Seeking Reader Input!

Would you like some Momspreading ask-me-anythings and what do you want to know, anyway???

I am not an expert. And as much as I like to say this word as often as I get the chance, I am, sadly, not a ‘sexpert,’ either.

My stance is that parenting is so complex, children and parents have such wildly different personalities, and unique talents and challenges, and our environments are so varied, that telling a parent what to do in a situation they describe to you in like 50 words is essentially, malpractice.

And yet, I’ve been thinking about children and what does and doesn’t work for them for the better part of my life, while most of you were doing cool things like starting businesses or writing books or developing consistent exercise routines. Many people I know who are smart and perceptive but maybe feel out of their depth with hard kid stuff ask me for my thoughts on this or that, and while I always sprinkle these thoughts with many grains of salt, often there is something helpful for them in there.

And for those of you who have also spent years and years just watching kids on the playground fight and laugh and pick grass in a corner until someone comes along and says “and who are your kids???,” or wandering into random schools and just breathing in the smell of children before walking back out, we can never learn everything there is to know about being and raising children because, there’s just always something we never thought of.

All of this is to say, very awkwardly, that I’m wondering if you all would like me to answer an occasional parenting question, as an additional kind of post, and if so, what questions do you have???

If yes, holler at me in the comments or by email and your wishes shall be granted! If no, carry on with your day.

Some examples:

• Dear Sarah, my kid keeps getting into shit with other kids at school and I don’t know how much to get involved or how.

• Dear Sarah, is swearing all the fucking time around my goddamned children a shitty thing to do?

• Dear Sarah, do I have to throw a birthday party for my one-year-old?

• Dear Sarah, I want to have those nice family dinner things but I’m tired and don’t know how to start.

• Dear Sarah, you told me it was fine to swear around my dumb kids and now I am getting 100 calls a day from their motherfucking schools! What do I do now, fuckface?!

In gratitude, always. I will leave you with this gem to brighten your weekends: