Jody Allard

9. Use Timeouts—For Yourself!

Being a single parent has never been the "problem" in my life.

ICYMI, "Sixteen and Pregnant" star's Nikkole Paulun's Facebook post about her monthly date nights with her six-year-old son is going viral –– and people are losing their shit over it for entirely the wrong reasons.

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Through the years, I've learned that our ideologies matter far less than the quality of the relationships we build with our kids. Your rules and my rules may be entirely different, but if we center our parenting around nurturing and compassion for our kids, we will achieve similar results.

He characterized the "serious problem" with domestic violence as a failure by the couples to have "a true marriage" and attacked the politicians who support what he termed "quickie divorces" (you know, the ones that save battered women's lives).

I was born without fingers on my right hand. No one knows why, even now, 36 years later. It just happened, as these things sometimes do.

The more I told him that something hurt me, the more that he did it.

It's easy and painless to poke our noses into the minutiae of other parents' decisions, but it in no way tackles the real epidemic of child abuse.

Only highly educated white people seemed willing to consider the idea that their children might learn best without any instruction at all.