‘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 …
Seguir leyendo ‘This was some secret test’: Weird mom friends shame child-free woman for ignoring baby’s cry at a restaurant

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 …
Seguir leyendo The Wildest Parenting Texts of the Week (March 26, 2024)

‘We think our baby is a genius’: Moms share the Mommy Facebook Group posts that live in their heads rent free

Mommy Facebook Groups aren’t easy to forget. If you’ve lived in any community with a high concentration of families over the past ten years, you’ve probably been a part of one or at least seen some of the nonsense that they produce on social media. In my hometown, our Mom Facebook Group was legendary as …
Seguir leyendo ‘We think our baby is a genius’: Moms share the Mommy Facebook Group posts that live in their heads rent free

5-year-old stars the day with a chocolate bar and iPad time, commenters chastise parents: ‘What level of brain rot’

I was a picky kid. There wasn’t a lot I’d be willing to eat for breakfast, but cereal was one of them. I craved that hit of sugar in the mornings. I still do, though I realize that a bowl of cereal is not nearly enough to keep me sustained for more than an hour. …
Seguir leyendo 5-year-old stars the day with a chocolate bar and iPad time, commenters chastise parents: ‘What level of brain rot’

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. …
Seguir leyendo The Most Entertaining Parenting Posts of the Week (March 25, 2024)

Man asks the mother of his child for a DNA test, can’t understand why she moved in with her parents: ‘She said she lost all respect for me’

There are a lot of lies and vicious rumors about women promulgated online, particularly by members of The Manosphere. If you’re an average person who is unaware of the layers of the Manosphere, Wikipedia is here to help: «The manosphere is a diverse collection of websites, blogs, and online forums promoting masculinity, misogyny, and opposition …
Seguir leyendo Man asks the mother of his child for a DNA test, can’t understand why she moved in with her parents: ‘She said she lost all respect for me’

‘I don’t want to make any friends I know I can’t have’: Homeschooling parents ban teen from having any friends outside of their family

When I was growing up, I was acquainted with several homeschooled kids. I did extracurricular theatre with a handful of them, and they were definitely on a spectrum regarding their social abilities. From my purview, the kids who seemed the most well-adjusted were the ones who had a vibrant and eventful social life outside of …
Seguir leyendo ‘I don’t want to make any friends I know I can’t have’: Homeschooling parents ban teen from having any friends outside of their family

‘You pay rent, so it is your space’: Careless parents let baby nephew make a mess in adult daughter’s room while she’s away

I wouldn’t call myself a neat freak, but I do like my space the way I like it. I always put my clothes away if they’re out, and I need my items to be in a specific place before I can rest. If someone stays over at my place, I welcome them as a friend, …
Seguir leyendo ‘You pay rent, so it is your space’: Careless parents let baby nephew make a mess in adult daughter’s room while she’s away

‘My 19 year old can’t spell or write’: Unschooling mom with illiterate kids calls herself a failure, the internet agrees

I have always been a little suspicious of alternative methods of schooling. I know that there are some parents out there who are completely competent at teaching their kids from Kindergarten to 12th grade, but I highly doubt that’s the majority of homeschoolers. Most of the time, kids who do their schooling at home would …
Seguir leyendo ‘My 19 year old can’t spell or write’: Unschooling mom with illiterate kids calls herself a failure, the internet agrees

The Wildest Parenting Texts of the Week (March 19, 2024)

When you dig through as many texts from bad parents as I have, you start to see some patterns emerge. It’s genuinely devastating how many parents would rather cling to the idea that they’re right about everything and their kids are wrong about everything than have a productive conversation with them. They would rather never …
Seguir leyendo The Wildest Parenting Texts of the Week (March 19, 2024)