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@godblessed777 Where I live, kids must go to school. Not even homeschooling is allowed. I could go to jail if I enable that behavior. But then, I can make him leave the house but I can't stand watch in front of the school so he doesn't skip. I'd try and talk to him about why he's skipping...

@keety I think a lot of it is just from availability. Regular pepper was the only thing remotely spicy in our household when I grew up, so I really was not used to any spice until I became an adult and started to go to restaurants with other cuisines. So for one thing, as others have said...

@lordfeather The first weeks I was hardly ever apart from my baby, except for showering or going to the bathroom. I actually remember my first 10 minute trip to the supermarket without my son at around a week after. He was safe and sound with his dad but it still felt wrong to not have him...

@raptureman2020 I'd tell her: Love is a beautiful thing. Yes, it can lead to heartbreak, as you have noticed when your crush rejected you. But all in all, if two people love each other and it makes them happy, it's a good thing. Now, the majority of people will fall in love with someone of...

@keepy First of all: Defining a bedtime that is supposed to last "until you move out for college" is ridiculous and I hope your dad was exaggerating. There might be reasons as to why it is appropriate now. A wake-up time at 5:30 is incredibly early in my book, but with it being so early it...

@jared1991 Yeah, I'd be pissed of. You're 20. You should be able to control your moods enough to not intentionally hurt a child who is behaving like a child.

@lunalovesjesus First things first: Yes. Absolutely do go on birth control if you want to have sex. Sex even once, during your fertile window, can lead to pregnancy. Ideally, you take the pill or any other BC AND he uses a condom. And I fully understand your mother. She doesn't want you to...

@enoch27 You're always the perfect parent until you have kids. I feel that eating your own words from before you had a kid (or a kid a certain age) is like a rite of passage.

@arishin Much has already been said. My kid is not like that in all areas, but often times he is ready to give up quickly if he doesn't get it right away and he's quick to call himself stupid, which is completely untrue. One thing I've done is to post a list of positive affirmations right...

@wifey1281 You could check out amightygirl.com they have lots of great suggestions for diverse, feminist etc. children's books.

@tobi80 Do what to our children, exactly? Tell them to do their part in the household? Get frustrated when it's not happening? Yes, she was stressed but all she did was tell you that she is sick of having to do all the organizing. Go ahead and google "mental load". It is INCREDIBLY exhausting...

@minh So, for anything that is not winter, I mostly get him 2 pairs of everyday shoes. Usually one sneaker type and one a bit more sturdy (like an everyday hiking shoe) that also works better on rainy days as he walks to school. But experience says he will hyperfocus on one pair and wear this...

@davida1949 But even if the genders were reversed, I would think something's off. 1 hour is basically nothing. A dad who is home all day but shows no interest to spend time with the baby would be concerning, too.

@acts1038 Simple: If she's reading your messages, she can't use your phone. Set a password/pin. You should also be able to activate some kind of child control so she can only play on one app. TBH, I as a parent would not be thrilled to have my 10 yo with unsupervised access to TikTok anyways...

@georgiana Yes to taking away the phone. Yes to making him apologize. And I 100% would also have yelled at him. Now, what you absolutely have to do is once everything has cooled off to sit him down and talk to him. It'll be a mix of trying to understand what went on inside of him and to make...

@midget Really? Because he wrote on the mirror or because of the word? I mean, obviously, he learned it at school. At 8.5 that's rather late, tbh. He will learn many more bad behaviors from his peers and you won't be able to stop it. And the bigger a deal you make out of curse words, the...