1. You won't experience love like this until you have a baby.
True, but lots of other things you’ve never experienced either, like catching vomit and feeling victorious, or a kid licking you from knee to your shoulder.
All it takes is one hot-button blog post to take a little known blogger into a viral sensation. For Karen Alpert's Baby Sideburns blog, hosted on Chicago Now, it was a 2012 post titled "What not to f'ing buy my kids this Christmas." After that, the former copywriter (who still freelances occasionally) and mother of two (Zoey, 5, and Holden, 3) became a household name in the mom community for her candid and hilarious thoughts on parenting on her blog, so named because of a post she wrote on whether her son would be born with sideburns, since she is "ridiculously hairy."
Her popularity led her to write a self-published book, I Heart My Little A-Holes, in 2013 that contained both the best of her blog as well as new material. It gained so much traction that HarperCollins re-released it this past April. Both versions have made their way onto The New York Times Bestseller List.
In advance of her appearance at a July 22 event hosted by Bump Club and Beyond at Monica + Andy Guideshop in Lincoln Park, Alpert shares with us a little parental wisdom.