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Parenting is like trying to nail Jell-o to a wall–just when you think you’ve got it, something changes. The online platform Grown and Flown understands this all too well. With relatable posts, expert advice, and practical tips, it offers help on parenting tweens, teens, college students, and young adults. But we couldn’t possibly cover all that it offers, so we’ll focus here on the humorous insights it shares on its Instagram account. The content hilariously captures the chaos, triumphs, and surprises of raising older kids, blending humor with wisdom that provides a reason to laugh. Or a few!
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BrunoVI 1 year ago
I was working at a grocery store when I was 18. I was non-verbal at least through most of being three anyway. Maybe I should find out if I'm a little autistic.
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Jude Laskowski 1 year ago
My local supermarket used to hire a young man with some kind of disability. He worked as a bagger and would always offer to help older folks carry their bags to their cars. Most customers really liked him. I wish more stores would hire folks with disabilities, even if only for part - time. It would give them a purpose and a paycheck.
Kids For Jokes 7 months ago
These parenting jokes are so relatable—sometimes laughter is the only thing keeping us sane through the chaos! I’ve found that sharing silly jokes with my kids helps lighten the mood at home too. If anyone else needs a good laugh (with or without little ones), this site has some clean and funny gems: https://kidsforjokes.com
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Papa 1 year ago
You expect all the posts to match the title of the article? Are you new here?
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Hellcaste's Wife 1 year ago
I've actually had this happen to me, where a teen girl ran over to me in a mall calling me "Mom" because a dude couldn't take a hint!
Snowy Ashton 1 year ago
My plan is to swiftly turn around, stare at the guy, then give a very toothy grin and hiss loudly and demonically. Then start chasing the guy back.
S Bow 1 year ago
This would work especially if you have a set of fake vampire teeth you could quickly pop in before you turn around 😆
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Gabriela Cink 1 year ago
Not only teen girls. Also sigle women, saving herself in other group of women "meeting an old friend"
cerinamroth 1 year ago
This is called whataboutery. Of course, everyone should try and help everyone else, but the situations you described are vanishingly rare compared with the scourge of everyday sexism.
Load More Replies...Despite all the struggles mentioned in the pictures, the vast majority of parents say their role is enjoyable most (58%)–or all (25%)–of the time, according to Pew Research Center findings from 2022.
Similarly, parents feel that raising kids is also rewarding most (44%)–or all (36%)–of the time.
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Cee Cee 1 year ago
Nice kid who hopefully will go on to understand his gf/wife's workload and help out.
XenoMurph 1 year ago
Or, like I learned in the 1980s, there is no "gf/wife's" workload.
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James Owens 1 year ago
My wife used to do cruel things like putting my stuff where it was supposed to be. Always had to get her to find it.
Marilyn Holt 1 year ago
I've done that to myself. Looked everywhere for my phone and it was on the phone dock.
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keyboardtek 1 year ago
Still prevalent in strict Christian families. They plan to extend those values to everyone in the country via their new authoritarian ruler.
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Mason Kronol 1 year ago
I was about 14 or 15 and sitting on a large mall bench with female cousin and 2 guy friends our age.This was the 80s. It was near the front entrance and we obviously lost track of time and weren’t out front at the right time. My mom came in screaming like a banshee calling me a whore and yelling at these poor boys. I was grounded for I don’t know how long. Of course my cousins mom, my mom’s sis, thought my mom was being unreasonable but was unable to talk sense into her. Basically I was Carrie without the superpowers🤪
Sharkbait1313 1 year ago
I am 41 and still terrified of my father. I hate that I have nothing but anxiety around him.
Tommy DePaul 1 year ago
Why aren't you NC? You are co-defendant in your abuse.
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Mothers and fathers are pretty much equally likely to say that being a parent is enjoyable and rewarding, but a larger share of mothers than fathers say parenting is tiring (47% vs. 34%) and stressful (33% vs. 24%), at least most of the time.
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Witch with a B 1 year ago
Actual conversation - Me (37): Can you keep a secret? Brother (40): What don't you want mom to know?
Mason Kronol 1 year ago
Yep. My husband and his sister. (Btw, love that autocorrect wanted to put girlfriend instead of sister!!!)
Anna Stephenson 1 year ago
I'm 45 and my sister is 43- I can 100% confirm, that for many of us, this IS indeed, a lifelong thing!
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Teutonic Disaster 1 year ago
If the mum were really condescending about it tho, I'd look her dead in the eye, point at the kid and say "Well if that isn't the pot calling the kettle black." 😂
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XenoMurph 1 year ago
I'm 51, some teenage lad walked past me a while back and complimented my trainers. I still don't know if he was being sarcastic or if I'm way cooler than I think.
