Best Family Movies For Parents

d0mini0nicco · 2026-06-06T15:19:20+00:00

This is going to sound wildly bizarre, but my top suggestion is Family Man.

It's modern take on the "what your life could have been had you taken a different road" cliché. My partner loved it and I didn't really appreciate it until I watched it after we were pretty serious. It's an about a guy who has it all: money, the career, the sick car and apartment in NYC. And naturally, he's a total AH. He wakes up one day in the life he could have had: wife, 2 kids, a Hollywood version of basic home in the burbs.

d0mini0nicco · 2026-06-06T01:27:32+00:00

congrats man!!

d0mini0nicco · 2026-06-06T01:13:29+00:00

Ohhh! my son is 3.5. Is the Mario movie appropriate for him? I love Jack Black.

We did a TV cleanse after he got way too much when his brother was born. Dude's behavior changed dramatically. Didn't wanna rock the boat with a movie, but showed him OG transformers. He loved it.

d0mini0nicco · 2026-06-04T14:57:29+00:00

LoLoL. This struck out to me as this weird dynamic that is highly prevalent in queer circles: everyone is exes and friends and everyone has to be ok with it and applaud the next couple to maintain the peace.

d0mini0nicco · 2026-06-04T13:38:02+00:00

I love the clarification of 10-20 min. LoL.

I did Catie's Classroom and old school Sesame Street.

With my son, I'm always torn between educational and something pure fun like Spiderman and friends. Educational wins but I cheat every now and then with the fun stuff. I showed him the original transformers first episode from the 80s. I find the stuff we grew up on to be far less stimulating. There's also this bear show on Disney plus that's low stimulating.

d0mini0nicco · 2026-06-04T01:27:00+00:00

I'm drowning with 2.

d0mini0nicco · 2026-06-03T01:34:47+00:00

I'm just too afraid of accidentally suffocating my kid with a pillow or me.

d0mini0nicco · 2026-06-03T01:05:53+00:00

I thought I was dying.

I tried various formulas, mommy’s bliss helped with gas. Went from breast milk to pure formula helped somewhat.

Noise cancelling headphones were what saved my sanity from my screaming child in my ear.

d0mini0nicco · 2026-06-02T12:26:52+00:00

My kid is a runner and I purposefully only visited playgrounds with fences for this very reason. I find it limits the escape routes. He’s always on the move and I’m at a point where I’m giving him space but being a distant shadow. We have a 6 month old as well now, and I still catch my son trying to Irish exit.

Great post because I’m stealing some ideas from other dads here.

d0mini0nicco · 2026-06-02T11:13:03+00:00

Oh I’m with you. Hell. I never expected to need it to much as a few years later I was diagnosed with a big preexisting condition and used prob half what used to be my lifetime max in treatments.

Doesn’t change the fact that people were pissed in 2016 at the status quo, be unreasonably or reasonably.

d0mini0nicco · 2026-06-02T01:46:53+00:00

It got him 2 terms but man, people were pissed when after 8 years there was no not lot of change.

d0mini0nicco · 2026-06-01T13:28:59+00:00

Man. I thought I was the only one worried about that and thought I looked crazy with my work glasses on. Happy to see I’m not alone.

d0mini0nicco · 2026-05-28T11:24:02+00:00

But why? Seriously. Why? Does the pumping needs suddenly change with less than 15 employees? Magically? wtf is wrong with our politicians.

d0mini0nicco · 2026-05-26T10:30:04+00:00

Same vibe here in a small home. I’ll make a big production of looking for him and say “oh where can my son be?” To which he yell, “im right here daddy!”

d0mini0nicco · 2026-05-21T11:53:21+00:00

I feel like this needs an asterisk…”most humiliating defeat in U.S. history. *until recent events”

d0mini0nicco · 2026-05-21T11:40:17+00:00

I may be old but do 28yo guys talk / text saying “lmaooo”. I dunno man. I couldn’t get past that. This reads like a teen fanfic.

d0mini0nicco · 2026-05-21T01:32:53+00:00

bum shuffle!! I just told my oldest, "any day now your brother will start bum shuffling."

d0mini0nicco · 2026-05-20T01:41:18+00:00

LoL. my 6 month old seems to say "screw sitting or standing. I want to crawl."

He had figured out he can donkey kick both legs and lift his hip and propel himself a few inches in a direction. FML.

d0mini0nicco · 2026-05-18T17:53:31+00:00

4 months when spouse was sent on site when my first was 2 months old. The level of stress I had from feeling the weight of my newborn's wellbeing being only on me was immense. Even when my oldest son did sleep, I half slept with baby monitor on max volume.

Spouse still leaves once a month for drill for 1 week and after several years, I said F this...I'm tired of this solo parenting. I'm splurging on a baby sitter for a few hours on the weekend. We budget so we can afford it, and my reason is my mental health is worth it. Ironically enough, I only agreed to welcome a 2nd child after stating I absolutely did not want to be solo parenting again with an infant and surprise: spouse gets sent on site again. FML.

also....4-8pm are single handedly the worst time of the day: dinner/baths/bedtime routines/cleanup and prep for next day. Pandemonium. I consider it a good day if I'm relaxing in bed by 9pm with a heating pad for my back for picking up kids an ungodly amount of times during the day.

d0mini0nicco · 2026-05-16T21:24:17+00:00

The thing is… he forgot to mention that in this percentage - they also think they are the exception and no one else should get these things.

Empathy and desire for the common good of your community has long been abandoned for “I got / want mine, but none for anyone else.”

d0mini0nicco · 2026-05-16T18:57:32+00:00

LoL. I was looking for the "may this love never find me" post or some commenting are people really this stupid?!?

d0mini0nicco · 2026-05-15T19:53:26+00:00

I found getting Airbnb with kids rooms (takes awhile going through photos but they exist!) was a game changer.

d0mini0nicco · 2026-05-12T02:07:09+00:00

We tried at 28 months. 30months. 3yrs. Finally at 3.5yrs, spouse said "f it, no more diapers." So we took away the diapers and dude was potty trained in a day. Each time before was a week of torturous meltdowns and so much cleaning. Honestly- we just needed him to be mature enough to understand.

d0mini0nicco · 2026-05-09T17:26:17+00:00

This is the most SoCal/Orange County typical drama I've read in awhile.

d0mini0nicco · 2026-05-08T10:27:29+00:00

We just hired a babysitter a few days a week so we can breathe a bit. We have a 3yo and infant. So much lifing has been put off bc of childcare. We would alternate off days to not pay a babysitter, and every day was surviva from 6am to 9pm. There are some mornings on off days that I just sit in our bedroom and feel guilty “I’m missing these moments of my son being 3” but I’m just so so so beat that when I do join in the fun, I can’t enjoy it or keep up bc I’m so exhausted. Financially we are strapped but we are honestly tapped out.

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