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What to do when your kids decide annoying you is more fun than playing with their toys.

February 22, 2012

Welcome to today’s installment of WTF Wednesday, where if you find the same advice at a lower price anywhere else, we’ll give you triple your money back (minus a $20 re-stocking fee, $10 service charge, $13.50 shipping, $50 handling fee, and some beer money). Today’s question comes via Twitter from Anntrea (@doodlesandJots). She also runs […]

Stuffing your toybox with Happy Meal toys

February 15, 2012

Welcome to another installment of WTF Wednesday, where the advice is free but following it might cost you more than just your reputation. Today’s question was submitted by John Brown (a.k.a. @jbrown3079) of Twitterville Indiana. He’s also the owner of Bellbottom Blog. We don’t yet know if the other 3,078 JBrowns on Twitter endorse his […]

Yes that’s right: your parents are lazy

February 8, 2012

Welcome to another instalment of WTF Wednesday, where we put the F in WTF. That’s right, we’re responsible for the word “For” in “What’s That For?” (What were you thinking WTF stood for, anyway?) Here at Advice Central, we get a lot of questions via Twitter, the blog’s comment section, email, entered into search engines […]

We’ll love you unconditionally if you just give us these four things

January 31, 2012

Welcome to this week’s installment of WTF Wednesday, where our advice is made with 100% real ingredients in mind. Today’s question comes to us via the magic of Google’s Let’s Track Every Move People Make On The Internet program. Earlier this week a thoughtful child found I’ve Become My Parents by typing this question into […]

How to scare your neighbors and slow puberty at the same time

January 25, 2012

Welcome to WTF Wednesday, where advice is completely free for the first six months if you commit to a ten-year contract and agree to pay whatever I decide you should during that time. This week we were cleaning out our closet and found a few answers under a pile of dust bunnies and long-lost socks. […]

A no-fail way to cope when your child won’t shut up at the movies

January 17, 2012

Welcome to this week’s installment of WTF Wednesday, where the quality of our answers is matched only by the inverse of the quality of your questions. This week’s question comes from Julia Warrender, owner of Life With a Parasite and tweeting as @jwarrender, who writes: Dear IBMP, When you learn your child is one of […]