Auntriarch 1 year ago
Take it as a compliment, every time! That's what I did when a lad complimented my orange camo trousers
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Witch with a B 1 year ago
I started doing this about a year ago. If I see something I like, I complement the other person. I have gotten more smiles and gratitude. I was even told that I made their day.
Feathered Dinosaur 1 year ago
Such things are simply not done in Germany. You would be eyed with the deepest suspicion
Anne Nyheim 1 year ago
I am a foreigner every time I visit Leipzig, so I get away with it. I guess I come across as genuinely nice (53f and harmless)
Load More Replies...Grown and Flown was created by moms, wives, and friends Mary Dell Harrington and Lisa Endlich Heffernan.
Everything began while they were working alternate Tuesday mornings at their children’s school. After Mary Dell made the coffee and Lisa poured it, they bonded over the changes happening in their lives as their eldest sons were "on the threshold of walking out of [their] thresholds."
Now, they cover a wide range of issues related to parenting teens and college students, such as high school, college admissions, and lessons learned from other parents and grandparents.
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Lydia Koncsics 1 year ago
my mom has always had that rule; if your stuck somewhere you dont want to be tell them your crazy, mean mom is making you go home. its helped me several times, im so grateful for her
Papa 1 year ago
My daughter was invited to spend the night with a friend once. Apparently the girl didn't have a great home life, and my daughter didn't feel comfortable with it. I was more than happy to let her tell the friend that I said no, instead of her having to say she didn't want to.
Belle_Pandamonium🇧🇻l 1 year ago
I like that. It is not easy being that young- better call mom! 👍😄
Load More Replies... Manic Mama 1 year ago
My girls and I had a similar thing. They would phone & ask how Grandma's dog was doing (Grandma didn't have a dog). I knew that was my cue to announce how upset Grandma was, and 'so sorry' , going to have to pick you up so we could be with Grandma. It was their get out of jail free card. No questions asked, no matter what the time of day or night.
Brenda Spagnola-Wilson 1 year ago
If I called her asking to stay later & have my sister pick me up. Mom was a sticker for curfew & my sister didn't live at home anymore.
Jude Laskowski 1 year ago
Back in the '60s when some of us were just starting to date, our parents would give us $20 to put in our shoe so we could get a taxi home if things did not go well.
Susan Anderson 1 year ago
I lost my mom over 30 yrs ago. Wish I could text her and hear her go "mom crazy" one more time.
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Rafael 1 year ago
I remember when I carried my baby brother for the last time. He was 25 and 95kg. My mom, my wife and his wife won't allow me to carry him anymore.
Edda Kamphues 1 year ago
I wish I could do that with my 16-year-old, but if I picked him up, his feet would still on the ground.
Kari Panda 1 year ago
I‘m not sure if a 16 yo would care, but there‘ll come a point where he‘ll appreciate the sentiment, feet on the ground or not :)
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SweetCheesySpaghetti 1 year ago
And now i'm going to go home and pick up my son and carry him around for a bit.
StrangeOne 1 year ago
i would be a pancake on the floor lol. There was a time and I think I told my kid when it would be the last time because I knew when she was starting to get too heavy.
Cindi Antrobus 1 year ago
Mine is 17.5 and I can't pick her up anymore but we still snuggle in a chair or when we watch a movie. I wish I knew the last time was the last time
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Bookworm 1 year ago
On the opposite side: I was home from college for a holiday break and my dad forgot I was in the house.
LuckyL 1 year ago
HOW did you discover - or rather - how did he discover?
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Melanie Filmer 1 year ago
I have 5 kids aged between 16 and 21, the other night all 5 of them were in the living room together! I wish I'd gotten a photo
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whineygingercat 1 year ago
Baby was 17. In the 60s, that was still considered a minor. So, technically, Johnny could've been ARRESTED.
Perfumista Perfumista 1 year ago
It would have depended on the state. States had 16, 17, and 18 as the age of consent back then.
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TruthoftheHeart 1 year ago
Yep a lot of Disney movies change when you get older now I listen to Ariel sit there and scream , Daddy I'm 16 I'm not a child anymore!!! (Now you're just like sit down and hush kid you're 16 you don't know what you're talking about)
Amy Roberts 1 year ago (edited)
As a (decades ago) 16yr old who just had wanted to be seen as an adult and make my own mistakes for many years, … I disagree with you. I’ve matured a lot over the years, but my maturity difference at age 16-18 was way less than that of 18-25. Enjoy locking up your kids till 18, and enjoy when they go no contact.
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KatSaidWhat 1 year ago
And let's not mention the "good" guy who got the other dancer pregnant...
