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Why your child should be in diapers until middle school
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 […]
Posted in: Advice (bad)
I don’t care what Billy said, that’s not where babies come from
April 1, 2012
Me: Why don’t you ever do somersaults anymore, son? You: I don’t want to die. Um, er…huh? You can die from doing too many somersaults. What makes you think that? Billy told me. Billy. And you believe him. This is the kid who told you he’s doing secret agent training after school, right? Yup. And that his Dad’s […]
Posted in: Things you should know
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 […]
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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 […]
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Another fresh batch of favorite tweets!
March 17, 2012
I hope everyone’s having a good weekend! If you’ve been reading this blog for a while, you know that every once in a while I post a batch of tweets from the IBMP Twitter feed. You can follow it at @IBecameMyDad if you do the Twitter thing. If you don’t, well here’s a bit of what […]
Posted in: Tweets
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 […]
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April 3, 2012
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