Stay Connected with UrbanBaby: 
Flashback
UB Like it's 1776!
Posted September 13, 2007(191 replies)
More reminiscing about laughs on UrbanBaby »Inside UrbanBaby
UrbanBabyBuzz
Every parent worries about who can find their kid online. But if Geoffrey Arone, co-founder and co-CEO of Internet monitoring service SafetyWeb, says that what be an even bigger concern in the fullness of time is not who can get to your kid, but ...
More »
UrbanBabyNewYork
It’s obvious Larry has no access to any cool map apps …
Larry is the Larry of the Larry Gets Lost series. He’s already wandered aimlessly around L.A., San Fran and Chicago. Now Larry the dog is trying to figure out NYC after ...
More »
UrbanBabySanFrancisco
The Bay Area is bristling with opportunities to get outdoors this weekend.
Berkeley Kite
Look, up in the sky! Japanese kite battles and just about anything else you can do with some fabric and a string.
When: Sat. & Sun., 7/31 & ...
More »
My mom and I were having a not so nice conversation about my brother's wife that was somehow accidentally recorded on my brother's voice mail. He is so upset. I feel awful. Any suggestions on how to handle this?
10 replies [ Reply | Watch | MoreOMG something similar happened to me. we had an old phone/answering machine and i thought i picked up before it went off, i didn't hear our outgoing so i started talking to my mother. my MIL had just been over and said/did really insulting things and i was relaying it to my mom...i shouldn't have. and dh heard it and said that although he agreed, it was hurtful. i felt so bad and haven't complained (about things that weren't really small) to my mom or sister since.
[ Reply | More ]up front, straight apology with no "but i only said it because...". try to find something very fundamental and positive to say about her, but only if you mean it. ("even though i said things i regret, i want you to know that i love her and am happy to have her in the family".) close by saying that you don't want to create conflict and possibly add that if the apology isn't enough, what else can you do to rectify the relationship.
[ Reply | More ]-
How about saying: I'm terribly sorry. We were both having a bad day and needed to bitch about someone. Since Britney has shaved her head this week, we just randomly picked on your wife. If it makes you feel any better, we didn't realize that our nanny's camcorder was on while she was in the bathroom while we were opening the Christmas gifts she gave DD. It was all incredibly cheap stuff, and we weren't.....emmmm....kind.
[ Reply | More ]
