An excellent supercut of TV moms from Flavorwire
Who’s your favourite TV mom? Judging from this supercut, we’d say it’s a toss-up between Lucille Bluth from Arrested Development and Gloria Pritchett from Modern Family. Or maybe we should go with Cersei just because we love seeing Joffrey get slapped. Did they leave anyone out? Where’s Regina from Once Upon a Time? (or maybe wicked stepmothers don’t count?)
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What we’re reading today:
1. A Swedish study found that newborn babies whose umbilical cords were cut three minutes after they were born instead of right away were less likely to be iron deficient.
2. Some Toronto kids in the Jane-and-Finch-area are trying out squash (the sport) after-school. Awesome. When one of those kids comes to dominate the international squash scene in 10 years or so, we expect a fabulous made-for-CBC movie.
3. KJ Dellantonia at the NYT Motherlode is not down with the new Best Buy ads that mock Santa Claus. We know!! Yeah, we get that some seasonal ads are meant to tug on your heartstrings and some are less subtle in making you buy stuff, but the Best Buy ones are gross. We think we need to write more on this later, but for now, we’re happy that KJ is sticking up for the man in the red suit.
What we’re reading today:
1. Kids need sleep! Lots of it! Don’t let those over-achieving kids of yours choose project perfection over another hour in bed, the latter’s better for their brains.
2. A bunch of Indian girls changed their names, preferring something pretty and/or inspiring rather than the Hindi equivalent of “Unwanted.”
3. Are these the 10 best kid characters on TV? It’s a given that Manny from Modern Family made the cut, but all the kids on that show are so good! Where are Luke, Alex and Haley? At least Luke! (Lily doesn’t count just yet)
4. The importance of play! KaBOOM!’s executive director writes on the Huffington Post that without unstructured play, we might not get another Steve Jobs.
5. This 2-year-old’s dad is overseas, so he makes videos for her.
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What we’re reading today:
1. Do your kids swear? Who really gives a f**k amirite?
2. If you’ve ever been curious about a Scientology school, here’s a peak at what Suri Cruise will be doing. (The sculpting thing does sound pretty neat..)
3. Why is Julie Bowen such a good Claire Dunphy on Modern Family? She says if she wasn’t a mom, she wouldn’t get how you can so love your kids, but also sometimes just kind of hate them.
4. But there’s always unconditional love, right? Did you see this soldier who came out to his father in Alabama on the phone yesterday now that Don’t Ask Don’t Tell is no more? That’s a good dad.
5. Book trailers! Check out I Want My Hat Back by Jon Klassen:
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What we’re reading today:
1. How do you feel about publisher-sponsored story-time in malls when libraries are in danger of so many cuts?
2. Two of our pals, HerBadMother Catherine Connors and PhDinParenting Annie Urban take opposite sides in the great formula advertising debate. Should formula ads be banned, or would banning them make women who have difficulty breastfeeding just feel shameful failures at motherhood?
3. Remember that study that found men’s testosterone levels dropped once they became fathers? Here’s what some dads said.
4. Hoping an anonymous donor will help you grow you very own Weasley? The world’s largest sperm bank is turning away redheads.
5. And who watched (or read the highlights of) the Emmys last night? Modern Family got a whole whack of awards, including best supporting roles for Julie Bowen and Ty Burrell. Let’s look at a classic Phil and Claire moment:
Up All Night is getting it right. Sure seems like it will anyway.
Iconic TV dad Homer Simpson once nailed the reason why we laugh at comedians who talk about the average day-to-day stuff: It’s funny cause it’s true. But does the same hold true for sitcoms and especially sitcom parents? Think back to other iconic TV parents: Cliff and Claire Huxtable, Ward and June Cleaver, Danny Tanner, etc. They had all the answers, virtually always knew when their kids were up to trouble (but super minor trouble) and could neatly supply some sort of essential life lesson at the end of the episode. And when we move away from the “Father Knows Best” model, we get the lovable oafs like our pal Homer whose kids are much, much smarter than him. And sure, it’s funny, but it’s not true.
