Parenting Choices & Passive-Aggressive Mother-in-Laws
How to handle situations when you disagree with your own family members over parenting choices. When it is worth making it an issue and when to let it go.
How to handle situations when you disagree with your own family members over parenting choices. When it is worth making it an issue and when to let it go.
Not just your average cut-and-paste update-y job here, folks, if you’ll indulge me by reading on. One extra-fascinating update, one request for advice as one girl’s quest to maybe possibly get knocked up enters Chapter Two, and one email that proves that you guys are…
Dear Amy, My question doesn’t have anything to do with beauty advice, but rather how to avoid seeming like an elitist snob when I’m at my in-laws’ family reunion this summer. You give such great advice and are a creative thinker; I thought maybe you…
Are you obligated to keep gifts given by friends if they aren’t something you normally wouldn’t use or buy for yourself?
Hello Amalah, While I’m not sure how you feel about advice-seekers straying away from beauty and fashion, I will take a chance and submit a non-product-related question (because in addition to converting me to Philosophy products for my face – OMFG, thank you – several…
Hi Amy, You’re awesome. Your readers are awesome. Google has failed me. Or maybe I’m not qualified to use Google. So I’m turning to you and your brilliant readers. I have a friend who checked into a mental health facility over the weekend. I want…
Hi Amalah, I read your blog, your column, your everything and I totally trust your advice. Hence this letter. It’s something that I don’t feel like I can share with my friends so hey, why not unload on to a total (but perfect) stranger (bring…
Because Babies Don’t Come With Nice Leather-Bound Dayplanners Hi there! I’ve been reading you at Amalah & here since the beginning of the school year (I even read the archives; I had a lot of time on my hands before the kids came back) and…
I had sent you an email thanking you for your blog. You got me through a rough period. Unfortunately, my rough period got worse. I don’t know where to start looking for help but I have seen you post stuff on your advice smackdown and…
I’m breaking format this morning because…da da da DAAA…I’m an idiot who is having trick-or-treating anxiety. Yes. Trick-or-treating anxiety. My life is…really very sad. A recap of my life, pre-pathetic-ness: We lived in the city, in a building that did not get trick-or-treaters. We never…
Dear Amy, My question is non-beauty related, but I think you’re completely qualified to answer it. I follow all of your blogs (yes, even ClubMom, and I’m not a Mom, but am completely smitten by Noah). As my friends are getting married, and “the one”…
If a bride cancels her big wedding (to get married in a small ceremony) is she obligated reimburse her mother and Maid of Honor for the cost of their dresses?
Hi Amy, I know this isn’t the usual kind of question you answer on the advice smackdown, but I thought you & the other parents might have some helpful words of advice for me. My husband & I are just starting to think about trying…
I understand getting hair done professionally is a big expense. The question is, am I getting too much done and getting sucked into some salon trap?
I am incredibly tired of making it through the day stain free, only to have grease spatter on my pants while I make dinner. So, let’s look at come cute aprons.
A new mom returning to work after maternity leave weighs two job offers: one that would allow her to work from home and one that would require daycare.
Well, hi, I’m not sure if this fits in the “Advice Smackdown” theme of things, but I have a question, and I definitely KNOW that you have the answer. Just how durable is the Ikea furniture? Obviously you’ve tested it through moving, a child, a…
Hi Amy! Welcome to my hell. Hell consists of…. a. Spending your hard-earned Christmas vacay with your boyfriend’s never-before-met-family. b. Being told that his best friend (Sara) is the “Gold Standard” of women that his mother measures all others against. That’s, no lie, a direct…
So it appears that I am taking the week off. Because of…Thanksgiving. Yes. That’s it. I have…giblets and such to deal with. And don’t even get me started on my napkin-folding issues. Ha. No, actually I’m selling my house and looking for a new one,…
I hate visiting my mother in law because her house is a filthy mess. Should I say something and risk hurting feelings? Help!