Bad Moms Like Lying Two Year Olds.
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 [...]
From The Duh Files: Women Can Tolerate Pain More
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 [...]
This Week In Animal Husbandry: Catherine Keener On Being A Mamatarian
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 [...]
This Week In Science: You’re Older Than You Think
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! * * *
Babies Want Bacon, Now With More Scientific Research.
A recent study in baby development explains, I think, my entirely unscientifically proven assertion that Canadian babies are in fact more intelligent than the average bear. According to science – SCIENCE, people – a chemical that is found in eggs and pork products might help in the development of a baby’s growing brain.
Bad Moms Love Common Sense, Especially When Applied By People With Medical Degrees
From Gawker: “The University of Minnesota medical school has solved the problem of the ‘embarrassment, stereotypes and concern about patriarchy and abuse’ that goes along with teaching medical students to do pelvic exams. Whew!” Medical students at UM will learn to do the exams on an anatomical model – which, I presume, means using some [...]
Oh, National Geographic. You Had Me At Flashier Tits.
Flashier Great Tits Produce Stronger Sperm, according to a headline at the National Geographic website this morning. But before you run out to buy a Bedazzler for your nursing bra, read the fine print:
Potty Science: The Full Scoop On Poop
Alternate title: Let's Talk About Sh*t, Baby. This will probably mean nothing to anyone who isn't a parent, but seeing as most of you probably are… do you remember the days before you would openly discuss the color, consistency, and frequency of someone else's poop? Yes, me too. Those were the same days that consisted [...]
Panda Moms: They’re Just Like Us!
Baby pandas are pretty cute. Cuter than human babies, almost, although I suppose that one's position on that depends upon how many times one's human baby has woken one up the previous night and how appealing, exactly, the option of tossing one's offspring in a zoo-cage to be tended by a keeper seems to one.
