Kids will both keep you young and make you feel old at the same time. They make you feel young because suddenly your brain is filled with information about the latest Minecraft YouTuber drama and you know what a «Feastable» is. They make you feel old because you spend so much time doing your laundry …
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18-year-old daughter cuts off her mom and stepdad immediately after her wedding, comes crawling back 6 years later with 2 kids asking for money after her husband cheated: ‘I told her very calmly that she cut ME off for no reason’
If you’re in the online parenting/family sphere, you’ve probably seen a lot of talk about «going no-contact» recently. This is by no means a new phenomenon, but it appears to be becoming even more common, with people cutting off their families for reasons that range from totally understandable to head-scratching. It isn’t easy to gauge …
Seguir leyendo 18-year-old daughter cuts off her mom and stepdad immediately after her wedding, comes crawling back 6 years later with 2 kids asking for money after her husband cheated: ‘I told her very calmly that she cut ME off for no reason’
29-year-old man refuses to keep sending money to his partner’s mother, who requests large amounts of cash for countless luxury items: ‘This constant financial support is draining’
Making good money in this economy is a feat, so pat yourself on the back if you’ve got a chunky savings account with a good amount of zeroes. In relationships, when do you start sharing finances? Do you keep your cash separate until one of you decides to put a ring on the other’s finger, …
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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 …
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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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The Most Entertaining Parenting Posts of the Week (April 7, 2025)
Remember when your parents would tell you not to post everything on Facebook? This might be unique to Gen Z, where our parents were smart enough about social media to look at our pages and monitor our posts but resigned to the fact that they can’t stop us from using it entirely. My mom would …
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25+ of the Funniest Parenting Tweets of the Week (April 3, 2025)
Being a parent is all about the joy of getting to see what kind of kid your child grows up to be. Will they be funny like you, or earnest like your partner, or a whole new kind of personality that will throw you both for a loop? What kind of interests will they develop- …
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36-year-old stepmom forces 18-year-old stepdaughter to babysit her 3-month-old baby onto her without asking, won’t take no for an answer: ‘I have woken up to her crib in my room’
If I were the mother of a 3-month-old, I would not be handing her off to anyone and everyone in my vicinity to babysit. That’s one of the most vulnerable and difficult times of motherhood because the baby is wholly dependent on you for survival, and your hormones are still totally out of whack from …
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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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The Most Entertaining Parenting Posts of the Week (March 31, 2025)
Every Facebook group on the planet has that one person who never shuts up. A group member could post something that has literally nothing to do with them, their family, their interests, or their expertise, and they will still find a way to comment about it. I know a lot of people who love to …
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