30+ of the Funniest Parenting Tweets of the Week (March 14, 2024)

Parenting is an Olympic-level sport. It requires great feats of stamina, engineering, and functioning on as little sleep as humanly possible. I don’t think anyone would say it’s easy unless you have a team of nannies and a fleet of housekeepers. Even then, they will come up to you and say «Mommy, where do babies …
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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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Entitled parents belittle grandmother for taking their kids to Epcot while babysitting: ‘She was distraught over missing their first Disney trip’

There are some parents out there who are obsessed with their children’s «firsts.» I can understand that a kid’s first words, first steps, and first days of school are all incredibly salient moments for parents to remember for the rest of their lives, even if their kids don’t retain them. While I respect the documentation …
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Mother admonished for being overly controlling about her daughter’s birthday dinner: ‘Is it wrong that I wanted to do it as a family?’

Often in life, if you hold on to things too tight and try to perfect the situation—trying to please everybody—you’re going to end up pleasing nobody. Especially if, you’re so obsessed with your own thoughts and ideals that you forget to actually even listen to what everyone else is telling you would make them happy …
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‘The baby getting lit up’: Devoted dad creates home nightclub for two daughters

It’s widely accepted that to be a good parent, you have to make sacrifices that you wouldn’t have when you were blissfully childfree. What they don’t tell you is that sometimes, you can just switch it up instead. While you might not be able to tear up the dancefloor in the club every weekend when …
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‘Your daughter is beautiful, she must look like her father’: Parents share the most patronizing parenting ‘compliments’ they’ve ever received

If there’s one group of people who knows how to be shady, it’s parents. Parents aren’t typically throwing shade at any rando who encounters their family. Instead, they’re casting a glaring side-eye at other parents they deem inferior or superior in some way. You know the types…the ones who say, «My kid is «going to …
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30 of the Funniest Parenting Tweets of the Week (March 7, 2024)

One of the best things about being a parent is getting to commiserate online with all of your fellow parents. They get it. There’s only so much your friends can take, especially if they don’t have kids. They will never truly understand the pain of having to overhear the same episode of Bluey every day …
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The Wildest Parenting Texts of the Week (March 5, 2024)

There’s something about texting that can wash away the shame of the questions you’re asking. Think about it…if you look through your old texts, I’m sure you’ve sent messages you’d be ashamed to say aloud. I’m not just talking about those kinds of texts; I’m talking about any texts. Sometimes I read back messages I’ve …
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Godmother criticizes mother for naming her daughter Ghiuliyette: ‘Why ruin such a beautiful name by including letters that don’t belong there?’

My sister has an unusual spelling of her name. Well, it might’ve been considered unusual 20 years ago, but with the recent increase in parents naming their kids all sorts of absurd things, it’s pretty conventional. She spells her name with a ‘C’ instead of a ‘K’ for one of those conventionally K names…Kaitlyn, Katherine, …
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The Most Entertaining Parenting Posts of the Week (March 4, 2024)

On some levels, I understand the appeal of a Mom Facebook group. It’s a good way to find community when you’re moving to a new city and want to connect with local parents. When you’re a first-time mom, it can feel better to get advice from those who understand what you’re going through instead of …
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