Tag: parenting

Can we please stop spreading the whole “telling your kids you ate all their Halloween candy” prank this year. Call me crazy, but I don’t think it’s funny. 

I think it’s shitty to take your kid’s trust in you and abuse it. I think it’s shitty to lie to your kids, and then laugh at them for believing you. 

I think it’s shitty for adults to act like they took away something that was really important to these kids, something that made them happy, and then laugh at them for being upset. 

And I think it’s super shitty to film it without their consent, knowing that it could be on national TV and get millions of views on YouTube. Knowing that the disgusting commenters of the internet will probably call your kids selfish, fat, annoying, and a whole range of other things that could hurt their self-esteem as they grow up. 

These kids will have to grow up with the knowledge that on the internet there’s a widely-viewed video of themselves at age five, crying about their candy and being laughed at for it by millions of people.  

Please let’s just get over this trend. It has been so many years. Please.

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My husband and I are surprising our 6 year old by taking him to Disney for his b-day tomorrow. We’ve been in the car for 4+ hours and he still thinks we are on our way home from school. He keeps saying “looks like we’re almost home!” 😂

Bless his heart.

Update: we arrived to Disney World, he thinks we took a wrong turn and is very concerned about who is going to feed our cat.

transboybatman:

vaultboyy:

the spanking debate isn’t all that complicated. you’re either ok with hitting small kids who are completely defenseless and literally at your mercy, or you’re not. supporting the first option makes you a bad and dangerous person, and unfit to be a parent, and im sorry to say but there’s no way around this, no excuses or loopholes. it is what it is

I’ve told this story before and my clam chowder is getting cold but fuck it.

A couple years ago while I was working for a care center during my ece training – we had a big thing about spankings. We went around and asked children who were spanked how they felt about it and what it told them or how it made them feel.

Then when the parents were over, we anonymously read everything that was said by the children on how they view spankings and unanimously it was found that the children never saw it as a growing experience.

It was “painful” “really scary” “I thought mommy hated me now” and we often found it never actually TAUGHT the kids what they did wrong. in fact it seemed to teach them that at any moment your mommy or daddy would just haul up and smack you until you cried and said it was for your own good.

Needless to say I’m pretty sure we changed a lot of parents opinions on spanking and SHOCK OF SHOCKS actually TALKING to their children worked far better disiplinary

I even included my own story, pretending I was telling an outside story “well, I happened to know one person who’s mother only stopped spanking them cause they got tall and big real fast so they could fight back. so there’s a lot of intimidation and fear to your children.” and just – I’ll never forget the dawning look of realization on their faces

elvenwitchychild:

iamryanhenly:

Parents should not be reading your journals

Parents should not be searching through your trash 

Parents should not be snooping on your private social media messages 

Parents should not be taking your bedroom door off 

Parents should not be invading your privacy 

And also parents should not be telling you “You are too young to have privacy” or “As long as you are in my house you have no privacy”