‘Feral Child Summer’ is the Millennial Parenting Antidote to iPad Babies

Remember summers when you were a kid in the 1990s? Behind the brainrot doom-scrolling fog, there are memories of summers spent outdoors. In my hometown of Chicago, that meant running around public parks playing made-up games, setting off (probably illegal) fireworks on the Fourth of July, and my mom having only a vague idea of …
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Mom asks unemployed 23-year-old son to do 10 hours of housework in exchange for bailing him out of debt, son wants to count the 5 hours he spend attending a concert with her: ‘Stop enabling him’

We all fall on hard times every now and then, and if you’re lucky you might have a parent who’s willing to support you through these rough patches. Ideally, it’s part of the parent-kid relationship, and it doesn’t automatically end once you’re 18 years old. You might continue to need your parents, if not just …
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Excessive screen time causes 10-year-old boy to lose his Australian accent, parents defend their parenting choices: ‘The kid obviously is deteriorating’

Everyone has a right to parent in their own way, but we also all have the right to think what we think about those choices. There are as many ways to parent as there are children in the world, and we will never understand the full scope of a situation from the outside. We can …
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