Bad Moms See The Signs Of The Times

By on May 25, 2010 Leave a Comment
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Honestly, I felt guilty laughing at some of the signs posted below, but in all seriousness, how annoying is it when people leave their children unattended in a store or coffee shop? I’m not saying yay for hover-parenting! because that can also be annoying but there is a difference between letting a child go free-range [...]

Nadya Suleman Claims She Isn’t The Octomom

By on April 21, 2010 Leave a Comment
Nadya Suleman Oprah Octomom

Or, at least, she says she’s not the one represented in the press. The Nadya Suleman who appeared on Oprah this week said that Octomom is the ‘complete antithesis‘ of who she is ‘as a person and who I represent‘. But to tell you the truth, after watching these clips of the show, I’m not [...]

Stupid Parent Tricks: Facebook Edition

By on April 12, 2010 1 Comment
Facebook Son charges mother with harassment after she slanders him on Facebook

Facebook sure has been causing a lot of family drama of late. One would expect that many parents keep an eye on their kids’ Facebook pages, even if it is in a limited keep-one-eye-on-FarmVille kind of surveillance.* Heck, I expect that whatever the Facebook 2020 equivalent looks like for my by-then teenage daughter, it will [...]

Children, Facebook, and Farmville: Or, How To Put Yourself Into Debt In No Time.

By on April 12, 2010 5 Comments
FarmVille

Next time you stop by to read the updates on your child’s Facebook profile (if you even have access)* check on their farm. No seriously, check it. If it looks a little too bountiful in FarmVille, go through your credit card bill next. *(Ed. note: if they even have a Facebook profile. Seriously. Shouldn’t they [...]

Kate Gosselin: Coming To A Home Near You (Hide Your Children)

By on April 9, 2010 9 Comments

When I read that Kate Gosselin’s new TLC show focuses on Kate parenting other people’s children the screaming in my head wouldn’t stop. (The only other voice I can hear in my head is that of Hannibal Lector asking me ‘Well, Katie – have the lambs, I mean children, stopped screaming?’ and the answer is [...]

Bacon Baby Formula: This Bad Mom Does Not Approve

By on April 6, 2010 8 Comments
Bacon Baby Formula

AGAIN WITH THE BACON! Last week we featured research that finally supports the fact – the FACT! – that bacon makes babies brainier, and before that we shared the interesting and now proven-by-science claim that more than 40% of Canadians prefer bacon to sex. And now we’re here to tell you that this whole UP [...]

Crime and Punishment: Bad Mom Edition

By on April 5, 2010 7 Comments
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When Ahmad Rollins called his grade five teacher a jackass, his mom did not let it slide. She made sure he apologized and let the whole world know how sorry he felt. Okay, maybe not the whole world but at least his neighborhood, which in the fifth grade pretty much is the whole world, and [...]

Bad Moms Know Their Bud? Tyra Talks Herbal With The Soccer Mom Set

By on February 17, 2010 17 Comments

Words that I never thought I'd hear come out of my mouth: I'm, like, totally bummed that I didn't watch The Tyra Show this past Monday. Because, really: it was an episode called Soccer Mom Stoners. Yeah that's right: Soccer Mom Stoners. First, Tyra, I applaud you for tackling this controversial topic, and second, my [...]

She’s Got Legs… And She Knows How to Refuse Them

By on November 30, 2009 4 Comments

…"them," presumably, being her Mom, Dad, Nann(ies), or whoever else would have attempted to make Suri Cruise wear something to cover up her pins on a recent outing in chilly Boston. Because I'm 99.7% certain that someone at some stage probably tried to make Suri dress properly for the elements. But that means jackshit to [...]