Disney has a bedtime hotline you can call where you can speak to a Disney character (including Yoga and Spiderman) and they’ll tell your kid to go to sleep.
A 98-year old mother moved into…
A 98-year old mother moved into same nursing home as her 80-Year old son to take care of him
This Father and Artist Shares Images of His Life With Five Girls
James Breakwell (Xploding Unicorn on social media) is a pretty big name online, known for being the hilarious father to four young girls. His life is obviously pretty chaotic, and, aside from his famous twitter account, he has a little extra fun with it creating a webcomic titled “Unbelievably Bad Webcomic.”
It’s no museum-worthy art, but other parents will find truth and hilarity in the 15 comics below (and probably all of the rest, too).
15. I mean at least it’s going in the toilet.
14. Their prices are going to go up as they get older.
13. This is not her first rodeo.
12. Silly kids. They’ll learn one day.
11. Kids know how to latch onto an argument when they hear a good one.
10. That’s what’s known as derailing the progress.
9. Who says boys are the only ones hard to keep alive?
8. Brutally honest is the only way to stay married.
7. The accuracy of this is stunning.
6. Definitely not how this generation works, Dad.
5. When you’ve taught them well, it might come back to bite you.
4. And we all know what maybe means.
3. Your wife knows best.
2. It’s amazing how many men think “doing the laundry” means “I put it in the machine and turned it on.”
1. The sass is strong with the eldest.
Breakwell has also published two books – Only Dead on the Inside: A Parent’s Guide to Surviving the Zombie Apocalypse and Bare Minimum Parenting: The Ultimate Guide to Not Quite Ruining Your Child – and has published two other webcomics, Unfridgeworthy and Wombat Dojo.
If you enjoy his style, make sure you’re following him on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook.
He’s a funny guy, so definitely worth the click!
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A Dad Asked the Internet for Fun Facts to Share with His Four-Year-Old Daughter
If you have young kids, then you know that their thirst for knowledge is basically unquenchable. They ask “why” countless times a day and want to know how everything works (and why) and ask questions from dawn until dusk…
It’s kind of exhausting.
This dad found that his four-year-old daughter was no different from anyone else’s, and every night at bedtime, she asked for a new and interesting fact.
He quickly ran out of ideas on his own and turned to Reddit, who totally delivered.
What mind-blowing (but simple) facts would satisfy a 4-year old daughter’s daily request for 1 fact before bedtime? from AskReddit
If you’re a fan of all sorts of facts, you’re going to love these 15 as much as his daughter probably did!
15. One more reason to be jealous of otters.
14. Mind blown.
13. I definitely needed to know this.
12. Still waiting for its first birthday.
11. New bucket list item.
10. Dogs are amazing.
9. So much fun.
8. I have actually always wondered this.
7. Bend the bee’s knee.
6. I’m jealous of the pink milk.
5. Crazy to think about, right?
4. So we couldn’t tell if they shaved?
3. Those crazy cows.
2. That actually explains a lot.
1. DIY custard.
Here’s to knowledge!
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Spending Too Much Time on Your Devices Could Spell Trouble for Your Kids
More people are addicted to their tablets and smartphones than ever before, and while we’ve acknowledged that letting our kids have unlimited access to screens can be detrimental to their emotional and mental health…what about letting them see us have unfettered access to screens?
It’s not so good, either.
A recent study suggests that, in households where family time is interrupted by parents picking up their phone or tablet, children are more likely to exhibit behavior problems like oversensitivity, hot tempers, hyperactivity, and whining.
Brandon McDaniel, the study’s co-author, believes his findings should be seen as a piece in a bigger puzzle of how technology is affecting parent-child relationships.
“In our study, we controlled for a variety of factors, such as parent stress, depression, coparenting quality, and child screen use. This seems to suggest that there is something meaningful here, even though the data is cross-sectional.”
