‘Perpetual teenagers. How boring’: Twitter users argue over Seth Rogen explaining why he doesn’t have kids

There are few more seismic choices in life than whether or not you choose to have children, and as a result, it’s rarely a topic that people can be balanced and normal about. There are plenty of entitled parents out there who become completely insufferable when anybody has the gall to say they don’t want …
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‘My parents have full run of my house’: Entitled family insist son let pregnant sister and child move in, gets offended when he won’t babyproof

One of the most important parts about having a family is that you are all there for one another during the hard times. Many people don’t know where they would be without that support system to fall back on, but it can have its limits. There is a big difference between receiving much-needed help and …
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‘Clapping at TV shows’: Former kids share weird things their families did while raising them

Every family has those little quirky things they do differently than other families. I come from a mother and a father who were always clinically early to every event we have ever attended together. On a good day, we would get to extracurricular activities or movie theaters a good 15-30 minutes early. I know that …
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Funniest Parenting Memes of the Week for Funny Moms and Dads Parenting the Best They Can Parent (March 16, 2024)

Where did your mini-me get all that sass?? Oh… 

‘We’ve tried nothing and we’re all out of ideas’: Kid punches teacher and breaks his glasses, Parents suggest ‘calming banana’ as the solution

Kids misbehave in a multitude of ways. Misbehavior can be chalked up to developmentally normal deviance or it can be indicative of more dangerous behavior to come if it’s not properly dealt with. The key is knowing the difference. When I was a kid, I got in trouble for talking too much in class (I’ll …
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‘Eventually they stopped asking [to play]’: Mom brags about never playing pretend with her kids, claims it teaches independence

If you’ve ever babysat a kid, you know that «playing pretend» is much less fun than you remember it being when you were their age. I would devise many fanciful scenarios in my toddler mind that were so fun when I was young and carefree and illiterate. It was a whole different story when I …
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‘That’s such a Hufflepuff thing to say’: Harry Potter fans and haters react to Miriam Margolyes criticizing adult Harry Potter obsessives

When it comes to the Millennial legacy, there is one thing that will give avocado toast a run for its money. It’s the fact that this group is one of the first to be such devoted fans of their favorite childhood media when they grow up. I know there probably are some Boomers who are …
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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 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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Funniest Parenting Memes for Moms, Dads, and Legal Gaurdians Parenting the Best They Can Parent Nowadays (March 9, 2024)

I’m ‘bout to be terrible too during these terrible twos…