It’s tough being the younger sibling in a frugal family. You get so used to getting all of your older siblings’ leftover toys, clothes, and technology that you struggle to remember what it’s like to get something new. Sure, all of your needs are technically being met, but you can see the discrepancy between you …
Seguir leyendo Parents pressure their 18-year-old daughter to give her car to her 16-year-old brother after she’s been paying for it off for two years: ‘My parents say that he needs it more now since I’m an adult and should start figuring things out myself.’
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24 and 27-year-old couple abandons their son because they weren’t ready to be parents, wants him to treat their 3 younger kids like siblings when he’s 17: ‘I wasn’t interested in them or their kids, none of them are my actual family’
When a child is abandoned by or taken out of their biological parents’ home, it usually doesn’t mean that they’re going to live with strangers for the rest of their lives. Kinship fostering and adoption are traditionally a much better alternative for kids in precarious family situations because it keeps them connected to some of …
Seguir leyendo 24 and 27-year-old couple abandons their son because they weren’t ready to be parents, wants him to treat their 3 younger kids like siblings when he’s 17: ‘I wasn’t interested in them or their kids, none of them are my actual family’
The Most Entertaining Parenting Texts of the Week (April 29, 2025)
No parent is perfect. Every mom or dad will screw up at some point in the 18 years it takes for an infant to become an adult, and best believe it won’t be without consequences for their kid. There is endless writing and posting about being a parent to a child; I’m less interested in …
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Dad withdraws 15-year-old daughter from competitive gymnastics against her mom’s wishes because she doesn’t want to be in the gym 14 hours a week and her body hurts: ‘She thinks my daughter will be become lazy and want to hang out with friends’
There’s nothing worse than not being able to quit something that you strongly dislike doing. There’s undoubtedly a chasm between quitting things the second you start to dislike them and forcing yourself to finish everything you complete, no matter how miserable it makes you. When I was in 5th grade, I wanted to quit my …
Seguir leyendo Dad withdraws 15-year-old daughter from competitive gymnastics against her mom’s wishes because she doesn’t want to be in the gym 14 hours a week and her body hurts: ‘She thinks my daughter will be become lazy and want to hang out with friends’
‘SHE IS NON-VERBAL, WHY ARE YOU LYING’: Daycare teacher audio records her 3-year-old student speaking to prove she’s not non-verbal, gets berated by the girl’s mom and aunt
So many parents don’t want their kids to grow up. They want them to stay in the easy baby stages of life so they don’t have to do the work of taking care of a more autonomous person. I’m not even talking about going from being a kid to a teenager. A lot of growth …
Seguir leyendo ‘SHE IS NON-VERBAL, WHY ARE YOU LYING’: Daycare teacher audio records her 3-year-old student speaking to prove she’s not non-verbal, gets berated by the girl’s mom and aunt
The Most Entertaining Parenting Texts of the Week (April 22, 2025)
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 …
Seguir leyendo The Most Entertaining Parenting Texts of the Week (April 22, 2025)
27-year-old expecting father asks his 25-year-old ex-girlfriend to play a role in his babies life, his family asks her to be a mother-figure: ‘They don’t want to be left dealing with the actual mother’
One of the only great things about breakups is that you’re really not culturally expected to maintain a friendship with that person. You could have spent every day with them for years, and if they break up with you, you have every right to literally never talk to them again. I have been friends with …
Seguir leyendo 27-year-old expecting father asks his 25-year-old ex-girlfriend to play a role in his babies life, his family asks her to be a mother-figure: ‘They don’t want to be left dealing with the actual mother’
The Most Entertaining Parenting Texts of the Week (April 15, 2025)
Tell me if you’ve heard this one before: «I’m going to have kids early so I can enjoy my 40s and 50s.» Or what about this one: «I’m going to wait until I’m 30 to have a kid so I can enjoy my twenties.» These lines of reasoning are predicated on the notion that having …
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Parents buy 18-year-old daughter a $65K Jeep after originally agreeing to pay 25K-30K, befuddles their 27-year-old son who previously offered $5K for car payments: ‘The 5k won’t even last the summer’
If there is one thing people love wasting money on, it’s expensive cars. I come from a town where people would buy $70K vehicles for themselves but wouldn’t pay for their kid’s college education. I don’t understand why, if you had the ability, you would sink money into something constantly losing value rather than something …
Seguir leyendo Parents buy 18-year-old daughter a $65K Jeep after originally agreeing to pay 25K-30K, befuddles their 27-year-old son who previously offered $5K for car payments: ‘The 5k won’t even last the summer’
‘He would shut off the hot water while I was in the shower’: Husband bans wife, 12 and 14-year old sons from showering more than twice a week, claims it’s for the environment
There are a lot of ways that individual people can help the environment. Recycling correctly, not buying clothes from Shein, and cutting down on using fossil fuels as much as possible are great ways to give back to the Earth, especially considering we’re right in the middle of Earth Day season. Even though it is …
Seguir leyendo ‘He would shut off the hot water while I was in the shower’: Husband bans wife, 12 and 14-year old sons from showering more than twice a week, claims it’s for the environment