Because someone, somewhere, thinks that your parenting sucks. Might as well celebrate it.
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 [...]
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 [...]
I know people are going absolutely crazy about the Toronto couple that refuse to assign gender stereotypes to their three children, but I gotta say – I think they’re doing some things very, very right. Would I go the extreme route they are by not announcing the gender of their 4-month old child? No, I [...]
Last week, People magazine ran a story under the headline, Rachel Zoe ‘Thrilled’ With 10 Carat Push Present. There is so much to say about that statement that I’m not even sure where to begin. Rachel Zoe? 10 Carat? Push Present? After I rubbed my eyes, gave my head a shake and downed a shot of [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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? [...]
I don’t know about you, but at my job, I get 20 paid vacation days and 5 paid sick days per calendar year. If I were still on mat leave or a stay-at-home mom, that number would be reduced drastically – like, to zero. So how many days off should our politicians get? How’d They [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Like many middle-aged women, my 13-year old niece is obsessed with Edward. As in, the vampire. Not R-Pattz as a person, but Edward, as a vampire. Not to be patronizing, but it’s cute. (Because she’s 13. It’s not cute when you’re 40.) I applaud her steadfast refusal to watch anything else the lanky Brit is [...]
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 [...]
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