Humor: Parenting

by Cameron Coward

Why it's Your Fault Your Child Is Fat Lately I've been hearing a lot of concerned parents complaining about the weight of their precious children, and I've decided it is time for me to address the issue. In this articl...read more

by Eugene Gustafson

My Daughter is an alien... I've really put a lot of thought into thisI really have. And there is no other way of putting it so here goes. My eleven-year-old daughter is an alien. I'm convinced that sometime shortly a...read more

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by Trevor Penick

Saint Loudmouth My beautiful wife suffers from allergies. She has an especially vicious allergic reaction to any hour ending in a.m.' which tends to manifest itself at its most crippling on Sundays. Our plan is alwa...read more

by Karla Momberger

Picture it: I'm a high power, professional woman, a trial lawyer, who has always been perfect and committed to her career first. I have one single one night stand, only one! And just like that, I get pregnant. So wha...read more

by Deborah Steinmetz

~ Glossary of Terms for Parents ~ INFANT - a small toothless puffy eyed, homosapien that resembles a little old man. TODDLER - A Mobile semi-toothless angelic looking, wide eyed homosapien with a secret agenda, whi...read more

by Andrew Dolson

I didn't take Pluto's recent demotion from planetary status personally. I do wonder, though, why I ever bothered to learn anything when I was young. It all started with the brontosaurus. Remember him? Gigantic bron...read more

by Sandra Seigle

Taking the Child at Heart a Little Too Far... Is it normal to know every word to every song Disney has ever put in their movies? It snuck up on me. I worked in daycare for 3 years, plus I have 2 small children (5 an...read more

by Kimberly Sexton

My earliest memory is at the age of three. Back then, only Mom, Dad, my older sister Tena, and I made up the family. We lived in the boondocks. Whether we did or not is not important, but that's what Mom always said, i...read more

by William R. Shepherd

So you're going to be a father? It has come to my attention that a few of my younger cousins (three to be exact) are soon to be blessed with babies. One of them already has a child and the other two will be brand new p...read more

by Elizabeth Virdon

Here comes the bride....(gulp) She's always had quite an imagination, this daughter of ours, and we've done everything we could to encourage it to blossom. When she was 3, her favorite game to play was school bus, and ...read more

by Carol Gioia

Parenting experts will tell you there is no such thing as the perfect parent. They advise us to do our best and realize we all make mistakes. I know there is at least one perfect parent out there in the world. How ...read more

by Amie Lech

Before I tell you about my daughter I just want to say for the record that her hair is pitch black. There is not a speck of blond on her all-natural head. But this is all about her latest "blond moment." You see, Jill is...read more

by Ctyna

It all started 15 years ago with a stubborn child that was 2 weeks late and came out weighing 9 pounds 1 ounce. It ended up with me being blind and wondering why do kids not come with some kind of instruction booklet that ...read more

by Sonia Ordoyne

GOD BLESS LITTLE BOYS If I could have hand-selected a child out of the dozens lining those nursery walls, I'm sure I would have overlooked the chubby cherub with the slightly Cro-Magnon aura that was my very own son. E...read more

by Suzanne Griffin

You know that nightmare where you are naked in public? Well...as I sat nursing Wyatt, only 3 months old then, that rare but all too memorable gurgle hit my stomach. That bubbling from something being not quite right in my...read more

by Jennifer Kubinski

It's just a quick stop. I decide to carry the little one in on my hip; the bigger one in tow. Not a problem. After all, I only need two bags of potting soil, and the guys will help me get it in the van out back. So, I go i...read more

by Tonia Sharp

Three and a half years ago, I met my husband. He has three children from his previous marriage. At that time, his children were; girl eight years old, boy five years old, and boy one and half years old. Being older...read more

by Debbie Kerr

The Playgroup Survival Guide When the kids were little, we were part of a play group in an upscale San Francisco Bay area. The group began with a core of seven women, five of which remained after the first couple of mo...read more

by Judy Kowalsky

It had been a crazy day. I suppose I was feeling overwhelmed and a bit sorry for myself one evening after dealing with not only a daily routine of laundry, dishes, carpooling, grocery shopping and making dinner but breakin...read more

by T.B.Whitt

Help, I've Gone Nostalgic It hit me one day, when I was flicking through the hundred's of television channels and not finding anything to watch. I let out a sigh of frustration, and thought to myself whatever happened t...read more