This is my opinion of curbed.com, not anything else covered below.
“Did you know Jay Z and Beyonce
are in couples therapy?” the 8 year old brightly inquired a few days ago.
At the time, a gaggle of her
older sister’s friends were at our house and the 8 year old was trying to
impress them by showing off her knowledge of all things tween. You know, things
like Jay Z, Beyonce, couples therapy.
I was mortified.
I keep my trashy magazine reading
on the down low at our house. But the “Wonderwall” app on my phone? It
mistakenly loaded onto all our
devices, including the kindle for the 11 year old, who has never met an app she
doesn’t like.
So she was all too happy to click on it and
read all about the alleged couples therapy of our favorite musical superstars.
The 11 year old then took great delight in grilling me about her findings,
which is probably why it stuck in the 8 year old’s brain as a great gambit to
delight her sister and irritate her
mother. Total win-win.
I see the error in my ways,
people. So I’m deleting the Wonderwall, cancelling the “US Weekly” and forgetting the channel number for "E".
Clearly, I’m going to have a lot
of extra free time.
I’m going to fill it by reading
another online gossip site, but one that is far less damaging to impressionable
children because it’s about zip codes, not
a celebrity’s unzipped trousers.
Curbed.com is the name of the
site.(Click this link to go to curbed.com) It reports on the latest, outlandish real estate deals and ideas. It has categories like "lifestyles of the rich and richer" and "starchitecture for sale".
It even includes pictures of these posh pads. And you can specify which cities you're interested in for the house gawking. The Boston offshoot gives me my Boston fix better
than a cup of coffee from Dunkin’.
Dunkin’ Donuts and curbed.com.
Now there’s a win-win. Demerits from the Parenting Hall Of Fame not included.
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