Clueless

Get these kids out of my house and back to school

A sticky situation

So inquisitive

Personally, it's quite difficult to distinguish the difference between an ugly newborn baby and a cute one. They all sort of just look like small, malformed creatures to me. For others, apparently, it's quite easy to distinguish that difference. Now, I've only ever been in the position once where I was in the same room as a nearly newborn baby. It was my cousin's. I didn't get particularly close to it, but I could tell from a distance that it wasn't exactly cute. That being said, five years lat…

You know what they say about insane parents , can't live with them, can't live without them despite your best effort to rid them from your life. There's no perfect parent-and-child relationship. Even the best families still have hiccups now and then. There are a lot of lucky people out there with some of the best, most sane parents imaginable. And that's incredible! But we're not here to talk about you guys, sorry. Some of us have been cursed with the most deranged parents imaginable. I can per…

Pull up a seat

Unfathomable foolishness

Wah

So insensitive

I've watched enough gender reveal party videos to know that some parents are super particular about the sex of their baby. This desire for a boy or a girl doesn't always come from a nefarious place. Sometimes you build up an idea in your head about who your baby is going to be, and when the biological forces at be don't conform to that expectation, you're a little upset. There's truly nothing wrong with that. However, if you act angry or indignant towards your partner because you didn't get the…

It's about to be that time of the year. That blessed time when kids go back to school and moms and dads everywhere can finally have a moment of peace. I'm not saying this to imply that all parents hate summer vacation and the time with their children that comes with it. However, by August, summer vacation can get a bit tedious for the parents and the kids. You've exhausted every fun summer activity idea that you foolishly thought would fill the time at the beginning of the summer. Your kids hav…

If you keep making that face, it'll get stuck that way

So much guilt-tripping

One of the scariest things about Mommy Facebook Groups is how much personal information people are willing to share on them. I'm convinced that so many of these moms never learned that creepy people can use what you post online stalkingly. Either that, or they don't think it will happen to them. It's one thing to share something vaguely identifying anonymously, but it's a whole different story when you're sharing details about your life and your child's life with a group of functional strangers…

Now, I was never a committed emo kid back in the good old days. I was a little bit too young to fully adopt the lifestyle, plus my mom would have never let it fly. I was more in the music appreciator sphere. I was very much into all the quintessential bands, My Chemical Romance specifically. While that might sound a little trite, it is, I was and still continue to be a super fan. So what did it mean to be emo back in the mid-aughts? Did you have to adopt the aesthetic? Did you have to attend Wa…