Baby fever is real. You can go your whole life not thinking babies are cute, and then see one video of a baby hearing his mother’s voice for the first time (using a hearing aid) and suddenly you’re roaming the halls of Buy Buy Baby, picking up little socks just to feel something. It happens to the strongest of …
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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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‘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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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. …
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‘My dad jokes are wasted’: Child free folks discuss the cons of the no-kid lifestyle
One of the biggest decisions we’re asked to make in life is whether or not we’re going to have children. There’s so much social pressure to conform, and nobody pushes parenthood like parents. It’s the choice they made, after all. But there are definitely some drawbacks to going full steam into parenthood. It’s expensive, it’s …
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30 of the Funniest Parenting Tweets of the Week (March 28, 2024)
Spring is beginning to spring. The flowers are about to bloom, the grass is getting green again, and I’m starting to sneeze. It’s a beautiful time of the year, but it’s also the harbinger of spring break. And as a parent, spring break is less party all night long doing shots on Miami beach and …
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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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‘It takes a village, but we don’t forcibly draft the villagers’: Entitled mom accuses family of raising her baby recklessly
The phrase «it takes a village» has become a galvanizing term in the world of parenting. Once understood as a sort of folksy, aw-shucks, last episode of Gilmore Girls-esque testament to community has now become a pain point for many parents raising young children. The idea behind «the village» is having a network of childcare support …
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Foster Parents Demand 33 Year Old Son Move Back in So They Can Benefit From His Income
There is a reason foster care has gained such a questionable reputation. A lot of people play the system to make some extra money off these kids. One 33-year-old man recounted his troubled upbringing in foster care, where he was asked to leave at 18 due to the end of a paid fostering scheme by …
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‘You can’t just rename us’: Parents regret how they named their kids and try renaming them, kids refuse
Every moment that a baby is born in this world there is a chance that the parents will name it something crazy and unheard of. I know a lot of young parents want to be original and name their baby something unique, but I think this naming business is starting to get a little bit …
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