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Picking a name for your child’s private parts

April 17, 2012

Welcome to this week’s instalment of WTF Wednesday, where we have a court injunction against practicing what we preach. Today’s question comes from Mikaela Wire via Facebook. She writes: Dear IBMP, Should you tell your small children the real names for their private bits or is it best to stick with things like pee pee […]

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 […]

Another fresh batch of favorite tweets!

March 17, 2012

I hope everyone’s having a good weekend! If you’ve been reading this blog for a while, you know that every once in a while I post a batch of tweets from the IBMP Twitter feed. You can follow it at @IBecameMyDad if you do the Twitter thing. If you don’t, well here’s a bit of what […]

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 […]