The two collaborators also published the book Grown and Flown: How to Support Your Teen, Stay Close as a Family, and Raise Independent Adults.
Mary Dell and Lisa jokingly said they speak in hushed tones when writing about their kids because, one day, they might retaliate by creating a website of their own.
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Panda'sMom 1 year ago
Then you make Christmas Crackers with nothing in them.
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Lynn Morello 1 year ago
What a brilliant idea, I wish I had thought of that one. I have 6 kids, the youngest is now 32
Brian Droste 1 year ago
Need to do is put some worthless trinkets in them so they are thinking they are actually getting something of value.
TruthoftheHeart 1 year ago
My kids know that if they want that item replaced they have to let me know they took the last of it so I can get more, same basic rule you'd have for any person in a house, child or adult
Fat Harry (Oi / You) 1 year ago
We have a chalkboard in the kitchen. If we run out of something then it's up to the person who used it to write it on the board and I'll buy it next time I shop. The number of times I get asked "Did you buy cereal?" and I say "Was it on the board?" and get "No, but I thought you'd remember" is staggering. You'd think they'd learn. Also, "they" are 22 years old.
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🩶🩷Marvin HoG🩷🩶 1 year ago
I have a box for the stuff my husband leaves lying around or empty boxes he can't manage to throw out or place in the recycle. Once the box is full I place it in his man cave. Since he obviously wants to keep this stuff around he can use it to decorate his special space.
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The Dusty Rhino 1 year ago
If you work in forestry, or in a mine, they are often very remote. So you fly in/fly out for your rotation, and you stay in a camp.
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Brian Droste 1 year ago (edited)
I took my trash out out today also. If I don't do it, the trash won't be taken out and the trash will pile up and eventually will overflow my house.
Lori Gibbs 1 year ago
Did he pick up all the trash that had overflowed onto the floor as well?
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Papa 1 year ago
When our son was a baby and people would ask if he was sleeping through the night I would say yes, he was, but then my wife would step in and correct me. "YOU slept through the night. He was up three times." (Before anyone jumps down my throat about it, I was working, she was not, and he was breast fed, so it's not like I could have done much even if I did get up.)
According to a recent survey conducted by the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center in Columbus, 66% of moms and dads feel the demands of parenthood sometimes, or frequently, leave them feeling isolated and lonely, while nearly 40% felt as though they have no one to support them in their parenting role.
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David Martin 1 year ago
I will always remember the day I was in a Disneyland bathroom, hearing a father in the next stall calmly talk his child through the bathroom process, and suddenly shifting to panicked screams of "No! No! Don't touch that with your pen*s!!!" I guarantee, there's no parenting book for that one either
Elladine DesIsles 1 year ago
I did a preemptive "we will never have Axe in this house" campaign which has thus far been successful My son is 13 now and using excessive amounts of various forms of Irish Spring and Old Spice body washes (ASD+OCD; he needs to feel super clean), and it can be a bit overwhelming, but I'll take it over Axe! I have a similar campaign going for "please learn shaving skills early and skip the hideous scraggly teenaged mustache phase," which has yet to be tested. Sometime in the next year or so I expect to see how well that has worked, but he is a big fan of firefighters who for some reason seem to be disproportionately mustachioed, so I fear I may lose that one.
Lsai Aeon 1 year ago
Having a child on the spectrum, I wish he would get to this stage. I still have to remind him every morning to use deodorant. Honestly, Axe clouds would be better than his BO. I'm trying so hard to help him not STANK
Elladine DesIsles 1 year ago
I'm still trying to get my 13yo with ASD to use deodorant at all! And he thinks it is hilarious to shove his armpit in my face when we hug, ugh! He's about to switch schools so I am trying to motivate him that this is the time to take the leap and make a fresh, non-malodorous first impression.
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Brenda Spagnola-Wilson 1 year ago
I had to ban Axe in the house. It set off my allergies. He kept it in the garage. He's 30 now and hates it. 😉
Queeqec 1 year ago
Wondering where an 11yr old kiddo gets the spray from. Probably from the one complaining about it.
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Helena 1 year ago
Yours were random? I was required to sit beside mom within backhand distance.
Not-a-Clue (she/her) 1 year ago
Yes, we had allocated places in our house.
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Suck it Trebek 1 year ago
Same thing with what side of the bed you sleep on. You pick it the first night together and it stays that way for years.
Tim Douglass 1 year ago
I've always found it interesting that my wife and I have swapped sides a couple times over the years, always in conjunction with moving into a new house. Different room layout meant we just had to switch where we slept.
