Comments on: Rule #21: Throw Your Spouse Under the Bus

By: Rachel

Rachel — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 16:01:29 +0000

Personally, I’ve always liked the hands-off front parents take when they just don’t want to bother — “Ask your mother.” “Ask your father.” That, to me, is the equivalent of saying, “Sure, go smoke a bowl and have lots of unprotected sex.” But maybe that’s another blog post: Show Kids You Care By Offloading Them Onto Their Other Parent.

By: bloggingmom67

bloggingmom67 — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 16:17:05 +0000

As usual .. just love this post.

The thing that’s great about this post is that it’s really not so far-fetched. I know there’s times I’ve “thrown” my hubby under the bus.

“Yeah, I wish we could have Christmas lights on our house, too, but Daddy doesn’t want to put them.”

And so has he. “Your mother doesn’t want you to eat cereal in front of the TV, so you can’t.”

Maybe we’re awful people or parents, but I don’t think so. It’s not that I expect my kids to worship me. It’s more that sometimes I’m just being a bitch.

By: jason

jason — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 16:12:34 +0000

if your father wasn’t such a raging drunk, then we could afford Happy Meals at the McDonald’s drive-in, but daddy doesn’t have a license.

By: Silk

Silk — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 16:03:23 +0000

I am rolling….! “young Duncan’s potty mouth….” Priceless!

The “epic struggle to be adored and mindlessly worshiped by your children….” What are the parents born in the late 20s and 30s thinking when they see these ‘wonderful’ new-age parents in action!

By: Shell

Shell — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 15:45:48 +0000

IF I were to follow your advice and (literally) throw my spouse under a bus,
THEN, I could get arrested which would suck because I look really bad in orange,
BUT maybe you would feel bad for me (bad advice and all) and my comment would make your front page and it would all be worth it!