Because someone, somewhere, thinks that your parenting sucks. Might as well celebrate it.
Shannon is a transplanted Nova Scotian who has not lost the ability to dismember a lobster with her bare hands. She worked for years in high tech before becoming a full time mom, which now makes her a complete expert on everything parental (SNORT.) You can find more Shannon info at zchamu.com.
Never fear, my friends: There’s always a fantastic and rich selection of bad parents being called out on the internet. Let’s get to it, shall we? There was lots of great news this week about how everything that goes wrong with your child during their entire lives stems directly from what you eat when they’re [...]
Hi Samantha. Come sit. Have a cuppa. You’ve had a hell of a 24 hours, and I’m sure it hasn’t been fun. Facing the vast angry internet hordes of crazy people, well, it’s tough, and I feel for you. Now, if I were the advice giving type, I’d maybe say that it wasn’t the best [...]
We at the Bad Moms Club like to remind you all that you are not alone. There’s plenty of bad every day out there, to reassure you that you, too, are not alone in being judged! So plunk the kids in front of the TV with some gummy bears and revel in some of the [...]
Take a look at this photo and spare a thought for Jessica Simpson, if you will. I remember being nine months pregnant and feeling like my body had been taken over by not one but three vast, quivering aliens. I remember being front-heavy and unable to stand up without mechanical assistance. I remember having to [...]
The blogosphere has its knickers in a knot over this, the Atlanta, GA restaurant that has asked that people take their screaming kids outside to calm them down. Um. Am I the only one that isn’t bothered by this? Seriously. This makes total sense to me. In fact, it’s what I do anyway. If I’m [...]
This is, indeed, the Bad Moms Club. Where every mother branded as a “Bad” mother can find solace and understanding. Because most of the time, when someone is branded as a “bad” mother, it’s just about judgment and finger pointing and people who refuse to take individual lives and choices in to perspective. Most of [...]
The house looks like someone picked it up and shook it. Deadline after deadline whizzes by my head, each one like a nuclear powered dragonfly armed with missiles. Emails sit unopened, telltale coffee rings adorn the countertop from when I frantically guzzled my almost-completely-cold coffee in one gulp just to get the caffeine in to [...]
You couldn’t avoid it last week. Even for those of us who couldn’t give two rat’s asses about any Kardashians, what they might or might not be wearing, how long their micromarriages might have lasted or how much they spent in Beverly Hills boutiques, it was inescapable. Huge headlines about how Khloe Kardashian’s father MIGHT [...]
This story tore my heart out and stomped it in to the living room floor. A 19 year old woman walked in to a Chicago area fire station on Monday carrying a six month old baby. Miserable and wretched, she handed her baby to the firefighters and told them she couldn’t care for her child [...]
Today, my kid starts school. She’s two and a half. And she’s ready. She’s very, very, very ready. She watches and thinks and learns, her little brain working furiously behind her eyes as she stares fixatedly at me whenever I try to thwart her plans for world domination. It’s time. She needs more than I [...]
Somebody asked me once why exactly it would be a good reason to have children. It’s a fair question. Having a kid is not exactly a trip to the spa. Kids are expensive and inconvenient and defiant and heartwrenching. And motherhood isn’t exactly the most respected of professions. (Oh sure, people SAY they think motherhood [...]
I’m very proud of myself this year for sticking to my 2011 New Year’s resolutions. They were the following: … … … As you can see, I set very lofty goals for myself in the areas of self-improvement, kindness, discipline and dust bunny eradication. Now, I have the immense personal satisfaction of knowing that I [...]
You’re still shopping, aren’t you? Or rather, you haven’t started. Don’t worry; you’re me, half the time. (The other half of the time I feel way too ambitious then use the energy to radically overcompensate and buy way too many presents too early and end up with way too many copies of the same book [...]
I have a broken wrist and limited typing ability. I will tell THAT entire story some other time. Until then, I will bring you: The Top 5 Christmas Carols For Bad Moms. Because I can do it with minimal typing. Phoning it in FTW! 5. Queen – Thank God It’s Christmas. “Oh my friends it’s [...]
You know those times when you know you’re being a crap parent and you think, well, whatever, surely she won’t notice! She’s too young for it to REALLY matter! I can just modify my own behaviour next week/year/month, sometime when it really has an impact! And then in an instant, all that stuff you’ve been [...]
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