The Most Entertaining Parenting Posts of the Week (March 11, 2024)

So many parents spill their entire life stories on Mommy Facebook Groups, and I can’t understand it for the life of me. Once, in my local community, an anonymous poster asked about a man her 24-year-old daughter was dating. She described and identified basically everything about this man: he was in his early 40s,  a …
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The Most Entertaining Parenting Posts of the Week (February 26, 2024)

We should all know less about each other. This mantra has popped up on Twitter recently, often in response to people sharing graphic personal details online that nobody asked for. With the advent of social media, we have become conditioned to share so much of our lives with strangers. We’re not just showing the shiny …
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The Most Entertaining Parenting Posts of the Week (February 19, 2024)

I understand the impulse to complain about your kids. In fact, I think it’s a necessary thing to do when you’re an overwhelmed parent whose frustrations are falling on deaf ears. However, I think there’s a time and a place to do so. Talking to a therapist about your kids? That’s an A+ venue. Confiding …
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The Most Entertaining Parenting Posts of the Week (February 5, 2024)

Helicopter parents are such an interesting breed and far more common than you’d think! I’m not talking about parents who want their kids to call them every day or share their location, although those are admittedly some markers of helicopter parents. I’m talking about the moms who have to call their adult sons every morning …
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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 Parenting Posts of the Week (November 27, 2023)

There’s something so powerful about being able to post anonymously. Stan Twitter has it all figured out; freely posting your most insane feelings about the person you’re obsessed with without anybody knowing who you really are. Tumblr has also got a flawless system. You can ask inane questions to your favorite posters without revealing that …
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The Cringiest Parenting Posts of the Week (September 25, 2023)

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 …
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