Load More Replies... tracy black 1 year ago
my exs family had certain utensils they all looked alike to me the first time i met them and we had supper i picked up a fork and everyone stopped eating and looked at me and whispered she took shelias fork i slowly put it back in the drawer and got another one weird
Tropical Tarot 1 year ago
My mom sat closest to the kitchen and my dad sat where he could watch TV while he ate. I sat to the right of him and my sister sat between me and my mom.
Robert Trebor 1 year ago
We were five, with two left-handed, me and my mom. She sat on the end closest to the kitchen, I sat on her right so my elbow would not be in a brother's plate. Even now, I almost invariably sit at a table so my elbow is off the side. Even when I'm alone.
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Isabella Weber 1 year ago
Well i think they should also learn to stand up for themselves. Be strong enough to say 'i dont want to'
Robert Trebor 1 year ago
That comes at different times for different people. It's great to have an authoritative NO from mom to use in a sticky circumstance.
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Wysteria_Rose 1 year ago
Now I'm just wondering why I didn't think of this when I was a teenager...
Richienotsorich 1 year ago
I work with those kids now they're grown up...my manager says no. Actually, you should be saying no because that's you doing your job properly.
Jude Laskowski 1 year ago
This is perfect, so they wouldn't have to make up a lie then try to remember which lie they told.
"Loneliness has been shown to affect both your physical and mental health,” said Kate Gawlik, DNP, associate clinical professor at The Ohio State University College of Nursing, a researcher on parental burnout and the mother of four young children. “So anything from cardiovascular disease to depression, anxiety, cognitive decline, even your immune system can be affected when you're lonely."
These humorous posts might not solve all your problems, but if they can help you connect with others and lighten the load, even just a little, then they’re definitely worth it.
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Trophy Husband 1 year ago
Mine would say"I don't need to ask about exercise since you have 5 kids"
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Stygtand 1 year ago (edited)
My mother is like that. Always got my back. I remember one time my pc died. I was talking to her on the phone and told her about it. The day after as i was about to order parts for a new one. She came by with a surprise. She had gone out and bought a new gaming pc for me. I did not intend to have her buy me one. I was capable of buying one myself, but she just loves when she gets an opportunity to help me out .
MaryWinDenver Notgiven 1 year ago
I stayed at my mom's one night. She woke me up calling me Tootsiebell, gave me my freshly washed clothes and a brown bag with lunch and candy to share. I was 27 and a homicide detective. Still smiling 46 years later.
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Fat Harry (Oi / You) 1 year ago
Forcing people to watch baseball is against the Geneva convention.
Orysha 1 year ago
Forcing people to wacth cricket deserves a death sentence.
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Mason Kronol 1 year ago
My cousin and I came straight home after a concert when I was only 19 or 20, she was 21. Her mom asked why we were home so early and not at the bars and why I hadn’t found a fake ID by then 😂 Damn we were good kids. And this was after seeing Motörhead, Primus, Metallica, Cheap Trick, Eddie Money…ya know, all the crazy ones.
Tabitha 1 year ago
Because all our parents were teenagers once themselves, and their parents ALSO knew everything they thought they were getting away with and ALSO just picked their battles. Same with their parents’ parents, and their parents, and so on all the way back to when we were still single-called critters on the verge of crawling out of the muck.
Anne Nyheim 1 year ago
My best hack is, don't call them out for lying. Then they get no incentive to get _good_ at lying... a very useful skill for them not to have
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Elladine DesIsles 1 year ago
I'm between 3 and 4 with both of mine, though that's the end point for my daughter (she's 28 and about 3 inches taller than me, so the angle isn't quite as extreme as the final pic). But with my 13 year old son, it won't be long... six months ago we were about level, and now he's several inches taller than me! When boys hit puberty, things happen so fast. His voiced changed in the span of about two weeks last spring - my dad heard him the background while we were talking on the phone and demanded, "Who's that man in your house?!?"
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Philly Bob 1 year ago
LOL! Yup! The "Oh Śhit Handle!" Going around a corner at about 45 MPH.
Load More Replies... Eric Williams 1 year ago
At some point it becomes the only way you can haul your butt out of the car.
ctbuchy 1 year ago
Thanks bruce, we get that it's there to help people get out of the car. Can you explain why refrigerators have lightbulbs inside for us too?
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keyboardtek 1 year ago
I taught my daughter to drive. She has Tourette's Syndrome. It was the most frightening experience in my life. Just about broke that grab bar off the ceiling.
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Astrid Sheffler-Sumpter 1 year ago
I have 2 adult sons and 1 at 16. We have a very dry sarcastic humor and tease each other all the time. Best kids ever!!!
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Spencer's slave no longer 1 year ago
£20 a week for me when I started full time work.
