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One of my faves from the archives–The first kiss that wasn’t
Well, it’s Valentine’s Day so I thought I’d pull out one of my favorites from back in the early days of IBMP. It was originally titled “No really, just kiss her.” It’s been revised and now is a chapter in the I’ve Become My Parents book. The book’s almost ready to query, but in the […]
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Fresh batch of favorite IBMP funny tweets!
February 11, 2012
It’s time once again to give a second life to some of my favorite tweets over the last few weeks. Remember, if you’re still trying to make sense of all this twitterishness, you can pop over here for a quick primer on how to read a tweet. Hope you like today’s batch! On random thoughts […]
Posted in: Tweets
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 […]
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Girl problems: the ten year-old version
February 6, 2012
Hey Dad, I think Danielle likes me! What makes you think so? Elana asked her. Wow. So now what? Tomorrow Elana is going to tell her I like her. And what are you going to do? I’m going to stand behind a tree and she’s going to bring Danielle near the tree. If she likes […]
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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 […]
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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. […]
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