to all of those questions is…everybody. Sure, not everyone has a relationship with their biological parents , but two people had to do an act of collaboration for you to be alive. Even if you are the product of IVF or were a tube baby, you were created by two people who may or may not have the parent title. The most critical parents aren't the people who made you with their bodies, but the people who raised you. Th…

Every now and then I see something that makes me think “Holy crap, thank god I do not have children."

Time flies when you're having “fun.” That's what I've been thinking to myself as I am reminded that I'm a childless 33 year old woman. Here in New York City, my friends have taken longer than most to go on the long and exhausting journey of procreation. My married and coupled friends, though, are starting to pop them out, slowly but surely, and I'm completely mystified. The woman who is making her kid's baby food from scratch every week is the same woman I used to run into at clubs three years…

She went from selling a vagina scented candle to fighting for lower income families…

This is dedicated to all the struggling parents out there

We all hear it from parents at some point. When I was your age, I had to walk twenty miles just to buy a carton of milk. When I was your age, we didn't have electricity, plumbing, beds, or clothes. When I was your age, I literally wasn't allowed to breathe. So think about that next time you complain about anything, ever! We get it, things sucked when you were younger. But guess what? Everything is relative. Which means your specific flavor of generational suffering doesn't make your kid's suffe…

Mommies and daddies and kids, oh my!

"Supportive" parenting

Oy.

Por que no los dos?

Parents share the woes of raising little maniacs