Witheringly funny website alert: If you haven’t visited STFU, Parents, a new blog which celebrates the peculiar inanities of parents’ Facebook updates, proceed with caution. It is a 100 percent sentimentality-free zone. The site works like this: Someone submits a screen-shot of a gushy parent’s Facebook page to STFU, which posts the screen-shot and relishes […]

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While no few parents are perfect, most try their best, especially in areas such as birthday-cake baking where public failure is particularly awkward. Just ask Guinever, a mommy blogger who inadvertently created this object (right) for her son’s fourth birthday. Allegedly a dinosaur, it looks more like a piece of half-digested asparagus. As she explains, […]

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Big news this weekend: Bo, the Obamas’ new Portuguese Water Dog has arrived. Yes, wearing a lei, like the Brady Bunch when they go to Hawaii. Except that Bo—a pedigreed scion of the Amigo Portuguese Water Dog Kennel in Boyd, Texas—is considerably more well-bred than all the Bradys put together. Though the media has dutifully […]

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It’s not easy being a smugly awesome parent. Just ask my favorite Canadian ladies: Deb (the frowzy-haired honey blonde) and Ali (the tight-lipped brunette). Related Posts: • Diverting Video of the Week: Baby Talk • The 50 Most Imperfect Moms • The Ghost of Perfect Babies Past: Sylvia Plath

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You may know the infamous Lenore Skenazy as “the mother who let her nine-year-old ride the New York Subway alone!” The erstwhile New York Sun columnist was widely vilifed after she casually confessed to this in print last April. Finding herself at the center of a media storm, Skenazy defended her actions: “I let him […]

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