Exploiting My Baby : A Blog by Teresa Strasser

There’s a social contract when it comes to birthday parties for kids. You can’t just be a recurring guest, enjoying the bouncy houses, gift bags and balloon animals arranged and paid for by other parents. No, you have to reciprocate. Like it or not, there’s a kid pro quo. Other parents helped you kill a [...]

“Desitin in my cuticles” is not the first line of a poignant country song, but I keep thinking it should be. No. Desitin in my cuticles is what concerns me when I’m asked the question I get at least once a day: “Are you having another one?” Really, this should not be an annoying question. [...]