When I think of the ultimate parenting failure, I think of Billy Bigelow. He is the protagonist (and antagonist) of the musical Carousel, and ding dong, does he have high highs and low lows. He finds out his wife (whom he constantly mistreats) is pregnant, steals money to provide for his future child, and ends …
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‘She said I had to use the name, her daughter deserved that’: Bereaved mother freaks out when adult son refuses to name his daughter after his late baby sister
Grief is a messy and complicated thing we all have to go through at some point. It’s rarely something that someone can get over in a matter of months or weeks. It’s a long and winding road, with low lows and the capacity for high highs. While the maxim «there’s no wrong way to grieve» …
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The Wildest Parenting Posts of the Week (April 22, 2024)
I do not envy mothers who post their experiences online just to be judged for every move they make. I know I am part of this problem (don’t shoot the messenger), but I am constantly amazed at how many moms get eviscerated online for doing totally innocuous things I would never bat an eye at. …
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30 of the Funniest Parenting Tweets of the Week (April 18, 2024)
Parenting is one of those things that you can’t fully understand unless you’ve done it. You can remember what it was like to be parented, or watch your friends do it and see what that’s like, but doing it is an entirely different experience. It’s like going to space. We can watch Gravity or Appollo 13 all day long …
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The Wildest Parenting Texts of the Week (April 16, 2024)
It’s difficult to have honest discussions with your parents about things they’ve done wrong. It’s drilled into us from childhood that kids should be eternally grateful to their parents, and while I think honoring your father and mother isn’t the worst virtue in the world, you shouldn’t look at your parents through rose-colored glasses either. …
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‘As adults, we don’t share our personal items’: Controversial mom rejects the idea that ‘sharing is caring’
Like many kids, I grew up on the idea that «Sharing is caring.» As an only child, that was hard to grasp sometimes. Still is. Since there wasn’t anyone around to share things with, I kept my stuff to myself. But I’ve learned to compensate as an adult. My friends and roommates are constantly borrowing …
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‘I’m glad she is your ex’: Teenager punches 6 holes in bedroom wall, mom expects ex-boyfriend to fix them
There’s a stereotype about young men… that they punch holes in the wall when they get angry. I understand the impulse, sure. Sometimes a good punch is needed to get out all the excess anger. But usually a pillow or a stray plank of wood is a good option for emotional release, not the drywall …
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18-year-old mom abandons kid to pursue acting, comes crawling back years later begging her ex and 14-year-old son to take her back: ‘She said I shouldn’t rub salt in her wound’
Whenever I think about a parent abandoning their child, the iconic scene from There Will Be Blood comes to mind. The young preacher Eli Sunday forces Daniel Plainview, the greasy oil baron who left his deaf son on a train to San Fransisco, to admit in front of the congregation that he abandoned his child. …
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Neglectful parents beg 17-year-old son to forgive them because they’re good parents to his toddler siblings: ‘They show no sign of caring about me more now’
Having a baby when you’re in your late teens or early twenties is a completely different experience than having one when you’re in your 30s. A lot of people have a kid when they’re really young and wait a long while before having any more kids because they were frankly unprepared for their first kid. …
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The Wildest Parenting Texts of the Week (April 2, 2024)
If you ever thought that your parents were bad, watch Female Trouble. I am so grateful that I don’t have juvenile delinquent turned petty criminal turned international model turned death row inmate Dawn Davenport as my mother. If it weren’t a hilarious John Waters comedy, Female Trouble would be a harrowing tale of parental abuse. …
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