Joanna Schroeder

Mattel’s brand new video featuring empowered little girls will make you cry. But will the toy industry ever change?

I first saw shame take over my son’s face in a somewhat unexpected place: the toy aisle at Target.

Even the most well-intentioned parents sometimes make mistakes in how they raise their kids.

If we as women get to define for ourselves what beauty looks like, then the power will no longer rest with those who pad their fortunes with our self-loathing.

We're not saying you need an excuse to have wild, crazy, satisfying and fully consensual sex... But if you did, what could be better motivation than to piss Ted Cruz (and his ultra-Conservative cronies) right the fuck off?

People try to keep it real by talking about the struggles of being a parent, and that’s great, but the truth is this: Parenting can be great fun.

Much of my life has been ruled by fears I didn’t want to face. Now that I'm older and have been battling them, I feel an enormous weight lifted from my shoulders. I only wish I'd been able to shrug off these societal pressures years ago

I’m spelling them out here so that other parents can talk about them and other boys can see that there isn’t just one way to become a good man.

And then reality kicks in and you think, “What happened to us?” Where once there were fireworks are now phone calls about broken appliances and picking up diapers. But these changes aren’t necessarily bad. Sometimes things change dramatically and you realize how amazingly better your relationship is now, all these years later.

I'm going to keep an eye on my health—but keep the scale under the bathroom vanity.