Parents don’t always have the answers. They’re just grown-up kids, like anyone else. Sure, they have a little more experience under their belts, but there’s no magical time in an adult’s life when they start knowing everything. When you’re a kid, though, it seems like adults have access to all the knowledge in the universe. …
Seguir leyendo 25+ of the Funniest Parenting Tweets of the Week (April 24, 2025)
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21-year-old plans solo trip to Disney, controlling mom won’t allow her to go by herself: ‘I live with her and contribute to the house. I pay internet, streaming services and even rent’
Doing things alone is one of the best parts of being an adult. Heck, I wrote a whole article on this website about how I think it’s the key to solving loneliness. Going out alone is great for an abundance of reasons. It gives you confidence in yourself and the fact that you can do …
Seguir leyendo 21-year-old plans solo trip to Disney, controlling mom won’t allow her to go by herself: ‘I live with her and contribute to the house. I pay internet, streaming services and even rent’
25+ of the Funniest Parenting Tweets of the Week (April 17, 2025)
Parenting is sort of the ultimate example of learning on the job. Some jobs you can’t truly learn until you’re doing them. All the books, education, and training can’t prepare you for the realities of day to day. Being a parent is one of these. Sure, when you’re expecting, you can read some books. These …
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Husband asks wife and teen daughter to turn off music from a concert he insisted he join them for despite mom planning a girls night: ‘So we ride home in silence’
Everyone is entitled to their own music taste. This doesn’t mean that you have to like it, but you must respect it. Some people want to spend their days listening to Imagine Dragons. While I can’t quite fathom this reality, I don’t go around trying to stop their fans from buying their records. Music is …
Seguir leyendo Husband asks wife and teen daughter to turn off music from a concert he insisted he join them for despite mom planning a girls night: ‘So we ride home in silence’
25+ of the Funniest Parenting Tweets of the Week (April 10, 2025)
Kids will both keep you young and make you feel old at the same time. They make you feel young because suddenly your brain is filled with information about the latest Minecraft YouTuber drama and you know what a «Feastable» is. They make you feel old because you spend so much time doing your laundry …
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‘I do more than most fathers’: 37-year-old husband fails to take care of 6-year-old and 4-year-old for a couple hours while wife is away, gets upset when wife calls him out
Any form of partnership is difficult. If you’re working together on a certain goal, odds are you’re going to have differences. You might have an imbalanced work ethic, where one of you is pulling way more of the weight than the other, who leaves everything until the last minute. You may have different world views …
Seguir leyendo ‘I do more than most fathers’: 37-year-old husband fails to take care of 6-year-old and 4-year-old for a couple hours while wife is away, gets upset when wife calls him out
18-year-old sibling set a firm boundary by shutting down relatives after refusing to be her younger brother’s second mom: ‘They decided to have a baby, so they should take care of him’
Growing up as the oldest sibling is hard work, especially when you’re suddenly expected to be a part-time nanny. As the oldest kid, a lot of times you’re the built-in babysitter, the emergency diaper-changer, the human jungle gym, and the one expected to hand over your favorite toys without complaint. Of course there’s the classic …
Seguir leyendo 18-year-old sibling set a firm boundary by shutting down relatives after refusing to be her younger brother’s second mom: ‘They decided to have a baby, so they should take care of him’
25+ of the Funniest Parenting Tweets of the Week (April 3, 2025)
Being a parent is all about the joy of getting to see what kind of kid your child grows up to be. Will they be funny like you, or earnest like your partner, or a whole new kind of personality that will throw you both for a loop? What kind of interests will they develop- …
Seguir leyendo 25+ of the Funniest Parenting Tweets of the Week (April 3, 2025)
Mom feeds 13-year-old girls pizza, donuts, and chips at sleepover, other moms call her a ‘lousy mother’ for feeding them junk: ‘[She said] her daughter would no longer be coming to any events at my home’
Is it just me, or has everyone gotten a little weird about the food their kids eat? I mean, parents have presumably always been a little bit conscious about what they’re feeding their children. It’s one of the biggest jobs of parenting. But it seems as though in the last couple of years, the amount …
Seguir leyendo Mom feeds 13-year-old girls pizza, donuts, and chips at sleepover, other moms call her a ‘lousy mother’ for feeding them junk: ‘[She said] her daughter would no longer be coming to any events at my home’
Entitled wealthy sister demands Christmas gifts for her 16-year-old and 14-year-old children but won’t buy them for her 6-year-old and 4-year-old niece and nephew because she’s «saving up» for a vacation: ‘I expect her to get my kids something’
Reciprocation is the key to any relationship, showing that you’re capable of paying attention to someone’s basic wants and needs and have considered their best interests is really the barest of requirements for establishing a bond. Gift-giving is a time when entitlement, selfishness, and narcissism rears its ugly head and it becomes all the more …
Seguir leyendo Entitled wealthy sister demands Christmas gifts for her 16-year-old and 14-year-old children but won’t buy them for her 6-year-old and 4-year-old niece and nephew because she’s «saving up» for a vacation: ‘I expect her to get my kids something’