Unless you reared an exceptionally delightful, well-adjusted child, the post-high school summer is filled with unbearable conflict.
All tagged Parenting
Tough Love: My Mother’s Gift To Me
It's taken me years to figure out why my mother never let me win at checkers, told me to fight my own battles and insisted on being unblinkingly honest.
Gender-Reveal Parties Gone Wild (fire)
There is no law that says every life event must be turned into a social media production.
Another Awful Idea From Kamala Harris
What could be better for kids than spending 10 hours a day in government-run institutions?
Bad Parents
Children are a gift. They aren’t little soldiers to be brainwashed and sent into battle with a former spouse.
Teen Threatens Mass Shooting. Mom Defends Punk.
I kept hoping she’d take that purse and whack her brat over the head with it. Nope. She kept defending and infantilizing him.
Name Shaming
Good Lord, lady, what were you thinking?
Playground Ready: Bubble Wrap, Knee Pads and Helmets?
In part, the policy says it is “advisable for young toddlers to wear a helmet while in the playground because they can easily trip and fall."
Stop Coddling Kids
Kids like me - short and skinny - were always picked last for any team. When we whined about it, our parents were unsympathetic, saying something like, “You’re a shrimp. Deal with it.”