Because someone, somewhere, thinks that your parenting sucks. Might as well celebrate it.
I live in a house with my husband, our five-year-old son, our three-year-old daughter and our four-month old baby and, I must admit, I can’t remember the last time I closed the bathroom door.* Last week on Jezebel, Tracey Moore wrote about bringing her two-year-old daughter into the bathroom with her and even letting her [...]
The least shocking news of 2012 broke this week, with deep South, deep-fat fryin’ down-home cooking guru Paula Deen admitting that she has type-2 diabetes, something the rags have been dishing on for years. With signature recipes including Southern Fried Chicken, Cheese Biscuits, Krispy Kreme Bread Pudding and Paula’s Fried Butter Balls, as well as [...]
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 [...]
I know that this time of year is supposed to be all, happy happy joy joy, but the truth is, there is much about this season that just sucks. Between juggling family obligations, wrapping up school, work and all of those presents – which, of course you have to buy first, causing no amount of [...]
“Cute”, says the mother dishing out the snacks to my eldest son. The thing is, my son isn’t cute. And she and I both know it. When she said cute, what she was really saying: I don’t know how to respond to this kid. And I had a momentary shudder. It is something that I [...]
There’s a lot of baby talk and Mommy judging in the news this week and since we’re all about Bad Moms over here, we might as well tackle the topics at hand. First up, Michelle Duggar. The Duggars went on the Today show with their nineteen (!) children and two grandchildren to announce that Michelle [...]
Well, it’s the second week of November and the Halloween decorations have already been replaced by big red sleighs. That can only mean one thing: ready or not, Christmas is on its way. And that means, Christmas music is here. Already. Nearly two months out. Now, I love a good O Holy Night or Good [...]
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’ [...]
What are you going to be for Halloween? It’s a question we ask and answer over and over again at this time of year, whether we will be taking our children trick-or-treating for the first time, or trying to out-do our friends at the annual costume party. And there are many of us that put [...]
So thanks to Laid Off Dad, along came this little article in to my twitter feed that listed a mere dozen ways that we’re effortlessly, gleefully screwing up our kids for life. Life, I tell you! Yes, they’ve gathered child psychologists! Psychiatrists! and OTHER EXPERTS (who’d they call? your mother-in-law?) to come up with this [...]
I’d love to say that my kids will eat anything and everything that I put on their dinner plate but then I would be tell you a big, fat (condescending) lie. Look, I know that there are people out there who have children who will eat any type of meat/fruit/vegetable/sauce that they dish up. I [...]
This weekend, I bought my six-year-old daughter a $75 lunchbox. She hadn’t asked for this particular lunchbox, and I didn’t consider it a splurge. But once I was unpacking it and pointing out its features to my friends, I started to wonder – Was I a total chump, or just completely obnoxious? Sheepish as I [...]
My five-year old daughter is beautiful, objectively beautiful. The kind that stops people on the street, and it is often the first words out of people’s mouths when they meet her. She is my only girl so maybe that is the way with girls — strangers always obsessing over their looks. I try not to [...]
Do you ever wonder what the point is of all this Bad Moms Club stuff? The point is this. When a woman is parenting her children in the best way she knows how, and makes decisions that maybe you or I wouldn’t make, but we aren’t living in her house with her kids and her [...]
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