Joni Edelman

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

As a stay-at-home mom, I've made plenty of sacrifices. Where are my accolades?

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

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

1. All vaginas are good vaginas.

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.

Good god, where will I ever find someone who will love me in such a pitiful condition?

Here’s something that isn’t rocket science either, Stephen Hawking: Diets don’t work.

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

Silly me, I thought the darn thing took care of itself. Little did I know I was sorely mistaken and had a vagina complex.