When I think of the ultimate parenting failure, I think of Billy Bigelow. He is the protagonist (and antagonist) of the musical Carousel, and ding dong, does he have high highs and low lows. He finds out his wife (whom he constantly mistreats) is pregnant, steals money to provide for his future child, and ends …
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The Most Entertaining Parenting Texts of the Week (April 15, 2025)
Tell me if you’ve heard this one before: «I’m going to have kids early so I can enjoy my 40s and 50s.» Or what about this one: «I’m going to wait until I’m 30 to have a kid so I can enjoy my twenties.» These lines of reasoning are predicated on the notion that having …
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The Most Entertaining Parenting Texts of the Week (April 8, 2025)
If you are a smartphone user of a certain age, you are probably one of two kinds of texters. My parents are the classic kind of baby boomer texters. They use punctuation and grammar as if an omnipotent teacher is always watching. My dad uses em-dashes without the help of Chat-GPT, which seems to favor …
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The Most Entertaining Parenting Texts of the Week (April 1, 2025)
Parents lie to their kids all the time. They tell them that Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, and the Tooth Fairy are all real sentient magical beings, and then they pull the rug out from under them. That’s the type of lying that most people consider acceptable because it’s fun, and kids’ belief in mystical …
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The Most Entertaining Parenting Texts of the Week (March 25, 2025)
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 …
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The Most Entertaining Parenting Texts of the Week (March 18, 2025)
You should text your mom back. I don’t care if she sends you 10 memes a day; you could at least give her a courtesy heart reaction. If you have a good enough relationship with your mom to where she’s texting and calling you regularly, you ought to give her the time of day. I …
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The Wildest Parenting Texts of the Week (March 11, 2025)
There are some texts you never want to receive from your parents. I always get filled with dread when my mom texts me, «Are you home?» I’m not one of those zoomers who is afraid of talking on the phone, so her asking, «Can I call?» doesn’t frighten me at all. I know my mom …
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Employee tells boss he needs to take off work to take his sick wife to the emergency room, boss insists he needs him at work: ‘I get you may need to take her. But I do need you there today.’
How many of us have been in the situation of explaining in detail why we can’t go to work? If you have a job with no guaranteed PTO, it can feel like you need to tell the entire life story to get your boss to approve of you missing a shift. In many hourly positions, …
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The Wildest Parenting Texts of the Week (February 25, 2025)
Texting can be so much more stressful than having an actual conversation. Last night, I was waiting to hear back from two friends, one of whom had suggested that we hang out on Saturday afternoon and one who was presenting a concrete plan to hang out on Saturday afternoon. I wanted to double-check with the …
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20-year-old refuses to let her childhood crush court her because of the cruel things his mother has said about her, mother harasses her for rejecting him: ‘I woke up to a bunch of mean voicemails and texts from her’
When you marry someone, you’re also marrying their crazy family. It’s sometimes difficult to parse whether someone has a crazy family when you’re first dating them. If you’re living in a city away from both of your families, it might take a year or more to even meet your partners mom and dad. In early …
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