Bad Moms Like To Paint With Light

By on January 20, 2011 8 Comments
Emily

One of the best things about writing photography topics for The Bad Moms Club (aside from the rock star cast of writers I am honoured to be a part of) is that it forces me to make time to try new things, photography-wise. There is so much that I want to do and to learn [...]

Is This Art, Or Parental Stupidity?

By on September 20, 2010 9 Comments
the-twins

Catherine sent me the link to an article about an Ottawa photographer who portrays children in troubling tableaux taken from news headlines. I thought that it might be an article that I could poke fun at and maybe make some jokes about. This is no joke. Go take a look at the thirteen images this [...]

Bad Moms Want: First Day Of School

By on September 3, 2010 1 Comment

Like most parents, this dad wanted to capture the first day of kindergarten for his daughter. Most would whip out a camera and capture one for the family album but not this dad. Artist Don Clark created this print for his girl’s first day of school and one has to wonder, is the monster him [...]

Fight With Me, Sesame! Sesame Street Gang Gone Wild

By on May 26, 2010 Leave a Comment
kermit-the-frog-sesame-street

Sesame Street has changed since it first hit the airwaves back in 1969. It had to evolve with the changing times and audience  — it’s the only way a show like Sesame Street, however amazing, could survive this long. (If you ask me, though, the Muppets will always be universally cool and you can’t tell [...]

Inappropriate Children’s Books: Golden Books Edition

By on May 19, 2010 Leave a Comment
mister-dog-golden-book

Who remembers Golden Books as a child? The slender story books bound in that ever-familiar gold-print binding that only became better with age. I had stacks of them, inherited from my older siblings, plus my childhood doctor and dentist offices had many heavily abused editions usually found among the piles of Highlights and Owl magazines.

Bad Moms, Little Dictators: We Do Shape History

By on March 19, 2010 Leave a Comment
little_hitler_sm

Now I’m not blaming the moms for creating some of the most evil people in history… but all the little dictators had to start somewhere. Right? And calling a baby a little dictator isn’t that much a stretch of truth, is it? My eight pound dictator eventually grew out of her tyrannical ways. Okay, she’s [...]