It’s so easy to judge other parents, but you should hesitate before doing so. When I see a mom at the grocery store whispering aggressively into her kid’s ear about how he’d better behave himself, I feel for her. It’s not easy to openly struggle with your kids like that; it can be a humiliating …
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The Cringiest Parenting Posts of the Week (September 11, 2023)
We’ve been making entertainment spectacles out of lousy parenting for at least as long as I’ve been alive. As a kid, I was intrigued and compelled by the TV program Supernanny. For those of you living under a rock, Supernanny follows a British nanny named Jo, who helps families with poorly behaved children. Sometimes, the …
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The Cringiest Parenting Posts of the Week (September 4, 2023)
Mommy Facebook groups are harmful for the same reason they’re beneficial: they bring isolated people together. Motherhood is extremely difficult, especially at the beginning. People shame mothers for only wanting to talk about their babies, isolating them from friends and family. Often, they have a spouse who works outside the house, so they spend most …
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The Cringiest Parenting Posts of the Week (August 28, 2023)
The first day of school is upon us, and you know what that means? It means that parents everywhere are going to be posting their children’s information via those little blackboards on Facebook for the next two weeks. I don’t know when those things emerged because I certainly wasn’t holding up my social security number …
Seguir leyendo The Cringiest Parenting Posts of the Week (August 28, 2023)
The Cringiest Parenting Posts of the Week (August 21, 2023)
Recently, I’ve been seeing a lot more parents online talking about «unschooling» their children. Unschooling was one of those things that ABC might’ve covered ten years ago as a human interest piece, but nobody really took it seriously as a way to educate kids. For those of y’all who don’t know, this is the definition …
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The Cringiest Parenting Posts of the Week (August 14, 2023)
One of the newest weird trends in parenting right now is «living off the grid.» I’m not talking about people choosing to live and raise their family in a rural, remote area. I’m talking about parents making the conscious decision of not letting the government know that their child even exists. They don’t get a …
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The Cringiest Parenting Posts of the Week (August 7, 2023)
One of the scariest things about Mommy Facebook Groups is how much personal information people are willing to share on them. I’m convinced that so many of these moms never learned that creepy people can use what you post online stalkingly. Either that, or they don’t think it will happen to them. It’s one thing …
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The Cringiest Parenting Posts of the Week (July 31, 2023)
Confirmation bias can do a lot of damage. Someone can hear a million things from doctors and experts that go against their deeply held beliefs, but if they hear one doctor out of a sea of naysayers articulate a take that they agree with, they might take it to the end of the world. After …
Seguir leyendo The Cringiest Parenting Posts of the Week (July 31, 2023)
The Cringiest Parenting Posts of the Week (July 24, 2023)
Mommy Facebook Groups are by no means a new phenomenon. I have been making fun of them since I was a teenager, which didn’t go unnoticed by my Texan suburban community. Long story short, I was a member of my high school’s sketch comedy team. I know, extremely cool, very popular, and totally not lame …
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The Cringiest Parenting Posts of the Week (July 17, 2023)
«iPad Kids» are a hot-button issue in the world of parenting right now. Some parents think that anything they can do to calm their kids down is worth doing, even if it’s not a last resort. Other parents refuse to expose their kids to any technology until it’s absolutely necessary. I don’t really have a …
Seguir leyendo The Cringiest Parenting Posts of the Week (July 17, 2023)