It’s difficult to have honest discussions with your parents about things they’ve done wrong. It’s drilled into us from childhood that kids should be eternally grateful to their parents, and while I think honoring your father and mother isn’t the worst virtue in the world, you shouldn’t look at your parents through rose-colored glasses either. …
Seguir leyendo The Wildest Parenting Texts of the Week (April 16, 2024)
Categoría:Parenting FAILS
‘As adults, we don’t share our personal items’: Controversial mom rejects the idea that ‘sharing is caring’
Like many kids, I grew up on the idea that «Sharing is caring.» As an only child, that was hard to grasp sometimes. Still is. Since there wasn’t anyone around to share things with, I kept my stuff to myself. But I’ve learned to compensate as an adult. My friends and roommates are constantly borrowing …
Seguir leyendo ‘As adults, we don’t share our personal items’: Controversial mom rejects the idea that ‘sharing is caring’
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 …
Seguir leyendo The Wildest Parenting Posts of the Week (April 15, 2024)
‘I’m glad she is your ex’: Teenager punches 6 holes in bedroom wall, mom expects ex-boyfriend to fix them
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 …
Seguir leyendo ‘I’m glad she is your ex’: Teenager punches 6 holes in bedroom wall, mom expects ex-boyfriend to fix them
30 of the Funniest Parenting Tweets of the Week (March 11, 2024)
What did parents do before the internet? Nowadays, we’re inundated with so much parenting information, advice, and general discussion that it’s hard to lift our heads above water. From mommy blogs to family TikTokers to your overbearing aunt commenting on your Facebook status, parents are getting unsolicited advice from all angles. I’m sure this happened …
Seguir leyendo 30 of the Funniest Parenting Tweets of the Week (March 11, 2024)
‘My son screamed for the last 4 hours’: Parents share the worst travel strategies they’ve tried while traveling with kids
Traveling with kids can’t be easy. I like to think that I was a pretty easy kid to handle overall, but I remember one particularly horrible car ride that my parents will never forget. I believe we were driving from Wisconsin back to Illinois, and the sun was in my eyes the entire ride. Instead …
Seguir leyendo ‘My son screamed for the last 4 hours’: Parents share the worst travel strategies they’ve tried while traveling with kids
‘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 …
Seguir leyendo ‘Letting the tablet raise them’: Parents share the parenting trends they disagree with
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 …
Seguir leyendo The Wildest Parenting Posts of the Week (April 8, 2024)
Neglectful parents beg 17-year-old son to forgive them because they’re good parents to his toddler siblings: ‘They show no sign of caring about me more now’
Having a baby when you’re in your late teens or early twenties is a completely different experience than having one when you’re in your 30s. A lot of people have a kid when they’re really young and wait a long while before having any more kids because they were frankly unprepared for their first kid. …
Seguir leyendo Neglectful parents beg 17-year-old son to forgive them because they’re good parents to his toddler siblings: ‘They show no sign of caring about me more now’
30 of the Funniest Parenting Tweets of the Week (April 4, 2024)
Being a parent is all about picking your battles. When you’re not a parent, you imagine how you’ll have all the answers. You have ideas about being the perfect parent, having everything go your way, and not letting your kids get away with anything you don’t want them to. Life, though, is messy and unpredictable. …
Seguir leyendo 30 of the Funniest Parenting Tweets of the Week (April 4, 2024)