‘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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50 of the Freshest and Funniest Tweets of the Week (March 16, 2024)

The Oscars were this week, which is one of the best times to be on Twitter. I always watch it every year with a group of friends, and the best part is hearing everyone’s jokes. It’s one of those rare monoculture events that gives everyone common ground to make jokes about. There’s always some line …
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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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45+ of the Freshest and Funniest Tweets of the Week (March 9, 2024)

The best thing about Twitter is that you don’t have to be on it in order to reap its benefits. Case and point: this meme list. All the hard work is done for you and you get to just sit back, relax, and only take in the content worth taking in. Let me tell you, …
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30 of the Funniest Parenting Tweets of the Week (March 7, 2024)

One of the best things about being a parent is getting to commiserate online with all of your fellow parents. They get it. There’s only so much your friends can take, especially if they don’t have kids. They will never truly understand the pain of having to overhear the same episode of Bluey every day …
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30 of the Funniest Parenting Tweets of the Week (February 29, 2024)

Happy Leap Day, parents. It’s that extra day that you’ve always wished for when you said «If I could just have an extra day, I could get everything done.» Except today is tragically a normal Thursday and we must go to work and school and carry on as if everything matters. If only we could …
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30 of the Funniest Parenting Tweets of the Week (February 22, 2024)

Remember when you were young and you felt like everything your parents did was unfair? I remember raging against bedtime, feeling like I’d give anything to stay up for another episode of Spongebob. I didn’t understand why my parents insisted that I needed a full night’s sleep. I was a kid who had energy and …
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30+ of the Funniest Parenting Tweets of the Week (February 15, 2024)

If your house is full of random little cards and pieces of candy right now, odds are you’re probably a parent. Yes, we’re feeling the sugar hangover of post-Valentine’s Day, and finding cards with empty written messages in them at the top of our recycling bins. But it was a beautiful day. You got to …
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29 of the Funniest Parenting Tweets of the Week (February 1, 2024)

I’ve got those February blues, and it’s only the first day of February. After the long holiday hangover of January, the new month is a welcome change of pace. Sure, it’s still dark and cold as heck, but at least we’ve made some progress in the winter months. Especially if you have kids, you have …
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‘Of course we’re obsessed with skincare’: Child influencers sing praises of skincare and makeup, sparking debates about child labor laws for social media

I don’t know about you all, but I’m terrified about how unregulated the «child influencer» industry is. I have no problem with adults wanting to revolve their entire lives around posting content about their daily happenings online. I wouldn’t like that for myself, but to eat his own. What really freaks me out is when …
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