Because someone, somewhere, thinks that your parenting sucks. Might as well celebrate it.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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’ [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Jumping through hoops, working for free, and deceiving their readers — these are three things it seems like mom bloggers are a little bit less willing to do these days. I must admit, it is a trend I like and one I’d love to see go viral. A lot of bloggers get multiple e-mails every [...]
OK, look. I know times, they change. I know that the style is no longer 90s grunge, where you wore everything three sizes too big. I know the style is short and sexy. But on children? Who then do suggestive, provocative, emulating-sex-moves-ative dance moves? Why? And yet, this is what they did on So You [...]
We try so hard not to judge other people’s parenting choices at the Bad Moms Club but we do make exceptions when there are concerns for the children. This is one of those times and while maybe I’m wrong, maybe I’m not being open-minded in this case, maybe it’s me that has the problem — [...]
He was a cute baby, perhaps 8 months old, all chubby cheeks and waving hands and little squeals. Sitting on his adult’s lap (I can only presume that it was his father, but that is indeed a presumption), that baby looked happy and clean and well-cared for. That baby made me smile. And then the [...]
I’ve been thinking a lot about adultery — not in the ‘that would be fun’ way — but in the ‘how would I handle it?’ way. Of course the Sperminator got the ball rolling but a salacious affair at my daughter’s school got me and my husband talking. This particular affair is surprising for it’s [...]
She found me in the schoolyard, a few days after all the invitations had been handed out. “So,” she said, smiling, “My son has had his first taste of rejection.” Blink. “Excuse me?” “Well, my son said that the some kids were talking about your daughter’s birthday party, and when Paulie* asked Mischa about it, [...]
So a school in Virginia suspended a 6 year old last month. Did he act out? Shove his classmates? Bite someone? Steal lunches unashamedly? No. It was worse. So much worse. This degenerate child, obviously the product of horrible, neglectful, borderline abusive parents, parents who probably watch reality TV so you know they’re horrible, had [...]
Look, people, it’s an absurd world out there. Completely absurd. And every absurdity is being captured by the lens of reality TV. Homeless men can get broadcasting jobs and free homes just by pitching a guy with a flipcam at a traffic light. Adult, seemingly sane women “compete” to marry a man who’s been sleeping [...]
Stories like this make my heart hurt. A gang of parents lobbying to remove a special needs child from her public school because her needs are interfering with their childrens’ right to… enjoy peanut butter sandwiches? Yes, it’s a child with a peanut allergy – a severe, deadly peanut allergy – which might not sound [...]
Toronto October 13 - 15