Warning: This post is rather explicit. If you are easily offended by the discussion of human sexuality, do not read past the cut. If you read this blog through a feed without the cut, you should also avoid all of these posts and stop reading the text here.

Recently I haven’t been keeping very careful track of each month’s most popular posts. There wasn’t, after all, too much of a difference between January’s and February’s lists. The results for May contained some refreshing surprises. While I often use humor in my posts, all of this month’s most popular pieces are serious and research-based.
I hope this is the start of a trend toward more information-rich blogging among parenting posts. After all, the more we engage with our own children the more we need to learn about how to help them develop and the less we need other people to …read more

Random recovery moments are little summaries of good advice that I have found around the internet that are honest enough and funny enough to help you out while I am on vacation. Just not so helpful that these experts, who might actually have the advantage of being qualified, will be able to replace me in your affections.
Our first RRM comes from Marion McBride, a sex expert for the Guardian. She knows what she’s talking about. She’s a four-time mother:

Yes darling, you have a sexual dysfunction – it’s called childbirth!”

The sexpert’s missive comes from a column in which a single mother …read more