Because someone, somewhere, thinks that your parenting sucks. Might as well celebrate it.
Somebody asked me once why exactly it would be a good reason to have children. It’s a fair question. Having a kid is not exactly a trip to the spa. Kids are expensive and inconvenient and defiant and heartwrenching. And motherhood isn’t exactly the most respected of professions. (Oh sure, people SAY they think motherhood [...]
So on top of last week’s revelation that you’re a worse parent than you think, comes The Onion’s assertation that no matter how you parent, you suck. In study published last week, someone very smart determined that every style of parenting produces disturbed, miserable adults. And yes, it’s from the Onion so of course it’s [...]
So thanks to Laid Off Dad, along came this little article in to my twitter feed that listed a mere dozen ways that we’re effortlessly, gleefully screwing up our kids for life. Life, I tell you! Yes, they’ve gathered child psychologists! Psychiatrists! and OTHER EXPERTS (who’d they call? your mother-in-law?) to come up with this [...]
10 days. 10 days I am in England. Without my child. It’s a really long story. We meant to go for a month and take her. I envisioned walking through Hyde Park with her in the stroller; taking her in to Mamas and Papas on Regent street and buying adorable little outfits; taking her on [...]
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? [...]
Three two year olds. Three days. One roof. Are you reaching for the wine yet? (Which, by the way, my toddler demanded at dinner the other night. Looked right at the waitress and said, “I need more wine!” Epic parenting fail.) We retreated to a cottage for the weekend with friends who have two year [...]
I don’t know what I’m doing most of the time. As a parent, I mean. (Oh, who am I kidding. I don’t know what I’m doing at pretty much anything.) I muddle through most days, and up to now, as long as everyone’s alive by bedtime I often consider the day a raging success. But [...]
Yes, sometimes, I use the fact that my kid loves to play by herself to my advantage. I stuff her in front of her work table, her toy farm, her coloring books, her beach toys in the back yard, her whatever, and let her go to town while I just get shit done. I write, [...]
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 have never been a cheerleader, and I don’t mean the Glee kind. I mean’ the rally the troops just because’ kind. I am not the mom who does the fake smiley face every time her kid utters a word or draws something, or finishes their plate of food. I do not join Twitter parties, [...]
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 [...]
Hey, Mother’s Day is this weekend! And while all the Good Moms will smile and say it’s totally OK if you forgot Mother’s Day, or if you’ve booked a golf trip all day, or if her Mother’s Day is being spent at your Mother’s house where she will be subjected to passive-aggressive jabs and jell-o [...]
No I’m not talking about that tiger baby because I’m sure all it would say was ‘mew’ and my heart would melt. The tiger baby I’m talking about is the offspring of the Tiger Mom, aka Amy Chua who wrote the article that started the whole Tiger Mom dilemma. The real baby of that Tiger Mom isn’t a [...]
Remember that stage of life where you seem to be going to five weddings each summer? Wearing horrible bridesmaid dresses at two of them (yeah, right, sure I’ll wear it again)? For many of us, those days are long passed and have since been replaced with equivalent numbers of divorces, separations, couples in therapy, and [...]
My oldest son is in what the state of Florida affectionately calls “the gifted program.” I tell you this not to brag, but to explain why I received an email a few weeks ago from the school about what it’s like to parent “gifted children.” Want an inside look into the exotic world of parenting [...]
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