It's a win-win! They won't go to Stanford or Yale, and they'll get bullied!

Potty training is an especially stressful part of parenting. You have to tell your kids over and over to communicate with you about when they have to go to the bathroom, and you have to learn how to gauge when they're on the brink of a full-tilt emergency. Even though it's hard at first, you don't have to worry about changing diapers and wiping bottoms anymore once it's done. Some kids take a while to catch onto the whole toilet thing, but when you're a parent, there's a ticking time bomb forci…

Straight out of a fairy tale

Baby fight club is too funny

Hi, My name is Orange Smith

Uhhhh

"So mean and hateful"...she's two

Not the best parenting strategy

These are hard to believe

Can she not take the bus?

It's that time of the year when every school has a million events. One day you're chaperoning a field trip for one kid, and the next day you're attending a choir concert for the other. As a kid, I loved the end of the school year for precisely this reason. I loved being busy! In hindsight, I can only imagine how stressful May was for my parents. Field Day was the best day of my young life, but it likely wasn't my mom's favorite day by any means. Not to mention, kids are so wound up by the beaut…

No parent wants to have to choose between children during important moments in their lives. People can plan around this as much as they want, making sure weddings don't fall on milestone birthdays, etc. However, sometimes nature takes its course, and babies are born on graduation days. One recent grad was put in this situation, and her mom chose not to attend her graduation. This would make sense if the baby were literally born as she got handed her diploma, but that wasn't the case. Her older…

Mommy Facebook Groups are by no means a new phenomenon. I have been making fun of them since I was a teenager, which didn't go unnoticed by my suburban community. Long story short, I was a member of my high school's sketch comedy team. I know, extremely cool, very popular, and totally not lame of me. We had to perform sketches at loud and rowdy pep rallies that had something to do with school spirit. My best friend/comedy writing partner/high school sweetheart (we had an incredibly multifaceted…

Part of being a parent is forcing your kids to do things they don't want to do. Sometimes, they have to eat yucky vegetables and finish the year of playing with their soccer team, even though they wanted to quit halfway through. However, there's a point where parents need to listen to what their kids are saying and act accordingly. One mother took to Reddit to ask whether she was the villain for forcing her teenage daughter to wear dresses when going over to their grandparent's house. There is…

Babysitting kids can go two very different ways. Either the kids are totally cool, or they are absolute monsters that cannot be tamed. I was lucky that the kids I looked after were rad as hell when I was a teenage babysitter. Their parents were never too controlling, telling me that we could only do boring educational activities with the kids. I had the distinct pleasure of babysitting kids who were not toddlers, which definitely made my experience more enjoyable. Unfortunately, not everybody i…

It's time for us to face the facts: we give moms a lot of slack in this series. There are a lot of cringe mothers out in the world who detox their children from heavy metals and squirt breastmilk in their eyes when they get a stye. Even though they have some wacky ideas, they're not complete monsters. They're just women who've been sucked into a weird online subculture . It's easy to criticize mothers for a myriad of reasons. It's far too natural for us to fall into misogynistic thought pattern…