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10 Awesome Lessons I Learned From My Mom

Wendy AtterberryMay 4, 2010 //

My mom’s a middle school English teacher and over the past, oh, 25 years or so, she has taught thousands of kids. Her reputation precedes her too. She’s known for being tough and strict — maybe even a little demanding — but serious students know she’s the best teacher for the job. She loves what she does, she’s passionate about the subject, and she gets results. Sometimes, years after leaving her classroom, students will send my mom a “thank you” and tell her they were far more prepared for high school and college than their classmates who didn’t have my mom as a teacher. And I know what they mean. My mom didn’t just help prepare me for school; she prepared me for life — and in a big way. After the jump, the ten best things my mom, the teacher, taught me. Keep reading »

Disturbing Trend: Mother/Daughter Plastic Surgery

Kate Torgovnick/Kate-Book.comApril 29, 2010 //

As we saw on “The Hills” this week, there is no way in hell that Heidi Montag‘s mom would’ve joined her on the operating table. But apparently, lots of mother/daughter pairs are getting plastic surgery together. Prime example, Christie Brinkley and daughter Alexa Ray Joel, the new Prell girl. Alexa checked in to have a nose job earlier this month and Christie checked in for (people think) a facelift the next day. A spokesperson for the family said, “Alexa had breathing difficulties due to a deviated septum and decided to correct the appearance of her nose at the same time. As far as Christie is concerned, she was at Lenox Hill to support her daughter, and throughout her career people have speculated that she’s done this or that, which she always chooses to take as a compliment.” Riiiiight. And her face just happens to look much younger now. [NY Post]

But these two aren’t nearly the only ones doing it. Keep reading »

Why Are Celebs In Such A Rush To Show Off Their Post-Baby Bodies?

Kate Torgovnick/Kate-Book.comFebruary 11, 2010 //

This week, Kendra Wilkinson appeared on the cover of OK! Magazine in a tiny blue bikini, holding sweet baby Hank alongside a coverline designed specifically to taunt mothers everywhere: “My Body After Baby. How I Lost 25 Lbs In 8 Weeks.” Meanwhile, Gisele Bundchen, who gave birth to an adorable little boy in early December, has already done her first post-baby photo shoot and will be posting the images on her website any day now. According to New York magazine, she looks exactly the way she did before pregnancy. Which reminds us of Heidi Klum, who appeared in the Victoria’s Secret fashion show just weeks after giving birth. What is this ladies—a race? Keep reading »

Moms Told To Stop Looking Like Slobs At School Drop-Offs

Jessica WakemanFebruary 5, 2010 //

Listen up, mothers! Change out of those pajama bottoms and put some damn lipstick on, because you look like a slob!

That’s the pissy message one school in England is sending to mothers who pick up and drop off their kids in the clothes they’ve slept in. School head Joe McGuinness said he was compelled to write a letter home to parents after allegedly witnessing 50 mothers at drop-off wearing PJ bottoms and slippers. His note complained about the “slovenly and rude” attire, called the PJ-clad parents “disrespectful to the school,” and claimed the too-casual dress set a “bad example” for kids. Keep reading »

Will You Be Watching “Hotter Than My Daughter”?

Kate Torgovnick/Kate-Book.comFebruary 4, 2010 //

The only thing I can say about this show, “Hotter Than My Daughter,” is that it’s wiggity, wiggity, wiggity wack. The concept is pretty simple: The show follows a mother/daughter pair where the mother likes to wear as little clothing as possible while the daughter is a bit more conservative. Take Sharon and her daughter Kobie in the preview above. Sharon may have three children and is about to be a grandma (Kobie is pregnant), but that doesn’t stop her from showing off the surgically-enhanced goodies. Keep reading »