Load More Replies... Gabriela Cink 1 year ago
My nephew was puzzled when I told him, his father never had his own room :D
Mumma Cass 1 year ago
I received $1 a week if I completed my homework nice & neatly, clean my room, helped fold & put away my washing.
Huddo's sister 1 year ago
We got $10 a fortnight until we were 16, then we qualified for government assistance and had to pay half to mum for board, put $50 in savings and then kept about $50 a fortnight.
BookFanatic 1 year ago
$5 a week. $1 for savings, $1 for Girl Scouts, $3 for me! In my parents' defense, this was the early 80s.
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Geoffrey Scott 1 year ago
I suspect due to teenage boys have an odor all their own. Feet, sweat, etc..
Load More Replies... Melinda Flick 1 year ago
Teen girls (mine) weren't a lot better. The discussions we had about clean feet vs. dirty feet, and sneaker stench. TG that's behind me now.
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Steve Robert 1 year ago
My Mom, while mad, once called me " a son of a biitch"' I simply replied " You're my mother. What's that make you?". She never called me that again!
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Shark Lady 1 year ago
My sister and I learnt very quickly not to say we were bored in my parents earshot.
whineygingercat 1 year ago
My friends learned too, the hard way. They claimed boredom and next thing their mom has them washing down the walls. I was 'invited' to join them. I quickly replied that I wasn't bored.
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Jude Laskowski 1 year ago
Any kid who says they're bored would soon have a list of chores so long it would take them till Christmas to finish them.
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Jude Laskowski 1 year ago
Next time, tell them the dishwasher is broken, so they have to wash the dishes by hand.
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PunnyPanda 1 year ago (edited)
1-800-COLLECT: Say your name after the tone Me: Dadswimpracticeisoveri'minfrontoftheymcapickmeup!
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cerinamroth 1 year ago
I once seriously considered borrowing a horse from a field when I had to walk a looooong way home after a night out (I lived in the countryside, can ride, and knew the owner).
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Deborah B 1 year ago
Sometimes your mum forgot that you had an after school even that meant you missed the bus, and wasn't picking up the phone at home. You got to wait at the school until she remembered, walk 8 miles home, or the last teacher to leave took pity on you and gave you a lift.
Cindi Antrobus 1 year ago
Yep you told your parents where you would be at what time and you'd better be there
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BewilderedBanana 1 year ago
I read the first tomato "to-mah-to" so it was very confusing... had to go back and re-read it as "to-may-to" and then it all made sense :)
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Mason Kronol 1 year ago
I read the book before I saw the movie when I was about 10 years old. I’ve seen the movie at least 50 times. My husband bought me the book for my 50th birthday. I still haven’t reread it because I would like to go back into the ocean one day.
TruthoftheHeart 1 year ago
Now that I actually know more about sharks the movie is a little ridiculous
Brenda Spagnola-Wilson 1 year ago
Caught my youngest hiding so they could watch Jurassic Park. Their brother is 6.5 years older & we were watching it. What gave them away? The giggles when people got eaten! Still likes horror
Edward Treen 1 year ago
Ha! I find now that when I watch a horror film with some total nutter slaughtering teenagers, I'm empathising with the nutter.
Anne Nyheim 1 year ago
My first boyfriend wanted to take me to a scary movie, maybe he hoped I would crouch into him for some manly comforting? We saw Jaws, and he was the very scared one
Orange Mum 1 year ago
I still cant swim in the ocean and I saw the movie when it came out, 47 years ago
Robert Trebor 1 year ago
When my ship was in the Philippines, some friends and I went to see "Theater of Blood" with Vincent Price. The Filipinos in the audience were horrified by the movie, but were also horrified at our insane laughter.
Melinda Flick 1 year ago
I don't think I went swimming where I couldn't SEE the bottom for several years after watching that movie. Ocean, muddy lakes and rivers. Nope, nope, and nope.
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Dee Rutherford 1 year ago (edited)
My daughter teaches college classes. She’s always saying this. If half the class shows up, she considers herself lucky.
Tim Douglass 1 year ago
I have never understood the mentality of skipping classes in college. I probably overdid it (and possibly spread the plague), but I'd show unless I was literally too sick to stand up. I was all about learning all I could and being in lectures and labs was absolutely the best way to learn it.
Huddo's sister 1 year ago
My uni course had compulsory attendance. If you missed more than one tutorial and two lectures you failed (if you didn't have special consideration).
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Rafael 1 year ago
"Hahahaha", said I, while staring at dried beet soup spots in my wall, in my TV and in (checks just in case) oh yeah, also the ceiling. And mine is only one year old! I'll paint the living room when he is old enough to help me.
