About katie

Katie blogs at her personal site motherbumper and also gossips without shame at MamaPop in addition to being co-founder of The Bad Moms Club. She figures she will sleep when she’s dead.

Dare To Draw Day 9: Wildcard for the Wildchild

By on January 24, 2012 2 Comments
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How is your Dare To Draw challenge going? If you haven’t read about Dare To Draw, The Bad Moms Club Dare Team Dares YOU and your child to Draw one picture every day for the next 30 days. Funds raised by your drawings will help support kids, parents and grandparents who are working to turn the [...]

Dare To Draw Day 4: Grand Portraits

By on January 19, 2012 Leave a Comment
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Have you heard about Dare to Draw? The Bad Moms Club Dare Team has taken the challenge and we would love for you to join us raise funds that will help support kids, parents and grandparents who are working to turn the tide of AIDS in Africa. Each day your child draws a picture, we get [...]

Dare to Draw: Day Two! Lion, Tigers, and Bears Oh My

By on January 17, 2012 Leave a Comment
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Have you heard about — or better yet, joined in on the Dare to Draw? We would love for you to join The Bad Moms Club Dare Team and help us and our children support kids, parents and grandparents who are working to turn the tide of AIDS in Africa. All the details about the campaign and [...]

Bad Moms Approve As Long As It Prefers KiX Over Kids [video]

By on January 16, 2012 Leave a Comment
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The following post is dedicated to all the parents who have ever felt guilty about a parenting decision that other parents may have judged or frowned upon. For all of us who have been in that position, deep down you knew that decision was the right one and completely necessary in conquering the quest to [...]

Bad Moms Love A Dare (And This One Includes The Kids)

By on January 13, 2012 3 Comments
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This Bad Mom has a hard time saying ‘no’ to an awesome dare and the latest one thrown my way is no exception. When the Bad Moms Club was asked to join the Dare to Draw campaign I knew we – me and my 6 year old — could do together because this dare involved one [...]

Bad Moms Buy Bad School Portraits

By on December 12, 2011 1 Comment
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Because is there really such a thing as a ‘bad’ school portrait? OK, there is such a thing as a ‘bad’ school portrait and that fact grows exponentially by the child’s age but regardless of the actual results of this annual rite of student passage, parents in general will buy the image to mark that [...]

The Vader Who Stole Christmas

By on November 29, 2011 Leave a Comment
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This Bad Mom is loving this Star Wars Suess mashup because my little Star Wars fan — who incidentally loves to play Darth Vader’s theme whenever she feels like life is not treating her the way it should be and she needs that extra injection of little evil emperor in her life — has been requesting this non-stop since we [...]

Bad Ideas: Tactical Baby Strollers and Future Criminals T-Shirts

By on November 7, 2011 Leave a Comment
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How often have you found yourself packing up the baby stroller for a day on the town with the offspring only to curse the lack of a gun rack next to the cup holder and snack tray? That’s right, never.* * it is highly possible that maybe someone out there actually has cursed this ‘oversight’ [...]

Bad Moms Love Bad Mom Tricks: Halloween Edition

By on November 6, 2011 Leave a Comment
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Yes I know Hallowe’en is sooo last week and that you are already planning the holiday shopping but this video was too good to not share. If I had told my daughter that I ate all her Hallowe’en candy she would have never displayed the restraint of these brothers. These boys were delivered the news [...]

Bad Moms Don’t Share Their Drugs With Their Kids

By on October 31, 2011 1 Comment
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It’s time for another awesome round of  ”Bad Moms Love Guest Posts” – a.k.a. Posts Submitted By Friends of Bad Moms Who Simply Can’t Restrain Themselves From Expressing Their Badness. Please enjoy this post from Corinne, aka @hvbabywilltrvl and founder of Have Baby Will Travel, , this week’s Bad Mom Guest. The Globe & Mail added an anonymous [...]

Bad Moms Like NSFK Dora the Explorer

By on October 24, 2011 1 Comment
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In this very special episode of Dora the Explorer, Dora is all grown up, Boots has seen better days, and Swiper is armed and dangerous. Oh wait, so it Dora.   This is totally not safe for the kids to watch but it sure is entertaining for the adults who have endured la totura especial [...]

Bad Moms Want To Know: Tattoo Barbie

By on October 3, 2011 2 Comments
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Barbie. One word that strikes fear in some Bad Moms hearts while for other Bad Moms it brings back a flood of fond memories of dress-up and make-believe. Who knew Barbie could be so complicated and controversial? Oh who am I kidding, she always has been that way. For a toy based on a German [...]

Bad Moms Support Fake Science

By on September 19, 2011 1 Comment
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When my daughter was a year old we tried one of those ‘YER BABY IS WAY SMARTER THAN YOU THINK AND IF YOU DON’T HARNESS THEIR SUPER POWERS OF INTELLIGENCE RIGHT NOW THEY ARE DOOMED TO BE MIDDLE MANAGEMENT FOR THE REST OF THEIR LIFEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!‘ programs to teach her how to read. Or maybe it [...]

Bad Little Monsters Say Yes To Gaga GooGoo

By on August 3, 2011 1 Comment
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How many times have you been trolling the racks at Baby Gap and said under your breath “Screw all these cute little pink dresses, I wish Lady Gaga would design baby clothing. She’d create the kind of baby clothing my daughter needs. Gaga would make baby clothing that screams ‘Outta my way establishment, I WAS [...]

Bad Moms Love Werner Herzog’s Madeline

By on July 27, 2011 1 Comment
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OK, so I know this isn’t really Werner Herzog reading Madeline, the children’s classic from my own childhood, but I think Herzog would readily agree to narrating the tale of an young girls living at a Parisian boarding school because of the series’ classic closing line: ‘That’s all there is; there isn’t any more.’ That [...]