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• Setting the Bar Low: No Armed Robbery

  I've been having a difficult parenting time lately – between teething in the baby and an advanced case of Three in the older child, there's been yelling and  impatience and flat out tantrums on both ends. But at least I'm not this woman. Police say that a Milwaukee woman celebrated her 37th birthday by knocking over a couple gas stations with her 17-year-old son. According to police, he robbed, she drove. Even better, her 14-and10-year old sons and 13-month-old daughter were along for the ride. Allegedly. According to the police report, the woman's son robbed a gas station in Milwaukee and then less than an hour later, police in suburban Greenfield southwest of Milwaukee received a 911 call just before 8 pm last Tuesday from a Speedway gas station Read More... Posted Aug 25 2008, 02:19 PM by AmyinMotown with | with no comments Filed under: parents behaving badly, stupid people, getaway car, mother-son bonding, armed robbery, birthdays gone wrong

• Who Knew? Binky-Taping a Bad Idea

  I must admit I briefly and un-seriously considered this, given that my son is an Olympic-level binky spitter: Two young parents in Michigan are possibly facing child abuse or neglect charges after a state trooper pulled them over and found their 4-week old baby (gender not given) with a pacifier taped to its face. Unsurprisingly, the baby was also not secured in a car seat – it was just lying on the rear seat of the vehicle. And if they were stopped on the interstate, it's likely they were speeding. The parents, who are 18 and 19 years old, were released pending charges. The grandparents currently have custody of the child. And they were lucky the trooper pulled them over when they did... Read More... Posted Aug 19 2008, 11:30 AM by AmyinMotown with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: bad parenting, child endangerment, Michigan, stupid people, pacifier, teen parenting, brainiacs, bbinky

• Top 12 Rudest Questions to Ask Expectant Parents

  Man, people are rude! Or stupid! Or insensitive! Or all three! This Washington Post list of the Top 10 Rudest Questions is stunning. Yet it also has a few holes in it, since only one of these rude questions involves pregnancy or parenting. I don't know about you, but some of the rudest questions my husband and I have encountered were during my pregnancies. With the help of others at Strollerderby, I've compiled a list of doozies. But surely you've heard worse. Add them in the comments!   Read More... Posted Jun 18 2008, 06:29 PM by Madeline Holler with | with 35 comment(s) Filed under: Washington Post, stupid people, stupid questions, top 12 rudest questions to ask expectant parents, top 10 rudest questions

• Childbirth Smackdown: Unnatural Is Better for All

  Oh precious, sweet childbirth ... The screaming. The constant whining. The incessant, "I'm going to kill you" and "why did you do this to me?" Hell-loh moms -- you're not the only people going through this magical, mysterious moment of fluid excretion. So stop being so selfish, think of the dads for a moment and take. some. dope. Now as much as Bill might hate to admit it, we are, in fact, a nation that's not doped up enough -- especially when it comes to childbirth. He says nearly 90 percent of women have an epidural during childbirth, and I say that's 10 percent too few. Let's try to reach the 100 percent mark, shall we. "But I want it to be natural," you say. Read More... Posted Feb 11 2008, 08:20 AM by Mike Adamick (Cry It Out!) with | with 9 comment(s) Filed under: bad bad bad, bad dad, stupid people

• Hide-And-Seek Turns Deadly

  I may lean a little more toward gun-control laws and a little away from the NRA, but mostly I'm into common sense when it comes to using guns. Shouldn't it go without saying that you don't just fire your automatic weapon into furniture ever, ever, ever? Read More... Posted Jan 03 2008, 01:32 PM by Madeline Holler with | with no comments Filed under: guns, stupid parents, gun safety, hide-n-seek, stupid people, safe neighborhoods