21 ways to scare your parents

May 23, 2012

12

Daughter has been kidnapped

Welcome to this week’s installment of WTF Wednesday, where one man’s bad vice is another man’s ad vice.  Take your time, I’ll wait… This week’s question was asked of Google, who turned around and tossed it to IBMP. Google knows good advice when it sees it. For some reason, though, it still recommended IBMP as… [Read more…]

Posted in: Advice (bad)

How to convince your kids that you’re the smartest person they’ll ever know.

May 16, 2012

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atoms and Eves

Welcome to this week’s installment of WTF Wednesday, where we give way more than we take. In fact, we don’t take our own advice at all. This week’s question was submitted via email by Jimmy Ettele, owner of the blog Founding a Father and its corresponding Facebook page. You’ll also find him on Twitter as @jetts31.… [Read more…]

Posted in: Advice (bad)

How to travel with toddlers and have fewer people hate you.

May 9, 2012

26

Pre-boarding

Welcome to this week’s installment of WTF Wednesday, where we fix problems you didn’t even know you had. This week’s question comes from John Pseudonymous, master of the blog Twinfamy, owner of the FaceBook page Twinfamy  and keeper of the Twitter feed Twinfamy. I’d say he’s got the Twinfamy brand pretty well wrapped up.  He’s… [Read more…]

Posted in: Advice (bad)

Purgatory in a picnic basket

May 7, 2012

9

Hell in a handbasket

      It’s 2012 and you know what that means: yup, it’s the end of the world. Well, that’s what the Mayans said. OK, they didn’t say that, they just ran out of paper and had to stop their calendar at 2012. Other, weirder people said it’s the end of the world, and there… [Read more…]

Fun things to do with annoying kids

May 2, 2012

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Mom's having a yard sale

    Welcome to another installment of WTF Wednesday, where we help you turn your problems into other people’s problems. Either way, it’s job security for me. Today’s question comes forwarded anonymously from one of the search engines. The advice-seeker asks, Dear IBMP, What are fun things to do with annoying kids? Now that’s the… [Read more…]

Posted in: Advice (bad)

A parent’s guide to dealing with your child’s first boyfriend or girlfriend

April 25, 2012

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My intentions for your daughter

    Welcome to this edition of WTF Wednesday, where the advice flows unhindered by voice of reason and sensibility. This week’s question comes from Sarah Minor  via Facebook. Sarah writes, Dear IBMP, How do you deal with a first girlfriend/boyfriend and are your techniques for dealing with them different if you have a boy… [Read more…]

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