Because someone, somewhere, thinks that your parenting sucks. Might as well celebrate it.
The house looks like someone picked it up and shook it. Deadline after deadline whizzes by my head, each one like a nuclear powered dragonfly armed with missiles. Emails sit unopened, telltale coffee rings adorn the countertop from when I frantically guzzled my almost-completely-cold coffee in one gulp just to get the caffeine in to [...]
The story playing out on my TV is a gruesome, albeit familiar, one, something probably even ripped from the headline of a news story I read last year. A baby has disappeared, a young mother is distraught, but not as distraught as a gravel-voiced investigator thinks she should be and a mother-in-law seems shady. By [...]
This morning I woke up to my 5 year old screaming at me about how much she does not want to go to school. Not because anything bad is going on, or that she hates her teacher, or cannot stand her friends. She was screaming at me that she doesn’t want to go to school [...]
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 thought I was being so smart. Have you ever tried to dress a kid? Seriously, it’s EXPENSIVE. Kids’ clothes cost a fortune, and even more of a fortune because you’re replacing it every time you turn around. I can remember buying stuff for my newborn at Baby Gap, such as $30 jeans that were [...]
While none of this surprises me, the story below still is jolting for a mom who is raising a girl (that would be me). Crystal Smith of The Achilles Effect recorded the keywords thrown at children in television advertising to get an idea of the gender stereotypes involved. She took this mash-up of words and [...]
It was obvious very early in his life that my first child was a genius. The kid was turning his jigsaw puzzles upside down to give himself a new challenge when he was two. He was reading when he was three and trying to figure out how to construct a solar-powered car from old office [...]
Dear Old Male Fertility Doctors Who Keep Telling Us We’re Waiting Too Long To Have Babies: Please Shut Up. I’m 40. And as long as I can remember, women have been told that our eggs run out eventually. It’s the first thing you’re taught in Family Living in grade 7. I do not know any [...]
At Thanksgiving, I think of all the things that I’m thankful for – my family, friends, health, Starbucks, cardigans, Colin Firth – the usual. I also think of the things that I don’t have any more, like the need to shave my legs on a regular basis (sorry husband), and ex boyfriends. I’ve been married [...]
I recently attended a full day conference with many other blogging women – lots and lots of estrogen. Good times. Mostly. I might have done something a little embarrassing, when a fellow blogger and I headed to the ladies’ room. There were three, maybe four people in the stalls, and it was totally quiet – [...]
This post is from The Bad Files (Back Of The Cabinet) which means, yes, we dug this up from two years ago. But come on: it is AWESOME. Really, really awesome. Make sure you read all the way to the bottom. Or at least scroll down to the bottom picture. What happens when you combine [...]
Mark Zuckerberg supports education. He went on the Simpsons to say so:
Dear Porkzilla, Something has got to give. Your overindulgence is becoming a problem for me and my jeans. I feel it’s necessary to address your chips and queso addiction head-on. First, just because there’s a perfectly good and gooey cinnamon roll left on the plate doesn’t mean you have to inhale it in one bite–-or [...]
You’re probably going to find this hard to believe, but I have a hard time with the word “no.” Not only do I hate to hear the word no… “No, you can’t buy a Maserati. What are you, out of your mind?… No, I will not watch your children for 2 months while you travel [...]
I have totally failed in the serving the family dinner department lately. Not that we’ve ever lived a sort of traditional family life (meaning my big strong husband goes to work while I stay home and roll socks into balls). No. It’s always been like an accidental phenomenon if I prepared a meal and served [...]
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