Spring Break 2010, Day One: To Hell and Back

I am still recovering from the trauma of my long day’s journey into night that was winter break. Wasn’t that like two weeks ago? Why, oh why are public schools on vacation again?

Whatev.

I vowed early on not to repeat the mistakes of our last go-round. I have planned our cultural playcation with the precision of a general.

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Who Gives A Shit [Motherhood Editon]: Babies Are Better than Prozac or Oppressive?

French author Elizabeth Badinter unleashes some parenting ideas that I think Allison is gonna srsly dig in her book The Conflict, The Woman and the Mother.

She's a smoking, drinking, 66-year-old mother of three, and she pretty much feels like momz these days need to take a serious fucking chill pill:

"You don't enter a religious order when you have children. Today, we're told we're not allowed to smoke, to eat unpasteurised cheese or seafood or even to a drink a glass of wine when we are pregnant. It's time to stop all that."

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Hey Brooklyn [Episode 46: STFU Parents]

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You bitches have this whole blog reading thing down pretty well now, but don't you think its time you expanded your horizons!? Like with a podcast? Like with the Hey Brooklyn PODCAST!? Each week, we'll tell you about the creative BK mofo that our buds over at Hey Brooklyn feature. On deck this week: B from STFUparents.

"Woe is mom," "mom jacking," "Mombies," STFUparents will get you reaaaaal familiar with all of these terms REAL FAST. ICYBLUFR (in case you've been living under a fucking rock) and don't know what STFUparents is, it's this ah-MAZING blogalicious piece of internet real estate that chronicles all of the crazy shit that parents talk about, bitch about, and document on Facebook and other social media sites. It's hilarious...and so is "B."

Listen up here! (and subscribe in itunes)

BREAKING: BREEDER v. BREEDER??? [Censorship on Park Slope Parents]

I didn’t start last week with “incite breeder culture war” on the top of my to-do list. I’m a peace-loving proponent of coexistence, goddammit. I am a "live and let live" kind of gal (well, in theory...most of the time). But when I run into something that is simply so INDEFUCKINGFENSIBLE, I get well and truly up in arms, which I now officially am.

So, you BREEDERS want a war???
 
Well, okay then.

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Cool or Not Cool: Parenting Your Children L-O-U-D-L-Y

So apparently the NYT's City Blog printed a "Complaint Box" post last week in which the author went AWF on loud-mouthed, smug parents:

"We see them everywhere. And if we’re being honest, we have all had the same frightening and ignoble urge to smash their heads in with a brick. I am speaking about those smug and uber-informative moms and dads who do their parenting in public places — aggressively and at the top of their highly educated lungs."

DAYM, Susan Goldberg...smash their heads in with a brick?! And you ppl think I have anger issues?

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