Adage says Supermom is dead. They are advising advertisers to stop putting Supermom in ads because the rest of us - so so parents keeping slightly cluttered house – hate her.
Former Letterman writer Jill Besnoy is at the front of the anti-perfection brigade. She created the website Honest Baby, where she sells baby products designed to put perfection in its place.
“Not sleeping through the night,” reads one of the tiny T-shirts she created. “10th percentile,” announces yet another tee, as radical as the old “Black is Beautiful.” By proudly embracing the wee one’s smallness compared with 90% of other babies, it crushes any …read more