Ask Max Ask Max: Am I a Hypocrite for Telling My Teen Not to Smoke Weed? You smoked weed in high school. Now your teen does, too. Does that make you a hypocrite? Max explains why the answer is “not unless you’re lying.”
Snippets from the Dumpster Fire The Year I Terrorized My Teenager (With Holiday Spirit, Obviously) When my teenager decided she was too cool for me, I responded as any mature adult woman would—I broke into someone’s house to prove a point. It was festive. It was dramatic. It was the best Christmas she’ll never emotionally recover from.
Snippets from the Dumpster Fire Anxiety made me do it! A story about bad aim, and what avoidance really costs us
Snippets from the Dumpster Fire You Can Trust Me... Some people pass down family recipes. I pass down bad haircuts.
Case Studies in Catastrophe This is Your Reminder: Call Your Mother Don't be a menace - or hang out all weekend eating gravy fries.
Case Studies in Catastrophe The Tampon Debacle: A Case Study in Unsupervised Adolescence I survived puberty, tampons, and all the chaos in between.
Case Studies in Catastrophe Wait, what does that sound mean? Some people run from danger. I wedge myself between winter coats and a vacuum cleaner.
Case Studies in Catastrophe Ghosting: Not as Easy as It Sounds College taught me many things…including how to hide from a date under my bed. Some coping skills stop working after the age of 9.
