Because someone, somewhere, thinks that your parenting sucks. Might as well celebrate it.
So understand that at the best of times, this is my child’s hair. She’s got this silky fine, superstraight, flighty hair that protests against any and all attempts at styling – and whatever her hair doesn’t actively protest, the rest of her does. I can’t get near her with a hairbrush, let alone an elastic [...]
Barbie. One word that strikes fear in some Bad Moms hearts while for other Bad Moms it brings back a flood of fond memories of dress-up and make-believe. Who knew Barbie could be so complicated and controversial? Oh who am I kidding, she always has been that way. For a toy based on a German [...]
I don’t know about your neighbourhood but there is a trend sweeping ours — the giftless birthday, or its twin – the gift of a charity donation. The most common approach is saying something like this on the invitation: Eloise is swamped with toys and instead of gifts this year, she would like a donation [...]
Before I got married, my father filled my partner in on the secret to a happy marriage. “There are only two words you need to know,” he said. “Yes, dear.” That’s it, that’s all. The secret to blissful matrimony, according to my dad, is to simply comply with your wife’s wishes, or at the very [...]
This weekend, I bought my six-year-old daughter a $75 lunchbox. She hadn’t asked for this particular lunchbox, and I didn’t consider it a splurge. But once I was unpacking it and pointing out its features to my friends, I started to wonder – Was I a total chump, or just completely obnoxious? Sheepish as I [...]
My five-year old daughter is beautiful, objectively beautiful. The kind that stops people on the street, and it is often the first words out of people’s mouths when they meet her. She is my only girl so maybe that is the way with girls — strangers always obsessing over their looks. I try not to [...]
There are things I hate about motherhood — the relentlessness, the guilt, the saggy boobs. Those things are constantly at the back of my mind but I can go through a day without even thinking of them. But the thing I hate most about motherhood? Or at least the thing I hate doing the most? [...]
Now hear this: Everything that might be wrong with your husband is your fault. The latest: If you are too friendly with his friends, you’ll make his wiener stop working. True story, according to some bullshit study in the Globe and Mail and a bunch of other places that says that apparently if you get [...]
“I’m never going to have an operation on my private parts,” Julian said as we were eating dessert last night. He is, of course, referring to his father’s recent vasectomy, which he knows means that we are not having any more children, a fact that he will gladly share with anyone who asks. “I’m just [...]
How many times have you been trolling the racks at Baby Gap and said under your breath “Screw all these cute little pink dresses, I wish Lady Gaga would design baby clothing. She’d create the kind of baby clothing my daughter needs. Gaga would make baby clothing that screams ‘Outta my way establishment, I WAS [...]
Every parent knows: There’s good touch and bad touch. Examples of good touch include hugs and snuggles from Mama, using the washcloth in the bathtub to scrub your back, and Daddy grabbing you by the nearest limb to keep you from running out in front of that gigantic mack truck coming down the street. Examples [...]
When I was a kid my mother threatened more times than I could count to stuff me in a mailbox and send me to my grandmother’s house when I was misbehaving. My grandmother was not a woman one would want to tangle with and the thought of going via Canada Post sounded like a nightmare [...]
I hate it when writers take what could have been an interesting topic and worthwhile discussion and turn it into a rant against something they apparently know nothing about. In her article, Is Sex Passé?, second wave feminist Erica Jong says sex has become boring because younger women are “obsessed with motherhood and monogamy” (…and [...]
Jumping through hoops, working for free, and deceiving their readers — these are three things it seems like mom bloggers are a little bit less willing to do these days. I must admit, it is a trend I like and one I’d love to see go viral. A lot of bloggers get multiple e-mails every [...]
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 [...]
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