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I don’t care what Billy said, that’s not where babies come from

April 1, 2012

Me: Why don’t you ever do somersaults anymore, son? You: I don’t want to die. Um, er…huh? You can die from doing too many somersaults. What makes you think that? Billy told me. Billy. And you believe him. This is the kid who told you he’s doing secret agent training after school, right? Yup. And that his Dad’s […]

Why give “The Talk” to your pubescent pre-teen when the Internet can do it for you?

March 28, 2012

Welcome to this week’s installment of WTF Wednesday, where customer satisfaction is our number one priority. Well, it’s a tie, really, between customer satisfaction and ice cream. We really like ice cream, and while your satisfaction is right up there on the list, we can’t in all sincerity say it’s THE most […]

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 […]

Get the most out of embarrassing your children: plan ahead

March 14, 2012

Welcome to this edition of WTF Wednesday, where the advice is made with 100% real ingredients in mind. This week’s question comes from author DC McMillen (@mcmillendc), owner of the blog e-rotica. She writes, Dear IBMP, When is it appropriate to purposely embarrass your children in public? Since I’m a blogger I’m more qualified to […]

I’m not getting old, and I’ll prove it by doing something really stupid

March 10, 2012

This one falls under the category Things You Can Expect From Your Parents. Son, as you move along through puberty, your actions are controlled less and less by reason. Your brain is really busy trying to figure out what to do with all those weird new chemicals drowning your neurons. As a result, it needs […]

How to tell your parents you’re going through puberty

March 7, 2012

Welcome to today’s installment of WTF Wednesday, where you can get designer advice at warehouse prices as long as you don’t mind mostly seconds, irregulars, size XXXL, or advice that went out of style in 1983. We’ve been getting a lot of great questions lately. If you’ve asked one recently and it’s not been answered […]