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’
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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
Parents forget their daughter’s 33rd birthday, get angry when her boyfriend wishes her ‘Happy Birthday’ online: ‘Not saying anything and then posting about it was passive aggressive’
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 …
Seguir leyendo Parents forget their daughter’s 33rd birthday, get angry when her boyfriend wishes her ‘Happy Birthday’ online: ‘Not saying anything and then posting about it was passive aggressive’
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 …
Seguir leyendo 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’
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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