Joni Edelman

Now that I've embarked upon the decade I once considered "old," there are a few things I'd like my 20 (and 30) year-old self to know.

Oh hey remember that time in 1804 when Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton had an actual duel, with actual guns and Burr shot Hamilton and Hamilton did not shoot Burr. And then the next day Hamilton died.

My decision to bed-share with my children despite potential SIDS risks has less to do with studies, and more to do with instinct.

You can work your butt off and still be left with a tummy. Bummer.

The Cabbage Soup Diet, aka The "Torture” Diet. You just put cabbage in water and cook it. And you eat it. All day. It is not good. You will still be hungry, and farting — very smelly, paint-peeling farting.

When I had my first child, I couldn't have prepared for the way it would make me feel.

Attention Civilians: Colonel David Iverson does not want to see your boobs.

Suffering is America’s favorite thing to do. We starve ourselves to lose weight, and we’re a success story. We don’t sleep, and we’re just getting SO MUCH DONE. We do a thousand things a day and involve our kids in a thousand activities, because somehow, in some perverted way, that makes us successful.

More and more programs are offering services to help companies support and retain women during their maternity transition.

The Interent is ugly sometimes. And raising kids using it doesn't always make it easier.