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You know how everyone is the perfect parent – before they have kids? They always know EXACTLY how they would parent saying, When I have kids, Ill NEVER cut the crusts off their sandwiches, and, My kids will know how to read before starting kindergarten. Well, Ive become that mom – except with my puppy.

Only a few weeks into 2014, East Coast moms have had a few too many snow days already. Isn’t it funny how snow days change based on your kids ages?My friends with children under 12 dread snow days and take them as personal affronts.Last Tuesday morning, with every school in Washington closed before a single snowflake fell, my phone and Facebook were burning up with messages from moms of young kids. Nooooooo …

Two articles in the New York Times and the Atlantic Monthly describe new research that unearths the phenomena of womens so-called indirect aggression.Unfortunately, the findings are described in distinctly negative terms. The Evolution of Bitchiness, is the Atlantics title.A Cold War Fought by Women is the slightly less derogatory title chosen by the Times.These august publications are two of the oldest, WASPiest, Harvard-est publications in the nation, devoured by our …

Forget about the bad guys, we want to take a moment to recognize some of our favorite bad girls. These female villains are fierce, challenging and deliciously dark – and it’s quite captivating. While we all know that good will triumph in the end, half the fun of any story comes the powerful ladies who cast the spells, hoard the treasure and try to take over the world. So without further ado, here are 10 of our favorite fairy-tale villains: Maleficent