Joni Edelman

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

“I don’t even know what to say, Joni. Your baby isn’t alive.”

It's not always easy to find a new partner when you have kids in tow. But not only is it possible, it's worth it.

"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."

It seems that "at 18 months, almost 60% of toddlers were sleeping for 13 to 14 hours per night." HAHA you're so funny Reuters!

You know what’s an epidemic? Making people feel second rate and ashamed, criminalizing them for something like having an obese pregnancy.

Don’t most kids feel afraid to come home?

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.

...I’m going to help you! By “help” I mean “tell you all the things that didn’t work.”