Do You Hear What I Hear? A Bad Mom’s Guide To Good Holiday Music

By Karen on November 9, 2011 4 Comments
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Well, it’s the second week of November and the Halloween decorations have already been replaced by big red sleighs.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 [...]

Bad Ideas: Tactical Baby Strollers and Future Criminals T-Shirts

By katie on November 7, 2011 Leave a Comment
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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’ [...]

You’re a worse parent than you think! Hooray!

By Shannon on October 25, 2011 11 Comments
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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 [...]

So You Think You Can Skank

By Shannon on June 28, 2011 4 Comments
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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 [...]

The Blood, Sweat and Tears of Birthday Party Politics

By Annie on June 14, 2011 25 Comments

Can we cancel birthdays? Or, if not, can we at least agree to some rules? Or maybe some guidelines? I’m not really sure where to start, but maybe an “is this going to make a kid cry?” checkpoint might be a good place to begin. I’ve hated birthday party politics since I was a kid. [...]

Babies And Botox And Why We Bought In To It.

By Shannon on May 25, 2011 1 Comment
Beauty Pageant Horror

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 [...]

Do Not Poke The Mama Bear. Or Her Stroller.

By Shannon on May 10, 2011 53 Comments
Age Limited.

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 [...]

If the Political Parties Were Bad Moms…

By Annie on April 19, 2011 24 Comments
Mom the Vote

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? [...]

Bad Moms Don’t Put 8-Year-Olds In Pushup Bikinis

By Shannon on March 30, 2011 5 Comments
Hope My Daughter Likes This Style Cause It's What She'll Be Wearing

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 [...]

Toddlers And Television: Supressing The Gag Reflex

By Karen on March 14, 2011 12 Comments
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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 [...]

Bad Moms Draw The Line At Bad Oscars

By Shannon on February 28, 2011 Leave a Comment
Trying too hard.

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 [...]

Righteous Moms Hate Finding Porn At Toys ‘R’ Us; Bad Moms Are Ambivalent

By Her Bad Mother on February 9, 2011 Leave a Comment
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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.

Bad Mamas Are Also Lazy When It’s Cold

By Shannon on January 25, 2011 Leave a Comment
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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 [...]

Bad Moms Have Their Limits, And Their Limit Is ‘Toddlers And Tiaras’

By Her Bad Mother on January 17, 2011 14 Comments

Look, I’m not saying this is child abuse… but hell, maybe it is. It’s possible to argue that it’s only one step removed from getting a toddler’s ears pierced, but I don’t know. That child in the video is TRAUMATIZED. And really, brow waxing? A toddler? THE HELL? Bad moms wanna know – what do [...]

Yes, Snooki, You Can Be Too Young To Look “Bangin’”

By Shannon on January 12, 2011 4 Comments
Snookifying the world, 11 year old by 11 year old

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 [...]