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Why your child should be in diapers until middle school

April 3, 2012

Congratulations! You found an older but still very popular post. If you’re looking for actual advice on putting teens in diapers, you won’t find it here; this is a parody on parenting advice. I did a whole bunch of them and you can find them here. Read on anyway, because if you are looking for […]

Why give “The Talk” to your pubescent pre-teen when the Internet can do it for you?

March 28, 2012

Welcome to this week’s installment of WTF Wednesday, where customer satisfaction is our number one priority. Well, it’s a tie, really, between customer satisfaction and ice cream. We really like ice cream, and while your satisfaction is right up there on the list, we can’t in all sincerity say it’s THE most […]

How to keep your child from interrupting you: 5 easy solutions.

March 21, 2012

Welcome to another installment of WTF Wednesday, where our answers are free of artificial additives like logic and reasoning. As you may know by now, the questions we tackle with such expertise come from our readers, Twitter followers, Facebook friends and Internet search engine truth-seekers. Today’s question comes via Twitter but, alas, not from a […]

Get the most out of embarrassing your children: plan ahead

March 14, 2012

Welcome to this edition of WTF Wednesday, where the advice is made with 100% real ingredients in mind. This week’s question comes from author DC McMillen (@mcmillendc), owner of the blog e-rotica. She writes, Dear IBMP, When is it appropriate to purposely embarrass your children in public? Since I’m a blogger I’m more qualified to […]

How to tell your parents you’re going through puberty

March 7, 2012

Welcome to today’s installment of WTF Wednesday, where you can get designer advice at warehouse prices as long as you don’t mind mostly seconds, irregulars, size XXXL, or advice that went out of style in 1983. We’ve been getting a lot of great questions lately. If you’ve asked one recently and it’s not been answered […]

Kid eating too much or not enough? The simple solutions (sort of).

February 29, 2012

Welcome to another installment of WTF Wednesday, where if you can find the same advice advertised elsewhere for less, we’ll congratulate you and totally mean it. This week, we’ve decided to tackle three questions about food. One about kids who can’t stop eating it, one about kids who don’t eat enough of it, and one […]