OK, son, let’s talk about how much the world has progressed since I was your age. You hear a lot of parents whining about how they used to walk 10 miles in the snow to school, or how our televisions used to take up a third of the living room even though the screens were […]
July 4, 2012
Welcome to this week’s instalment of WTF Wednesday, where answers are half-baked and fully microwavable. Sometimes here at advice central we get questions that make us a bit uncomfortable. I know they can be hard questions to ask, too. But this is the Internet. It’s a safe place—a place where nobody laughs at or judges […]
July 1, 2012
Hello there, dear readers! So I did this cartoon while on a plane a long time ago. When I got home, I decided I really didn’t like the punchline in the speech bubble and I set it aside. Recently, it occurred to me that it might be fun to do some random cartoons and let […]
June 27, 2012
Welcome to this week’s installment of WTF Wednesday, where we won’t rest until we get tired. Today’s question comes via the magic of Twitter and is from Cindy Dwyer (@CindyDwyerWords), owner of the blog A Reason to Write. Cindy writes: Dear IBMP, If my son never puts his socks in the hamper, am I responsible […]
June 20, 2012
Welcome to this week’s instalment of WTF Wednesday, where our sense is about as common as it gets. This week’s question was a bit of a team project. It flowed from a conversation in the comments section of a recent post on what families can learn from the 2012 Summer Olympics. Gina Valley asked if […]
July 10, 2012
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