by Elisabeth Parker | Mar 13, 2016 | Thoughts
Daylight Savings Time marks the start of spring. Normal parents and their children are all excited and set to “spring forward.” But not your family. That’s why we started Barely Adequate PARENTING magazine, so slacker parents whose kids just...
by Elisabeth Parker | Sep 30, 2015 | News & Politics, Thoughts
A young pro-life mom posts her powerful statement of support for Planned Parenthood on Reddit. As House Republicans use a hoax abortion video to mount their deranged assault on our nation’s leading women’s reproductive health care provider, appalled...
by Elisabeth Parker | May 11, 2015 | News & Politics, Thoughts, User Experience
Think living in your office is hard to pull off? Try paying rent on an overpriced, crappy studio apartment in Los Angeles. Terry K. (not his real name) writes in Salon that he had moved to Los Angeles two years before and was working 60 hours a week at two...
by Elisabeth Parker | Dec 11, 2014 | Thoughts
Richard Scarry’s “Busytown” children’s series got kids excited about their future careers. Remember Richard Scarry’s “Busytown” children’s books, games, and TV series with the winsomely-drawn cartoon farm animals doing all kinds of cool, fun,...
by Elisabeth Parker | Oct 25, 2014 | Thoughts
Still think voter ID laws won’t keep people from voting? Over 600,000 people in Texas may find themselves unable to cast ballots, thanks to the U.S. Supreme Court’s shamefully unjust decision to allow Texas to enact SB-15, the strictest voter ID law in the nation. In...
by Elisabeth | Aug 12, 2014 | Thoughts
It’s back to school time again, and normal parents’ kids can’t wait. For the rest of us, there’s Barely Adequate PARENTING magazine When the school year begins, all the parenting publications run upbeat, can-do articles on how to ensure a...