This study joins others that have shown that children of technology-consumed parents are more likely to display attention-seeking behavior, and one animal study that found distracted rat parents permanently impaired their children’s ability to experience pleasure.
This recent study, which was published in Child Development, gathered data from 170 two-parent families. More than half of them reported three or more technology interruptions per day, while only 11% reported no technological interruptions at all.
So watch yourselves, and take personal inventory. You might be interrupting time with your children more often than you think – and it might be costing your family as a whole.
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Many Parents Have a Favorite Kid – and It’s Often Their Youngest
Your parents may have promised they never played favorites (and you say the same to your kids). But as children grow into adults, I think it’s normal to find that, while you might not have a favorite, some people just get on more easily than others.
That said, there is actually some pretty convincing science behind the idea that parents tend to favor their youngest child more often than their older siblings.
Image Credit: Pixabay
First, let’s go with self confessions from both parents and grandparents. According to The Independent, a Mumsnet survey of both groups did indeed find favoritism among both groups (though with differing preferences).
Of the 1185 parents and 1111 grandparents who responded, 23% of parents and 42% of grandparents admitted to having a favorite. But while 56% of the committed parents said their youngest was their favorite, 40% of grandparents prefer their eldest grandchild.
Half of the survey responders thought having a favorite was “awful” and potentially damaging for the favorite child’s siblings, as well.
Image Credit: Pixabay
In studies that are more scientifically rigorous, similar biases have emerged.
This one revealed that 70% of fathers and 74% of mothers admitted to showing favoritism, but youngest kids don’t always feel the most loved. Another study, done in 2005, found that oldest children tend to feel like they’re the favorite (even if that’s perhaps not true), and that younger children typically feel as if their parents are biased toward their older sibling.
And this 2017 study found that when the younger child feels as if favoritism plays a role in their household, they were much more affected by it than older siblings (whether for better, if they were the favorite, or worse, if they were not), while older children’s relationships with their parents were not affected regardless of who the perceived “favorite” child was in the house.
Image Credit: Pixabay
BYU professor Alex Jensen, though, noted that how you show favoritism plays a role, too.
“When parents are more loving, and they’re more supportive and consistent with all of the kids, the favoritism tends to not matter as much… you need to treat them fairly, but not equally.”
Perhaps the most important outcome is from this 2006 study, which suggests the best thing to do (as a kid) is just to not let it bother you – research suggests you can’t change it no matter what you do, and that mothers, especially, rarely switch up their favorite child over the course of their lives.
So, oldest or youngest or middle child – be yourself, and know that even if they don’t love you the most, your parents still love you a whole lot.
And that should count for something, right?
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A Guy Told Women ‘How to Be a Better Mother’ — People Didn’t Hold Back with Their Responses
Women seem to have had it up to here with taking unsolicited advice about their bodies, roles, and future from men – a fact that one guy found out the hard way when he thought he’d offer up advice on best mothering practices.
Here it is:
How to be a better mother:
– Be feminine
– Wear dresses
– Don’t hit your kids
– Enforce boundaries
– Be physically active
– Don’t tease your kids
– Cook your family’s meals
– Don’t call your children names
– Do not get drunk in front of them
– Show up to their games *& cheer*— Hunter Drew (@HunterDrewTFA) July 28, 2019
How to be a better mother:
– Be feminine
– Wear dresses
– Don’t hit your kids
– Enforce boundaries
– Be physically active
– Don’t tease your kids
– Cook your family’s meals
– Don’t call your children names
– Do not get drunk in front of them
– Show up to their games *& cheer*
Now, let’s point a couple of things out right upfront. First, he’s very likely a man still hurting from the ways his own mother disappointed him as a child and is using this list and his platform as some weird way of fixing himself. This excuses nothing, because he is now a grown man and should know better.
Second, there are things on this list that many pointed out were absolutely arbitrary when it comes to being a good mother.
For instance, how a woman dresses.
