Bad parents bare all on Bad Mom websites

By Chrisopher Noxon

LOS ANGELES (Reuters Life!) - It was, when she looks back on it, a fairly routine disaster. Late one Sunday, after a busy weekend with three kids, working mother Romi Lassally was staring down at a pile of her son's vomit in her hallway.

"I left it there. I hoped the dog would eat it," she said.

But when the dog failed to oblige, Lassally was left cleaning up and with a feeling that she'd sunk to a new maternal low so she did what she often does when mortified -- picked up the phone and called a girlfriend.

"She was amused and disgusted," she says. "I felt better right away. At that moment I knew I was on to something."

That "something" was True Mom Confessions (www.truemomconfessions.com), an online posting board for momsto share their worst mistakes, misdeeds and misgivings.

Since starting in April, more than 100,000 women have contributed confessions, from one-line gripes about in-laws, to intimate accounts of diminished sex lives.

"It turns out we're all riddled with guilt and ambivalence and regret," she says. "We've bottled this stuff up for too long. Now it's time to unload."

Parents are unloading like never before. Whether trading horror stories at birthday parties or penning "momoirs," more parents are finding comfort in swapping tales of their woes.