Catherine Connors, aka Her Bad Mother, is a mother, writer and recovering academic who traded the lecture hall for the playroom and discovered that university students and preschoolers have much the same attention span. Her Bad Mother chronicles her struggles to reconcile her former identity as an overachieving smart girl with her current identity as a more or less incompetent diaper-changer, and to convince the world that bad really is the new good. Her Bad Mother is one of the Internet's original 'bad mother' blogs, and has been mentioned in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star, the American Prospect, The Guardian and sundry other publications, as well as on CNN, ABC, CBC and the BBC online. Babble.com named Her Bad Mother one of the top ten mommy blogs of 2009 in its list of the year’s Top 50 Mommybloggers, ranking it among the Best Written, Most Confessional, Most Controversial and Funniest mom blogs on the Internet. She has not yet won any awards for being able to translate Goodnight, Moon into Latin, but those are coming.