I'm honestly really confused as to how wearing a dress makes one a better mother. I mean, I like a nice dress now and then, but they certainly aren't a part of my regular wardrobe. Please explain? I'm genuinely curious.
— Kelly Mac
(@kvmac2011) July 28, 2019
Why would he care?
I didn’t give birth to 5 kids so some white dude with bad facial hair could lecture me.
FYI- I wear yoga pants because my bladder was eaten up by my son’s placenta and the pants help to properly secure the panties that hold the pad that catches my urine. Fuck you very much.
— InMinivanHell (@inminivanhell) July 31, 2019
And what does it matter?
I’m sorry but did we just time warp to 1955? Just by being a woman we’ve covered being feminine. My kids don’t care if I look like June Cleaver. Wear dresses? I don’t wear dressed. Doesn’t make me less of a parent. Cook my family’s meals? My kids have 2 hands & pitch in for meals
— Laura Bachner (@mouselol68) August 1, 2019
And whether she cooks dinner or goes for a run afterward.
I’m sorry but who gave you the authority to tell women how to parent? Being feminine, wearing dresses, and cooking your family’s meals are requirements for no woman. It takes two to bring a child into the world, and last time I checked both men and women are capable of cooking…
— Annie Makes Meth (@annielovespi) July 29, 2019
Does it truly matter if she’s physically active?
Ok what if i wear an XXL dress on my hoverround WHILE I'm drunk and cheering at their game and throwing McDonald's onto the field for them to eat, does that cancel out the drunk or like what now
—
Elisabeth
But mostly, women just seemed to take offense at the idea that someone on the internet who doesn’t know them or their kids or how they actually run their family from day-to-day, would dare criticize them based on this list.
Or any list, honestly.
How to ve a better man: don't make lists for women. pic.twitter.com/oMsagmmeQq
— JaerisMyrrh (@JaerisMyrrh) July 31, 2019
Because lists are not a good way to determine how whole groups of people should behave.
How to be a better man:
– quit telling women what to do
– learn to cook and clean yourself
– treat women as your equals
– keep your "suggestions" to yourself
– learn to parent yourself
Got the idea?— Laura L. Fed up. (@LauraKarr333) July 31, 2019
No, not at all.
How to be a better person:
Do not tell women how to
– Dress
– Act
– Mother
– Exist— Miss InsulinDependent (@msinsulindpndnt) August 1, 2019
Also, shoutout to the men out there – obviously raised by good women – also confused and irritated and not afraid to clap back!
Well that was a mixed bag of advice. "Be a good person but rigidly enforce gender roles."
— James Olson (@Olsonjam808) August 1, 2019
Seriously bro? Seriously?
Don't tease your kids? In our families (hers growing up, mine growing up, ours together) if anyone stopped teasing the kids they'd wonder what was wrong with Mom / Dad. My kids know if I stop teasing them, bury me.
— Rick Downer (@Resistor11) August 1, 2019
Who hurt you?
Damn your childhood must have been one hell of a shitty ride.
— Tony Posnanski (@tonyposnanski) July 31, 2019
Let’s all just stop trying to force other people into small, arbitrary boxes labeled “good” and “bad,” shall we?
We’re all going to be happier if we do.
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In 1974, Time magazine researchers learned…
In 1974, Time magazine researchers learned, and informed Jack Nicholson (30 at that time), that his sister was actually his mother, and his mother was his grandmother.
These People Saw Bad Parenting and Shared It with the World
There sure are a lot of sh*tty parents out there, huh? Parents who are rude, crude, ignorant, and have no regard for other people, kids and adults alike.
But good for these folks for exposing them to the world!
