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It could be worse; your child could be listening to Barney

July 18, 2012

Welcome to this week’s instalment of WTF Wednesday, where what we say goes. It goes with both red and white wine; it goes with any flavour ice cream (except Neapolitan, nothing goes with that unless you avoid the pink part); it even goes out with the trash. This week’s question comes via Twitter and was […]

Getting into the mind of the serial messy room offender

June 6, 2012

Welcome to this week’s instalment of WTF Wednesday where you spent more time thinking up a question than I spent thinking up an answer. I’ve been doing WTF Wednesdays for 8 months now. Weird. Anyway, during that time I haven’t missed a single Wednesday. That’s quite an accomplishment since I can’t remember my own cell […]

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 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 […]

Five secrets to talking to your date’s parents

December 7, 2011

Welcome to this week’s edition of WTF Wednesday where your questions are my reason to lie through my teeth. Today’s question comes to us anonymously via the IBMP search term referrals. Dear IBMP, What are some considerations when talking to parents? I’m forced to make some assumptions here. I’m going to assume, for example, that […]

What’s got into my parents? A pre–teen’s puberty guide to your changing parents

June 5, 2011

Son, you’ve been reading all those books about what to expect as you go through puberty. You’re learning about all the changes starting to take place in your body, all the weird feelings, emotions, hairy bits, odors, the whole thing. The books are way better than they were when my folks first left a copy […]