I live in Brooklyn. I don't own a car and my apt is about a mile from the subway. Everything I do requires walking. If I need go to the laundry-mat I've got to lug my cart full of dirty clothing down 3 flights of stairs, down the street and then back home. If I need groceries I walk three blocks to the store and walk home with my purchases. And if I'm not walking I'm going up or down subway steps or hanging our at bus stops. Snowing, raining, hot or cold I walk and use public transportation.

I do see the $800 strollers in my neighborhood and I do NOT live in a wealthy area (you can generally get them lightly used from some UES or suburban parent for half the original price). What I do hear local parents saying is that they hop curbs and broken sidewalks and are still light enough to pick up and carry up and down subway steps. And you can expect them to stand up to that sort of abuse for years and years. Can an umbrella stroller really do all that? Do you think I should really strap my infant to my person and lug that growing weight around until that child can walk along side me?

I totally agree that there is way too much crap targeted at new parents. Lot of this 'single use' junk seems silly to me too. I'm sure the reality is you NEED very little. But it's awful to be so smug and sure of what everyone else needs. I'm not telling suburban dwellers to give up their cars and car seats and all that junk that needs to be brand new for safety and such - so how about taking it easy on the fancy strollers and city moms?

I know lots of highly functioning, long time pot smokers who have real jobs and responsibilities and full, meaningful relationships. But for sure you don’t want to let it take over your life and let it be the only outlet you have for relaxation – good advice from Cary.

But the editor’s selection sucks this time. I’m not at all hearing anything that rings true to me in these selected letters – really it seems a little out of touch and Nancy Regan today.

I loved that move too and I’m for sure getting that Criterion release. It give me the chills just thinking of it. That and ‘Really Rosie’ were my favorite assembly movies in elementary school. I do remember one year (4th grade I think) a teacher tried to mix it up a bit by showing ‘Animal Farm’ and ‘Watership Down’ back to back – I think I’m still scarred from that day!

And I couldn’t imagine spending them anyplace else. I do know a few 30-something friends who do nothing but stress and complain – but they did that in their 20s and will probably go on to do that in their 40s. It’s not your age – it’s you. Embrace it or change it but don’t blame it on factors like age or place.

“My daughter had hair at the age of 7, and it was noticeable through swimsuit/underwear at 8.”

You know what the awser to that is? A more modest swim suit. I realize, with clothing manufactures thinking it’s cool to dress little kids like adults, that can be hard. But when I was a kid I wore cut offs and a bikini top at the beach, had no modesty issues and I was the coolest little kid at the beach. Certainly home-made solutions like that are still an option too, no? Even for a 13 year old it’s probably a good bet.

I also want to put out there that if I knew a salon was giving wax jobs to children I’d boycott the place. Certainly there are more people who are disgusted by this behavior then are making appointments for their little girls, right? Maybe it’s time we started shooting off some letters to these places?

If I met this guy at a cocktail party I’d always think of him as a man. But the medical truth is this ‘man’ is genetically a woman. The news coverage that this is a pregnant man really bugs the hell out of me because it's just not true. Of course people are going to laugh at the story because it’s the equivalent of a Weekly World News’s headline.

It makes me think this ‘man’ is doing it for free baby stuff People Magazine is likely to throw at him (like the parent’s of really high multiple births do). Being trashy and looking for free stuff isn't just for the straights anymore.

I’m a little embarrassed to write this – but I can hardly understand a word of this. When her history lesson from her kindergarten class back to the 14th century I just gave up. And she wonders why more people don’t want to join in on the conversation? It’s because all these issues get made into this 1970’s, navel gazing, post-grad women’s studies classroom situation that makes me long for a stiff drink.

I take real offense for you calling me out as ‘hating’ transgender people. I don’t. I further think it’s perfectly acceptable for them to be parents. And the folks over at MSBC: idiots.

But the story, ‘man has baby’ makes no sense. Not even a little bit. Because that man was born a woman, and however we address and treat him now, you can’t change history or chromosomes. This is a NOT a news story.