Need a Little Parenting Advice? The (Hilarious) Mommy Bloggers Will Be Here!

By Jennie Cottrell | Published March 25, 2013

If you’re looking for a little traditional parenting advice, we can’t help you. But if you’re ready for brutal honesty, imperfection, and a LOT of laughs, well, then we’re the place to be!

With topics ranging from mommy guilt to how to (gracefully? maybe not…) handle your kid puking during a birthday party, the festival’s featured author line-up this year includes two popular mommy bloggers who will talk about their adventures in mommyhood, their new books, and how they manage to balance raising kids and writing blogs and books. Any parent will be able to relate to their hilarious tales of quickies that never happened, showers that always include interruptions, and the work vs. stay-at-home debate.

Our panel of “experts”

Amber Dusick, aka, Crappy Pictures blogger
“Parenting: Illustrated with Crappy Pictures”
Amber’s book grew out of a blog of the same name which she started because she was going crazy and needed a place to vent. She must have struck a nerve because her blog illustrating the day-to-day things that happen as a parent received over 500,000 views and hundreds of comments within days. “Parenting: Illustrated with Crappy Pictures” was named Funniest Mom Blog 2011 by Parents Magazine and the Best Parenting weblog in the 2012 Bloggie Awards. A featured columnist on The Huffington Post, Amber is constantly in touch with readers, fans and other parents throughout the blogosphere. She is a mom with two boys, a husband and two black cats. Her husband is really, really amazing. And her kids are fabulous. The cats are just okay.

Jill Smokler, aka, Scary Mommy blogger
“Motherhood Comes Naturally (and Other Vicious Lies)”
Jill is best known for her blog, Scary Mommy, where she writes about motherhood — the good, the bad and the scary. Her honest take on parenting has appeared on CNN, Good Morning America, “The Today Show,” The Huffington Post and more. Her first book, “Confessions of a Scary Mommy,” hit The New York Times Best Seller List its first week out. Her second book, “The Scary Mommy Handbook,” debuts in April 2013.