“On today’s episode of Fuck Around and Find Out parenting,” @caldo.de.les begins, “this one’s bad.” Her eighth-grade son, Isaac, had been arguing that he shouldn’t have a bedtime anymore — he knows his own body, he insisted, he should get to decide when he’s tired. She’s not convinced. As proof, she describes him showing up … Read more
It started with a soccer ball. “Yesterday around 6:30, Ryker was showing me a trick and ended up kicking his soccer ball into the neighbor’s backyard,” @madisonsisson22 writes, laying out the sequence of a day that turned into one of the scariest few minutes of her life. She was cleaning the garage when her younger … Read more
Grandparents across the country are collectively funneling $900 billion a year into their families, split between $172 billion in direct financial support and $731 billion worth of unpaid caregiving, according to AARP’s own newly released research. Broken down to a single household, the average grandparent spends $2,654 a year on their grandchildren, an amount that … Read more
A car seat doesn’t go bad the way milk does, but it does go bad, usually somewhere between six and ten years from the date it was manufactured, not the date it was bought. That distinction matters most for grandparents who pick up a seat to keep in the back of their own car for … Read more
Thirty-two percent of grandparents gave a grandchild under 18 direct financial help in the past year, and 90 percent regularly show up in some material way, whether that’s cash, groceries, or free babysitting, according to the University of Michigan’s National Poll on Healthy Aging. The poll, run out of the university’s Institute for Healthcare Policy … Read more
A single line shows up in nearly every grandparent’s parenting history: stop crying or I’ll give you something to cry about. It’s the kind of phrase that got said in kitchens and back seats for decades without much thought, and a parenting coach’s Instagram reel breaking down why that line no longer holds up has … Read more
A close-up clip from the account @3feralgremlins has pulled in more than 112,000 views this week after the mom running it paused her daughter’s snack time to zoom in on a Mott’s fruit snack, showing what she describes as something inside the gummy that had no business being there. The video, posted to her TikTok … Read more
A routine hair check turned into hours of work for one mom, whose Instagram reel documenting a head lice infestation and the full removal process has outperformed her account’s typical reach by a wide margin this week. The video, posted to her Instagram account, follows her from the moment she spots live lice while combing … Read more
A pediatric dentist’s Instagram reel laying out her real household dental rules for kids has pulled in more than 6.3 million views, a reach that dwarfs almost anything else on her account, and the reason is not a gimmick, it’s the gap between what she tells parents now and what most of those same parents … Read more
The Consumer Product Safety Commission’s newest drowning report puts a hard number on the fear that follows a lot of grandparents into the backyard every summer: 379 children under 15 drowned in pools and spas in 2023, a 6 percent jump from 359 the year before, according to the CPSC’s own report. Nearly 80 percent … Read more