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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‘This was some secret test’: Weird mom friends shame child-free woman for ignoring baby’s cry at a restaurant
Thankfully, I’m not at the age where I’m starting to «lose friends» to parenthood, like the subject of this recent horror story. But I imagine that’s a hard thing to go through. You can have all the intention in the world of staying friends, but life will rapidly get in the way if one of …
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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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The Most Entertaining Parenting Posts of the Week (March 25, 2024)
Boy moms are such an interesting group. I’m not talking about normal mothers who happen to have only given birth to members of the male gender; I’m more referring to moms who wrap up a large part of their identity in being the mother of a boy, which is just so different than mothering girls. …
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The Wildest Parenting Texts of the Week (March 19, 2024)
When you dig through as many texts from bad parents as I have, you start to see some patterns emerge. It’s genuinely devastating how many parents would rather cling to the idea that they’re right about everything and their kids are wrong about everything than have a productive conversation with them. They would rather never …
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The Wildest Parenting Posts of the Week (March 18, 2024)
There is this weird parenting trend that I’ve been so baffled by when I’ve seen it on TikTok. I’m sure you’ve heard of parents deciding to never say «no» to their children but rather redirecting them towards the results that they (the parents) want. For example, when your child says, «Can I stick this fork …
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‘Clapping at TV shows’: Former kids share weird things their families did while raising them
Every family has those little quirky things they do differently than other families. I come from a mother and a father who were always clinically early to every event we have ever attended together. On a good day, we would get to extracurricular activities or movie theaters a good 15-30 minutes early. I know that …
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‘We’ve tried nothing and we’re all out of ideas’: Kid punches teacher and breaks his glasses, Parents suggest ‘calming banana’ as the solution
Kids misbehave in a multitude of ways. Misbehavior can be chalked up to developmentally normal deviance or it can be indicative of more dangerous behavior to come if it’s not properly dealt with. The key is knowing the difference. When I was a kid, I got in trouble for talking too much in class (I’ll …
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‘Eventually they stopped asking [to play]’: Mom brags about never playing pretend with her kids, claims it teaches independence
If you’ve ever babysat a kid, you know that «playing pretend» is much less fun than you remember it being when you were their age. I would devise many fanciful scenarios in my toddler mind that were so fun when I was young and carefree and illiterate. It was a whole different story when I …
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The Wildest Parenting Texts of the Week (March 12, 2024)
Parenting: no matter how hard I try, it will always be what my Instagram reels return to. I’m totally cool with it, though! There’s nothing more entertaining to me as a 24-year-old without children than a mom posting about how her kids have «different personalities» when they go to their dad’s house because he allows …
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