Every parent makes mistakes, some of which can seem stupid and avoidable in hindsight. Keeping a small person with little common sense or ability to do anything useful is pretty darn difficult at times. However, when it comes to parenting there are some decisions that can only be designated as reckless. Occasionally, there can be …
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2-year-old girl screams in terror at the sight of her own shadow, parents fruitlessly try to desensitize her: ‘It’s a shadow, it walks with you’
Kids are afraid of everything. In Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Greg was fearful that Shel Silverstein would come into his room and get him, but that’s because his dad told him that would happen if he got up in the middle of the night. While some parents create and enable their kid’s fears, most …
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Befuddled Gen Z employee gets first office job, complains about receiving out-of-hours emails and not knowing how to use her computer: ‘I’m only a month into this job, and it’s giving me so much anxiety’
When you first start at a full-time job, it is easy to feel out of sorts. All the people, processes, and systems are new and unchartered territory that you have to somehow get used to without messing up badly enough to get fired. However, it has to be said that Gen Z entering the workforce …
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The Most Entertaining Takes From TikTok This Week (September 3, 2024)
There is a saying that many TikTok users like to deploy in the comment section when their For You Page serves them up a particularly strange, cringey, or otherwise unexpected video: «I built this FYP brick by brick». It’s an acknowledgment that, for better or worse, a lot of us terminally online scrollers engage with …
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Wholesome work from home employee gets lonely working 9 to 5, invites elderly neighbor to join her: ’70 years apart, but lots in common’
There are many benefits to be had with working remotely, but it has to be said that avoiding loneliness isn’t always one of them. When you don’t need to leave your house to go to your job, it’s easy to add another layer of isolation to an already isolated modern life without even realizing it. …
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‘The Aesthetification of Everything’: Kindle Girlies, BookTok and How Reading Became an Aesthetic
It seems that everywhere you turn, what you’re doing has been turned into an «aesthetic.» In the online world, every mundane activity is an opportunity for branding, product placement, and up-sells. Hitting the gym requires a constellation of pre-workout supplements, Apple over-ear headphones, and Gymshark matching sets. You’re not getting your steps in, you’re going …
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Staunch cheesemonger refuses sale of $2000 wheel of parmesan to entitled Gen Z rich kid: ‘You think I can’t afford it?’
Anyone who has ever worked in retail will know that you deal with your fair share of insufferable customers. The crotchety Karens and wannabe scammers are basically a rite of passage in the trade. What not everyone appreciates however is that the kind of customers that you are bound to hate turn up just as …
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The Most Entertaining Takes From TikTok This Week (August 27, 2024)
Modern life can be mentally exhausting, and one of the reasons for that is that we are constantly bombarded with just how much stuff there is in the world. As soon as you go on social media you open yourself up to an intensely distracting but also overwhelming world of possibility. A big part of …
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Wife’s ‘fridgescaping’ hobby takes over family fridge, husband and son lash out and belittle her: ‘Be nice to your wife’
Everyone is allowed to have a hobby. Some of us ski or snowboard. Some of us scrapbook. Some of us collect rare Sonny Angels. Some of us plant vegetables, and some of us fridgescape. If you’ve been on TikTok, you might have noticed the trend of «fridge restocking» videos, where homemakers meticulously organize and stock …
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Parents and kids reveal all the times a baby’s name got changed at the last minute: ‘I was Sarah, and now I’m Bentley’
Naming a baby is a serious undertaking. In theory, this is what they are going to be known as for the rest of their lives; no parent wants the embarrassment of their kid growing up and changing their name by deed poll because their naming choices caused so much unnecessary stress. As such, it’s no …
Seguir leyendo Parents and kids reveal all the times a baby’s name got changed at the last minute: ‘I was Sarah, and now I’m Bentley’