Joni Edelman

4. A high school government class.

I don’t think anyone who has been to the spirited child parenting rodeo would call a mother who screams, “bad,” or who loses her temper, a “failure.” I think we all understand parenting is really really hard from the get go, and parenting a kid who won’t sleep, who screams and kicks and says they hate you, is its own challenge

When you push a small human out of your body, things tend to get a little weird.

"She has created an important space on the internet and in the real world, a space that women and girls are free to take up however they please."

I was told that feminism is man hate. That abortion is murder. And then I thought, "What am I doing here?"

When it comes to your physique, your mind can actually work against you.

I'll never forget the day I discovered the name for my mental illness.

My husband and I recently traveled together without our kids for the first time . . . in a while. And it was a brand-new ball game.

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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.