Thursday, August 23, 2012

Nothing like a beer ... for your toddler

Arizona mom puts beer in her kid's sippy cup, and admits it

So you're at the local pizza place with games and stuff where kids run amuck and parents watch from the sidelines, but when one of the kids shows an interest in your pitcher of beer rather than the ball pit, you decide to make him a bigger part of the adult action by slipping the cute little bugger a little in his sippy cup and waiting for him to become the life of the party. Right? Right??

No. Not right. Not right, but it did happen in Arizona's capitol city, and the 36-year-old Mean Mom admitted that it wasn't a mistake. She put beer in her 2-year-old's sippy cup on purpose.

Seems that she couldn't resist the way her sweet little bundle of cuteness "kept reaching" for the pitcher of beer at the table, so she decided to indulge him with a little. She was hoping a little reverse psychology would work it's magic and he would never, ever, ever want to drink beer again.

Just like her.

Well, some fellow diners, who probably had kids too, decided that was not something they read in their parenting books and called the Po-Po — after the buzzed boy fell out of his high chair. Yikes.

The boy was taken to a local hospital and he is OK. The MM was taken to the local jail.

If this is what this MM lets her toddler do in public, I shudder to think what she lets him do behind closed doors.

Read a version of the news story on my(faux)foxphoenix.com by clicking the link below.

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Wednesday, August 15, 2012

Seriously, it's just a phase

photo by Alberto Ramirez
It's a 2-year-old, not a demon

The mom of a 2-year-old Malaysian girl who died during an exorcism — her own —was an "alternative medical practitioner," which leads me to wonder what else she tried on her sweet little toddler who was suffering through the terrible 2s. I can't imagine what she ordered for her girl before she and her family decide to try and exorcise it out of her. The exorcism failed and produced much more dire results than meditation and chamomile supplements.

This little girl must have had a huge demon in her, because it took seven adults to pin her down during the ritual. By the time authorities were alerted and she was pulled from under the pig pile she was already dead.

If they had only been a little more patient, the evil 2 ("I DO IT") would have passed and the better 3 ("YOU DO IT") would have arrived. It is sad to think an entire family could rally behind a plan like this, and a little unbelievable that an engineer and (almost) doctor could think this was a good idea.

Magic is not real folks, but the probability of 700 to 1000 pounds of adults being able to crush a 25-pound baby girl to death is. No "demon baby" turns into literal cement when confronted.

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No way to handle a toddler