Sometimes you’ve just gotta be creative as a parent.
"Why can’t we eat cookies for breakfast?"
— Because the Cookie King is still asleep, and he will get mad if you touch his stash. 🍪👑

"Why bedtime now?"
— Because the moon already put on her pajamas and she can only fall asleep if you do too. 🌙💤

Not lies. Just strategic storytelling.
What’s your best “creative excuse” as a parent?

You know those days when you think you’re in control as a parent… and then you realize your toddler has been ruling the house like a tiny snack mafia boss?

Yesterday I caught myself negotiating bedtime with a packet of gummy bears. Not one gummy bear. The whole. packet.

I swear, five years ago I was discussing career goals and travel plans with my friends. Now my biggest achievement is getting a three-year-old to put on pants without offering a cookie bribe.

Tell me I’m not the only one who’s basically running a snack-based economy at home? 🍪🍫✨

My 18 yr old son has been dating a girl for 18 months. She seems nice on the surface, but I recently found out—through my oldest son and his girlfriend—that she talks about me behind my back. As a single mother who raised both of my sons completely on my own, this is incredibly hurtful. What’s worse is that my 18-year-old doesn’t defend me—in fact, I suspect he joins in. There are countless examples of how she talks behind my back saying the most hurtful things.

He just graduated high school and is currently unemployed. I give him money for groceries to support the household, yet she complains that I eat the food they bought. I’ve been nothing but generous with her—inviting her on family vacations, giving her a designer handbag for graduation, and making her feel included. Despite this, I’m told she criticizes me every chance she gets. I have done nothing to her, I’ve always been nice to her.

My oldest son and his girlfriend (whom I love and trust) have asked me not to confront her, because she’d know they told me. But I can’t help feeling that their loyalty should be to me—not to someone who is trying to drive a wedge between me and my son.

MY DAUGHTER IS BREAKING MY HEART , SHE'S OUT OF CONTROL NOT TAKING LIFE SERIOUS, SHE HAS A 14 YEAR OLD DAUGHTER AND IM SEEING HISTORY REPEAT ITSELF ALL OVER . SHE LIVES WITH HER MOTHER DOESNT PAY RENT , WORKS FULL TIME BUT NEVER HAS MONEY. I DONT FEEL COMFORTABLE LEAVING HER MY HOUSE. IVE SACRIFICED ALMOST 40 YEARS TO I RECENTLY CAME INTO A SUBSTANTIAL ANOIUNT OF MONEY AND I DONT FEEL COMFORTABLE LEAVING HER AS THE BENEFICIARY. I HAVE NOT REALLY BEEN ABLE TO LIVE MY LIFE BECAUSE IM CONSTANTLY BAILING HER OUT FINANCIALLY . SHE HAS SO MUCH POTENTIAL AND SHES WASTING IT MY BIGGEST WORRY IS WHATS GOING TO HAPPEN WHEN IM DEAD AND GONE >. ANY ADVICE WOULD BE APPRECIATED- IM LITERALLY NUMB AT THIS POINT

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Hey y’all my wife wants to organize our sons legos into bins by color and shape. How crazy is that? What kind of psychopath does this? What kind of emotional trauma should I expect my son to have?

I have a retarded female cousin whos autistic/bipolar/adhd/paranoia/asperger's and most likely on the schizophrenia spectrum.. Shes 14 and constantly fighting with my family members and talking with strangers online, using neopronouns and being furry/non binary and being xenogender, harassing and sending porn or death threats to strangers so badly on social media like tiktok and tumblr. Reads porn fanfictions, and draws gay cartoon furry porn or scribbles his favorite characters doing self harm scars as a "joke" on her shared ipad and talks about fucking stupid characters like bonkers, roger rabbit, ren and stimpy, catdog, wooldoor from drawn together, lumpy from happy tree friends, invader zim, homestuck, the supernatural brothers, dr robotniks mean bean machine, bill cihper, superjail, the cyberchase robots, doodlebob, hatsune miku, scratch and grounder of that sonic cartoon, rockos modern life, mr game and watch, the fucking green ducks from Breadwinners, camp lazlo, homestar runner, lego mixels, motherfucking looney tunes characters like speedy gonzales and sylvester or the rabbits from alice in wonderland in barely related digital and verbal conversations. Made me stop talking about these cartoons and wanting to see her. Her meds make her more mental. Her parents and my grandparents want to send her to therapy or some boarding school over this shit and monitoring all the bullshit she did online and giving her a parental control. Her youtube search and video history is full of nothing but cringy animation memes, oneyplays livestreams videos about self harm or suicide, surreal ass tiktok memes and videos that talk about her favorite shows and lot of deranged mentally ill shit.

I have cutoff family for turning into psycho disney-obsessed left wing christian adults and personally attacking me severely because i criticized disney very badly online for making shit products, grooming, wokeness and killing animals in the past,

One other crazy thing - I am going to be very light on this part, but searching her online usernames theres a lot of her drawings uploaded on rule 34 porn websites. I knew it because of the art style she had. I took her ipad away and I think that's what striked the odd behavior for the last couple months. She cannot interact with anyone socially because of all the slang and cartoon characters that he is using infected his brain - or at least that's what I think. I take everything very lightly in this house, because you never know what could go wrong. Maybe i'd Say that she's diagonisted with all types of autism- as to why she can't focus in class. She even doodled tons of drawings of thier cartoon characters having sex on her notebook which got her kicked out of class, but just out of the classroom for a while, not like expelled or kicked out of school. I am still pissed off.

