Okay, so is this beautiful or disgusting? Great or offensive? Controversial or socially prudent? Also, that kid is only three?? Child lead weaning must create super-giganto kids. Is it just us, or does that kid look like a line backer in the 3rd grade? Lastly, why do mothers think they have to go to “extremes” [...]
Recently, a high school student in Redwood City, California was caught cheating on a homework assignment in one of his sophomore classes. The behavior lead to a disciplinary action his father believes could cost him his future. Along with three other students the unidentified teen was demoted and placed in a lower level English class [...]
The latest round of the current stay-at-home-mom vs. working mother debate has been refueled. The latest mom choice scrutiny can be attributed to Hilary Rosen, a Democratic political analyst at CNN. Last week, Rosen said that Mitt Romney’s wife, Ann Romney, has “never worked a day in her life.” The comment left pundits on the [...]
In 2005, Ayelet Waldman, wife of fellow author Michael Chabon, wrote an essay that went viral and received scathing vitriol when the mother of four declared that she felt her relationship with her husband was more than the relationship with her own children, adding that she felt she could move on after the death of [...]
Never before in modern history has the food police wielded so much power and control over what we eat, how we eat and when we eat. It’s bad enough that childrens nutrition issues have plagued the ‘mommy wars’ over the last few decades, foisting superiority and self righteousness upon those poor peasants who buy peas, [...]
Okay, so not the world’s most original post — since I’ve never written a post like it before, preferring instead to bitch about it to my husband whose typical response is, “Oh, I know!” I’m goin’ for it. So, here it is. The top seven most annoying phrases that silly moms say which I can [...]
If you want to be a good mom, you should probably elect NOT to kill your children. Ever. Kidding aside, it seems far too often I read stories about mothers murdering their children in cold blood and out of the blue, some asshole comes out and inevitably says, “I’m so shocked. She was such a [...]
While most can probably agree, the scraps of beef, less than desirable by most human standards (unless you’re the USDA) is pretty damn gross. It’s hard to defend anything so neon in color and so gooey in consistency. But if you take away the emotional trauma and resentment, the most important question is — is [...]