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I’ve decided to start a feature here on Strollerderby showcasing the most hilarious tweets from parents around the web.
Ever since Twitter started I’ve been “favoriting” tweets that make me laugh out loud. There are thousands. A good majority of them are from other parents I follow. Every now and again I scroll through all my favorited tweets and just laugh and laugh.
Here then, are the first set of ten tweets for your laughing pleasure. And you will laugh. I promise.
Many say that youth is wasted on the young. One thing about being young? Often times they just don’t know any better. That’s where us parents come in. We help guide, mentor and advise them in a myriad of ways. We made mistakes and we (hopefully) learned from them. In turn we don’t want our children to make those same errors in judgment – so we give them advice and often share the advice of others.
A recent trending topic on Twitter was #dearyoungself where tweeters tweeted advice to their young selves, tips that don’t just apply to the memory of their own youth but can be applied to the youths in our lives – our kids.
Here are twenty wise, witty and sometimes wacky #dearyoungself – some are words to live by – to matter what the age. Check the out here. Continue reading »
Is Bert slowly exiting the closet?
So what if Bert and Ernie are a couple of guys who have shared a bedroom for four decades? So what if they bathe in front of each other! In the puppet world, like in life, that doesn’t have to mean anything.
Unless it does.
For years, folks have wondered whether Bert is gay. An overlooked Tweet from a few months ago might be the pigeon-keeping, paper-clip collecting, mono-browed Muppet’s test of the waters. Did Bert take a first step out of the closet? Continue reading »
What can Twitter teach us about birth?
Until you’ve been through childbirth, you don’t really know what you’ll feel and what to expect. For those who have only heard horror stories or seen them played out on TV, the whole process really is something of a mystery. The unknown part of giving birth is what, for many women, makes it scary.
Which is what Fi Stone-Star (great name, by the way) had in mind when she decided to send tweets during her most recent birth, which was at home and without much in the way of pain relief.
From the moment of the first contraction at 2:30 in the morning, until she held her newborn son, she typed in her thoughts and feelings in 140 characters or less. Including calls for, ahem, pain relief: Continue reading »
In the past, abortion — in the specific, personal sense — has been a private, personal thing. At least, that’s what I assume since I’ve never encountered anyone at a party chatting about their procedure or had anyone tell me about what they went through at the office water cooler. Like sex itself, I suspect most people keep their own experiences to themselves. This, however, is no longer the case, at least for one Florida woman. Angie Jackson, a well-known blogger and twitter user has been documenting her abortion online.
The best parenting advice coming over the wi-fi today is from a surprising source: a cranky 73-year-old with a serious potty mouth and an adult son who still lives with him.
Allegedly, the 29-year-old son posts his dad’s direct, disarming and rather salty morsels via shitmydadsays on Twitter. Follow him here.
Today’s bit seems rather timely, considering the featured essay on Babble today. Alisha McKinney admits that she lies about her son’s age, because her son’s language development hasn’t kept up with his peers — or the development milestone charts. What is shitmydadsays’s Tweet today? Continue reading »
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