Philly Bob 1 year ago
I asked my (then) 6 year old daughter why she put her sandwich in the VCR and she said "well daddy, it fit!"
Load More Replies... TruthoftheHeart 1 year ago
My 8-year-old recently had a competition with his little sister to see who could toss a bean from their tostadas the highest, now I have a bean stuck on my ceiling that I can't get down
BarfyCat 1 year ago
Do they ever outgrow jumping up to slap the bit of wall above the doorframe? Asking for a friend.
FoxEcoLimaIndiaCharlieIndiAlfa 1 year ago
Only when they physically can't jump anymore
Load More Replies... Elladine DesIsles 1 year ago
My ceilings are 11 feet and I'm staring up at a prominent mystery stain. Mind you, it was my daughter, not my son, who managed at the age of 12 or 13 to projectile vomit on the walls higher than my eye level. That was fun. On the other hand, there is a favourite story in my mom's family anout the time my uncle - the only boy with three sisters - decided to play fireman with a bottle of ketchup as the hose nozzle. You can all imagine how that ends; my poor grandma!
Stymied Egan 1 year ago
My son is grown and we are still finding hand prints of ew in odd places. Like above the door going into his room, but not on that wall on the adjacent wall.
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meow point1 1 year ago
Also, teens need more calories than adults because they're growing.
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MotherofGuineaPigs 1 year ago
I just giver her "Golly gee willakers that is so rad" then she stops for a while because if I ever said that in front of her friends she would "just die'
justagirl 1 year ago
(rolls eyes in gen z/alpha) that's not a word!/jk I‘m fully aware what it means.
Load More Replies... 🩶🩷Marvin HoG🩷🩶 1 year ago
My kids are 10 years apart so all the slang I got caught up on is completely useless now and the youngest is about to enter his teen years. Time to start learning a whole new set of words to embarrass him with.
Child of the Stars 1 year ago
Tbh, yeet is such a perfect word for what it means and I hope it stays around!
Fat Harry (Oi / You) 1 year ago
I just use all these new words totally out of context intentionally.
Rebecca McManus 1 year ago
I love my niece dearly but I have no clue what she's saying 90% of the time
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meow point1 1 year ago
One thing I find irritating about my dad is when there's something wrong with my clothes, he asks it as a question (e.g. "Is your shoe untied?") even when he knows it's true, so I just automatically assume the answer is no until proven otherwise.
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BewilderedBanana 1 year ago
Careful, you could be charged with money laundering... i'll see myself out :)
The Dusty Rhino 1 year ago
I'm staying with a friend, and did a load of laundry. I found a couple of bucks. As I handed it to her I said, "we've talked about this, this is not how money laundering works." Great minds and all that.
Load More Replies... whineygingercat 1 year ago
Any $$$ left in pockets shall be considered the washing fee and, as such, is kept by the person doing the laundry.
TruthoftheHeart 1 year ago
I remember being a teenager my dad would tell us that whoever washed the laundry and folded it could keep whatever money they found, usually you'd find about $10 ( my dad loved stuffing his pockets with vending snack dollars and then forgetting) that was until one day he forgot $100 bill in his pocket took it from me and gave me a 20 and told me I should be happy I got that lol
ILoveMySon 1 year ago
I found almost $500 my son won at the horse races when he was in college. Usually I would keep the money but I gave that amount back to him.
Load More Replies... Norah Reilly 1 year ago
My mom always warned us that, if we didn't empty our pockets before we threw our stuff in the laundry chute, whatever she found was hers. We learned.
Anne Nyheim 1 year ago
This is the daffest part about living in an almost only cards-society: no random laundry cash anymore
Brian Droste 1 year ago
I say this also. On a rare occasion I will leave money in my pants pockets but it is usually just change and not a whole of change.
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Leanne Hailes 1 year ago
🤣😳😆🤯😎 mine ignored my text for over 4 hours & then texted back and when I didn't respond in 30 seconds asked "Are you just going to ignore me"
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Boop the Snoot. Pound the Paw. 1 year ago
I was always afraid my kids would stay wherever they were just a little too long and speed all over to get home on time. To combat this, their "curfew" is they have to leave where they are by a certain time. I usually know where they are and generally how long it should take for them to get home, but I worry less about them getting into a crash.
Angela C 1 year ago
That sounds reasonable. One of my sister's friends got grounded for being late home because my sister's car wouldn't start. Her mom was a real cúnt
Load More Replies... Cara Vinson 1 year ago
my mother would have every window open and every light in the house on.
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Helena 1 year ago
Well yeah, not like private school is preparing them for the entirety of the real world. Working the drive thru will definitely give you a different view.
keyboardtek 1 year ago
So he learned basically that most people are jerks. But the ones in private school dress better.
