Joni Edelman
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Misogyny is pervasive. And my three boys are living it all.
Read...The Cabbage Soup Diet, aka The "Torture” Diet. You just put cabbage in water and cook it. And you eat it. All day. It is not good. You will still be hungry, and farting — very smelly, paint-peeling farting.
Read...She says she’s worried that the cat, whose name is Jack, doesn’t know what’s going on. She tried to explain to him that she was leaving for a while.
Read...Psychiatric illness is still stigmatized. And that’s hard when you have a psychiatric illness.
Read...You can work your butt off and still be left with a tummy. Bummer.
Read...Let's get to it—a primer on The Sex.
Read...With the help of the midwife—and immense effort on my part—Ella finally slid out into the water. But she was limp, pale. It was scary.
Read...At certain points in the month I definitely feel worse about my body. I'm much less confident and more prone to eating the wrong things, and not doing physical exercise.
Read...You know what’s an epidemic? Making people feel second rate and ashamed, criminalizing them for something like having an obese pregnancy.
Read...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
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