There seem to be a few inevitables in this life (like death and taxes, famously), but one of them is turning into your parents. You can go your whole life trying to do the exact opposite of the people who raised you, but one day you’ll find yourself holding your phone a full arm’s length from your …
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‘What a satisfying text it was to receive’: Petty ex-wife signs ex-husband up for T-ball coaching duty, gets her just desserts
The politics behind children’s sports teams are more complicated than the political systems of most nations. Take a bunch of parents with varied interests, interpersonal drama of their own, and a desire to live vicariously through their children, and you have a recipe for drama. That’s why shows like Dance Moms and Toddlers and Tiaras make for such riveting television. They feature …
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Parents buy 18-year-old daughter a $65K Jeep they can’t afford, befuddles adult son who previously offered $5K for car payments: ‘The 5k won’t even last the summer’
If there is one thing people love wasting money on, it’s expensive cars. I come from a town where people would buy $70K vehicles for themselves but wouldn’t pay for their kid’s college education. Maybe this is just because I haven’t regularly driven in about six years, but I can’t wrap my head around paying …
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Parents charge 16-year-old $300 in rent, retaliate when he asserts his independence: ‘They’re trying to have it both ways’
Living at home can be a blessing and a curse. You get to be close to your family and receive their support, but it usually comes at a price (like micromanaging, or struggling with independence). Defining one’s relationship with their parents as one gets older is a tough terrain to navigate. Parents sometimes have difficulty …
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35 of the Funniest Parenting Tweets of the Week (April 25, 2024)
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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