As I sort through all sorts of parenting texts, I start to see some patterns emerge. It’s wild how many times I’ve seen texts from different parents that all basically say the same thing. They’re always sidestepping their past behavior and blaming their kid for distancing themselves from them. They are willing to insult and …
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I am continually baffled by how some parents talk to their kids, particularly their daughters, about their bodies. I was lucky not to grow up in a household where my mom was constantly calling me fat, but I certainly knew some girls whose moms did exactly that. They are, what we digital natives call «almond …
Seguir leyendo The Most Entertaining Parenting Texts of the Week (November 5, 2024)

If you ever thought that your parents were bad, watch Female Trouble. I am so grateful that I don’t have juvenile delinquent turned petty criminal turned international model turned death row inmate Dawn Davenport as my mother. If it weren’t a hilarious John Waters comedy, Female Trouble would be a harrowing tale of child endangerment. …
Seguir leyendo The Most Entertaining Parenting Texts of the Week (October 29, 2024)

No parent is perfect. Every mom or dad will screw up at some point in their life in the 18 years it takes for an infant to become an adult, and best believe it won’t be without consequences for their kid. That era of the parent-child relationship is one I’m less interested in. What’s more …
Seguir leyendo The Most Entertaining Parenting Texts of the Week (October 22, 2024)

I don’t understand why someone would pick a fight over texts when they could fight in real life. Having an honest-to-goodness argument face-to-face trumps typing on your little bitty cell phone any day of the week. The one advantage of fighting over text is that you have more time to think of an articulate, clever …
Seguir leyendo The Most Entertaining Parenting Texts of the Week (October 15, 2024)

One of the best parts of texting is getting to keep receipts on exactly what someone has said to you. If you are talking to someone on the phone, you might not have the foresight to record your conversations before something comes up that is worth documenting (That, or you live in a state where …
Seguir leyendo The Most Entertaining Parenting Texts of the Week (October 8, 2024)

Anonymous comments are known to bring out the worst in people. If you are scrolling TikTok, Instagram, or Reddit, you shouldn’t read the comments thoroughly and take them to heart. People will say awful things not because they believe them but to get a rise from their fellow commenters. Some trolls believe what they’re saying, …
Seguir leyendo The Most Entertaining Parenting Texts of the Week (October 1, 2024)

Bad parenting can look a lot of different ways. Sometimes, it’s super evident from the first time you meet a family that something is not quite right; it can also be challenging to pick up on, especially for people who don’t have a lot of close contact with the family. When you look into the …
Seguir leyendo The Wildest Parenting Texts of the Week (September 24, 2024)

When you dig through as many texts from bad parents as I have, you start to see some patterns emerge. It’s genuinely devastating how many parents would rather cling to the idea that they’re right about everything and their kids are wrong about everything than have a productive conversation with them. They would rather never …
Seguir leyendo The Wildest Parenting Texts of the Week (September 17, 2024)

Technology has made parenting so much more complex. Now, you can be more involved than ever, or you can leave your kid to hang out on TikTok unsupervised for all of their waking days. The choice is up to parents, but there are cases of observing your kid too closely. I was in high school …
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