Typically, anyone who’s doling out parenting tips when they have been parents a whopping six months is, well, kind of a jerk.
Unless that someone is Amy Poehler, and then it’s just pretty funny. Here’s what she told the Daily Beast is her accumulated wisdom about the parenting gig:
“Always remember your kid’s name. Always remember where you put your kid. Don’t let your kid drive until their feet can reach the pedals. Use the right size diapers…for yourself. And, when in doubt, make funny faces.”
She’s totally right, by the by – I have yet to met the baby or small kid who doesn’t dig a funny face.
The interview is a little lame, but Poehler is nine kinds of awesome as far as I am concerned. One of the funnier, totally dialogue-free sketches on SNL last fall (that didn’t have to do with the election) was a super mega pregnant Poehler making eyes at a guy across a bar, then getting up and attempting to dance seductively over to him (it’s funnier than I am making it sound, I swear). Anyone who has been nine months pregnant can understand how something as simple as getting up from a chair can be a major project at that point in gestation and how Not Seductive you’re feeling.
And further, I think she rocks for working – at being funny!-- right up until she delivered, just about. I could barely string together a sentence at that point, much less cough up a funny line. And now she has her new show, Parks and Rec, which got lukewarm reviews around here but I am going to try to catch. Funny moms rule!
