Strollerderby

Major mistake to subject them to the Cyrus machine. Billy Ray doesn't know the meaning of overexposure.

A grocery cart disinfectant wash? Next thing you know they're going to tell me that I shouldn't have ridden my bike behind the town's mosquito fogger on boring summer days.

<i>A British study concludes that women with a history of mental illness are more at risk for having stillborn babies. Like mentally ill women and/or women who had stillbirths need that shit?</i>

Isn't this only an issue because we live in a country where we falsely believe that if you eat the right magic foods and do the right magic things, you'll be HEALTHY FOREVER - and that, therefore, all people with an illness are to be blamed? I hate all the pathologizing of illness in this country - sick people are more and more treated as being at fault instead of being just, you know, sick, and needing help.

To me, nothing is wrong with - and, in fact it's good to have - science where we find out things like this (if it does indeed hold up, which I doubt) - because if you are at higher risk for stillbirth or complications, it's good for your doctor to know, right? Because then he or she can help you avoid those things, or perhaps make a different decision about how you come to be a parent (adoption, surrogacy) - whatever makes the most sense to you.

We need to stop blaming people for their illnesses.  It's hard enough to deal with a f-ing chronic disease (I've got two) without being hit over the head all the time that you're somehow to blame for it. Illnesses that affect the brain are no different.

I wouldn't be surprised if the public school thing were for real, considering that Obama is a big supporter of public schools (though the girls go to private school in Chicago!). This would be a way to make good with the teachers' unions. And, assuming that the school is good, an easy thing to point to and say, "I practice what I preach" without sacrificing his girls' education.

When I read such things as the cart disinfectant, i can never decide if I should feel holier-than-thou since I ignore that sort of thing (I made it out of childhood fine!), or guilty, since I'm one of those moms who walks right by the disinfectant wipes that the grocery store actually provides with which to wipe the cart. (I also let my older son sit in the big basket of the cart, which has pictures clearly warning me NOT TO DO!).