Millennial Parents Determined to End Their Family’s Generational Traumas Prove Their Parenting Is Working By Having Their Kids Try and Fail to Finish Common Toxic Discipline Phrases

Parenting has never been easy and is always evolving. Luckily, millennial parents are proving that has been evolving for the better. You might be thinking, «how so?» Well, you can turn to TikTok, a Gen Z popular app of all places, to find the answer!    A popular trend between young parents on TikTok is …
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25+ Memes for the Bilingual Struggle

English is all fun and games until you’re faced with to, too, and two. Or all the different uses of «was.» Or the endless homographs like bass and bass and wind and wind and wound and wound. To say nothing of the homophones. Or the myriad exceptions to the myriad rules. English is not easy, …
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Educated adults worry that ‘reading and writing on a normal level’ is becoming a thing of the past for Gen Alpha: ‘The literacy level has dropped so much in last ten years’

The whole goal of school is to teach reading, writing, and arithmetic. The bare bones of knowledge. But now, according to some pundits on Twitter, some of that is starting to disappear. We all know that social media is dwindling our attention spans and the proliferation of user-friendly AI has made it easier to cheat, …
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‘I’m a surgeon, I don’t have time for you’: Teachers Share Stories About Parents Who Need a Lesson in Parenting

Teachers deserve better pay, more respect than they’re given, and honestly, a gold medal per kid that’s learning in their class. One teacher took to r/teachers and shared a story that bothered them, asking fellow educators to share examples of parents being ‘too busy’ or ‘too successful’ to pay attention to their kids. The teacher …
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‘People my age act like youre a wizard if you have hobbies beyond Hulu’: Hobbyists share what hobbies people over 25 can do besides drinking and going to the gym

As you grow older, the hobbies that used to shape your life tend to fall away. This could be for money reasons (those oil paints aren’t going to pay for themselves), getting embarrassed (it’s not cute to be a 40-year-old open mic comedian in a Rust Belt city), or truly aging out of things (once …
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‘What were they thinking?’: 20+ Wildest Foods People Still Don’t Understand How Humans Discovered

Even if you were not a fan of history class in school, you have to admit that history and stories about people who lived in the same places we live right now are pretty interesting. My version of history class today as an adult is videos about how people used to get by, mainly explaining …
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30 of the Funniest Shower Thoughts of the Month for Deep Thinkers (March 13, 2024)

The human mind is capable of incredible things. Some of us are out here curing diseases, building rockets, and writing great works of literature. The achievement of humanity is nothing to sneeze at. We’ve mapped the universe, figured out how gravity works, and even gone to the moon. But we are equally capable of being …
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41 Polyglot Memes for Language Learners With Their Tongue in a Twist

Whether you’re learning your second, third, or fourth language, there’s always something special about picking up a few words that are unfamiliar. However, your misplaced confidence will quickly deflate when you have your tongue in a twist and your foot in your mouth after accidentally insulting some poor restaurant employee’s grandma. Learning another language can be …
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30+ History Memes That Educate as They Entertain

Call me a nerd, but history was always one of my favorite classes throughout school. Especially when I got to US History junior year of high school because I had an excellent teacher who really made me care about the subject. That’s all it takes to get someone interested in something: a good teacher. Consider …
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Teachers Complain About All the Basic Knowledge That Pupils No Longer Have

Childhood is a vital time of life for many reasons, and perhaps the most important one is that it’s a time of learning things. We don’t just pop out the womb instinctively knowing every single thing that we’re supposed to do. Our first eighteen years are instrumental in setting us up for the practicalities of …
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