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Why a Bad Moms Club? Why not? I mean, aren’t we all bad moms, in a way? Why not celebrate our badness?*
Look, someone, somewhere – guaranteed – thinks that you’re doing something wrong. Whether you attachment parent or free range parent, breastfeed or bottle-feed, co-sleep or cry it out, spank or time it out, homeschool or private school or public school or old skool… somebody, somewhere, thinks that you’re making the wrong choices, and that somebody is probably judging you, right now. So why not just embrace that fact, and just say, whatever. It is good to be bad. Because if the alpha mommies and the sanctimommies and the isn’t-Gwyneth-Paltrow-awesome mommies think you’re doing something wrong? That’s pretty strong evidence that you’re getting something right.
So we thought we’d start a club to celebrate that fact, and to proclaim our solidarity in bad motherhood. Because bad, after all, is the new good.
Bad Moms Club Founders, Presidents and Chief Enlightened Slackers:
Catherine Connors, aka Her Bad Mother, is one of the Internet’s original bad mothers. She’s a recovering academic and an expert diaper-slinger, which means that she can wipe a bum and quote Plato in the original Greek at the same time and not get shit on her fingers. posts by Catherine
Katie York, aka motherbumper, is badder than she looks and never puts lifts in her shoes. She’s secretly married to Viggo Mortensen, but don’t tell anybody, including him. She used to be one of those programmers in the corporate world before running away from the cube farm and joining the parenthood gang. Strange thing is: she still can’t quit her laptop. posts by Katie
The two of them have been blogging since before you even knew that Flickr wasn’t just that thing everyone used to do with their lighters at rock concerts. They’re two of the best-known mom bloggers in the Great White North, are totally unashamed about loving bacon, and don’t tolerate jokes about beavers, unless they tell them first.
Bad Mom Writers, Most Definite Enlightened Slackers:
Shauna Glenn, aka ShaunaGlenn, is THE lone non-Canadian in the Bad Moms Club. But that doesn’t stop her from frivolously adding the letter U to raundom wourds. She loves all things related to wine, midgets, and vaginas, but not necessarily in that order. And oh yeah, she has four kids… that she knows of. She writes a monthly column in Fort Worth Texas magazine, has a novel on the bookshelves (Heaping Spoonful), and can remember the birthdays of classmates she went to school with twenty years ago. posts by Shauna
Mamatulip, aka Mamatulip, lives in the Great White North with two enthusiastic, exhausting children, one incurable collector husband and one attention-starved cat. She drinks a lot of coffee, gets less sleep than she should and is stereotypically Canadian, in that she has a deep and vested affinity for back bacon, poutine, apologizing and going oot and aboot. posts by Mamatulip
Angella Dykstra, aka reigning monarch of Dutch Blitz, is the wife of one and the mother of three. She’s an accountant by trade but would prefer if we could keep that our little secret. She spends all of her free time writing and taking photos and often ties the two together. She’s proudly Canadian but loves Americans, and not just because they created Target. posts by Angella
You totally want to be in their club. You know that you do.
*Read more about what it means to celebrate badness at our Philosophy page. Yeah, we call it a Philosophy. With a capital P, even. We take this shit seriously, you know.
