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• Suave Isn't Hawking Hair Products, They Just Wanna Help a Martyr Mom Out

  First, thank you to Mom2Two for pointing me towards this ad campaign by Suave (I have Tivo, so I see nary a commercial these days.) It goes like this: Rapid shots of lady looking pretty, lady then in wedding dress, pregnant lady, harried lady-mom in assorted outfits, mom-lady looking a little haggard, mom-lady fixed up purty by Suave styling products. The campaign line is: "Motherhood Isn't Always Pretty" and the ad says "89 % of moms admit they let themselves go... 100% can get themselves back." Wow, and 100% of moms in my house got crabby when they saw this. Can you imagine if this campaign was aimed at dads? Dads, did you let yourselves go? Would... Read More... Posted Mar 11 2008, 07:00 PM by Kelly Mills with | with 9 comment(s) Filed under: products, dads, fathers, Motherhood, moms, advertising, beauty, self-esteem, body image, hair, sacrifice, comments, shampoo, mommy myths, self-love, martyrs, suave

• Best in Babble Commenting: Get Naked

  Madeline's post yesterday about some married couples having sex only 10 times a year illicited one of the best comments I have yet to see here at the SD, a comment that made me laugh out loud for its truthiness. I hope the anonymous "Married and Getting Some" comes forward to claim the prize, because he/she deserves one. Says the commenter:   Read More... Posted Feb 13 2008, 10:31 AM by Mike Adamick (Cry It Out!) with | with 6 comment(s) Filed under: comments

• Six Word Memoirs Totally Like Crack

  The Poop has a nice post on Not Quite What I Was Planning, which features six-word memoirs from a number of writers, well-known and obscure. There's a few parenting ones, like Neal Pollock's "Eight thousand orgasms, only one baby" and Morgan Spurloch's "Carnivore and herbivore birth magical omnivore". It's a great trick, trying to come up with an evocative, or funny, or true, or all of the above parenting memoir in six little words.  The comments on the post...   Read More... Posted Feb 12 2008, 07:33 AM by Kelly Mills with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: parenting, books, the poop, comments, neal pollock, six word memoirs, morgan spurloch, brevity, stories

• Don't Say This Stuff To a Pregnant Woman

  People like to go on and on about how pregnancy makes women crazy (knowing wink) but in fact, I think it must have some sort of impact on people in the vicinity of the burgeoning mama, perhaps a hormonal contact high of sorts. My evidence for this theory is the sheer number of dumbass things people say and do to pregnant women. It's like all social filters fall away and people feel real comfortable in commenting on things like weight and sex--not to mention the grabby manhandling of the belly. The Poop tackled some of the ways significant others can "open mouth, insert foot" but we all know strangers and family are equally guilty of the obnoxiousness. Judging by the comments, weight and size remarks... Read More... Posted Jan 15 2008, 09:34 AM by Kelly Mills with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: pregnancy, Sex, the poop, weight, advice, pregnant women, stranger danger, comments, irritating people