That's one way of looking at it

Parenting: no matter how hard I try, it will always be what my Instagram reels return to. I'm totally cool with it, though! There's nothing more entertaining to me as a 24-year-old without children than a mom posting about how her kids have “different personalities” when they go to their dads house because he allows them to eat red dyes.

"I don't want an unattractive child"

One donut = obesity for life

Shady shade

Parents can get oddly competitive about their kids, and they have some backhanded compliments to dole out to parents they're intimidated by. They say it's not productive to compare your kid to others, but it's hard not to. If all the other babies are walking but your kid is still crawling, you might worry that they're behind. Other babies start talking very early on, while others don't speak in full sentences until they're two or three years old. It's understandable why parents would be concern…

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Do you think he still loves her bunches?

Romeo and Ghoul-liette

Birth isn't a competition

Sure, it's true that kids will do and say crazy things, but let's take a look at all the crazy things parents and teachers say to them. Perhaps craziness begets craziness. After all, and this will annoy all the anti-musical theater folks out there, but it was Stephen Sondheim who said “children will listen.” If you tell an impressionable eight year old that toilets are evil creatures trying to swallow you whole, that eight year old may very well believe you. And what happens when they believe y…

Wait, I'm the adult?

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Thanks, dad!

That's how toddlers are

That's not what that phrase implies...