The Best Heartwarmingly Wholesome Memes and Posts of the Week (April 18, 2024)

What does it mean for something to be wholesome? Some would suggest that the fact that this category exists at all is a measure of something being very wrong elsewhere, but others would argue that we shouldn’t think so hard and just enjoy anything that puts a guilt-free smile on our faces. The fact of …
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‘This baby is 0% my responsbility’: Harsh mom kicks out entitled pregnant 19 year old daughter after she asks for free babysitting

It’s true what they say: being a parent is a lifelong commitment. Even when your kids are long past the age where you’re helping them tie their shoelaces and blow their noses, they will still need you in other ways. Some may even argue that parenting can get harder as children enter adulthood because it …
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30 of the Funniest Parenting Tweets of the Week (April 18, 2024)

Parenting is one of those things that you can’t fully understand unless you’ve done it. You can remember what it was like to be parented, or watch your friends do it and see what that’s like, but doing it is an entirely different experience. It’s like going to space. We can watch Gravity or Appollo 13 all day long …
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‘The internet really ruined like three generations of people’: Trad Gen-Z mom makes a wojak of her baby, gets roasted and praised for it

No matter how much time passes, there seem to be new wojaks that spring up every year. If you are unfamiliar with what a wojak is, this is how our friends at Know Your Meme define them:  «Feels Guy, also known as Wojak, is an MS Paint illustration of a bald man with a sad …
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‘I will take a child over a literal animal in a food establishment any day’: Childless millennial sparks controversy praising kid free, dog friendly pub

We’ve all heard the sage advice to never work with children or animals, but what about spending our leisure time around them? Nothing riles up a significant minority of the happily petless and/or childless like having to share an environment with either against their will. This has led many hospitality establishments to make the inclusion …
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The Wildest Parenting Texts of the Week (April 16, 2024)

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. …
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Savvy Out-of-State Grandma Creates a YouTube Channel to Read Books to Her Grandchild From Afar

They say that it takes a village to raise a child–and for a lot of people, that village comes in the form of family members. For previous generations, it wasn’t uncommon for your entire ‘village’ to live in the same city, spending quality time with the kiddos and being there for all the major steps …
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‘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 …
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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 …
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‘Tfw your baby is gift giving and the gifts do NOT smell good’: New mom gets roasted for claiming her baby has a ‘love language’

I get that the bond between a mom and her new baby is a deeply primal and almost inexplicable thing, but let’s be real. There is only so much affection that an entirely dependent tiny human can communicate. It’s going to be a while before they understand this whole ‘love’ thing as a concept, even …
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