Not every birthday is created equally. There are a lot more milestone birthdays when you’re a kid versus when you’re over 30, and that is directly correlated with how much people care about them, unless, of course, you’re still a «birth month» person who insists that everybody celebrate you with reckless abandon when you’re fully …
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Parents don’t congratulate 15-year-old daughter on making the national debate team finals, praises her older brother for doing his PE assignment instead: ‘He did a compulsory assignment and he gets all the praise in the world’
Every kid is different, and parents should know this better than anybody. That’s why it gets tricky when praising one child for something you wouldn’t praise the other for. If one kid is a diligent, high-achieving student, you wouldn’t praise them for getting a C in Biology. But if your kid struggled immensely with passing …
Seguir leyendo Parents don’t congratulate 15-year-old daughter on making the national debate team finals, praises her older brother for doing his PE assignment instead: ‘He did a compulsory assignment and he gets all the praise in the world’
The Most Entertaining Parenting Texts of the Week (April 8, 2025)
If you are a smartphone user of a certain age, you are probably one of two kinds of texters. My parents are the classic kind of baby boomer texters. They use punctuation and grammar as if an omnipotent teacher is always watching. My dad uses em-dashes without the help of Chat-GPT, which seems to favor …
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16-year-old graciously cooks his family’s nightly dinner, stops when his dad and siblings incessantly criticize his meals: ‘Too spicy, wanted rice instead of noodles, didn’t want soup’
There are some household duties that typically constitute a kid’s chores; cleaning your room, taking out the trash, and doing the dishes are chores kids of any age can do. Cooking dinner every night for your entire family is typically not one of them, but that was a chore assigned to a 16-year-old boy with …
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‘Left her on read’: Entitled mom RSVP’s ‘Yes’ to a kids party then demands 3-days prior that her fellow parent change the date because her kid suddenly has better plans
NEWSFLASH: The whole world revolves around her. Kids’ birthdays require a lot of planning. Working around spring break schedules, soccer tournaments, and your kiddo’s best friend’s sibling’s ballet recital, parental party planning can be a full-time gig. Since most parents realize that, there’s mutual respect—a head nod, if you will—that occurs when the RSVP’s start …
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Stepdad forces 10 and 12-year-old stepkids to never mention their late father in front of him, mom can’t understand why they don’t want a relationship with him 17 years later: ‘Frank yelled at my sister because she mentioned dad in her graduation speech.’
When you’re a kid, you’re at the mercy of the adults around you. While many kids have two healthy, rational parents at the helm of their families, a lot of kids have to operate under a series of absurd rules that do nothing to prepare them for the future. A parent could hypothetically feed their …
Seguir leyendo Stepdad forces 10 and 12-year-old stepkids to never mention their late father in front of him, mom can’t understand why they don’t want a relationship with him 17 years later: ‘Frank yelled at my sister because she mentioned dad in her graduation speech.’
The Most Entertaining Parenting Texts of the Week (April 1, 2025)
Parents lie to their kids all the time. They tell them that Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, and the Tooth Fairy are all real sentient magical beings, and then they pull the rug out from under them. That’s the type of lying that most people consider acceptable because it’s fun, and kids’ belief in mystical …
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Parents buy 16-year-old daughter a new car for her birthday, give 19-year-old son a book and a gift card after refusing to help him buy a used car: ‘They accused me of being jealous of my sister’
Siblings aren’t always treated the same. It’s not always the best practice for parents to do the same thing for each kid because every child has different needs. You wouldn’t give intensive therapy to a kid who doesn’t need it just because their older sibling required treatment. On the other hand, it’s pretty stinky to …
Seguir leyendo Parents buy 16-year-old daughter a new car for her birthday, give 19-year-old son a book and a gift card after refusing to help him buy a used car: ‘They accused me of being jealous of my sister’
17-year-old refuses to meet his absent dad’s baby after his ex wife constantly harasses him begging him to have a relationship with his half-sibling: ‘She’s been calling me names and saying only a monster wouldn’t love their own sibling.’
I wouldn’t consider myself a master at persuasion. I’m always willing to share my opinion on a matter, solicited or not, but if someone is convinced that their way is the only way, there’s very little I can do to change their mind. I can’t deceive my way out of a paper bag because everything …
Seguir leyendo 17-year-old refuses to meet his absent dad’s baby after his ex wife constantly harasses him begging him to have a relationship with his half-sibling: ‘She’s been calling me names and saying only a monster wouldn’t love their own sibling.’
40-year-old dad tells wife he’s traveling 10,000 miles to go to Burning Man in South Africa while she stays home with their 5-month-old baby: ‘He needs a break and parenthood’
There’s a reason there are more single moms than single dads. It is simply far easier for a dad to leave their family and never return during the first years of the baby’s life. Babies rely so much on their mothers to keep them alive, and fathers cannot provide sustenance using only their bodies. There …
Seguir leyendo 40-year-old dad tells wife he’s traveling 10,000 miles to go to Burning Man in South Africa while she stays home with their 5-month-old baby: ‘He needs a break and parenthood’