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It’s IBMP WTF Wednesday! Ask the expert. I should know; I have a blog.

September 28, 2011

Welcome to the first Want The Facts Wednesday, or as we like to say, WTF Wednesday: bad advice delivered expertly. Today’s question comes from Party in Peoria, who writes: Dear IBMP What does it mean when my 4 year old son walks around saying that there is a party on his penis? Should I call […]

Running away? Don’t forget your coat

September 11, 2011

I’m sorry I didn’t seem too concerned or upset yesterday. I know it was a big deal to you and you expected me to beg you to change your mind. Read this in 10 years and it’ll all make sense: Son, what are you doing? I’m leaving. You don’t love me so I’m going to […]

My son guest blogs: I’m gonna become my dad? That’s the worst thing ever!

August 14, 2011

If you’ve been hanging around this blog for a while you know that I’ve Become My Parents is really a big long note to my son. He’s still a bit too young to read some of it, but he knows what it’s about. I recently asked him what he thought about the idea of growing […]

Guilt-tripping your way through parenting: learn from the masters

July 30, 2011

Son, you come from a long, proud line of guilt mongers. Us Jews have been purveyors of fine guilt for thousands of years. It’s one of our primary parenting techniques, and it’s a skill that certainly comes with your genes. This is basically how it works: rather than go through the trouble of teaching our […]

Why I blog anonymously

June 20, 2011

Identity withheld to protect the innocent…and the guilty. Trust me, I’m a blogger, I want to be famous. I want to be “discovered” and have my blog turned into a global best-seller and quit my day job. I want my book to become a sitcom, then a movie, blah, blah, blah. But not at the […]