1. Just a reminder…
This is at my local park that has 5 baseball fields. The parents need to control themselves. from trashy
2. So rude
"Taking a picture of me???" – Woman changing her baby’s dirty diaper on top of an Old Navy clothing display from trashy
3. This is terrible
Parents letting their children play on the "Vietnam Women’s Memorial" Right in front of Veterans. from pics
4. Oops
These kids just destroyed this thrift shops toy section and their parents did nothing from trashy
5. Disgusting
This mother… from trashy
6. Wow. Unreal.
Someone took their measles-infected kid to the play area at Ikea. from trashy
7. So trashy.
Leaving dirty diapers at your table after leaving a restaurant is pretty trashy from trashy
8. Other people exist, folks
Letting your kid watch a movie on full volume in a restaurant… from mildlyinfuriating
9. No rules
Lifting your kids over a guard rail so you can ignore them with your smartphone while they try to destroy a display. from trashy
10. They’re busy
Neglectful parents from trashy
11. Over the line
12. Hope they charged them a sh*tload
Dealership I work at gives out loaner vehicles while we get theirs repaired. One we just got back. from trashy
13. Looks fun.
A mom and two older kids refused to leave the kids play table so kids could play. They didn’t even look up from their phones. from mildlyinfuriating
14. WHAT?
Leaving your baby in the middle of the entrance (the parents were nowhere to be seen..) from trashy
15. That’s nice
Don’t use your kid’s mental illness to be an asshole from trashy
Do yourself a favor. Don’t be like these folks. We’ll all be better off…
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15 Moms That Are Keeping Some Pretty Juicy Details from Their Kids
It’s a mom’s job to protect kids from the scarier, dirtier, less legal ways of the world – especially the ones they know about firsthand!
The moms below have some pretty dark secrets in their closets, so I hope their kids never go looking!
15. A smile can hide a lot…
My mother always smiled at me. I can’t remember seeing her without a smile. When I grew up I discover she have chronic crippling depression.
Edit: corrected my bad english. Thanks for the gold and silver, I wasn’t expecting that. Well I just visited my parents, I talked a lot with her and told her that she that I’m proud of her, and that she can count on me. I can’t talk about her depression directly but at least I hope that make her feel a little bit better. Despite her depression she’s the strongest person I know
14. That’s a doozy!
That my High School boyfriend and I had a son at 16 years old… We went through Catholic Family Services for an ” open adoption ” we both get updates on how he is doing… even though we are not involved anymore… Also… my son is included in my will…
13. Bonus brother!
Just found out last year that my mom got pregnant in college, the guy split as soon as he found out and she never saw him again. She decided to have the baby, avoided going home when she was showing, and gave it up for adoption. My grandparents never knew (they died a few years ago) and I found out due to an ancestry.com DNA test. My half-brother contacted me and we pieced it together. She was relieved that it all came out in the end, it had been weighing on her all these years (She’s in her 70s, I’m 40 now, and my new half-brother is 52 or so). Needless to say, it was a huge surprise, I never in a million years would have guessed at that.
EDIT: Just to clear up any confusion. My mom had my brother in college, and had me in her 30s.
EDIT: Also, no, this isn’t an advertisement, it really happened and I only mentioned the site because that’s how he found me. Otherwise I don’t think we’d have ever found out. My mom was relieved that it came out, but was too scared to have ever come out with it on her own.
12. Just a small little oops…
When I graduated college, my mom casually dropped the fact that she, a tiny little Asian woman, used to deal large quantities of marijuana when she was in high school, and once had to skip a basketball game because she accidentally took a duffel bag full of weed to school instead of her gym bag.
11. My ceiling is their floor. Poetic.
I don’t want my kids to know anything about how I was raised. I really don’t.
Like, I can’t watch anything family themed without crying. Most know kid movies leave me with a lump in my throat so big I could choke on it. And as they get older it’s harder to turn my face far enough for them not to see and twice as hard to not cry.
My ceiling is their floor and I really just don’t want them to have to handle grown up problems until they are grown ups.
My wild secret is that’s why we go for walks as a family rather than the movies. The movies are somewhere my husband takes them for special one on one time so it’s still a special thing that they get to do. But I won’t make them sit through their mom having a fucking break down over some “Ohana means family and family means nobody gets left behind” line.
