Baby-Planners Are The New Purple-Polka-Dotted Silver Mesh

By on December 4, 2009 6 Comments

According to the Huffington Post, baby planners – a prenatal version of the sort of manic organizational consultant that is hired to plan weddings – are the latest thing for mothers-to-be. After all, why prepare for baby on your own when you can delegate? Here's why:

This Just In: Overparenting Is The New Bad

By on November 22, 2009 Leave a Comment

The good news: the world seems to be to be finally waking up to the fact that overparenting – the hovering, fussing, toddler SAT-tutoring, oh-god-will-giving-my-kid-formula-bork-his-Harvard-chances mode of hyperparenting that, seriously, just sounds exhausting – is maybe, you know, not so good if we want to raise relaxed and happy children. The bad news? There's a [...]