There’s a stereotype about young men… that they punch holes in the wall when they get angry. I understand the impulse, sure. Sometimes a good punch is needed to get out all the excess anger. But usually a pillow or a stray plank of wood is a good option for emotional release, not the drywall …
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‘Letting the tablet raise them’: Parents share the parenting trends they disagree with
Throughout the past 100 years, many different parenting trends have gone in and out of style. One of the biggest trends that has all but dissipated is parents leaving their kids outside to play by themselves for hours at a time. Starting with panic about child abductions in the 80s, compounded with the rise of …
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The Wildest Parenting Posts of the Week (April 8, 2024)
I learn so many new things about parenting by looking at parenting fails. While some aspects of parenting are intuitive, there are about a million things that you need to learn about child-rearing before you actually have a baby. For instance, I was completely ignorant about bed-sharing and safe sleep until I started willingly exposing …
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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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The Most Entertaining Parenting Posts of the Week (April 1, 2024)
Happy April Fools Day, parents and non-parents alike! I’ve got to say, I feel like April Fools Day is an underrated holiday that’s way more fun when you have kids. Some kids might be on high alert all day, making sure that they don’t get pranked. For others, it’s extremely easy to tell them that …
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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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‘This was some secret test’: Weird mom friends shame child-free woman for ignoring baby’s cry at a restaurant
Thankfully, I’m not at the age where I’m starting to «lose friends» to parenthood, like the subject of this recent horror story. But I imagine that’s a hard thing to go through. You can have all the intention in the world of staying friends, but life will rapidly get in the way if one of …
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The Wildest Parenting Texts of the Week (March 26, 2024)
Within every individual lies the desire to know juicy gossip. You might be somebody who claims they’re not about the drama. Still, I know that when it comes down to it, you aren’t going to ignore incredibly damning stories about your acquaintances you feel negatively towards. It’s in our human nature to seek out a …
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The Most Entertaining Parenting Posts of the Week (March 25, 2024)
Boy moms are such an interesting group. I’m not talking about normal mothers who happen to have only given birth to members of the male gender; I’m more referring to moms who wrap up a large part of their identity in being the mother of a boy, which is just so different than mothering girls. …
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