Parenting comes with a lot of guilt. From the second you get pregnant, you hear all sorts of people telling you you’re doing it wrong, explaining how you could do it better, and implying that your mistakes are way bigger than you actually are. As your kids get older, you hear this sort of unsolicited …
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The Wildest Parenting Texts of the Week (June 4, 2024)
When you’re a kid, it’s hard to know whether your parents are unusually crazy. Your home is usually all you know, and going over to friends’ houses doesn’t always paint a realistic picture of how they’re normally treated. You might’ve felt something off about your parents and later found out there actually was something nefarious …
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The Wildest Parenting Texts of the Week (May 28, 2024)
Every kid deserves parents, but not every parent deserves a kid. Every kid in the world deserves to be loved and taken care of, but unfortunately, there are more kids than fit parents in the world. It’s objectively good for the population that it’s so easy to have a baby, and I’m not one of …
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The Wildest Parenting Texts of the Week (May 21, 2024)
One of the wildest types of parents are those who helicopter parent into their child’s adulthood. I can’t imagine my parents handling my affairs in college, let alone in my day-to-day life as a grown-up with a job. I know that most adult children who find themselves on the receiving end of this «help» aren’t …
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The Wildest Parenting Texts of the Week (May 14, 2024)
Mother’s Day weekend isn’t fun for everybody. Your mom might live thousands of miles away, robbing both of you of the chance to hang out with each other and celebrate her. You might be living without a mother or a grandmother, which made you spend all of Sunday mourning and missing them. Unfortunately, not everyone …
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The Wildest Parenting Texts of the Week (May 7, 2024)
Every parent has a different level of involvement in their kid’s life once they become adults. Some adult children call their parents multiple times a day, consulting them on every decision they make, whether it’s big or small. Some parents still provide housing and food for their kids years after graduating high school or college. …
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The Wildest Parenting Texts of the Week (April 30, 2024)
Every family group chat is an entirely different space. If your family isn’t talking to each other regularly, it might be challenging to conceptualize what exactly families are texting each other day in and day out. My family group chat is pretty low-key. We send each other pictures of the dogs, the occasional meme, and …
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The Wildest Parenting Texts of the Week (April 23, 2024)
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 Wildest Parenting Texts of the Week (April 16, 2024)
It’s difficult to have honest discussions with your parents about things they’ve done wrong. It’s drilled into us from childhood that kids should be eternally grateful to their parents, and while I think honoring your father and mother isn’t the worst virtue in the world, you shouldn’t look at your parents through rose-colored glasses either. …
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The Wildest Parenting Texts of the Week (April 2, 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 parental abuse. …
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