Hitting your child with a stick is a bad idea. Hitting your child with a stick and filming it is a really bad idea. Hitting your child with a stick, and your hands, and cursing at her, insulting her and making her cry and cower behind a washing machine and then posting the video of it to the

A normal part a break-up scenario is the realization that the other person will eventually move on and there will be a day when you have to look that reality in the face and deal with it. But after dating someone for two years and being "in love" and even seriously talking about marriage, two

If there's one thing young girls stereotypically dream about more than finding Prince Charming or having our own pony farm, it's finding the perfect friendship — one befitting of an Enid Blyton book. It was all I wanted, and just like in an old-fashioned storybook, I finally found it.I was quite a

Several years ago, I posted a link to an article about mental health on Facebook, saying that "this is worth considering." It called into question the validity of the biomedical model ("chemical imbalance") theory and suggested that promoting mental illness as a biological disease added to rather

A few weeks ago, I scrolled through my Facebook feed before getting out of bed — a bad habit, and one that seems hard to break. In about two seconds, I learned the breaking story of the day. "I don't understand. Prince is dead? Is this for real?" I learned this news not from an impersonal