Because someone, somewhere, thinks that your parenting sucks. Might as well celebrate it.
You know those times when you know you’re being a crap parent and you think, well, whatever, surely she won’t notice! She’s too young for it to REALLY matter! I can just modify my own behaviour next week/year/month, sometime when it really has an impact! And then in an instant, all that stuff you’ve been [...]
The powers-that-be at Sesame Street have been denying for years that Bert and Ernie are, you know, a couple – those separate beds should be the giveaway, no? – but here’s a thought: just because they’re not a couple doesn’t mean that one or the other of them isn’t gay, right? Which means that this [...]
Last night, Emilia and I were discussing raccoons. “Raccoons are nocturnal,” I said. “That means, they usually only come out at night.” Emilia thought about that. “Like skunks?” “Yep. Skunks are nocturnal, too.” “And bats!” “That’s right!” “And Daddy!” “Daddy?” “Because Daddy works at night. You always say, Daddy works so late, we only see [...]
Mark this down as just one more reason to not refer to yourself as a MILF. (I actually love that ‘MILF’ is right up there on the Google auto-search blacklist with ‘nipples’ and ’4chan’ and pegged as more potentially disturbing than ‘tushy’ or ‘dirty pillows’. Google GETS IT.)
I LOVE a good children’s book. Years before I ever had kids, or a husband, I would buy my favorites knowing that one day, my little people would need some good bedtime stories. Luckily, my children share my love of books and reading. We read together all the time, share stories every night and it’s [...]
Hey, kids! What are some of your favourite things to do with Mom? We feature a lot of different crafts and activities here at the Bad Moms Club, from decapitating stuffed animals and making questionable festive holiday treats to making creepy interesting knick-knacks out of placentas. But what about word searches, one of the best [...]
“They’re just crazy. Listen, everyone says to us, ‘It gets better. It gets better.’ That has not been my experience. It seems to be worse and worse. My wife and I were talking about splitting up but neither of us want to take the children – that’s our joke.” ~ Jerry O’Connell, on raising 19-month-old [...]
My husband and I both grew up reading Dr. Seuss books, a tradition we’ve carried on with our kids – our bookshelves hold several Dr. Seuss titles. The kids love it when we read them Fox in Socks (though it’s all I can do to get halfway through it) and Green Eggs and Ham; ever [...]
Being a teacher is a demanding job, but it does have its perks – one of them being, at times, grading papers. It’s time consuming, sure, but every once and a while a real gem comes along – an unintentionally funny drawing or spelling error, or a really, really wrong answer – that makes up [...]
Are you up on your slang? Do you speak the language of today’s youth? I was at a concert with my (much) younger brother and some of his friends a while ago when I realized that I probably wasn’t as up-to-date on my slang as I prided myself to be. While we waited for the [...]
A few weeks ago, my husband took our four-year-old son to the grocery store to grab a few necessities (you know…milk, bread… wine). He came home with everything on the list (except the wine… whassup with that, baby?), and then some. As it turned out, while he was paying, our boy pocketed a $10 Bell [...]
A grade four student has taught the folks over at Walt Disney World a lesson in grammar, specifically plurals. While waiting to board the Primeval Whirl at Disney’s Animal Kingdom in Orlando, Hannah Estes, an elementary school student from Texas, spotted a grammatical error on a sign for the ride – one that’s gone unnoticed [...]
So my friend Romi – who runs the awesome mom-confession site, Truu Mom Confessions – has partnered with Smith Mag – you know, of those six-word memoirs? – to solicit six-word momoirs. For Mother’s Day, and also because mothers are awesome, etc. And she asked me if I’d submit one, and I was all, oh, [...]
You’ll just have to go see for yourself. I don’t want to sully it with commentary. It’s just perfect as it is.
Yes, ‘Awesomeness’ is a word and that fact will become glaringly obvious once you set your eyes upon this alphabet of coolness. It has everything from Aztecs in Atomic Armour Attacking Anomalous Amphibians to ZZ Top Zapping Zombies and everything in between. So if you’re going to run ABC’s with your kid, why not do [...]
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