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What to do when your kids decide annoying you is more fun than playing with their toys.

February 22, 2012

Welcome to today’s installment of WTF Wednesday, where if you find the same advice at a lower price anywhere else, we’ll give you triple your money back (minus a $20 re-stocking fee, $10 service charge, $13.50 shipping, $50 handling fee, and some beer money). Today’s question comes via Twitter from Anntrea (@doodlesandJots). She also runs […]

Stuffing your toybox with Happy Meal toys

February 15, 2012

Welcome to another installment of WTF Wednesday, where the advice is free but following it might cost you more than just your reputation. Today’s question was submitted by John Brown (a.k.a. @jbrown3079) of Twitterville Indiana. He’s also the owner of Bellbottom Blog. We don’t yet know if the other 3,078 JBrowns on Twitter endorse his […]

One of my faves from the archives–The first kiss that wasn’t

February 14, 2012

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]