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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The Most Entertaining Parenting Posts of the Week (April 1, 2024)
Happy April Fools Day, parents and non-parents alike! I’ve got to say, I feel like April Fools Day is an underrated holiday that’s way more fun when you have kids. Some kids might be on high alert all day, making sure that they don’t get pranked. For others, it’s extremely easy to tell them that …
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Mother bans playdates after 12-year-old refuses to include her 4-year-old sister, gets called out for her lazy parenting: ‘Mom just wants big sister to babysit’
My sister and I have a pretty tiny age gap. We are solid two years and four months apart in age, and that meant we spent a lot of time playing together as kids. Often, her friends were my friends, and my friends were her friends, too. We had neighbor kid friends who were also …
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The Wildest Parenting Texts of the Week (March 26, 2024)
Within every individual lies the desire to know juicy gossip. You might be somebody who claims they’re not about the drama. Still, I know that when it comes down to it, you aren’t going to ignore incredibly damning stories about your acquaintances you feel negatively towards. It’s in our human nature to seek out a …
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5-year-old stars the day with a chocolate bar and iPad time, commenters chastise parents: ‘What level of brain rot’
I was a picky kid. There wasn’t a lot I’d be willing to eat for breakfast, but cereal was one of them. I craved that hit of sugar in the mornings. I still do, though I realize that a bowl of cereal is not nearly enough to keep me sustained for more than an hour. …
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