Joni Edelman

By baby three, well let’s just say things are a little anticlimactic, at least where furnishings are concerned. Hand me down crib. Check.

You may have seen the acronym "HAES" floating around the Internet, and that is because the "Health At Every Size" movement has taken over THE WHOLE WORLD.

What to really expect when you're expecting.

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

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

Psychiatric illness is still stigmatized. And that’s hard when you have a psychiatric illness.

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.

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.

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