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 …
Seguir leyendo The Wildest Parenting Texts of the Week (September 10, 2024)

Most text messages aren’t that memorable. Texting was invented so that we could send short, easily readable messages that are too unimportant for phone calls. The fact that we’re able to send full blown orations to our contacts with the potential to ruin friendships and relationships marks that texts have transcended their original purpose. When …
Seguir leyendo The Wildest Parenting Texts of the Week (September 3, 2024)

I don’t want to brag, but I’m lucky to have a good relationship with my parents. I can go to them to talk about anything, and they are so willing to offer help. I’ll admit the way I communicate with my mom and dad over text messages is very different. My mom and I text …
Seguir leyendo The Wildest Parenting Texts of the Week (August 27, 2024)

Kids might say the darndest things, but so do parents. My mom recently told me a wild story about writer and composer Mary Rogers proving that some people aren’t meant to be parents. For context, she was the daughter of Broadway composing legend Richard Rogers, and her son Adam Guettel went on to write The …
Seguir leyendo 25+ Wildest Parenting Texts to Scroll Through During Your Coffee Break (August 20, 2024)

I love witnessing the cognitive dissonance of people who think their families are crazy when they’re extremely unremarkable. I know it’s not a competition and that every family is crazy in their own unique way, but you know precisely the type of person I’m talking about. I’m mostly talking about your friend from your teenage …
Seguir leyendo The Wildest Parenting Texts of the Week (August 13, 2024)

I miss the days when you couldn’t communicate deeply over text. You could tell someone you were on your way; you could say «good morning» and «good night,» but that was about as deep as it went. If you broke up with someone over text in 2004, that would’ve been very unusual for the time …
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