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

Two great blog carnivals have been updated and you could spend all day long browsing the great blogs, columns and articles included in them.
The Carnival of Family Life was hosted by Be A Good Dad, which is great advice in itself. 
I read Oh Yea? So What Is YOUR Child Wearing? posted at scribbit yesterday and woke up still laughing this morning.
Sherry’s daughter shares Ainsley’s taste in clothes in this piece, She has her own sense of style posted at Chaos Theory.
Erica Douglas recommends we should Stop Trying To Be a Perfect Parent posted at Littlemummy.Com. I agree, “good enough” is better than perfection, and might …read more