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Brian Herold 1 year ago
That's called "picking your battles." Sure he needs to learn to be more responsible, but there are better ways for him to learn that don't involve putting his grades at risk.
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Geoffrey Scott 1 year ago
...or that joining HS competitive cheer costs about the same, but spread out over 3 years. And the shoes, Lord, the shoes.
Child of the Stars 1 year ago
My 11yo's middle school has a D&D club. Stories like yours make me grateful their dad and me are such nerds because they already had all the dice and books and maps and everything. We didn't have to buy a thing!
Load More Replies... whineygingercat 1 year ago
And that you'll never get it all before you drop her off. The first weekend home will consist of (you) getting what she says she still needs, in-between washing all the laundry she brought with her.
Captain Awesome 1 year ago
And every year it seems like she needs more stuff. Like you're living in a small a*s dorm room, this c**p won't fit.
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Bamamom2boys 1 year ago
Hubby and I celebrated when the youngest started driving and we didn't have to pick him up after late band events!
keyboardtek 1 year ago
As a teen in the 1970's we walked or biked miles around the neighborhood to get to friends and school events.
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Fat Harry (Oi / You) 1 year ago
My ex-girlfriend that I also worked with telling me that I'm using the software at work wrong. I *wrote* the software at work.
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Shark Lady 1 year ago
My parents would have preferred it if I did a little less "representing the family."
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Scary Laugh 1 year ago
I bought myself my first EVER advent calendar last week. I will be 50 in a fortnight.
Elladine DesIsles 1 year ago
Enjoy it! My favourite one ever was a pop-up paper nativity that had just little windows with delightful illustrations, no treats. We reused it every year and my sister and I took turns opening the windows, alongside the separate chocolate versions we each also had. Sometimes it's the small things that make a big difference, right? I'll probably never have a new Advent calendar again, but I'll be looking for that paper one when it comes time to pack up my parents's house.
Load More Replies... ZuriLovesYou 1 year ago
So? Advent calendars don't stop being fun just because you're an adult.
Kalle Wendt 1 year ago
I always buy myself a cheap one in october to do a practice run in november before i get serious in december. (I'm 63)
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Cheryl Ramsay 1 year ago
I'm 77 and I still have an advent calendar my Mom bought me. It's dated 1956.
Kari Panda 1 year ago
There are so many wonderful advent calendar nowadays ^-^ We got our 2 yo one filled with small books, and I usually get myself a puzzle themed one.
Katie Allen 1 year ago
I've seen alcohol advent calendars so obviously they're not just for kids.
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keyboardtek 1 year ago
Your teen arguing with you is just practice that develops their logical thinking skills. It is the families that repress a teens arguments and points of view that creates sheeple who meekly get taken advantage of by the world.
Load More Replies... Geoffrey Scott 1 year ago
Me: "Dear, why are you arguing with a teenager? She may know AP English, but she doesn't KNOW s^^^."
Fellfromthemoon 1 year ago
Is there a "Mom, you were right about everything" stage before the passing of Mom? I'm 48, luckily, still have my mother and she was/is OK, but not "right about everything". However, her mother (my grandma) died almost 24 years ago, and neither Mom nor I reached the stage when "mom/grandma was right about everything."
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Shelli Aderman 1 year ago
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Yes, and.. back then, we had to use a quarter. And we had a book for company.
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Ariom Dahl 1 year ago
You have a son, you leave leftovers in the fridge and expect them to be still there next day???
Geoffrey Scott 1 year ago
"I thought you didn't care for the (taste,consistentcy,spice)?".."I was hungry"
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Devin Schmitt 1 year ago
Our son used to eat the leftovers after work. He didn't live here at the time, but would stop on his way home around 2 AM.
tarryn norwich 1 year ago
We had a 24 hour rule growing up: personal leftovers are protected for 24 hours then its free game.
James016 1 year ago
Not when they have the munchies. They are human dustbins.
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Elladine DesIsles 1 year ago
Lychees, and dragonfruit. In Canada. And I have to peel/cut them still, to get my 13 year old to eat.any fruit at all.
Load More Replies... Deborah B 1 year ago
And if you have 5 kids, like my parents, three pieces of fruit per person per day, that means buying 147 apples, oranges, and bananas in the weekly shop. 5 family-size 10 packs of apples, ten nets of oranges, 9 bunches of bananas. Then three days later you're out of oranges, the bananas are going brown, and all your kids suddenly hate granny smith apples.
Feathered Dinosaur 1 year ago
I'm lucky mini dino likes apples, we're surrounded by apple orchards
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Rafael 1 year ago
Adults can recognize mistakes in the making before turn into consequences, because they lived through them.