My Mom Is Better Than Facebook

Erica MaxwellJanuary 15, 2010 //

I used to get the back-home gossip from my mother. In the olden days, when “Men in Black II” came out, she was like a Greek oracle or a Shakespearean seer. With her job in the school district, she always knew what was happening with everyone. Charlie’s a plumber and about to be engaged to Samantha the artist. Bobby, who had that baby so young, is working for the fire department. Mom always knew how to deliver the news; she’s your oldest confidante. She knows that when you’re too old for that kind of thing, you’re still gonna cry when the last strawberry in the floundering patch dies, and about that boy who was soooo cute when you were 15 and gangly. When the news was bad, I was prepared before she spoke because of her deep inhale and too-long pause. After telling me the girl who wore sneakers to the senior prom was killed by a drunk driver, we stayed on the phone together.

Then came the “just the facts, ma’am” Facebook. Keep reading »

Girl Talk: My Mother, The Cougar

Amelia McDonell-ParryNovember 23, 2009 //

As a free-spirited 26-year-old, I support a wide range of lifestyles. But I’m just not into sharing the same dating pool with my mom—a fit, fun-loving, blonde bombshell of a 50-year-old. After all, the term “cougar” is only funny if your mother isn’t one.

A glamour girl in suburban Baltimore, my mom was bound for the ranks of “heartbreakers of a certain age” long before her marriage to my father—a great dad but an admittedly crappy husband—crumbled a few years ago. The object of many younger boys’ affections, she had the lifeguards at our pool drooling and my lacrosse player friends deeming her a “M.I.L.F.” By the time I got to college, I wasn’t fazed by the frat boys who swarmed around her during parents’ weekend. They would take turns spinning me and Mom around on the beer-soaked dance floor, until I told her it was time to go home. Keep reading »

Mom’s Narcissism Could Be Ruining Your Love Life

YourTango.comAugust 23, 2009 //

I was raised in a household that revolved around my mother. She was a narcissist, someone who, according to Wendy Behary, director of the Cognitive Therapy Center of New Jersey and author of Disarming the Narcissist: Surviving and Thriving with the Self-Absorbed is “often self-absorbed and preoccupied with a need to achieve the perfect image (recognition, status, or being envied) and have little or no capacity for listening, caring, or understanding the needs of others.” My mom hasn’t been formally diagnosed—few narcissists seek treatment or even recognize that they have a problem—but growing up, the signs were all around me. Read more …

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    • Are Women Programed To Fight With Their Mothers-In-Law?

    Wendy AtterberryAugust 5, 2009 //

    I’ve been married all of 11 days now and, as if on cue, the day my husband (still very much getting used to saying that!) and I tied the knot, he stopped putting the toilet seat down. I ignored it at first, but by our first weekend together as a married couple, I couldn’t stand it any longer and said something to him about it. I made a jokey comment about his sudden change in behavior — more embarrassed than pissed at being such a cliché so early in our marriage. After over three years together, surely he must realize if there’s one thing I wanted to avoid in marriage it was being a cliché, but I suppose the lesson here is that that’s a lost cause for any married couple, even those of us who think we’re so “modern.” One cliché I will be able to avoid, though, is the terrible mother-in-law/daughter-in-law relationship so many women have. My own mother-in-law passed away long before I got a chance to meet her, and while I’d love to think we would have had a wonderful relationship — if her sons are any indication, she was a terrific woman and I hope she would have approved of me — the odds, apparently, aren’t in our favor.
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    A Mother Is Allergic To Her Baby

    Daniela GuernicaJuly 29, 2009 //

    Right after giving birth to her son, James, new mama Joanne Mackie started finding blisters on her arms and legs. A few days later, she winced whenever anything touched the painful rash and the tiny blisters that had blossomed into painful welts. Joanne was in such agony she could no longer hold her baby and daddy took over. The new mother was stumped, but a trip to the doctor was even more baffling. Joanne was allergic to her baby. The 28-year-old mother suffers from a rare but painful and dangerous skin disease, Pemphigoid Gestationis. Keep reading »

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