10. It’s all about perspective I guess.
One Thanksgiving, my Grandmother confessed to the family that her father had run a Speakeasy, and that she would tend bar/mind the shop while he was out on liquor runs. I think she was pretty ashamed, but I think everyone found it pretty cool and didn’t understand why she kept it a secret so long.
9. The ID is the best part of the story.
When my girlfriend (wife now) and I were first together, she was gone all summer, came back to town and we got it on. However, it was also noon. And the windows were open. And she’s a screamer. We stopped in the middle because she saw some light dancing around on the ceiling. Looked down and a cop was shining a light in. Luckily he let us off with a warning to close the windows, however, due to her height he did have to ask for her ID to verify that she was old enough (she was 22). My kids probably never need to know that.
EDIT: To answer all of the questions of “why would the cops show up?” It was a noise complaint. Our rental was super close to a bunch of apartments so the open windows and the close wall made for a perfect echo chamber.
8. It’s a family tradition.
How much of my teens I spent high. But now weed’s socially acceptable in most cases, that’s not even a thing. I’m disappointed. It’s almost fun in a way to have something to shock your kids with. My own Mom is really vanilla and is very old school. Bet she’s probably hiding the fact she runs a local swingers club or something.
7. A lot to unpack.
That I met their dad on World of Warcraft when I was 16, and ran away to be with him two days before I turned 18- he is 11 years older than me. They can know the overview but boy the details of it are real shady, especially when I am going to have to teach them internet safety and online stranger danger.
I am now divorced and their dad has moved away, and we have a positive coparent relationship and though he’s not very involved we both just want the best for the kids. Which leads me into the fact I don’t want them to know how I feel about the relationship looking back and the manipulation and emotional abuse. I don’t want my daughter to know that I wanted to abort her because I was 20 and in college and knew there was no way we could support her- and that I was HEAVILY guilted into it by their dad because of his age (at 31) “being his last chance”.
We used to sell weed by the pound out of Grandma’s basement.
Dad loves all kinds of drugs, and I have sampled most just not the heavy ruin-your-life ones. Truly I just want to be a stoner at heart.
6. Not slingers.
It is our current situation, but we are swingers.
5. Some secrets are better off buried, if you ask me.
Daughter of a mother with a wild secret, my dad was abusive, an extreme alcoholic and hit her regularly so she kicked him in the balls so hard that he couldn’t have kids (after me, obviously). He’s dead now (drunk driving, he took 4 people with him). My aunt got tipsy and told me everything.
4. PTA qualified.
I used to be an escort. If being an escort doesn’t make me a member of the PTA, nothing will.
EDIT: Thank you so much for my first gold!
3. I’m not sure how this would make me feel.
Both my parents were very honest through out most of my life but but over the summer when I was 17 my mom had mentioned that before I was born that my dad wanted to get an abortion. I had figured out on my own why my dad wanted an abortion was because we didn’t make enough money to support another child. But my mother fought for me. So my dad ended up stop drinking and smoking to be able to financially support me.
2. I’m not sure that’s genetic.
This will get buried and this story is from my dad. When I was ~19 and visiting home from college, my dad and I stayed up getting piss drunk. When I told him about my love for psychedelics, he clapped and said, “I knew it!”. I asked why and he stated that, “…Your mom was the acid queen, and we learned she was pregnant with you when she was 4 months in. We were tripping for your first couple of months.”
1. Nothing to be ashamed of.
I guess that I was a stripper for a while, and worked at a bank the same time. Don’t think I would share that, but if I heard them talk down about strippers I’d probably educate them on what it’s really like. I did what I had to do to put food on the table and give them a good life. My immediate family knows, except my step dad, and my children’s dad knows. We sometimes talk about it but not really.
Good luck keeping those doors to the past closed, mamas!
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