We're on record as being pretty open-minded about different parenting styles. Attachment parenting? Great – been there, done that! Free-range parenting? Also great! Helicopter parenting, hyper-parenting, set-them-free-in-the-woods parenting – whatever works! Tattoos? We've got 'em! For the kids? Well, the rub-on kind are cool… No, wait, what? REAL tattoos? On kids? Um…
Jon and Kate Gosselin: Marriage Busters, Busted.
By on December 18, 2009 1 CommentIt seems fitting that at the end of this year – nay, decade – one of the most infamous couples in celebudisaster parenting history are finalizing their divorce. Jon & Kate is now officially Jon without Kate. Or Kate without Jon. Or Kate hates Jon and it's court documented and official. Wow, there are so [...]
Daycare Busted For Drugging Tots; Charges On Stupidity Pending
By on December 17, 2009 12 CommentsWow, this story almost made me drop my beloved coffee mug (don't worry, mommy's little enabler is just fine). A daycare in Cincinnati is being investigated for drugging kids in order to get them settled at nap time. There is an allegation that daycare employees put melatonin in candy which was then fed to some [...]
Bad Moms Wanna Know: Should Our Girls Shake Their Groove Thangs… Like THIS?
By on December 16, 2009 9 CommentsSo, Um, About That Tiger Woods Thing…
By on December 9, 2009 3 CommentsSo. Let's talk about the golf-club wielding elephant in the corner. Whenever I go to get my gossip fix, all I see is Tiger Woods, Tiger Woods, Tiiiiiiiigerrrrrrr Wooooods. Can I just say that I'm kind of shocked at the whole thing? Regardless of how much of the gossip is true (less than 50% is [...]
Bad Mom Wants Bad Ink (Start ‘Em Young, Ladies)
By on December 7, 2009 3 CommentsMy daughter is obsessed with my tattoo. It's kinda cute how she tries to wash it off my back when we share a bubble bath. It's like she's channeling her grandmother (my mom). I can almost hear the clucking tongue of disapproval. Anyhow, my daughter doesn't really disapprove of my tattoo (sorry mom), she thinks [...]
Bad, Schmad: Sometimes, Celebrities – And Gossip – And Celebrity Gossip – Just Suck
By on December 4, 2009 Leave a CommentBlind gossip items are one of my guilty pleasures. Call it schadenfreude, call it taking perverse pleasure in knowing that celebrities are as messed up as we think they are, call it a faint, desperate hope that one day, there'll be an item that reads something like 'Desperate Blond Actress with lifestyle website has secret [...]
My Money is On Krueger
By on November 27, 2009 Leave a CommentProps must be given to this British mom for not going all Duggar with the naming of her children. That said, that's about all she gets in the way of props for her baby-naming skills. At present count, Sara Foss has thirteen children with number fourteen on the way. Let's review the names from oldest [...]
Even We Have Standards: Two Things Not To Do With Stuff That Comes Out Of Your Nethers
By on November 18, 2009 4 CommentsI'm pretty sure that my body expelled some placenta with the births of both my children, but the only evidence of that is, in each case, the memory of someone yelling 'YOU'RE NOT DONE YET' after I'd shot each baby out of my lower parts. Because, no, I most certainly did not keep those placenta. [...]
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