Because someone, somewhere, thinks that your parenting sucks. Might as well celebrate it.
Well, it’s the second week of November and the Halloween decorations have already been replaced by big red sleighs.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’ [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
So first, Kerry Campbell claimed she injected her 8 year old regularly with Botox and gave her bikini waxes so that she would win beauty pageants and be “famous” when she grew up. We were appropriately outraged. Then someone finally called children’s aid and the child was removed from Campbell’s custody. And Campbell swore up [...]
Oh, well this is fun. Laura Miller has started a website. This website is called Too Big For Stroller. It features pictures of children of varying ages being wheeled about in strollers. Many of these children are older than 1 or 2. They are maybe 4 or 5 or even older – ages Laura obviously [...]
It’s election time in Canada and there are plenty of highly criticized tools, like CBC’s Vote Compass, that you can use to figure out how you should vote. If none of those do it for you and you still don’t know where to place your X on May 2 (you are going to vote, right? [...]
Bathing suit shopping, as any woman can tell you, is basically the wardrobe equivalent of walking over hot coals. You go in to the shop with the impossibly thin mannequins modeling scraps of spandex held together with plastic rings and dental floss. You pick out the suits that you think will cover the parts you [...]
My mother hates Polka Dot Door. Always has; always will. A mainstay of my – and so many, many other children’s – childhood drove my mother absolutely crazy. And although memories of Marigold, Humpty, Dumpty and Bear are happy and cozy to me now, my mother, apparently, had to leave the room while those same [...]
I hate to be the one to say I told you so, but I knew this was a bad idea from the start. Maybe I’m just old, sitting there in my pajamas with a baby monitor instead of at a party with champagne and an Oscar pool. But if you ask me, when you host [...]
I suppose that we should be grateful that Gawker didn’t give this story, about some poor mother discovering that the Dora DVD she’d purchased actually contained something called ‘Bubble Butt Bonanza No. 17,’ the headline ‘Righteous Moms Refuse To Allow Nickleodeon To Be Sexy.” Small mercies.
It’s -29 outside. Twenty Nine Degrees Below Zero. That’s Celsius, but really, who cares. -29 might as well be -400. Either way, I’m sure as hell not going out in it. It would be one thing if it was just me. I can suck it up, put on snow pants and my enormous fluffy parka [...]
I have never watched an episode of Jersey Shore. It is, therefore, extremely disturbing to me that I am fully aware of who Snooki is, that she has a book (which I think is racing the Bieber biography to the top of the nonfiction charts), and that she is the singular embodification of the doom [...]
Toronto October 13 - 15