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‘Cut the umbilical cord already’: Fed up fiancée calls off wedding after overbearing mother-in-law makes excuses to postpone on 4 different occasions
Something that not everybody considers when getting into a relationship is that if it becomes serious, your dynamic with your in-laws can be almost as important as that with your partner. Whether wayward or overbearing, the parents of your beloved can have an outsized influence on how happy you are in your life together. If …
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The Best Heartwarmingly Wholesome Memes and Posts of the Week (April 25, 2024)
Being happy is not an effortless pursuit, especially in the world that we live in. When we’re in a bad place, it’s easy to look around at the people who seem to be breezing along without a care and think they just have it easy. That is likely not true on multiple counts: firstly, everybody …
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35 of the Funniest Parenting Tweets of the Week (April 25, 2024)
Baby fever is real. You can go your whole life not thinking babies are cute, and then see one video of a baby hearing his mother’s voice for the first time (using a hearing aid) and suddenly you’re roaming the halls of Buy Buy Baby, picking up little socks just to feel something. It happens to the strongest of …
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‘I would simply command the child to be quiet’: Childless woman claims kids shouldn’t be in public if they can’t be quiet, gets roasted by parents
Kids are not always the most quiet members of society. They tend to say anything that pops into their head, especially when they’re not of school age quite yet. Little kids frequently cannot control their emotions and, as a result, have crazy meltdowns in public in front of everybody. As much as a baby crying …
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The Wildest Parenting Texts of the Week (April 23, 2024)
When I think of the ultimate parenting failure, I think of Billy Bigelow. He is the protagonist (and antagonist) of the musical Carousel, and ding dong, does he have high highs and low lows. He finds out his wife (whom he constantly mistreats) is pregnant, steals money to provide for his future child, and ends …
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‘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» …
Seguir leyendo ‘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
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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16-year-old graciously cooks his family’s nightly dinner, stops when his dad and siblings incessantly criticize his meals: ‘Too spicy, wanted rice instead of noodles, didn’t want soup’
There are some household duties that typically constitute a kid’s chores; cleaning your room, taking out the trash, and doing the dishes are chores kids of any age can do. Cooking dinner every night for your entire family is typically not one of them, but that was a chore assigned to a 16-year-old boy with …
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21 Best Parenting Memes of the Week for Witty Moms and Dads Laughing and Parenting the Best They Can (April 20, 2024)
What a wild ride this whole parenting thing turned out to be.