Napping mom leaves 7-year-old son at school 90 minutes after dismissal, gets offended when sister picks him up and calls her out: ‘She accused me of overreacting’

No mom or dad goes through their parenting journey without making a few mistakes. It’s just the way that things go when you are raising a whole human or several. However, how you react to them and learn from them says everything about who you are as a parent, and it doesn’t always paint a …
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8-year-old student with anger issues destroys his 3rd grade classroom, teacher takes rest of the class into the hallway and lets him reek havoc without consequences: ‘Are schools not allowed to punish bad students anymore?’

The rulebook for disciplining kids in the classroom has been thrown out the window. Nobody wants to return to the days of Paddlin’ Peggy Hill for good reasons, but there has to be a compromise between spanking students for misbehavior and just letting it happen without consequence. Even the concept of an afterschool or lunchtime …
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Mom allows 5-year-old daughter to dress herself for kindergarten, grandma is horrified at the clashing patterns of her outfits: ‘She thinks kids will start to think my child is the weird one’

Kids are very opinionated about how they dress. When my little sister was in preschool, she wore the same rainbow dress nearly every single day. There was nothing you could say to her to get her to change when she had her heart set on that dress. Our mom was willing to accept that this …
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Aunt bans children from family gatherings at her home, despite her 4 and 6-year-old nephews being the only kids in the family: ‘If this becomes the norm, what happens for holidays like Thanksgiving and Christmas?’

It’s not easy when rules that feel targeted at you are implemented. I empathize with the mom in this story because her kids’ exclusion feels a bit like high school. She is the only person in the family with young children, and her sister decided to implement a «no kids» rule for gatherings at her …
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Lawyer yells at 8-year-old kid for running around the office and slamming door, his mom refuses to apologize or punish him: ‘This morning apparently I’m the talk of their office’

Do you ever hear about a situation and think, ‘This has happened to Miranda Hobbes?’ It’s not even a question of whether it might’ve happened to her or whether it would’ve been a good storyline for her: The situation shared in this Reddit post is the most Miranda thing I’ve ever heard. It’s more Miranda …
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Kid Memes For Exhausted Parents And Grateful Childless People

It’s easy to get fixated on the little things with parenting; it’s tiresome, you can never clock out, and kids drain your bank account like no other. While these things are true and can be incredibly frustrating, it’s important to sit back every once in a while and think about the enormity of bringing lives …
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Mom Adopts a Kitten to Save it From the Clutches of a Spoiled Brat 7-Year-Old Caught Man-Handling the Pick of the Litter

Some kids are born gentle, inherently understanding that fragile critters like kittens, puppies, and younger siblings, need to be handled with soft hands, gentle pats, and the sweetest of kisses on the forehead. Other children, the feral kind with parents who neglect to teach them good manners, are terrifying giants to these little babies, becoming …
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Aunt refuses to take 8-year-old niece out for meals after she continuously orders $50 worth of food and refuses to eat it: ‘She will ask for 50 piece nuggets, large fries, deluxe quarter pounder with cheese and two shakes with two ice creams’

It ain’t always easy being the fun aunt. You get the opportunity to spend a lot of money on your nieces and nephews and spend quality time with them, but you don’t have the authority to parent them. If your siblings or your partner’s siblings have parented them well, they should be able to understand …
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Mom grounds her 25-year-old kid for wanting to go to a LARPing event that costs over $100: ‘They owe us $350 in back rent due to us not charging them rent when they weren’t working’

Adult children living at home with their parents can create an awkward dynamic. Usually, the goal of this situation is to save up enough money so the kid can live outside of their parent’s house without great struggle, but tensions will rise when you’re nowhere close to that goal. Some kids will take advantage of …
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32 Nostalgic Childhood Memes to Heal Your Inner Kiddo

Are you feeling melancholic this week? Do you miss when your biggest problem was deciding which face paint design you wanted at the county fair? Correct answer: Spiderman, always. Those were the days, weren’t they? Instead of paperwork, we had multiplication worksheets. Instead of a 9-5, we had a 7-3. Nobody, not even children, enjoyed …
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