Delia Lloyd may be a mom, but she knows she's still navigating adulthood. Thank goodness she has her kids to help her, and she writes about it at the Real Delia, so we can grow up with them.

In honor of Mother's Day, Delia shares what it's like to talk about tough topics like evil and hate with your kids:

My daughter came home from school yesterday and told me that her best friend had a “hate list.”

You know that saying "time marches on"? Well I wish it would stop. Now. I have just been informed that cyber-bullying, that scourge of the Internet, has stretched into the kindergarten set.

Kids as young as 6 years old are being bullied online. Six! My kid is 6, and she can't even tie her shoes yet (I know, I know, we are working on it). And now I have to worry about somebody stealing her self-esteem?

Now I know what you're thinking.

If there was ever a sentence that made me want to throw up my hands and scream "what is the world coming to!?" this is it. An 11-year-old girl has reportedly given birth in a hospital in Colombia. Eleven!

I was still playing with LEGOs at 11, and here this kid is a mother. Get that? Not just an 11-year-old having sex, but an 11-year-old who had a living, breathing human being cut out of her uterus by doctors performing a C-section.

O. M. G. This is me, hyperventilating. So I'm going to go ahead and talk myself -- and you -- off the ledge.

The thought of taking my 6-year-old mountain climbing makes me want to crawl back under the covers, preferably with a brownie. But then, my daughter is not the child of a famous mountain climber. And my daughter did not volunteer to go peakbagging at 5 years old, trying to reach 48 of the giant peaks in the New Hampshire's White Mountains.

Patricia Ellis Herr's daughter has. Volunteered that is! Alex Herr accomplished the feat of reaching the summit of all 48 of the 4,000-plus-foot mountains by the time she was 6, becoming the youngest one of the youngest ever to manage the task. And let's be clear here. 

No excuses for inappropriate behavior!I don't let my kids use their disabilities as an excuse for their behavior. And I don't use their disabilities as an excuse, either.

If there's one thing that irks me it's hearing other parents, particularly autism parents, tell me their child did XYZ, "because of their autism."

Newsflash: having a disability doesn't give your child a free pass to misbehave. And while I'm all for explaining and providing a reason for a child's misbehavior and sometimes it is necessary to explain why their child may have done something out-of-the-ordinary, writing it off as an excuse for little Johnny's tantrum at the park? Not OK with me!

As far as I know there's no badge to be had, but two bad ass Girl Scouts in Texas recently earned the admiration of many when they refused to let a couple of thieves get away with their cookie money without a fight.

It happened outside of a Walmart store in Sugar Land, a town near Houston. Senior Cadet scouts Rachel Johnson and Iravia Cotton, both 15, were selling their cookies when a car with two men in it pulled up and started questioning them about the cookies. At some point the man in the passenger seat grabbed the box with their sales money it -- about $200 in all -- and started to drive off with it.

Johnson and Cotton weren't about to let them get away so easily.

When you were born in a small town where the first day of deer hunting season was celebrated by shutting down school so everyone can take their gun out to shoot something, it takes something major on the kids and guns front to raise your eyebrows. And the State of Michigan has mine sky high right now. They've decided to let anyone under 10 years old pick up a firearm and march off into the woods.

And by let, I mean the Wolverine State is actively encouraging more of their young whippersnappers to load up and head out. Are your eyebrows bouncing too?

A game played by millions of kids on the playground over the years took a disturbing turn at one Minnesota school this week. I would preface the details of "rape tag" by saying they're disturbing, but the name more or less says that, doesn't it? And yet, I'm neither surprised the kids in the fifth grade at Washington Elementary School in Minnesota invented the game nor terribly scared about what this says for the future of America.

Let me be clear: I don't think rape is funny. I don't think rape is a game. And I don't think fifth graders should be forcing their classmates to subject to being humped in order to escape being "frozen" in a game most of us knew as freeze tag. I also think parents can learn a good lesson from this.