Playing with kids is not always the most fun activity for adults. Kids like to play out the same scenarios over and over and over again, and while it's stimulating for them, it's not always the most entertaining experience for the adults playing with them. Despite this, playing with your kids is incredibly important for their development. Playing with your kids or the kids in your life communicates to them that you care about them and their interests. Kids don't want to play forever. In fact, t…

Lessons in what NOT to do as a parent

Usually, when people anonymously tell stories of their lives on the Internet they tend to smudge the details to paint themselves in a better light. But not this man. When he told the internet he had been spreading rumors that his wife was unable to have children , he told the truth and nothing but the truth. it takes courage to portray yourself as such a sincerely bad person. The story goes, this man and his wife had been trying for kids for a few years. Unfortunately, they weren't having luck.…

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Based on experience

Parenting is a lot of things, but it isn't glamorous. One minute you're a freedom-enjoying adult, the next you've popped out some kind of hellion and your life has changed forever. While some of those changes are good, there are others that are a bit of a bummer in retrospect. Being able to use the bathroom alone becomes a rare and relished occurrence. Frequent diaper changing makes existence more poopy than you could ever imagine, and somehow it feels like you're constantly cleaning up messes.…

Someone's gotta help them reincarnate

"Their future child is not my responsibility"

Intending not to have kids has become much more socially acceptable for millennials . It used to be that if you were a person who didn't have kids, you were an old spinster, a nun, or a deeply ashamed closeted person. These days, a much larger chunk of young people are vehemently against bringing another life into this world. This can be for various reasons, from not wanting to financially support another human being to not wanting to push another person through their body. While these reasons…

Deserved

No offense, but your unbaked baby is the last thing anyone wants to see while sipping their morning coffee.

TO THE WINDOOOOW, TO THE WALL

And extra special memes just for the moms this mother's day!

There's been a lot of discourse lately about where in public children do and don't belong. The “children don't belong on planes” take has been popular for many, many years - and we just witnessed the insanity that controversial (yet semi-universal) stance can lead to. Basically, owning that opinion too passionately can land you in jail. But the contempt for kids and/or babies on planes isn't where these feelings stop. A restaurant in New Jersey

Only the best memes for parent guardians of the galaxy.

It's true that some people hate kids. I once worked with someone who was so staunchly anti-child it kind of disturbed me. Sure, it can be argued that it's selfish to bring life into this messed up world. But if you look at it another way, it's absolutely optimistic. There's a chance, even if it's a small one, that if you raise your kid right, they could make that same messed up world a better place. Unfortunately, the internet seems to be making that prospect slightly more unrealistic. Nonethel…