If you’re working a salaried position, the question of whether or not to work overtime can be tricky to answer. If you’re working hourly, your willingness to work an extra shift is directly correlated with you getting paid more if you do so. Whether you say yes or no, a bargaining chip is at play. …
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‘Every 4-year-old girl in my son’s class is named like Ingrid and Astrid and Edna’: Moms discuss the rise in little girls with old lady names
You have a generationally appropriate name if you are a millennial named Ashley, Brittany, or Lindsay. The same applies if you’re a baby boomer named Betty, Susan, or Pattie. For some reason, girl names seem to change more throughout the years, making their marks on every generation. You’d be hard-pressed to find a baby named …
Seguir leyendo ‘Every 4-year-old girl in my son’s class is named like Ingrid and Astrid and Edna’: Moms discuss the rise in little girls with old lady names
Drivers and non-drivers debate why people shame teenagers for not getting their license: ‘If public transportation was accessible, many people wouldn’t’
I got my driver’s license later in life. By that, I mean ten months after I turned 16. In the town I grew up in, that might as well have been later in life. I’ve never felt more social pressure to do something than get my driver’s license. Kids in my class were dumbfounded by …
Seguir leyendo Drivers and non-drivers debate why people shame teenagers for not getting their license: ‘If public transportation was accessible, many people wouldn’t’
‘Unpopular opinion but more parents need to hear that they’re doing a bad job’: Dad criticizes parents for posting their toddler’s meltdowns on TikTok
Parent’s willingness to post private moments online has shifted in the past couple of years. When I was a kid, it was embarrassing if your mom posted about you having a bad day at school to her Facebook friends. While it was kind of humiliating for 300 of your mom’s friends to see an ugly …
Seguir leyendo ‘Unpopular opinion but more parents need to hear that they’re doing a bad job’: Dad criticizes parents for posting their toddler’s meltdowns on TikTok
Woman accuses mom of traumatizing her kids by serving them a weekly charcuterie board for dinner: ‘When I look back in Charcuterie Tuesdays, I see the gaslighting’
It’s no secret that we use the term «trauma» a little excessively these days. While it’s true that someone can be traumatized by seemingly innocuous things, the rate at which internet users publicly accuse strangers of traumatizing their kids is mind-boggling. If you’re a mom who works instead of staying home, you’re traumatizing your kid. …
Seguir leyendo Woman accuses mom of traumatizing her kids by serving them a weekly charcuterie board for dinner: ‘When I look back in Charcuterie Tuesdays, I see the gaslighting’
Wife brings lunch to husband at his new job, gets blamed for his colleagues making fun of him: ‘I just blew up at my wife telling her she flat out embarrassed me’
If you were ever taunted or teased as a child, there’s a good chance your mom reassured you with this line: «They’re just jealous.» While that sounded inconceivable then, it seems much more cogent in hindsight. I remember I teased my friend in middle school for being in a Play-Doh commercial, but I was probably …
Seguir leyendo Wife brings lunch to husband at his new job, gets blamed for his colleagues making fun of him: ‘I just blew up at my wife telling her she flat out embarrassed me’
Galaxy-brained poster claims that nobody with an 130+ IQ listens to music: ‘This is a lot of words to say you don’t understand music’
Throughout history, there have been many different ways that have been used to measure someone’s intelligence. Perhaps they can complete complicated algebra without a second thought, or they speak ten different languages. Maybe they thought up a whole new philosophy for life or proved the seemingly impossible with a scientific theorem. We have even tried …
Seguir leyendo Galaxy-brained poster claims that nobody with an 130+ IQ listens to music: ‘This is a lot of words to say you don’t understand music’
Millennials discuss why boomers are still living in a 1980s economic mindset: ‘My dad said «You are earning 6 figures and can’t afford $500 for a vacation?»‘
It isn’t easy to accept that everything is getting demonstrably more expensive. We used to think of inflation as a gradual process: our grandparents talked about how hamburgers used to be 50 cents, and as the decades marched on, they gradually started costing upwards of $15 if you wanted a good one. The inflation in …
Seguir leyendo Millennials discuss why boomers are still living in a 1980s economic mindset: ‘My dad said «You are earning 6 figures and can’t afford $500 for a vacation?»‘
Social justice advocate claims babies on planes should require a doctor’s note stating they won’t cry: ‘If the baby cries penalties and charges need to be applied’
Nobody likes to hear a baby crying on an airplane. It’s one of the most irritating things that can happen to you as a passenger, beyond the flight attendant spilling hot coffee all over your crisp white shirt. While I do sympathize with passengers who have to sit next to a crying baby on an …
Seguir leyendo Social justice advocate claims babies on planes should require a doctor’s note stating they won’t cry: ‘If the baby cries penalties and charges need to be applied’
Moms discuss whether working moms or stay at home moms criticize each other more heavily: ‘Women get shamed no matter what we do’
We as a society tend to think there are way more stay-at-home mothers than there actually are. While around 50% of mothers stayed home with their children in the 1960s, the number has been falling ever since. As women were more able to enter the workforce in fortuitous careers, they did just that and brought …
Seguir leyendo Moms discuss whether working moms or stay at home moms criticize each other more heavily: ‘Women get shamed no matter what we do’