Parenthood, party of one
Your Mom Goes To College
For many student-parents that are single parents, it is always their turn.
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What that mouth do?
Your Mom Goes to College
I was only 22 at the time, but being a parent in your early twenties surrounded by people without kids has a funny way of making you feel like the mom chaperoning your daughter’s prom.
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How do you like your eggs, fried or fertilized?
The fact that I’ve had sex with many people besides my one and only “daddy” shouldn’t be the litmus test for parenthood.
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How to beat the summer heat
If all else fails, well … just tell the assistant manager you’re out of options. We’re sure Safeway and its frozen peas and carrots won’t mind.
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How to handle kids if you don’t like them
The number one problem people who dislike kids face is that the kids like them. How do you deal with a kid that actually likes you?
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Babies on campus
For those of you who might have been in Berkeley over the long weekend, you would most definitely know about the outbreak of little minions running around us. The “fetuses,” as some Yik Yak posts called them, consisted of hundreds of children dressed up in suits and dresses who were
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Do our favorite childhood snacks still taste as good?
Every day when I was in first through fourth grade, I would open up my Looney Tunes lunchbox and pull out a turkey and cheese sandwich that my mother had lovingly squished together that morning. Between disheartened munches of my sandwich, I would glare jealously over at the “lucky kids”
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Study break: revisiting your childhood favorite cartoons as a “grown-up”
As you flip to the next dense page of your Chaucer reading or stare blankly at your problem set for the umpteenth hour in a row, sometimes you can’t help but want to curl up into a ball, cradling a stuffed animal and swaddled in a blanket. It’s not a
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Stop funding Palestine, Israel disproportionately
“I feel sad for him. Sad for the boy bound to the killer. I am sad for the youth betrayed by their leaders for symbols and flags and war and power.” ―Susan Abulhawa, Mornings in Jenin
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