The Wildest Parenting Posts of the Week (March 18, 2024)

There is this weird parenting trend that I’ve been so baffled by when I’ve seen it on TikTok. I’m sure you’ve heard of parents deciding to never say «no» to their children but rather redirecting them towards the results that they (the parents) want. For example, when your child says, «Can I stick this fork …
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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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‘It’s my house my rules’: Son kicks out overbearing mom for continuing to make breakfast despite his wishes

They say that breakfast is the most important meal of the day, but apparently, that slogan was made up by breakfast cereal lobbyists. The most important meal of the day is whatever one you want it to me. Personally, I’m a breakfast believer, just because I love breakfast foods. Give me a fried egg, a …
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30+ of the Funniest Parenting Tweets of the Week (March 14, 2024)

Parenting is an Olympic-level sport. It requires great feats of stamina, engineering, and functioning on as little sleep as humanly possible. I don’t think anyone would say it’s easy unless you have a team of nannies and a fleet of housekeepers. Even then, they will come up to you and say «Mommy, where do babies …
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‘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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The Wildest Parenting Texts of the Week (March 12, 2024)

Parenting: no matter how hard I try, it will always be what my Instagram reels return to. I’m totally cool with it, though! There’s nothing more entertaining to me as a 24-year-old without children than a mom posting about how her kids have «different personalities» when they go to their dad’s house because he allows …
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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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Karen freaks out when sleepover host mom feeds her son donuts for breakfast: ‘[You’re] going to make him obese’

Ahhhh, sleepovers. They are one of the most treasured experiences of childhood, where so many of the rules of social acceptability wear off. I went to all sorts of sleepovers in my day. I went to sleepovers where parents supplied the teens with alcohol. I hosted sleepovers where I cried if my fellow kids didn’t …
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‘Your daughter is beautiful, she must look like her father’: Parents share the most patronizing parenting ‘compliments’ they’ve ever received

If there’s one group of people who knows how to be shady, it’s parents. Parents aren’t typically throwing shade at any rando who encounters their family. Instead, they’re casting a glaring side-eye at other parents they deem inferior or superior in some way. You know the types…the ones who say, «My kid is «going to …
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