The rewards of parenting can be simple in deed but huge in impact, like watching your kid make a friend in the playground. Or seeing them paint a picture and give it to you to hang on the fridge. Or hearing from their teachers that they helped another student with a difficult problem. These are …
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25+ of the Funniest Parenting Tweets of the Week (August 8, 2024)
Parenting is sort of like the Olympics. Keeps you awake during odd hours, makes you care about things you never knew existed, and gives you good small-talk content. Except that the (summer) Olympics only happen every four years. Parenting is… forever. Even when your kid turns 18 and they’re no longer legally your responsibility, odds …
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30 of the Funniest Parenting Tweets of the Week (August 1, 2024)
Being a parent is all about expecting the unexpected, as Julie Chen, the host of Big Brother always says. You can plan and plan all you’d like, but one day your kid is going to look at you and ask you why you have so many lines on your face, and you’ll have to take …
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‘I wasn’t going to skip my own life to raise an infant’: Parents force 17-year-old son to take care of his 3 young siblings, balk when he refuses to raise a fourth
Shows like Shameless illustrate just how complex and difficult it can get when one sibling is forced to be the parent against their will. The character of Fiona is the eldest sister, but she’s also the primary guardian of all five of her younger siblings, since her mom is absent and her dad is… present …
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Family of 6 struggles to survive on $80k a year, husband gets a part time job and won’t let stay-at-home wife touch the money: ‘Are people actually this financially stupid?’
Sharing finances as a married couple is one of the most difficult things about marriage. It rarely happens that the salaries are equal and everything is hunky dory. Usually, one person makes more money than the other and this introduces some imbalances. Does that mean the other one does more of the housework? How is …
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25+ of the Funniest Parenting Tweets of the Week (July 25, 2024)
Going on vacation with your kids shouldn’t count as a full vacation. Because parenting never stops, even if you’re in a tropical locale with a wide-brimmed hat on. Your kids still need sunscreening, entertaining, and making sure they have their floaties on if they’re going to venture into the deep end of the pool. You …
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25+ of the Funniest Parenting Tweets of the Week (July 18, 2024)
There are things you do as a parent that you probably never anticipated doing in your adult life. For example, you probably thought you’d never have to know what Skibidi Toilet is or means, but if you have a child who is so inclined, you might be deeply familiar with the term. You also probably …
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25+ of the Funniest Parenting Tweets of the Week (July 11, 2024)
There’s nothing like the heat of summer when you’re a kid. It’s the perfect opportunity to eat dripping popsicles, play with the garden hose, and run around the neighborhood gathering knee scrapes. The heat doesn’t bother you when you’re a kid. You just sweat and don’t think a thing about it. When you’re an adult, …
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30 of the Funniest Parenting Tweets of the Week (July 4, 2024)
Today is the day you let your kid play with fireworks. Just kidding, unless… The Fourth of July is so fun as a kid. It’s peak summertime fun. I used to spend all day running around my neighborhood with my kid friends, lighting sparklers, getting a sugar rush from those red white, and blue rocket …
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Family members refuse to attend 5-year-old’s birthday party because it’s Shrek themed: ‘They were very offended’
Shrek remains an important cultural touchstone for many kids and… grown kids. It has stood the test of time as a funny, heartwarming, infinitely quotable series of kids’ movies with an impeccable soundtrack. I swear the Shrek soundtrack got me into «good music» when I was a kid. Shrek is inextricably linked to the language …
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