Becoming a parent puts into perspective how difficult it is to be a GOOD parent. Perhaps this shines a light on our own families and if you’re lucky, you can glean wisdom from your parents. However, if you’re like most of us, watching your parents interact with their grandchild can be a jarring reminder of …
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Godmother criticizes mother for naming her daughter Ghiuliyette: ‘Why ruin such a beautiful name by including letters that don’t belong there?’
My sister has an unusual spelling of her name. Well, it might’ve been considered unusual 20 years ago, but with the recent increase in parents naming their kids all sorts of absurd things, it’s pretty conventional. She spells her name with a ‘C’ instead of a ‘K’ for one of those conventionally K names…Kaitlyn, Katherine, …
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‘My dad told me to put ‘freeloader»: Parents and family members reveal funny responses they have filled out on forms for kids
One of the many things that nobody warns you about when you become a parent is the sheer amount of admin it involves. When you bring a whole new person into the world, various institutions feel like they need to know all about it — and that doesn’t stop after birth, either. Whether at the …
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‘I can’t help but feel guilty for breaking the tradition’: Parents discuss the burden of passing down the ‘family’ name
Are you ‘you’ or are you just the third or fourth of that first matriarch or patriarch of your family who started this vain «tradition?»
Mother Velcros Her Baby to a Chair, Gets Mixed Feedback From Fellow Parents
Parenting is never easy, but it is especially difficult during the first couple of years. So many parents act like the teenage stage is the worst, but I think that they forget how hard it is to have infants and toddlers. You have a tiny human being in your care who cannot do anything alone …
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‘Anyone else’s baby jacked?’: The worst parenting posts of the week (January 8, 2024)
I am obsessed with parents who humble brag about their kids. I know that, as a culture, we look down on overbearing stage moms and sports dads who push their kids to their absolute limits to satiate their own unfulfilled egos. I’m not talking about that. I’m talking about parents who love to subtly mention …
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‘No one ever gifts the father baby stuff’: Expecting dad buys his wife $2000 stroller for Christmas, gets chewed out for counting baby items as gifts for her
You should strike a certain balance when buying gifts for an expecting mother. She’s going through a massive shift in her life, and you don’t want to reduce her to this new duty she’s taking on. If I was pregnant and the only things people could think to get me for Christmas were novelty t-shirts …
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‘The sad beige baby aesthetic is actively harmful’: Mommy blogger flips out at sibling for calling her baby sad and beige
Here at Memebase, we’re no stranger to the «sad beige baby» aesthetic. We’re unfortunately deeply aware of the lengths that design-conscious mothers will go to drain their children’s worlds of visual interest. Listen, I’m all for strong design choices. I made my roommate put the cat’s litter box in her room because I didn’t want …
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Childfree Woman Slams Mom Friend for Expecting ‘The Village’ to Provide Free Babysitting
The opinions that people hold on parenting encompass an entire spectrum of beliefs. However, the one thing that pretty much everyone can agree on is that moms and dads hold the primary responsibility for their own kids. It goes without saying that this is difficult, and every parent is going to need a little help …
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The Cringiest Parenting Posts of the Week (October 23, 2023)
There are a lot of sad posts on mommy Facebook groups. Parents share their struggles so vulnerably in these social media spaces because they can get the support they wouldn’t otherwise. If your kid is going through some bullying at school, hundreds of other moms in your community are willing to support you and share …
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