By Jess Hernandez They call them 30-minute meals, but let’s be real. Cooking with small kids is like trying to compete in Iron Chef while supervising a troop of drunk chimpanzees. On good days, it takes four times longer than I anticipated to make the recipe. On bad days, things catch fire, people cry, and […]
Parenting
A Letter to the Tooth Fairy
Dear Tooth Fairy, This letter is two years and eight teeth overdue. Let’s be honest. I don’t like you very much. You sneak into my child’s room in the middle of the night, climb into her bed and take her teeth. What is wrong with you? I mean, at least Santa leaves gifts wrapped in […]
Hey, Moms: Own The Beach With These 8 Essential Swimsuit Shopping Tips
By Erin De Boer of Accidental Super Mom Ok, ladies. Summer is coming in hot, and that means finding the perfect bathing suit. I like to consider myself a swimsuit shopping connoisseur, because I’ve spent many days by the pool pregnant and/or in straight up mom mode. Here are my 8 swimsuit shopping tips for […]
Guy Wants Wife to Pay for Formula Herself, Asks If *He’s* the A-Hole
In “thank the Lord this isn’t your husband” news, a guy posted to the Reddit sub-thread titled “Am I the Asshole” asking if he’s in the wrong for making his wife, who wants to be done with breastfeeding, pay for formula out of her own spending money, and the internet heaved a collective “FUCK YES.” The post, which […]
Study Confirms What Parents Already Know: Fussy Babies Are Harder
In what may be the most obvious study ever, researchers at the University of Michigan determined that moms of fussy babies are almost twice as likely to experience moderate to severe symptoms of depression. I could have told them that for free. I was the mother of a fussy baby. I was 4 weeks postpartum […]
MI Couple Allegedly Catches Baby-Scratching Ghost on Nanny Cam
I hope you’re cool with ghost stories, because this one is a doozy! A couple in Highland, Michigan is claiming they believe their home to be haunted after catching mysterious footage of what they believe to be a malevolent ghost on nanny cam. Commence sleeping with the lights on, fam! Joshua Higgins, 30, and Heather […]
Are You Paying Your Babysitter Enough? Here Are the Going Rates
As a parent, you have those moments when you just HAVE to get out of the house for an adults-only event. A brief respite from booger-wiping and crumb-sweeping. A dinner alone, just the two of you, where nobody has to get up to use the potty right as the food comes and nobody has to […]
Be a Green Slob: Learn How to Save the Environment with Tips from My 9-Year-Old
By Meisha Rosenberg of meisha-rosenberg.squarespace.com Because I care that much about the environment, I’m one of those people who will keep an empty juice bottle in her purse for hundreds of miles on the highway home from vacation, just so I can throw it in the recycling bin. I buy organic. Yup, I’m annoying: you […]