Bras are a social nicety that many of us happily shed when alone with our family.

I love spending the holidays with family, but a funny thing has started happening recently. While it never bothered me to stay with relatives when we were younger and the kids were little, as the years march on and my husband and I settle into our own habits and routines at home and our talkative, outgoing children have gotten older… well, it just seems like we are begging for embarrassing moments that I’d just as soon not endure in front of my in-laws.

So, naturally, when I saw a post about partners’ “weird habits” I started thinking about how many things we do around the house that we wouldn’t ever in a million years want to get caught doing anywhere else. So we asked our readers on Babble’s facebook page: What’s one thing you or your partner does at home shame-free, but would be mortifying anywhere else?

You can read all the answers on our facebook wall (you’ll have to “Like” our page first to see the answers), but here are five of the most honest and hilarious… before I reveal them, though, will you PLEASE go put some clothes on?!? (That’s a hint about the #1 embarrassing thing.) Continue reading »

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photo credit: Michal Marcol

Lately, I’ve noticed something terrifying on Facebook. I get to see everything my friends are reading. Even some of the stuff they probably don’t want me to know they’re reading. Why is that scary? Because what if they can see everything I click on, too?

There’s a growing trend to make news more social — as in social media. It’s called “frictionless sharing”. Because apparently, we weren’t all sharing enough information on Facebook so Yahoo decided to do more for us. If you click on a permissions screen while logging into your email, your friends may now be able to see everything you read on Yahoo, whether you want them to or not. I became aware of this when I activated the Washington Post Social Reader (not really knowing what it was) and saw that my teenage babysitter had been perusing several articles about sexting.

I didn’t need to see that.  I also didn’t need to see who was reading about consensual adultery or a discussion of recent casting discussions on Glee. Oh! Casting on Glee? CLICK. And that’s the point. You see what your friends are reading and then you read it, too. Except there’s the question of consent. Because many people aren’t aware that they’re sharing this information.

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World's Most Embarrassing Dad waves to the school bus

What’s more embarrassing than having your parents wave to your school bus when you’re in high school? Having your dad do it in costume.

A Utah dad has just completed a year of waving to his son’s school bus in a crazy costume every day. He’s dressed up as everything from a generic football player to Batgirl. His son, Rain, says the Little Mermaid costume was the worst.

What would possess a man to do such a thing? The school bus route changed this year, so it goes past their house now. The first day, he and his wife went out to wave to their son as the bus went by. Rain complained to his mom that this was embarrassing. As dad put it, “After that, it was game on.”

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They know your weaknesses.

Before you had kids you vowed you’d never become one of those people who always talked about your kids. Then you popped the little buggers out and realized your kids were the only thing you had to talk about since they were dominating your entire life. Wanna-be Hip Parents get around this two ways:

1) Drenching kid talk in snark,

“Man, my kid is such a butthole. And holy hell does he suck at Peek-a-Boo.”

2) Then there’s the crowd stories of shame and embarrassment, of which kids just happen to be a never ending fount. Everyone loves enjoying your misery, and in that spirit Parentdish put together a collection of the most embarrassing kid stories.
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