It was just brought to my attention that New York State has an entire campaign dedicated to the dangers of co-sleeping. What the fuck. Could this be any more idiotic and wrongheaded?

We started gymnastics classes for five-year-old M about a month ago. Overall it is going really well, at least from M’s perspective. I suppose his perspective is the one that counts, as the whole reason we decided to do gymnastics is because he really wanted the opportunity to bounce on a trampoline (and we wanted it to be somewhere safe, with professional supervision). He likes the class a lot and I can see him smiling and talking to the other two friendly boys that attend the class …

Are you currently co-sleeping? Have you ever co-slept with your children? Of so, take this quick and easy survey. It’s a way for all of us co-sleeping parents to stand up and be counted. The “official agencies”, along with crib manufacturers, have been trying to label co-sleeping parents as neglectful for quite some time. But co-sleeping parents across the world know that it can be done safely, and that co-sleeping very much benefits the breastfeeding mother-child dyad. The survey takes about 30 seconds-1minute.
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The other night, as I got out of the shower, M is going through the medicine cabinet in the bathroom. I wasn’t concerned at all. He mostly just likes to look at the after-shaves and the perfumes and the band-aids. But I forgot that we recently relocated our condom stash in that cabinet. Oops. I am usually very open with my kids about most everything, so hiding things isn’t something I regularly think of. So here is what happened:
M: “Hey! What’s this thing?” …

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I can’t even believe a father would do this. I am just so filled with rage. And tying this up with religion in the courts is such bullshit. This is a young boy’s own body. What gives the father the right to chop off some of it? And I just love how the religious groups, along with the Anti-Defamation League, are supporting the father’s right to force his son to get circumcised due to religious freedom. Shouldn’t your right to control your …