‘Happy New Year, the misery never ends’: The cringiest cringe pics of the week (January 3, 2024)

The act of cringing might only last a moment, but cringe itself lasts a lifetime. As much as we’d like to deny it, we’re still thinking about a few select moments from our younger years that we can’t help but cringe about. For me, it’s throwing up on the school bus leaving my 8th-grade field …
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The Cringiest Parenting Texts of the Week (January 2, 2024)

Happy New Year! 2024 is upon us, and it’s prime time for setting goals that you will surely hold yourself to in the coming year. For some of you, that might mean limiting contact with your family. For others, it could mean finally going to therapy to learn how to hold your own in a …
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The Cringiest Parenting Posts of the Week (January 1, 2024)

Advocating for natural, at-home births has always been a part of the crunchy mom community. Growing up, I knew a mom who birthed three out of her four kids in a kiddie pool in her living room. One of those births was even live-streamed on Vimeo. No offense to this woman or anyone else who …
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The Cringiest Cringe of the Week (December 27, 2023)

Did you know that «cringe» didn’t always mean what it means today? There are many definitions of cringe, most of them boiling down to experiencing «an inward feeling of acute embarrassment or awkwardness.» Thanks, Google! However, there are more specific definitions of this pervasive word. According to Miriam Webster, the top definition of cringe is …
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The Cringiest Parenting Texts of the Week (December 26, 2023)

As I sort through all sorts of cringe parenting texts, I start to see some patterns emerge. It’s wild how many times I’ve seen texts from different parents that all basically say the same thing. They’re always sidestepping their past behavior and blaming their kid for distancing themselves from them. They are willing to insult …
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The Cringiest Parenting Posts of the Week (Christmas Edition) (December 25, 2023)

Merry Christmas, everybody! If I were you, I probably wouldn’t be spending Jesus’s birthday scrolling through humiliating posts from Facebook moms, but then again, I’m not you! Maybe you don’t celebrate Christmas, or you unwrapped all of your presents in a mere 20 minutes! There’s only so much you can do to fill your time …
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The Cringiest Cringe Pics of the Week (December 20, 2023)

I have committed so many acts of cringe in my life, so I might as well share some with you. After all, I’m going to be throwing so many stones at cringe people; I might as well admit that I’m no better than the cringey people who lie in these pics below us. When I …
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The Cringiest Parenting Posts of the Week (December 18, 2023)

I never understood parents who are so against their kids having sweets that they’ll ban them from eating birthday cake or cookies at other people’s parties. I know that it’s important to build healthy habits or whatever, but you know what they say about sheltered kids…they are addicted to becoming rebellious teens. If you never …
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The Saddest Cringe Pics of the Week (December 13, 2023)

It’s no wonder that so much cringe content comes from the world of flirting. We all have been cringe while flirting at some point in our lives because it’s an inherently risky act. You express your romantic or sexual interest in someone with vibes and subtext and completely put the ball in their court to …
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The Cringiest Parenting Texts of the Week (December 12, 2023)

I am continually baffled by how some parents talk to their kids, particularly their daughters, about their bodies. I was lucky not to grow up in a household where my mom was constantly calling me fat, but I certainly knew some girls whose moms did exactly that. They are, what we digital natives call «almond …
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