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21 ways to scare your parents

May 23, 2012

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 […]

Fun things to do with annoying kids

May 2, 2012

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 […]

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

April 25, 2012

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 […]

Making the Internet a better place one bad answer at a time

April 11, 2012

Welcome to this week’s instalment of WTF Wednesday, playing a soothing blend of today’s best bad advice and yesterday’s favorite crappy suggestions. Here at Advice Central, we get a lot of questions via Twitter, the blog’s comment section, email, and the occasional carrier pigeon. (Thanks for all the pigeons, by the way, they’re […]

Why your child should be in diapers until middle school

April 3, 2012

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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 […]

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 […]