I do not care what your family situation is: it is not okay to tell kids that the parental figure in their life is «not their real mom» or «not their real dad.» We know that that’s not okay when a kid is adopted, but what about when they’re adopted by family members, like an …
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The Wildest Parenting Texts of the Week (February 25, 2025)
Texting can be so much more stressful than having an actual conversation. Last night, I was waiting to hear back from two friends, one of whom had suggested that we hang out on Saturday afternoon and one who was presenting a concrete plan to hang out on Saturday afternoon. I wanted to double-check with the …
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The Most Entertaining Parenting Texts of the Week (February 18, 2025)
One of the best parts of texting is getting to keep receipts of exactly what someone has said to you. If you are talking to someone on the phone, you might not have the foresight to record your conversations before something comes up that is worth documenting (That, or you live in a state where …
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17-year-old refuses to babysit his 38-year-old sister’s kids once after continuously doing it 5 days a week, gets grounded for putting friends above family: ‘I tried to defend myself but they didn’t listen’
«It takes a village to raise a child,» the classic quotation goes, but it doesn’t thoroughly examine the involvement of said village. To some, a village means pre-colonial communal raising of children, without the traditional post-colonial idea of a nuclear family with a mother and father. All of the adults in said village take responsibility …
Seguir leyendo 17-year-old refuses to babysit his 38-year-old sister’s kids once after continuously doing it 5 days a week, gets grounded for putting friends above family: ‘I tried to defend myself but they didn’t listen’
‘She kept glaring at me while I was cooking’: 16-year-old refuses to make breakfast for her 11-year-old sister who constantly disrespects her, mom who refuses to discipline the bratty daughter punishes the teenage daughter
As a parent, it can be tricky to distinguish routine sibling squabbling from unseemly behavior that requires adult intervention. My sister and I would fight like cats and dogs when we were kids, but our conflicts rarely escalated to the point where our parents needed to punish one or both of us. «Stop going into …
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The Most Entertaining Parenting Texts of the Week (February 11, 2025)
I have not had full-time group chat commitments since I was a teenager. Although I was annoyed by how much maintenance the average teen group chat in the mid-2010s took, those chats were highly entertaining. There was always a stupid meme or random incident that groupchat members could talk about 24 hours a day, 7 …
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Dad serves as sole caretaker for his 2 and 4-year-old sons despite working full time and mom staying at home, mom threatens to split up the siblings if they divorce: ‘I don’t trust her to take care of Ivan alone.’
Ah, the equitable division of labor in and out of the home. It’s something that everyone, from roommates to couples to parents, aspire to, but few can achieve fully. You can’t always quantify chores down to the minutiae, nor should you want to. If I kept a log of every dish I washed and compared …
Seguir leyendo Dad serves as sole caretaker for his 2 and 4-year-old sons despite working full time and mom staying at home, mom threatens to split up the siblings if they divorce: ‘I don’t trust her to take care of Ivan alone.’
The Most Entertaining Parenting Texts of the Week (January 28, 2025)
When you’re a kid, it’s hard to know whether your parents are unusually crazy. Your home is usually all you know, and going over to friends’ houses doesn’t always paint a realistic picture of how they’re normally treated. You might’ve felt something off about your parents and later found out there actually was something nefarious …
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16-year-old yells at her mom for accusing her of being pregnant, mom refuses to take her to the doctor to find out the real reason for her medical issues: ‘If you’re not pregnant you should have nothing to worry about’
It’s easy to jump to pregnancy when your teenage daughter says, «I have something to tell you.» There is always some possibility of it happening, and as a parent, you have to be prepared to handle it. But just because your teenager is throwing up in the morning, gaining weight, or has missed a couple …
Seguir leyendo 16-year-old yells at her mom for accusing her of being pregnant, mom refuses to take her to the doctor to find out the real reason for her medical issues: ‘If you’re not pregnant you should have nothing to worry about’
The Most Entertaining Parenting Texts of the Week (January 21, 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. They proofread their texts way more than I ever have. While they drop …
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