If you look through old texts on anybody’s phone, you’ll find a rich tapestry that illustrates some truth about who that person is. This is a massive shift from where texting was a mere 20 years ago. Back then, Ryan Seacrest had to beg us to text our votes for the next American Idol. Not …
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Mom tells her unschooled daughter she has straight A’s and a 4.0 GPA, has no high school transcript for her to send to the 17 colleges she’s allegedly been accepted at: ‘I don’t see how one could be radically unschooled and not have straight A’s’
I have always been a little suspicious of alternative methods of schooling. I know that there are some parents out there who are completely competent at teaching their kids from Kindergarten to 12th grade, but I highly doubt that’s the majority of homeschoolers. Most of the time, kids who do their schooling at home would …
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The Wildest Parenting Texts of the Week (November 26, 2024)
It’s Thanksgiving week, and you know what that means! You’re going to have to text your parents a lot more than you have any other week in 2024. Thanksgiving can be such a pain because it’s such a blip of a holiday. You travel thousands of miles to see family to eat one meal together, …
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‘I told you no’: Free-range 8-year-old distracts a teen’s medical alert dog, triggering an emergency episode, then the entitled mother justifies her daughter’s poor behavior and claims he’s ‘overreacting’
What do you get when you cross an entitled mother with a free-range child? An emergency episode in aisle five of the supermarket. Medical alert dogs save lives, but if an 8-year-old feral child is sprinting towards them in public, it’s hard–even for a professional pooch–to remain focused on their doggy duties. This story begins …
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The Most Entertaining Parenting Posts of the Week (November 19, 2024)
There’s something about texting that can wash away the shame of the questions you’re asking. Think about it…if you look through your old texts, I’m sure you’ve sent messages you’d be ashamed to say aloud. I’m not just talking about those kinds of texts; I’m talking about any texts. Sometimes, I read back messages I’ve …
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The Most Entertaining Parenting Texts of the Week (November 12, 2024)
As I sort through all sorts of parenting texts, I start to see some patterns emerge. It’s wild how many times I’ve seen texts from different parents that all basically say the same thing. They’re always sidestepping their past behavior and blaming their kid for distancing themselves from them. They are willing to insult and …
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The Most Entertaining Parenting Texts of the Week (November 5, 2024)
I am continually baffled by how some parents talk to their kids, particularly their daughters, about their bodies. I was lucky not to grow up in a household where my mom was constantly calling me fat, but I certainly knew some girls whose moms did exactly that. They are, what we digital natives call «almond …
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15-year-old calls out her parents favoritism towards her 17-year-old sister during her dad’s birthday party, uncle agrees with her: ‘I asked why they only talk about Amy, why don’t they care more about me’
Favoritism is a sad but common part of many family dynamics. Being the child who their parents didn’t favor can lead to a lifetime of striving to please people and feeling like they’ll never be good enough. There’s enough competition at school and work that there’s no need for it in families. Competing for the …
Seguir leyendo 15-year-old calls out her parents favoritism towards her 17-year-old sister during her dad’s birthday party, uncle agrees with her: ‘I asked why they only talk about Amy, why don’t they care more about me’
Parents put their phones on do not disturb from 10 PM to 7 AM every night, sleep through their 18-year-old getting in a car crash at 1 AM: ‘I couldn’t forgive them for making me feel abandoned’
If there’s one thing I know about my mom, it’s that she can’t sleep. I know that it’s low-key my fault because she hasn’t been able to sleep 8 hours a night consistently since she had kids. It’s not that we were getting her up all night into our teens, but rather that she was …
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The Most Entertaining Parenting Texts of the Week (October 29, 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 child endangerment. …
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