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Crystal Spencer 1 year ago
Yeah. That was just a small win before things get particularly ugly. Bless her heart, though.
Load More Replies... David Martin 1 year ago
I always think of "Modern Family", when the mother said that having a teenager is like when the shuttle is on the other side of the moon, and Houston loses contact, having to wait nervously in radio silence...and then eventually, they come back around, communication returns, and you get to have them back again
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Brian Droste 1 year ago
I use periods at the end of my sentences all the time. So I must be extremely rude. /j
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Marianne 1 year ago
My son is only 3, but I have a feeling that this is true for both ages: If you ask so many questions at once, they will not be able to process any of it.
Rafael 1 year ago
S**t, I'm actually 41. How come we forget to keep track of this with age?
Load More Replies... Kari Panda 1 year ago
Ask single questions, not a whole bunch of them, and avoid yes-no-questions. What did you have for dinner? - What was the most fun? - What music was there? etc. And don’t ask stuff like "Did you remember to…" If they forgot, you’ll just make them feel bad.
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Witch with a B 1 year ago
Created Caillou. That kid was so annoying. Our television didn't get it. Or so I told my son.
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Kari Panda 1 year ago
Honestly, they ARE often more up to date with traffic rules. I‘ve seen some people with very outdated knowledge…
Alyce 1 year ago
But they also teach hand position as 5 and 7 so you don't get hurt WHEN the air bag goes off. How about vehicle control so you get in the accident in the first place??
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Sandella 1 year ago
Oh the girls love their daddies automatically, it's the mums they clash tooth and nail with at that age
Load More Replies... Shelli Aderman 1 year ago
Enough with this best friend cráp. NO! We are parents, and NOT BFFS!
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David Martin 1 year ago
I used to date a woman a few states over with two boys. There wasn't much silverware in the house, so I bought her an eight place setting set. When I visited two months later? Two spoons, a knife, and one fork. She has no idea how
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Teutonic Disaster 1 year ago
I'd modify the last one to "I already did, it's in the fridge/freezer/pantry."
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Teutonic Disaster 1 year ago
So using periods at the end of sentences is "rude" because reasons, but also they're super into punctuality? One more reason, well two actually, to be happily childfree.
lovemy suffolk 1 year ago
Yeah. I worked full time so if the activity bus didn't bring them home it didn't happen.
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Mary Brizendine 1 year ago
My middle child, older daughter, didn't talk til she was past two. She would yell for whatever she wanted. ( Had two older step kids). I finally put my foot down and told everyone, if she wants something let her ask. First mistake. Once she started talking, she never quit. She would have entire conversations with herself because everyone else tuned her out. Cue about 16 years later and we talked her into taking her nieces home, about a twenty minute drive. She got back and said "Megan didn't stop talking the whole way," Megan was also the middle child. My husband and I looked at each other and just laughed.
James016 1 year ago
My son has recently got into Harry Potter, during the week he came up with his own slightly tweaked names of the books, so we have: 1) The Stone of Philosophy 2) The Secret Chamber 3) The Azkaban Prisoner 4) The Fire Goblet 5) The Phoenix Order 6) The Prince of The Half Bloods 7) The Hallows That Are Deathly.
Steve Robert 1 year ago
BP, cutting stories off before their over won't get you more subscribers. It just pisses us off and we switch to another provider of recycled material.
Lynn Morello 1 year ago
A kids take on the world has always been so different than that of their parents, But there again, so was their take on the world at that age as well.
Mary Brizendine 1 year ago
My middle child, older daughter, didn't talk til she was past two. She would yell for whatever she wanted. ( Had two older step kids). I finally put my foot down and told everyone, if she wants something let her ask. First mistake. Once she started talking, she never quit. She would have entire conversations with herself because everyone else tuned her out. Cue about 16 years later and we talked her into taking her nieces home, about a twenty minute drive. She got back and said "Megan didn't stop talking the whole way," Megan was also the middle child. My husband and I looked at each other and just laughed.
James016 1 year ago
My son has recently got into Harry Potter, during the week he came up with his own slightly tweaked names of the books, so we have: 1) The Stone of Philosophy 2) The Secret Chamber 3) The Azkaban Prisoner 4) The Fire Goblet 5) The Phoenix Order 6) The Prince of The Half Bloods 7) The Hallows That Are Deathly.
Steve Robert 1 year ago
BP, cutting stories off before their over won't get you more subscribers. It just pisses us off and we switch to another provider of recycled material.
Lynn Morello 1 year ago
A kids take on the world has always been so different than that of their parents, But there again, so was their take on the world at that age as well.
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