Because someone, somewhere, thinks that your parenting sucks. Might as well celebrate it.
Rubber bracelets aimed at spreading breast cancer awareness among the younger set have been banned in some schools in the US because of the (literal) message they’re sending. The bracelets, part of a nationwide campaign launched by the nonprofit organization Keep A Breast, say I [heart] Boobies, a sentiment that has some school officials in [...]
For my husband’s birthday this year, I took the cheap route and had the kids make homemade cards for him. Because, for one, have you seen the price of cards these days? And, for two, who doesn’t love a thoughtful, hand-crafted birthday greeting from their own child?
It’s been insufferably hot this summer. We’ve spent many a day blanketed ‘neath a swath of steamy, smoggy air; on days like that, when simply stepping out the front door causes a full body sweat, movies come in handy. By the time summer was halfway over, my kids and I had watched every movie we [...]
We’ve already covered parents who give their kids homemade tattoos here at the Bad Moms Club, so let’s move right along, shall we, to parents who allow their children to be tattooed professionally in the name of beauty. Sophie Watson, a 14-year-old from Britain who has her sights firmly set on stardom, recently had several [...]
A high school teacher in Australia made international headlines after assigning a project in which her Year 10 students were to pretend they were terrorists. Because, you know: EDUCATION. The assignment, given last week to a Contemporary Conflict and Terrorism class, instructed the students to make a ‘political statement by releasing a chemical or biological [...]
For years when I was a kid, my aunt took my cousin and I to the CNE, which still remains the biggest fair I’ve ever been to. We’d spend the day roaming the Midway, trying to cram as many rides in as possible; our favourite, by far, was the gigantic orange roller coaster, the one [...]
One steamy afternoon last week, just as the kids and I were getting ready to hit up the library, I became suddenly ill. One minute we were standing at the front door, book bags in hand; the next, I was lying on the couch with a plastic bowl at my side and a cool washcloth [...]
Hey, kids! What are some of your favourite things to do with Mom? We feature a lot of different crafts and activities here at the Bad Moms Club, from decapitating stuffed animals and making questionable festive holiday treats to making creepy interesting knick-knacks out of placentas. But what about word searches, one of the best [...]
Ask the CEO of Google, Eric Schmidt, what he sees when he looks in to his crystal ball and he’ll tell you something kind of scary: he sees a future where youth will be able to change their names in order to keep their previous web activities from catching up with them. Think about that [...]
As parents, we want the best for our children, and we do what we can to protect them from harm. But to what extent? How far would you go to protect your children from, say, pedophiles? Would you put them in a suit that, if touched for a prolonged period of time, would trigger a [...]
Ever go back and read your own archives? I found this entry from October, 2006, back when my kids were one and three, respectively. It’s a good thing that I blog – I’d forgotten all about the effing pretty rainbow. Please to enjoy. Every day around lunchtime Julia starts asking if she can wait on [...]
If you happen to be in Cincinnati and you want to hit the Tri-County Mall on a Friday or Saturday night, make sure you have your ID with you. Folks who look 25 or under will be asked to show identification as part of the mall’s new Youth Escort Policy, which requires shoppers 18 and [...]
“They’re just crazy. Listen, everyone says to us, ‘It gets better. It gets better.’ That has not been my experience. It seems to be worse and worse. My wife and I were talking about splitting up but neither of us want to take the children – that’s our joke.” ~ Jerry O’Connell, on raising 19-month-old [...]
My husband and I both grew up reading Dr. Seuss books, a tradition we’ve carried on with our kids – our bookshelves hold several Dr. Seuss titles. The kids love it when we read them Fox in Socks (though it’s all I can do to get halfway through it) and Green Eggs and Ham; ever [...]
The summer I was pregnant with my son – heavily pregnant, I might add – it was eleventy-thousand degrees every single day, with a trillion per cent humidity. I was gigantic and horribly uncomfortable; it was all I could do to get myself through to two p.m., when I would put my (then two-year-old) daughter [...]
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