What’s the best thing social media’s ever done for you? Served as a chronological detailing of your life? Acted as a digital therapist and soap box? Landed you a friend collection so that you can pretend you’re popular? Well, I bet it hasn’t saved the only dad that sired you. But it sure did for 10-year-old Brianna Vance. In a story that helps partially restore my faith in kids’ abilities.. Read More
Kids will be kids. Who kill other kids.
Okay! Okay, I ‘ve got one… Did you hear the one about the 15 year old girl slutting around online and putting a hit out on her aunt -…hey… wait a minute. That’s not a joke. Somebody check the teleprompter while I issue this depressing news to the public. Once upon a time, there was a young girl who lived with her aunt. She liked to date men online and.. Read More
Something old, something newborn (crazy bride-mom)
Well, this Tennessee bride couldn’t find something “old” So she attached her “new” born to her dress-train and dragged it down the aisle: A new born, living on borrowed time, and soon to be blue …(after it dies – suffocating in chiffon) Are we being serious here? I legit want to know. Because just a few days ago, some news outlet hoaxed everyone by saying a comet was going to.. Read More
Father hoes best
Aw, lawd. Old fashioned meets no fashion in this tale out of Facebook. Before their family outing, Mr. Mackintosh’s daughter was wearing super slutty short shorts. When she didn’t obey mom’s directions to trade in her streetwalker hot pants for more modest duds, dad steps his own thread game up with some serious outside the box thinking. That, or he’d been living a lie behind a Catholic façade (or Mormon?).. Read More
Mom-Convos: Makenzie and acid
This week in mom-convos with bratty kids, there’s the trending Makenzie with her dirty laundry, iphone shortcut hacking, and predilection for LSD. Seriously. There are so many questions. Like: What size house are these genetically linked stranger-roommates living in that they can’t just ambulate to communicate face to face? Where’s her phone charger? Doesn’t the mom know enough English to attempt some sort of diction circumvention? Why does Makenzie have.. Read More
Retro-Rents – Ode to Mom & Dad through pictures.
Dear Mom & Dad Between Mother’s and Father’s day, I wanted to celebrate you both as a couple. Hallmark never made a day for that (likely so that they could capitalize on making money off two different days, spaced barely a season apart). Anyway, my blog is usually quasi-comical or current trendy events, but I wanted to add this ode-poem for you both after our visit the other day. I.. Read More
Your Kid: Attention Deficit? Or Activity Devoid?
Sometimes, kids just need drugs. Yep. There are some disorders for which there are few workable alternatives and, as a last resort, medication is the only viable solution; but if your kid was diagnosed with ADHD, wouldn’t you want to at least try out potential “second options” for him or her before initiating Operation Pill Pop prematurely? Matthew Pontifex, a Michigan State University professor, seems to agree. In fact, he.. Read More