Joni Edelman

Don’t most kids feel afraid to come home?

I’m lucky to be smart, to have an astonishingly good memory. Or maybe I’m lucky to be bipolar.

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.

A weekly trip to Walmart would end in tears — first theirs, then mine. Them pining in the toy aisle. Me saying no. Over and over. It wasn’t so much that I wanted to buy my kids whatever they wanted, it was that I couldn’t.

Actually, no, I'm not a gluttonous moron.

As a former Mormon, the Church's revelation that they're going to start “loving and accepting” the LGBT community makes me laugh. Hard.

How do I raise a boy to love and respect all women regardless of size in a world where he is bombarded with images of what is attractive?

The argument against homeschooling is always the same: “Kids need to socialize.”

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