‘She said I had to use the name, her daughter deserved that’: Bereaved mother freaks out when adult son refuses to name his daughter after his late baby sister

Grief is a messy and complicated thing we all have to go through at some point. It’s rarely something that someone can get over in a matter of months or weeks. It’s a long and winding road, with low lows and the capacity for high highs.  While the maxim «there’s no wrong way to grieve» …
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The Wildest Parenting Posts of the Week (April 22, 2024)

I do not envy mothers who post their experiences online just to be judged for every move they make. I know I am part of this problem (don’t shoot the messenger), but I am constantly amazed at how many moms get eviscerated online for doing totally innocuous things I would never bat an eye at. …
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‘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 internet really ruined like three generations of people’: Trad Gen-Z mom makes a wojak of her baby, gets roasted and praised for it

No matter how much time passes, there seem to be new wojaks that spring up every year. If you are unfamiliar with what a wojak is, this is how our friends at Know Your Meme define them:  «Feels Guy, also known as Wojak, is an MS Paint illustration of a bald man with a sad …
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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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Homeschool mom asks niece to teach illiterate 9-year-old daughter who can’t add single digit numbers: ‘I don’t think 4 hours once a week is enough at all’

One of the biggest arguments coming from the pro-homeschooling camp is that kids shouldn’t have to sit and be quiet for 7 hours a day. It is a little insane that we ask 6 and 7-year-olds to conform to a schedule that mirrors that of a full-time job. While it’s highly demanding in concept, it’s …
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‘You can’t always get what you want’: Woman refuses to give a demanding kid her donut at birthday party, leading to her being forced to leave

You know those parents who still act like children themselves, and then end up setting a terrible example to their kids? They spoil them to no end and teach them to act as petty and entitled as they do. And then, when those kids have children of their own, the cycle unfortunately continues. The mother …
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Woman Sacrifices Her Daughter’s College Fund After Her Other Kid Gave Birth to Her 4th Child, Leading to Discussion on Parenting

One woman made an enemy of her kid after she decided to liquidate her college fund in favor of her other daughter’s finances. Let’s call the children Anna and Maxine. Anna, a 24-year-old woman, gave birth to her 4th child, despite not actually being able to afford the first 4. It was well within her …
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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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