Do Not Poke The Mama Bear. Or Her Stroller.

By Shannon on May 10, 2011 53 Comments
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Oh, well this is fun. Laura Miller has started a website. This website is called Too Big For Stroller. It features pictures of children of varying ages being wheeled about in strollers. Many of these children are older than 1 or 2. They are maybe 4 or 5 or even older – ages Laura obviously [...]

From The Civility, You’re Doing It Wrong Files: Parents Protest Special Needs Child

By Her Bad Mother on March 23, 2011 15 Comments
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Stories like this make my heart hurt. A gang of parents lobbying to remove a special needs child from her public school because her needs are interfering with their childrens’ right to… enjoy peanut butter sandwiches? Yes, it’s a child with a peanut allergy – a severe, deadly peanut allergy – which might not sound [...]

Righteous Fox Producers – And Feminists? – Just Can’t Leave Moms Alone

By Her Bad Mother on February 7, 2011 1 Comment
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So, this was the headline on a recent Jezebel story: “Righteous Moms Just Can’t Let Lea Michele Be Sexy.” Which is outrageous, right? Prudish, judgmental moms! Doing their prudish, judgmental judging! Refusing to allow sexy people to be sexy! THE HORROR. Here’s the thing, though: this story – which covers a Fox story about Glee [...]

Bad Moms Wanna Know: Should Our Girls Shake Their Groove Thangs?

By Her Bad Mother on December 1, 2009 13 Comments

The ladies at Jezebel think that this Gap commercial – featuring the dance stylings of a horde of be-sweatered pre-tweens – is maybe a little on the disturbing, junior Pussycat Doll side. We say… well, we don’t know what we say.

Even We Have Standards: Two Things Not To Do With Stuff That Comes Out Of Your Nethers

By Her Bad Mother on November 18, 2009 4 Comments

I'm pretty sure that my body expelled some placenta with the births of both my children, but the only evidence of that is, in each case, the memory of someone yelling 'YOU'RE NOT DONE YET' after I'd shot each baby out of my lower parts. Because, no, I most certainly did not keep those placenta. [...]