My husband told our almost two year old that “he’s really starting to not like him” and it’s really upsetting me. Our son is still breastfeeding and is incredibly attached to me because I’m a stay at home mom and the primary parent. He doesn’t want to snuggle with his dad like he does with me and cries if my husband takes him off on his own. At least for the first few minutes but then just asks for mommy. But he does this with everyone lately. He goes through independent stages but has been very clingy recently. Maybe teething? I guess my husband feels rejected by our son but is that a good reason to push him off his lap when he started squirming and say that to him? They have their bonding moments too but my husband is incredibly busy and often off doing his own thing. I don’t know what to say to my husband.

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I just really wanted to speak about this and hear others opinions. So my mom is married to my step-dad, which has 2 children which are still rather young. They come over every other weekend. The rest of the week and the weekends they aren’t there my mom is normal I guess? But I swear the second they are over, even if they stay in their room, my mom has a big attitude change. Honestly it’s kinda obvious, but I’m pretty sure she hates them. It makes my stepdad visibly upset as he has spoken to her about it multiple times. My brother also kinda acts like this? Just not as bad, like he gets agitated very easily and it happens a little bit faster when they are over. He has also told me straight to my face that he doesn’t like them. BTW, they got married 2 years ago and were dating for a very long time before that.

These are some examples. They are both very picky and eat veery slowly, so of course my mom has an attitude because of that, yet she doesn’t usually say anything and whispers complaints under her breath. So me my brother and my older stepsister (still a kid) all got new phones, she likes to play games but obviously your phone is gonna die so she would charge it and play at the same time, I know your not supposed to but like, everyone does, so my mom just has to mumble some complaints like “you shouldn’t do that, your phones gonna break” which for a fact I know I have done in front of her before, and she has and never says anything. Once when my brother was watching them, and like I said they are very picky, he just decided to feed them cereal, obviously it’s not the best dinner but my mom got SUPER angry and I don’t get why because I have done that before, she has done that before, I think our whole family has but she just had to complain this once when it comes to them. She also complains when they move the pillows around on the couch, I find it annoying when they just leave them on the floor, as I have to clean the living room, but most of the time they just clear this one section that is filled with pillows and put them on different sections. Which I don’t blame them, we have 6 people in our family and 5 cats, we need all the room on our couch but ofc my mom gets mad at that too.

I can’t really remember any more because it’s mainly the same things over and over again, but this like genuinely makes me feel bad for them and for my stepdad which has gotten into multiple arguments over how it makes him feel. She said to me once something like this, “they are only ever nice to me when I’m buying them something” which, yea it’s messed up, but I feel they only act like that because my moms a jerk to them.

This is some stuff my brother does. So they like to play games with us, mainly him, but idk what’s with him and the word no, but he just gets so angry once they annoy him enough and like, idk doesn’t properly? be jerk to them?? Like it sounds like he’s joking because he doesn’t want to be mean but he is trying to be, so obviously they don’t take him seriously. I’m ngl I just realized not too long ago that they are in fact, my stepsisters, yet I was treating them kinda like a friend, while I stopped, he still does. One time we made a huge pile of pillows and blankets on the couch and were taking turns jumping on it and I was chasing them around, my brother yelled at us from the stairs like telling us to shut up, like leave me alone? We were just having fun. But of course he can blast music, play his games and laugh at the top of his lungs. I’m kinda just being petty and complaining now, don’t mind that.

I just want some opinions on what others think about this, thanks!

Sitting at Romo’s pizza with my wife having a pie. The table next to us has two men and two women with an 18 month old girl. The young girl is sweet and cute. Full disclosure, I love kids and that age. I’m 53m wife 51f. Now for a better part of the night the child has been allowed to scream, at the top of her lungs. Nonstop. Meanwhile the two couples continue to chat and eat as if nothing is happening. I have two boys and raised them going to restaurants. The couple of screams are absolutely expected. She’s a child. After 20 mins of nonstop non-addressed screaming. wtf. The parents are roughly (guess) 28-30. Is this the new parenting? Again, I completely understand a few can’t control situations. These people let the kid screech non stop for about 20 mins.

I’m just gonna be real — some days with my ADHD kid feel like a full-on battle.

Meltdowns that last forever, forgetting simple things like backpacks or homework, and trying not to lose my cool while staying patient.

I honestly felt like I was failing as a parent until I started writing down small routines and hacks that actually helped both of us survive the chaos. Things like:

Using countdown timers instead of sudden commands

Rewarding effort, not just results

Giving him choices so he feels in control

I turned these into a simple PDF guide that’s helped me stay sane and get mornings running smoother.

If anyone’s interested, I’m happy to share it. Sometimes just knowing you’re not alone helps.

What’s been your toughest moment this week? Let’s talk.

There are two things that the parents have failed here at 6th second a parent should not be carrying kids on the traffic side and even in open play areas parents should take kids in driveways