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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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 …
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The Cringiest Parenting Posts of the Week (July 10, 2023)
It’s normal to be embarrassed by your parents. There comes a time in every tween’s life when nothing your parents do won’t be embarrassing. You could be walking through the store with your mom, who drove you there, and get embarrassed because you’re 13 and shopping with your mom. 13-year-olds know that everybody knows that …
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The Cringiest Parenting Posts of the Week (July 3, 2023)
Breastfeeding is one of the biggest hot-button issues on the parenting side of Facebook. So many crunchy parents are obsessed with it one way or another, but most of the time, it’s mothers who breastfeed their children the longest who have the hottest take on this feeding practice. I understand that breastfeeding can be an …
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The Cringiest Parenting Posts of the Week (June 20, 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 …
Seguir leyendo The Cringiest Parenting Posts of the Week (June 20, 2023)