bluecinema/E+/Getty Images Another day, another parenting drama on Reddit’s Am I The Assh*le? forum. Today’s query comes from u/throwawayparent0x0 — whom we’ll call Throw-Away. Throw-Away and her husband are both absolutely in love with their brand new, 10-week-old baby. She loves how much her husband wants to spend every possible minute basking in the little one’s presence. But there’s a problem. “He engages in unsafe behaviors,” she explains, “like falling asleep on the couch while baby is contact napping, leaving baby on the play mat unattended while the dog is in the room, or putting baby for a day nap...
Mom Says Don't Go To Restaurants If You "Have An Intolerance" For Kids
@kwalls21 / TikTok While out to lunch with her two kids, mom and content creator, Kitty, was met with some hostility from a fellow diner. She was surprised by the interaction, noting that if people do not want to be around kids, they should avoid places where kids are welcome. After the exchange, she vented in her car about the incident and the general intolerance society seems to have for kids in public spaces. “I’ve never had somebody be annoyed or give me an attitude over my kids until today,” she explains after their trip to the casual dining chain,...
Turns Out, Parents *Do* Have Favorites & It's Exactly Who You Think
MoMo Productions/DigitalVision/Getty Images Growing up with a whole mess of siblings, my brothers, sister, and I would occasionally ask our parents that timeless, dreaded question: “Who’s your favorite?” And every time, we were assured “We don’t have favorites” or “Each of you is my favorite for a different reason.” Of course we never bought those lines and would go on to throw out theories as to who the favorite actually was. (To our parents’ credit, everyone usually said themselves so… A+, mom and dad.) But a new study — a meta-analysis of 30 previous studies comprising nearly 20,000 participants —...
I Thought I Knew What Happens During A Miscarriage. I Was Wrong.
Kseniya Ovchinnikova/Moment/Getty Images I haven’t always wanted to be a mum, but a couple of years ago, something clicked: after years of writing about trying to conceive (TTC), pregnancy, and motherhood, I knew I was ready, and the want became a need. So after 10 years together and officially tying the knot earlier in the year, my partner and I started our TTC journey in March 2024, and in August, we saw that first faint positive line. I bought a pregnancy journal and started recording everything — every symptom, every emotion, and every little moment. I’d begun to notice magpies...