One Bert Show listener wants to know if it's ok to give cigarettes to her 7-year-old, who wants them. (She's hoping the taste will be SO disgusting, that it'll scar him for life and make him never pick up a cigarette again.) Should she...Continue
One Bert Show listener has a 7-year-old son who is entranced by the idea of smoking cigarettes and she's come up with a rather unconventional (to put it mildly) way of getting him to hate them forever: giving him one. Yep, it sounds...Continue
One Bert Show listener wants to meddle in her daughter's first relationship...good idea, or bad move? Most listeners say that it will ruin her relationship with her daughter forever - and set her up as the school 'cheater.' So should...Continue
Earlier this week, in Wellesley, Massachusetts, Paul Baier made a deal with his 14-year-old daughter, Rachel. If she quit Facebook completely until the end of June, he'd pay her $200. She gets $50 in mid-April and the other $150 on June...Continue
Last week we talked about the things that EVERY mom should tell their son, and that got Producer Carl thinking of things that he tells his daughters, so he's got a response. The 22 Things Every Dad Should Tell Their...Continue
Bert Show listener Amanda Hohenberry created a viral list of the “Twenty Things Every Mom Should Say to Her Son." Her list mentions a plethora of different topics- ranging from learning to clean at a young age to randomly giving your...Continue
One of Kristin's friends, the mom of boys, is already worried about girls stealing her boys from her...and they're just toddlers. She found this Mother-In-Law pre-nup online from Scary Mommy...and the really scary thing is that even...Continue
Things got intense as a father and husband's nightmare played out when he was at work. A burglar broke into his home as his wife and two kids hid in their attic, but the burglar didn’t know mom was packing heat. You won’t believe...Continue
It's a problem that parents have been facing for generations: how - and when - do you tell your kids that "Snow White" (code word - think for a minute) isn't real? What age is too old to keep believing...especially when their friends...Continue
Oh. No. He. Didn't. Bert was out holiday shopping with his kids and they stopped for lunch at...Twin Peaks. Sure, from the outside it has the ambience of a rustic cabin...but inside, it's really more like a Hooters...with less...Continue
One woman got pregnant with her second child just so she could turn around and give the child to her sister, who was unable to have kids. Needless to say, the mother-in-law of the pregnant sister is NOT happy. Is this a beautiful story...Continue
If you're a mom, should you ever think about dating your kid's teacher? One Bert Show listener, Rachel, wants to start seeing her son's teacher...but isn't sure if that's a good idea. Could it potentially harm her son's education, or...Continue
Bert Show Book Of Records: what's the shortest - or longest - amount of time after having a baby before you left your new child alone with a sitter / family member? We thought Kristin's brother and wife had a short record, but some of...Continue
LeeAnn Rimes got her husband's ex-wife all fired up when she tweeted and referred to her step-children as 'my boys.' Was this out of line? Their birth mom - Brandi Glanville - thinks so... Whose side are you on, stepmom or biological...Continue
