‘Good luck with that’: Parents try grounding adult son who’s been paying rent since he was 16

I have a bone to pick. Maybe this is because most of my life, I’ve been a freeloader who hasn’t had to pay my own rent (shoutout to 17 years of being a child), but I don’t understand when parents charge their children rent. If a person is under 18, there is no world where …
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The Wildest Parenting Posts of the Week (April 15, 2024)

I’m kind of obsessed with the intersection of moms who are super trad and moms who post their family’s entire life on social media for all to see. If you want to live on a homestead, homeschool your children, and make sure that they never eat any Red Dye 40 for as long as they …
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‘My uncles are infamous criminals…I thought they bred dogs’: 20 wild family secrets that finally came to light

Every family has its secrets. I have been finding out a lot of family secrets over the last couple of years, and by a lot, I mean 2. That probably doesn’t sound like a lot to you, but for a person who is always trying to figure stuff out about their family before they were …
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Dad forces 18-year-old son to pay rent or get out, allows 22 year old unemployed son to live with him rent free: ‘I’m getting punished for my brothers actions’

If I’ve learned anything from my extended family, it’s that you should not let your adult son live in your house rent-free for years with no job and no prospects. When I was a kid, teenager, and college student, one of my biggest fears was that I would never be able to get a job, …
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The Wildest Parenting Texts of the Week (April 2, 2024)

If you ever thought that your parents were bad, watch Female Trouble. I am so grateful that I don’t have juvenile delinquent turned petty criminal turned international model turned death row inmate Dawn Davenport as my mother. If it weren’t a hilarious John Waters comedy, Female Trouble would be a harrowing tale of parental abuse. …
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‘It’s easier having 1 person to take care of instead of 2’: Couple divorces after lazy dad refuses to help wife at home, gets 50/50 custody and she soars while he sinks

If you’re old enough to have a kid, you shouldn’t need somebody to tell you to take the trash out. Equitable distribution of housework within families is a hot-button issue that people discuss online with much frequency but with very little nuance. So many trad individuals like to say that since husbands work, the wife …
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‘My kids are my favorite people to hangout with. No one is as cool and funny and interesting’: Parents share their positive experiences with parenthood

Parenthood can get a bad reputation on the internet. I feel like there are two camps of «parent influencers» roaming about: The Twitter moms who make jokes and commiserate about being a parent and the Instagram Reels moms who act like parenthood is the most uncomplicated, intuitive, beautiful thing in the world. In reality, neither …
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‘My kids are my favorite people to hangout with’: Parents share their positive experiences with parenthood

Parenthood can get a bad reputation on the internet. I feel like there are two camps of «parent influencers» roaming about: The Twitter moms who make jokes and commiserate about being a parent and the Instagram Reels moms who act like parenthood is the most uncomplicated, intuitive, beautiful thing in the world. In reality, neither …
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Man asks the mother of his child for a DNA test, can’t understand why she moved in with her parents: ‘She said she lost all respect for me’

There are a lot of lies and vicious rumors about women promulgated online, particularly by members of The Manosphere. If you’re an average person who is unaware of the layers of the Manosphere, Wikipedia is here to help: «The manosphere is a diverse collection of websites, blogs, and online forums promoting masculinity, misogyny, and opposition …
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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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