The list of things that make me nuts is long and comprehensive, but near the top is smug hubris-filled jackholes who think their way is the only way and that we actually want or need to listen to their advice.

And ooohhhhh does the parenting corner of the Internet attract those people. Posting anything, anything at all on the Internet about your own parenting is a really good way to get told you're a horrible person who should have never had kids. And those are the nice commenters — anyone who's kept a blog or been on a message board has probably been the focus of a poorly spelled screed using insults like "stuped ideot". Because getting called a name by someone who can’t spell really hits a writer where they live.

Which is why I extra double super special love people who gleefully swap "You think YOU suck? Listen to what I did!" stories, who understand that if you can see the humor in this whole parenting sitch and realize we all make mistakes, we make life much much easier on ourselves and everyone else.

So my Playdate love this week goes to Finslippy, written by the lovely Alice Bradley. She asked readers to share their Bad Parent moments, and my oh my did people respond. She posted the best in this post, and still they just kept on coming. I may or may not have posted one myself. The stories are mostly hilarious, some are a little bit sad, and of course there was the requisite commenter who called everyone miserable human beings and didn't we realize we were ruining! our children's! precious and fleeting childhoods! and another commenter who just saw fit to post a link to attachmentparenting.org. Um, thanks?

 Check it out. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you may even pee a little.