Look, I get woken up enough at 3am by my toddler. I don’t need to actually make the effort to get out of bed, just to see a wedding, even if it is Kate and Wills, and even if they are kind of adorable, and even if I do have fond memories of getting up [...]
Bad Moms Don’t Really Care All That Much About The Royal Wedding, Mostly
By on April 28, 2011 Leave a CommentBad Moms Have A Digital Organization Problem
By on April 28, 2011 5 Comments
Here’s something about me that will come as no surprise to anybody: I take a lot of photos. Mostly of my children, and also of other things, but mostly of my kids. I started accumulating photos of Emilia when she was about three seconds old – I didn’t actually take those first photos, mind you, [...]
Forget Tiger Moms; It’s All About Tiger BABIES
By on April 26, 2011 2 CommentsI dare you watch this without squealing or making cutesy-faces at your computer screen. I DARE YOU. I also dare you to watch it without asking yourself, at least once, whether our human and highly commerialized approach to baby hygiene – diaper wipes, pee-pee teepees, diaper cream, diaper pails, etc – is not, in fact, [...]
Bad Moms Love High Heels, Are Ambivalent About Tyra Banks
By on April 25, 2011 Leave a CommentI have mixed feelings about Tyra Banks. On the hand, she’s batshit and she humiliates young women for sport. On the other, I really can’t stop watching ANTM – which makes me a terrible person, I know, but SERIOUSLY – and also, she makes videos like the one below, which not only provides the tremendous [...]
Stuff My Kids Wrecked
By on April 21, 2011
So for a tech-related topic this week I was going to write about my favorite software, because that’s what some of my buddies over at the Intel Canada Facebook page are talking about, and it’s kind of an interesting subject, inasmuch as I like hearing what other people use to make their work lives and [...]
You Say Potato, I Say BOR-ING
By on April 20, 2011 2 Comments
Dear Easter-Celebrating People Of Earth, It is I, the humble dinner plate, and I have a complaint to take up with you, lo this week before Easter. I know that you are, at this very moment, plotting your Easter feasts, and you are, I know, drawing up grocery lists on which you are including things [...]
Bad Moms Appreciate The Dark Side
By on April 14, 2011 Leave a Comment
I so wanted Emilia to do Jedi Training when we were at Disney World last week, but we got to Hollywood Studios too late for sign up. In any case, my husband was worried that she might be frightened by Darth Vader. Too scared? ‘Dude,’ I said. ‘If there was ever a kid to be [...]
Bad Moms Know How To Accessorize
By on April 13, 2011 2 Comments
Rule number one for the social media mother, or any mother, or anyone, who carries a lot of stuff: learn how to accessorize. No, not with purses and handbags. With bags for tech gear, and everything else that you carry that won’t fit into your knock-off Fendi clutch. (Ha. You’re a mother. Like you carry [...]
Bad Moms Have Iron Chef Moves
By on April 1, 2011 Leave a Comment
I recently declared myself Chairmom of Virtual Kitchen Stadium Canada so that I could watch and learn from aspiring IronMom Chefs as they take select ingredients from Clover Leaf Foods and spin them – in five minutes or less! – into delicious meals. IronMom Chef Maria, IronMom Chef Caroline, IronMom Chef Amy, IronMom Chef Loukia [...]
Have Kids, Will Travel With iPads And Nintendo
By on April 1, 2011 Leave a Comment
This weekend, we – we as in the whole fan-damily; moms and dads and uncles and aunts and cousins – are headed to Disney World. It’s Tanner’s wish-trip; the trip that brings his family together for a holiday and allows him to show his cousins around his favorite place in the world and that was [...]
How Bad Moms Do Celebrity Interviews, Russell Brand Edition
By on March 30, 2011 Leave a Comment
If you like Russell Brand, or even if you don’t like Russell Brand but DO like things like the Easter Bunny and Easter Bunny-related movies and post-structuralism and discussions of infinity as these relate to mommy bloggers, you should check out this interview over at Her Bad Mother. An excerpt: Russell Brand: ‘Mummy Bloggers’ sounds [...]
Bad Moms Have Favorite Things
By on March 24, 2011 1 Comment
A couple of months ago, I wrote this about the stuff that we love and why we love it: Here are some things that Jasper and Emilia love: crayons, art paper, paints, marshmallows, bubble wrap, trains, books, the iPhone, the iPad, video cameras, regular cameras, Toady, me, Kyle, the cats, skateboards, anything Disney, Scotch tape, [...]
IronMom Chefs Take The Take Five Challenge
By on March 23, 2011 2 Comments
So, this might not come as a surprise coming from the editor of a site that that has categories like ‘Bad Cookery’ and ‘Bad Housekeeping,’ but I’m a pretty bad homemaker. I’m an incompetent cook, and I hate housekeeping. Except for making coffee and soup and vacuuming. I kind of love vacuuming. ANYWAY. I might [...]
From The Civility, You’re Doing It Wrong Files: Parents Protest Special Needs Child
By on March 23, 2011 15 Comments
Stories like this make my heart hurt. A gang of parents lobbying to remove a special needs child from her public school because her needs are interfering with their childrens’ right to… enjoy peanut butter sandwiches? Yes, it’s a child with a peanut allergy – a severe, deadly peanut allergy – which might not sound [...]
Bad Moms Get Arrested By Bunnies
By on March 22, 2011 Leave a CommentThere are, of course, many things are more humiliating than being perp-walked by some bunnies and a couple of angry birds on the backlot at Universal Studios, but how many things are more awesome? Very few, I’d wager. Very few. (Universal Studios backlot. Pink Beret Bunny Task Force and Easter chicks on the scene.)
Bad Moms Are Social