Because someone, somewhere, thinks that your parenting sucks. Might as well celebrate it.
I thought I might use a quote for the title of this post, but I just couldn’t pick one. “Obsessive parenting has few rewards” “What if my kids don’t turn out well and then everyone blames me? …the data say it was going to happen anyway.” “Human beings are terrible risk assessors in general, and [...]
According to SheKnows.com, Mariah Carey has already had her first visit from Child Protective Services (CPS): Apparently, Child Protective Services came out to the hospital to investigate Carey in response to an anonymous call from someone at the hospital reporting that she was abusing alcohol while breastfeeding Moroccan and Monroe. Cannon explained, “One of the [...]
How many times have you done something in front of your toddler that you really shouldn’t have done — like dropping a string of f-bombs that would make a sailor blush — and said ‘oh well, it’s not like the kid is going to remember that‘? Guess what? They probably DO remember that. Thankfully the [...]
This just in: families with two girl children come out on top in the happiness lottery. Yes, it appears to be true, says a study out of the UK this fine morning: When families of all child-arrangements, boys, girls, one child, many children, a veritable lottery of child picks are surveyed, the families that seem [...]
Remember that stage of life where you seem to be going to five weddings each summer? Wearing horrible bridesmaid dresses at two of them (yeah, right, sure I’ll wear it again)? For many of us, those days are long passed and have since been replaced with equivalent numbers of divorces, separations, couples in therapy, and [...]
If you substitute the snakes and bees and mice in this video for cookies and Honey Nut cheerios and waffles, and trees and holes and nests for cupboards and refrigerators, then you basically have the behaviour of our children depicted fairly accurately in this video. There’s a reason that Katie and I called our company [...]
In all the discussion of ‘Tiger Moms‘ over the last few days, I’ve seen (and made) references to other possible types of moms: Hamster Moms, Bobcat Moms, Panda Moms (“fuzzy and huggable but with some really f***ing huge claws”), among others. And Jezebel jumped into the discussion by outlining a taxonomy of mom ‘types’ through [...]
If you didn’t know, the Consumer Electronics Show was in Las Vegas last week. The only reason you would have known, really, would be if you were a complete uber gadget geek (ed. note: or if you were the editor of this blog, AND a complete uber gadget geek, in which case YOU WERE ACTUALLY [...]
There will be no showing of the photo I’m about to describe so don’t bother asking. Sometime postpartum, little G was taken to a big store portrait studio to be immortalized with a completely random backdrop aura and shag carpet beneath her. For some unknown reason I posed in a couple of photos and this [...]
I used to work with a guy who was a picky eater. This guy didn’t like anything. Name a food, any food. Dude didn’t eat it. And not just, “I don’t like radishes. Or sushi.” He boycotted entire food groups. It wasn’t a philosophical decision, like a China-Study-based-personal-horror that shocked him in to vegetarianism or [...]
I’m thinking that if one were to try to render what childbirth looks like in baked goods, the result might not be as pretty – or, um, as appetizing – as this gingerbread depiction of what is usually scientifically described as teh lady parts, but I’m guessing one would have to use a lot more [...]
If memory serves me correctly, it was somewhere around two and half when I first caught my daughter in a lie. It wasn’t anything horrible — she didn’t kill a hobo and was trying to cover it up — I do believe it involved a missing cookie, but I remember being shocked that she just [...]
Wow, Mythbusters. Like I needed someone to prove to me that women can tolerate pain more than men. I mean, when’s the last time a man had his pelvis and privates tolerate the passage of an eight pound bowling ball? Been there, done that, and I’d do it again if duty called. Oh yes, I’m [...]
Catherine Keener, apparently, will not eat pork because “piglets suckle, and I’m a mama.” Which, you know, I get – I’m a sometime vegetarian – but, um, don’t calves suckle, too? Also baby goats, and sheeplings, and other creatures from whence our foodstuffs come? Also: not to get all counter-lactivist about this, but given that [...]
My takeaway from the study cited in this story, which states that ‘older mothers’ – women who give birth after the age of twenty-six (TWENTY-SIX. I got married when I was twenty-six. Kids started coming eight years later) – tend to earn higher incomes? I am really effing old. Thanks, science! * * *
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