Big Book of Bad Parents
I keep meaning to compile a binder of really bad parents that I can show the children when I’m accused of being a bad mom. Thanks to Davey’s Mommy for the link to the fine example. And over Christmas? Well, that's triple bad!

A woman is accused of leaving her children, ages 4 and 7, home alone for three weeks while she went to North Carolina to visit a man she had met over the Internet.

Janet Chen, 31, apparently left frozen food in the refrigerator and instructed the children to hide if strangers came to the apartment, authorities said......

Officers said the children lived on such frozen meals as Bagel Bites and corn dogs since their mother left Dec. 18.

Let's leave out the Bagel Bites and corn dogs part. The kids might want Bagel Bites and corn dogs.