Because someone, somewhere, thinks that your parenting sucks. Might as well celebrate it.
So there’s still a few days of spring break remaining, and if you’re at all like me, you’ve probably run out of things to do to keep your children occupied. Here are some ideas to get through this last, long stretch, without losing your mind: 1) Have Backwards Day. Just like any other day, except [...]
I haven’t seen the movie Mars Needs Moms. I did see a preview, when I took Emilia to see Yogi Bear one snowy afternoon when she really really really really wanted to go to the movies, Mommy, PLEASE (and believe me, Yogi Bear is not a movie that you only see under duress), and thought [...]
Tonight, I’m going to hit the rink. In a tutu. You heard me. Disney’s Toy Story On Ice is in Toronto during March break, and a portion of the proceeds from all regular tickets sold – using the code TANNER – will be donated to Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy in Tanner’s name. I’m introducing the [...]
This series of movie posters for imagined cinematic fairy tale reboots will make you laugh, but you’ll probably have to take a minute to think about whether or not they’re real, because, seriously. Like Humpty Dumpty needs Wes Craven to get a scary edge. That story’s about a guy falling to his death and an [...]
So apparently Suri Cruise was spotted this past weekend with a binky. I don’t know about you, but I could really not possibly care less. But not everyone is me – more’s the pity – and it seems that a whole lot of people are outraged, outraged, that Katie Holmes would allow her child – [...]
This video is, I think, pretty awesome, but according to YouTube commenters (let’s pause to acknowledge that the collective intelligence of YouTube commenters is somewhere between that of a potted plant and an earthworm) it’s a demonstration of what happens when Tiger Moms develop an appreciation of acoustic guitar. Which, do they have a point, [...]
Here’s what my desk typically looks like at 4am on a morning that I’m traveling: Note the absence of a coffee mug. That’s because at 4am the coffee mug is strapped to my arm and I am slurping it from a straw, the better to caffeinate efficiently while remaining mobile. The point of this picture, [...]
Last week, Aiming Low published a post that I’d written about my nephew Tanner (an edited version of this post), as part of their month-long campaign to raise awareness of disabilities. Which was awesome, because I want to do everything that I can to support that cause myself. But, inevitably, the trolls came out, one [...]
Do you have a mom cave? You should totally have a mom cave. Some people – even some of our own people – doubt the mom cave, which is understandable, because ‘mom cave’ seems to be just a variation on ‘man cave’ – that smelly, wood-paneled, Barca-loungered domain of the domestic male – and who [...]
Hey, you guys! It’s FAMILY DAY this coming Monday! (Or, if you’re one of our American readers, President’s Day!) Are you, like, totally excited to have a day off with your kids, or totally stressed at the prospect of figuring out what to do with your kids, or a little bit of both? I’m both. [...]
(Reposting! So that you keep this front of mind as you’re planning your March Break activities!) You all know about my nephew, Tanner, right? If you don’t, you can catch up on his story here, but as most of you know probably know, he has Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, which is a terminal condition for which [...]
You would think that The Bad Moms Club, where some of us adhere to a parenting philosophy of ‘enlightened slacking,’ and the rest just shrug their shoulders at any parenting philosophy, would be the last place that you’d find over-protective parents. You would be wrong. I’m an over-protective mom. Not over-protective in the sense that [...]
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